Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic
20th-century american novelists
Anita Desai
Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
Joan Didion
American writer
Annie Dillard
American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction
E. L. Doctorow
American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction
Ivan Doig
American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West
John Dos Passos
American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school
Michael Crichton
American author and filmmaker