20th-century american novelists

John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner

American writer

American author

American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement

American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit

American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death

American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism