20th-century american novelists

Gore Vidal

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

American writer

American author

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist

American author, mainly of children’s stories

American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic

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