George W. S. Trow
American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic
20th-century american novelists
William Styron
American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.Styron was best known for his novels, including:
Lie Down in Darkness , his acclaimed first work, published when he was 26;
The Confessions of Nat Turner , narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt;
Sophie’s Choice , a story “told through the eyes of a young aspiring writer from the South, about a Polish Catholic survivor of Auschwitz and her brilliant but psychotic Jewish lover in postwar Brooklyn”.In 1985, he suffered from his first serious bout with depression
Amy Tan
American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang
Donna Tartt
American author
Paul Theroux
American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue, The Great Railway Bazaar . Some of his works of fiction have been adapted as feature films
George Steiner
Franco-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator
Neal Stephenson
American writer known for his works of speculative fiction
Rex Stout
American writer noted for his detective fiction
Peter Straub
American novelist and poet
Clifford D. Simak
American science fiction writer