20th-century american novelists

Carol Shields

American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer

American novelist and essayist

American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.

American novelist and short story writer

American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years

American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator

American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor

American writer best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye

American novelist and short-story writer

Award-winning novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer