William Faulkner
American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life
20th-century american short story writers
Jennifer Egan
American novelist and short-story writer
Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Guy Davenport
American writer, translator, illustrator, painter, intellectual, and teacher.
Truman Capote
American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor
Willa Cather
American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My ntonia
Michael Chabon
American novelist, screenwriter, columnist and short story writer