21st-century american non-fiction writers

Jhumpa Lahiri

American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian

Ursula K. Le Guin

American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series

Roger Kahn

American author, best known for his 1972 baseball book The Boys of Summer.

Stephen King

American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels

Douglas R. Hofstadter

American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics

William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk

William Gibson

American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk