american male short story writers

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

Ernest J. Gaines

American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese

Ralph Ellison

American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act , a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory . The New York Times dubbed him “among the gods of America’s literary Parnassus.” A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.