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
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Samuel R. Delany
American author and literary critic
Junot Diaz
Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and was fiction editor at Boston Review
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction writer
Theodore Dreiser
American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school
Evan S. Connell
U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer
Stephen Crane
American poet, novelist, and short story writer
Raymond Chandler
American-British novelist and screenwriter
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer
Truman Capote
American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor