postmodern writers

John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner

James Tiptree Jr.

American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death

Amy Tan

American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang

Art Spiegelman

American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus