Allen Ginsberg
American poet and writer
postmodern writers
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
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ao] or Gabito [aito] throughout Latin America
John Fowles
English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism
William Gaddis
American novelist
Lawrence Durrell
Expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
Umberto Eco
Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic and political and social commentator
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.
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