Liste US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller
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Liste von in den USA geborenen bzw. zum größten Teil publizierten Schriftstellern.
[Bearbeiten] A
- Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang
- Walter Abish (* 1931) How German Is It
- Kathy Acker (1947 – 1997), Blood and Guts in High School
- Oscar Zeta Acosta (1935 – 1974)
- Alice Adams (1926 – 1999), Beautiful Girl
- Louis Adamic (1899-1951)
- Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- George Ade (1866 – 1944), The Slim Princess
- Renata Adler (born 1938), Speedboat
- Warren Adler (born 1927), The War of the Roses
- James Agee (1909-1955)
- Jonis Agee (*1943), Strange Angels
- Conrad Aiken (1889 – 1973), Blue Voyage
- Edward Albee (* 1928)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888), Little Women
- William Livingston Alden (1837-1908)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836 – 1907), Prudence Palfrey
- Lloyd Alexander (* 1924)
- Sherman Alexie (*1966), Reservation Blues
- Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899), Ragged Dick
- Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981), The Man With the Golden Arm
- Candace Allen (*1950)
- Edward Allen (*1948), Mustang Sally
- Hervey Allen (1889 – 1949), Anthony Adverse
- Paula Gunn Allen (1939
- Dorothy Allison (*1949), Bastard Out of Carolina
- William Allegrezza (* 1974)
- Lisa Alther (* 1944), Kinflicks
- Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 – 1919), The Young Trailers
- Julia Alvarez (* 1950), [[How the García G
- David Ambrose (* 1945)
- A(rchibald) R(andolph Ammons (1926)
- Rudolfo Anaya (born 1937), Bless Me, Ultima
- Poul Anderson (1926 – 2001), Tau Zero
- Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
- Bruce Andrews (* 1948) (Englisch)
- V. C. Andrews (1923 – 1986), Flowers in the Attic
- Maya Angelou (* 1928)
- Tina McElroy Ansa (*1949), Baby of the Family
- A. Manette Ansay (*1964), Vinegar Hill
- Donald Antrim (* 1959), The Hundred Brothers
- Allen Appel (* 1945), Time After Time
- Benjamin Appel (1907 – 1979), Brain Guy
- Max Apple (* 1941), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right
- Harriette Arnow (1908 – 1986), The Dollmaker
- Elizabeth Arthur (*1953), Antarctic Navigation
- Timothy Shay Arthur (1809 – 1885), Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
- Sholem Asch (1880 – 1957), The Nazarene
- John Ashbery (* 1927) (Englisch)
- Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
- Rilla Askew (*1951), The Mercy Seat
- Robert Asprin (*1946), Another Fine Myth
- Gertrude Atherton (1857 – 1948), The Conqueror
- William Attaway (1911 – 1986), Blood on the Forge
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (born 1984), In the Forests of the Night
- Louis Auchincloss (*1917), The Rector of Justin
- Jean M. Auel (* 1936), The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Paul Auster (*1947), Die New York-Trilogie
- Mary Austin (1868 – 1934), Isidro
[Bearbeiten] B
- David Baldacci (* 1960)
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Amiri Baraka (* 1934)
- Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
- Nevada Barr, Krimiautorin
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
- Frederick Barthelme (* 1943)
- Hamilton Basso (1904-1964)
- Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
- Peter Soyer Beagle
- Greg Bear
- Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893-1973)
- Julie Bell (*1958)
- Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
- Peter Benchley (1940-2006)
- William Rose Benét (1886-1950)
- Charles Bernstein
- John Berryman
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- Michael Bishop (1945) SF
- William Peter Blatty (1928)
- Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919)
- Nelson Slade Bond (1908-2006) SF- und Fantasy
- James Bovard
- Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) NO/US
- T. C. Boyle (* 1948)
- Ray Bradbury (* 1920)
- Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
- Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)
- Lily Brett (* 1946)
- Poppy Z. Brite (* 1967)
- Gerald Brom (*1965)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Dan Brown (* 1964)
- Harry Brown (1917-1986)
- Charles Brockden Brown
- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
- Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
- Frederick Busch (1941-2006)
[Bearbeiten] C
- Truman Capote (1924-1984)
- Stephen L. Carter (* 1954)
- Willa Cather
- Michael Chabon (* 1963)
- Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981)
- John Cheever (1912-1982)
- Ted Chiang (* 1967) Science-Fiction
- Christina Chiu, Troublemaker and Other Saints
- Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
- Lucille Clifton
- Mark Clifton (1906-1963) SF
- Billy Collins
- Larry Collins (1929-2005)
- Michael Connelly (* 1956)
- Stephen Coonts (* 1946)
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
- Gregory Corso (1930-2001)
- Hart Crane (1899-1932)
- Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
- Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
- Deborah Crombie (* 1952), Krimiautorin
- Harry Crosby (1898-1929)
- Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
- E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) Abenteuerschriftsteller,
- Clive Cussler (* 1931)
[Bearbeiten] D
- Mark Z. Danielewski (* 1966)
- Don DeLillo (* 1936)
- Nelson DeMille (*1943-)
- Jeffery Deaver (* 1950-)
- Bradley Denton, (1958) (SF)
- James Dickey (1923-1997)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- Diane Di Prima
- Irene Dische (* 1952)
- E. L. Doctorow (* 1931)
- J. P. Donleavy
- Ed Dorn (1929-1999)
- John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
- Rita Dove (* 1952)
- Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
- Theodore Dreiser (1897-1945)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003)
- Charles H. Dyer
[Bearbeiten] E
- Richard Eberhart (1904-2005)
- Tristan Egolf (1971-2005)
- Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
- Bret Easton Ellis (* 1964)
- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
- James Ellroy (* 1948)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Jeffrey Eugenides (* 1960)
[Bearbeiten] F
- Richard Fariña (1937-1966)
- Walter Farley (1915-1989)
- William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (* 1919)
- Vardis Fisher (1895-1968)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- Jonathan Safran Foer (* 1977)
- Shelby Foote (1916-2005)
- Justus Miles Forman (1875-1915)
- Paula Fox (* 1923)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- Jonathan Franzen (* 1959)
- Marilyn French (* 1929)
- Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875-1912)
[Bearbeiten] G
- Paul Gallico (1897-1976)
- Elizabeth George (*1949)
- Tess Gerritsen
- Ellen Gilchrist (*1935)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
- Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)
- Joey Goebel, (*1980)
- John Grisham, (*1955)
- Winston Groom, (* 1944)
- Albert Ramsdell Gurney (1930) Dramatiker, Autor.
- David Guterson (*1956)
- Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
[Bearbeiten] H
- Jessica Hagedorn (*1949)
- Kimiko Hahn (*1955)
- Barbara Hambly (*1951)
- Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002)
- Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
- Susan Harris (* 1940)
- Carla Harryman
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Ethan Hawke (* 1970)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
- Robert Hayden
- Elizabeth Haydon (1965) Fantasy
- H. D. (1886-1961)
- Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- O. Henry (1862-1910)
- Christopher Heyn
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995)
- Edward D. Hoch (* 1930) Krimiautor
- Sheri Holman (* 1966)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894)
- Michael Hoeye (* 1947) Kinderbuchautor
- Richard Hoyt (*1941)
- Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915)
- L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Richard Hugo
- David Henry Hwang (*1957)
[Bearbeiten] I
- John Irving (* 1942)
- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- Greg Iles (* 1960)
[Bearbeiten] J
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889-1967) USA, D
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
- Robinson Jeffers († 1962)
- Gish Jen (*1956)
- Ha Jin (* 1956)
- Charles Richard Johnson (* 1948)
- Denis Johnson (* 1949)
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Edward P. Jones (* 1950)
- James Jones (1921-1977)
- Erica Jong (* 1942)
[Bearbeiten] K
- Brian Keene (* 1967) Horror
- George F. Kennan (1904-2005)
- Ken Kesey (* 1935)
- Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) (1946). Horror
- Yusef Komunyakaa (* 1948)
- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Etheridge Knight
- Dean Koontz (* 1945)
- William Kotzwinkle (* 1943)
- Paul Krugman (* 1953)
- Benjamin Kunkel (* 1973)
- Joanne Kyger (* 1934)
[Bearbeiten] L
- Margaret Landon (1903-1993)
- Ring Lardner (1885-1933)
- Nella Larsen (1891-1964 Nellie Walker, Nellye Larson, Nellie Larsen)
- Robert Lax (1915-2000)
- Munro Leaf (1905-1976)
- Timothy Leary (1920-1996)
- Chang-Rae Lee (* 1965)
- Donna Leon (* 1942)
- JT LeRoy (* 1980 laut erfundener Vita) alias Savannah Knoop bzw. Laura Albert
- John T. Lescroart
- Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
- Philip Levine
- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
- Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
- Jonathan Littell (1967)
- Jack London (1876-1916)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944)
- Audre Lorde (* 1934)
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
- Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
- Ron Loewinsohn
- Alison Lurie (* 1926)
[Bearbeiten] M
- Norman Mailer (* 1923)
- Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
- Barry N. Malzberg (*1939) SF/Fantasy
- David Markson (* 1927)
- Sujata Massey (1964) Krimiautorin.
- Armistead Maupin (* 1944)
- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
- Claude McKay
- Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
- Patricia A. McKillip (* 1948)
- Larry McMurtry (* 1936)
- Charles L. Mee (* 1938]]
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Stuart Merrill (1863-1915)
- Abraham Merritt (1884-1943)
- Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
- W. S. Merwin (1927)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
- Henry Miller (1891-1980)
- Joaquin Miller (1837-1913)
- Steven Millhauser (* 1943)
- Andrea Mitchell (* 1946 )
- Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
- N. Scott Momaday (* 1934)
- Rick Moody (* 1961)
- Michael Moore (* 1954)
- Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
- Toni Morrison (* 1931)
- James Morrow (* 1947 ) SF
- Marcia Muller (* 1944) Krimiautorin
- Pat Murphy (* 1955)) SF/Fantasy
[Bearbeiten] N
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
- Nance John J.
- Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- Lorine Niedecker (1903[?]-1970)
- Howard Nemerov
- Frank Norris (1870-1902)
- Naomi Shihab Nye (* 1952)
[Bearbeiten] O
- Joyce Carol Oates (* 1938)
- Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
- Andrew J. Offutt (* 1934)
- Scott O'Dell (1902-1989)
- John O'Hara (1905-1970)
- Charles Olson (1910-1970)
- George Oppen (1908-1984)
[Bearbeiten] P
- Chuck Palahniuk (* 1962)
- Christopher Paolini, (* 1983)
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
- Robert B. Parker (* 1932)
- Walker Percy (1916-1990)
- Frank Peretti (* 1951)
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Tamora Pierce
- Marge Piercy (* 1936)
- Kathrene Pinkerton (1887-1967)
- Robert Pinsky
- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Richard Powers (* 1957)
- James Purdy
- Mario Puzo (1920-1999)
- Thomas Pynchon (* 1937)
[Bearbeiten] R
- Carl Rakosi (* 1903)
- Melanie Rawn (* 1954)
- John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
- Tom Reamy, (1935-1977), SF
- John Rechy
- Henry Reed (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- John Reed (1887-1920)
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
- Adrienne Rich
- Lola Ridge (1873-1941)
- Frank Riley (1915-1996) SF, Frank Rhylick.
- Harold Robbins (1916-1997)
- Tom Robbins (* 1936)
- Jennifer Roberson (*1953)
- Nora Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
- Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
- Edwin Rolfe (1909-1954)
- James Rollins
- Franklin Rosemont
- Henry Roth
- Philip Roth (* 1933)
- Matt Ruff (* 1966)
- Michael Ruppert (1951)
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch (*1960)
- Charles M. Russell (1864-1926)
- Richard Russo (* 1949)
[Bearbeiten] S
- Jerome David Salinger (* 1919)
- James Salter (* 1926)
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- William Saroyan (1908-1981)
- Murray Schisgal (1926), Drehbuchautor und Dramatiker.
- Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)
- Carolyn See
- Hubert Selby (1928-2004)
- Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
- Ntozake Shange (* 1948)
- Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
- Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)
- Sidney Sheldon (* 1917)
- Lucius Shepard (* 1947) SF
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
- Myra Sklarew
- Henry Slesar (1927-2002)
- Joshua Slocum (1844-1909), Reiseschriftsteller
- Vern Sneider (1916-1981)
- Gary Snyder
- Marc Spitz (* 1969)
- William Stafford
- Jason Starr (* 1968)
- Danielle Steel (1947)
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
- Gerald Stern
- Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
- R. L. Stine (* 1943) Kinder- und Jugendbuchautor.
- Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) Humorist
- Mark Strand
- Craig Strete (* 1950)
- Manil Suri (* 1959)
- May Swenson
[Bearbeiten] T
- Donna Tartt
- Allen Tate (1899-1979)
- Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) Dichterin
- Walter Stone Tevis (1928-1984)
- Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
- Paul Theroux (* 1941)
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
- James Thurber (1894-1961)
- Lionel Trilling (1905-1975)
- Monique Truong (* 1968)
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871)
- Scott Turow (* 1949)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
[Bearbeiten] U
- John Updike (* 1932)
[Bearbeiten] V
- Janine Pommy Vega
- Gore Vidal (* 1925)
- Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
- Cynthia Voigt (* 1942), Jugendbuchautorin
- Kurt Vonnegut (* 1922)
[Bearbeiten] W
- Diane Wakoski
- Alice Walker (* 1944)
- David Foster Wallace (* 1962)
- Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
- Jean Webster (Alice Jane Chandler Webster; 1876-1916)
- Stanley G. Weinbaum, (1902-1935)Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller.
- Eudora Welty
- K. D. Wentworth (*1951), SF-Autorin.
- Nathanael West (1903-1940)
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
- Ruth Weiss, (1928 )
- Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886)
- Edmund White (* 1940)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
- Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705)
- Richard Wilbur
- Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
- Kate Wilhelm (1928) (SF)
- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- Owen Wister (1860-1938)
- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
- Tom Wolfe (* 1931)
- Ira Wolfert (1908-1997)
- Jack Womack (1956)
- Herman Wouk (* 1915)
- Ernest Vincent Wright (ca. 1873-1939)
- Richard Wright (Schriftsteller) (1908-1960)
[Bearbeiten] Y
- John Yau (*1950)
- Jerry Yulsman
[Bearbeiten] Z
- Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)
[Bearbeiten] Siehe auch
- Schriftsteller (international)
- Liste der Listen mit Schriftstellern
- Liste von Dichtern (international)
- Liste der Biographien (international)