Famous American writers

A list of famous American writers, many of whom were more conservative than students learn:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Herman Melville Lew Wallace Ambrose Bierce James Fenimore Cooper Tom Wolfe Henry David Thoreau Edgar Allan Poe Jack London Henry James Eugene O'Neill Ezra Pound Henry Miller Arthur Miller Bayard Taylor Charles Bukowski Chuck Palahniuk Dale Carnegie David Foster Wallace Edith Wharton Emily Dickinson Gertrude Stein Harper Lee Harriet Beecher Stowe James Russell Lowell J.D. Salinger John Updike John Dos Passos John Steinbeck Michael Crichton Michael Lewis

O. Henry Thomas Paine Allen Drury Mark Twain Margaret Mitchell Joseph Heller T.S. Eliot Kurt Vonnegut Ralph Waldo Emerson Ray Bradbury Robert Frost Walt Whitman Washington Irving William Faulkner Sinclair Lewis Isaac Asimov Stephen King Lyman Frank Baum Louisa May Alcott Nathaniel Hawthorne Norman Mailer Paul Laurence Dunbar Pearl Buck Philip Roth Tennessee Williams Thornton Wilder Toni Morrison Truman Capote Wallace Stevens William S. Burroughs Tracy Kidder James Michener

The Pearl Buck Birthplace.

Henry David Thoreau.

Paul Laurence Dunbar.

William Faulkner, 1954.

See also

• Famous American Painters
• Famous American Architects
• Famous American artists
• Hall of Fame for Great Americans
• Gallery of American Heroes

External links

• Greatest American Writers.
• 100 Best American Authors.