Famous American writers

See also Famous American political 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

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The Pearl Buck Birthplace.

Henry David Thoreau.

Paul Laurence Dunbar.

William Faulkner, 1954.

## See also[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Greatest American Writers.
* 100 Best American Authors.