Greatest American Writers

Ask the Dust alone should easily have him in the top 50, but the expanse of his works and the character of Arturo Bandini put him in the top 25. If he'd expanded more beyond Bandini, he'd be near the top of this list. The fact he's not even on it is a travesty.

Confederacy of Dunces, need in say more, one of the best books of the last 100 years and with one of the best characters as well. A master of character development as well as a master of settings. he made New Orleans come alive in a book. Its a shame that he died so young we may never know what we he was capable of

Stunning prose writer most notable for being the quintessential American writer on the subject of the Vietnam War.

Oh,he writes with amazing language-layered one -it lets you think more than it tells about the most difficult things in the life of Americans.I have read at least two of his novels and i could not stop finding more about this author.However, i have come to know that ones the apple of greatest of writers on this list like like Kurt V.,Julian Barnes,David Hare.His 'Eleven Kinds of Loneliness' is often viewed as the best short story fiction of all times. His first novel, Revolutionary Road (1961), was an instant success, a finalist for the National Book Award alongside Catch-22 and The Moviegoer, and equally deserving. As a chronicler of mainstream American life from the 1930s to the late ’60s

From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, The Pistol

Spectacular short story writer. One of the best feminist and anti-racist writers of our country.

His 2011 novel "86 Hours in England" speaks for itself!

Possibly the greatest American novelist of the last half century, shouldn't be overlooked just because he is contemporary. The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove are each classics in their own right, not to mention great films, as well.

Read The Corrections and Freedom, two of the best novels I know about white suburban American life in at the turn of the century. As good or better than Cheever or Updike.

Hannah was one of the most influential stylists of the 20th century. He wrote novels but is mostly known for his short stories. He's been called the greatest Southern writer since Flannery O'Connor.

“I will not play at tug o' war. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins, And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins.”

A writer without weakness.

One of the leading writers in the minimalist brand of dirty realism. His breakout novel was "The Sportswriter," and his novel, "Independence Day," won the Pulitzer Prize. Of his short story collections, "Rock Springs" has become a classic.

Timeline, The Lost World, Prey, Jurassic Park

Winds of War, War and Rembrance are his best.

The Bridge was was an epical telling of the American myth -- in language Shakespearean in scope and eloquence.

The author thus far of "Seabiscuit, An American Legend", and "Unbroken" is on a clear trajectory towards making her mark as an American writer. Two of her noted influences as a writer are F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, and she has been blessed with insight into human suffering and surviving as she herself has had to survive chronic fatigue syndrome and even vertigo which makes her skip writing some days when it becomes too difficult.

One of America's best living writiers

I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, A Stir of Echoes, Hell House, The Shrinking Man, wrote episodes for 'The Twilight Zone' tv series

One of my favorite modern day writers.

A great writer of short stories

She was an 19th century writer that wrote what has been considered the greatest treatise on Christ's life apart from the Bible, The Desire Ages. Despite leaving formal education at the third grade she overcame her literary handicaps to write prolifically and deeply about the Christian experience.

He has written a number of really fantastic novels such as "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini," both of which were turned into movies in the 80's. In my opinion, his greatest novel is "Beach Music," but it is not as old as some of his other novels so it hasn't received as much acclaim as it may deserve.

Ava's Man and All Over But the Shoutin' are fantastic stories, well told with lucid prose

Pehaps the best selling American author of all time, definately in the Western realm. Greats like Flint, The Quick and the Dead, Hondo, How the West Was Won, Sackets, simple storytelling everyone can love. Great shortstories. Somewhat Bad guy in a black hat vs. Good guy in a White hat, but he created all them.

CLASSICS: The Bride Wore Black (‘40) Night Has a Thousand Eyes (‘45) Rendezvous in Black (‘48) and many more..

18 WONDERFUL NOVELS: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (‘74) THE RIDDLE-MASTER TRILOGY (1976-77-1979) The Changeling Sea ('88) Winter Rose ('96) & Solstice Wood (2006) The Tower at Stony Wood (2000) Ombria in Shadow (2002) In the Forests of Serre (2003) The Sorceress and the Cygnet ('91) & The Cygnet and the Firebird ('93) The Book of Atrix Wolfe ('95) Song for Basilisk ('98) Alphabet of Thorn (2004) Od Magic (2005) The Bell at Sealey Head (2008) The Bards of Bone Plain (2010)

Catherine's books speak to the soul every time she puts pen to paper. Not only that she doesn't duck the issues, doesn't require perfectly wonderful people to be her heroes and heroines, nor try to resolve all everything at the end of the book -- sort of like life, and she touches on real things like teenage alcoholism, sexual abuse, the optimism of paying it forward, and many other REAL things. Top Books: Pay it Forward, Finding Chloe, Chasing Windmills, The Year of my Miraculous Reappearance, Love in the Present Tense

Cold Mountain, Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods

A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

He wrote the defining Batman that everyone in this generation knows, not to mention Sin City and 300. He has had some bumpy writing, but when he is great he is great.

Helped redefine graphic narratives with Maus. Experimented with comic narrative his whole career.

Tuesday's with Morrie - The five people you meet in heaven

A phenomenal author of a physics paper that has changed society since it's release.

The Light in the Forest, Sea of Grass, the frontier trilogy The Awakening Land, and Waters of Kronos are his best known works. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner.

Excellent author whose books have been ravaged by the movies.

A mixture of Steinbeck, Dos Passos and Ray Carver. His short stories are memorable.

One of the top American fantasy writers; his characters come to life. Do yourself a favor and read his works.

WHERE IS SHELLEY?! Has anyone READ Frankenstein?

Gods and Generals. The Last Full Measure.

classic 21st century author

Brown's interest in secrets and puzzles stems from their presence in his household as a child, where codes and ciphers were the lynchpin tying together the mathematics, music and languages in which his parents worked. The young Brown spent hours working out anagrams and crossword puzzles, and he and his siblings participated in elaborate treasure hunts devised by their father on birthdays and holidays. On Christmas, for example, Brown and his siblings did not find gifts under the tree, but followed a treasure map with codes and clues throughout their house and even around town to find the gifts. Brown's relationship with his father inspired that of Sophie Neveu and Jacques Sauniere in The Da Vinci Code, and Chapter 23 of that novel was inspired by one of his childhood treasure hunts.

His books are unparrallelled, due to his wide vocabulary of the era of his writing, and of his sheer talent

He is a pretty cool guy he fights dragons and dosn't afraid of nothing

The coolest black guy you could ever know, loves the white wimminz!

Wrote that book that was awsome Remember gais?!!!

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Tagore is not American by nationality, but Tagore strongly upheld great ideals such as a love of freedom, non violence and peace. Transcending the narrow boundaries of nationalism, by his love of freedom,peace and reason Rabindranath Tagore in his great ideas and philosophy is genuinely American and Universal.