Famous American Novelists
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ― Maya Angelou
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![Major Israel McCreight](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/major-israel-mccreight.jpg)
Major Israel McCreight
American writer
![H. P. Lovecraft](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/H/h-p-lovecraft.jpg)
H. P. Lovecraft
American author
![Ursula K. Le Guin](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/U/ursula-k-le-guin.jpg)
Ursula K. Le Guin
American fantasy and science fiction author
![Michael Crichton](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/michael-crichton.jpg)
Michael Crichton
American author, screenwriter, film producer
![Mircea Eliade](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/mircea-eliade.jpg)
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago
![J. D. Salinger](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/J/j-d-salinger.jpg)
J. D. Salinger
American writer
![Ralph Nader](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/R/ralph-nader.jpg)
Ralph Nader
American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
![Herman Melville](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/H/herman-melville.jpg)
Herman Melville
American writer and poet
![W.E.B. Du Bois](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/W/w-e-b-du-bois.jpg)
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
![Jimmy Carter](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/J/jimmy-carter.jpg)
Jimmy Carter
American politician, 39th President of the United States
![James Baldwin](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/J/james-baldwin.jpg)
James Baldwin
American writer
![Mick Foley](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/mick-foley.jpg)
Mick Foley
American actor, author and professional wrestler
![Isaac Asimov](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/I/isaac-asimov.jpg)
Isaac Asimov
American writer and professor
![L. Ron Hubbard](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/L/l-ron-hubbard.jpg)
L. Ron Hubbard
American writer and Church of Scientology founder
![Joss Whedon](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/J/joss-whedon.jpg)
Joss Whedon
American director, writer, and producer
![Robert Clark Young](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/R/robert-clark-young.jpg)
Robert Clark Young
American author
![Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/C/charlotte-perkins-gilman.jpg)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer
![Stephen King](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/S/stephen-king.jpg)
Stephen King
American writer
![F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/F/f-scott-fitzgerald.jpg)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer
![Toni Morrison](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/T/toni-morrison.jpg)
Toni Morrison
American novelist, essayist and academic
![Newt Gingrich](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/N/newt-gingrich.jpg)
Newt Gingrich
American politician and former Speaker of the House
![William Saroyan](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/W/william-saroyan.jpg)
William Saroyan
Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
![Boris Pasternak](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/B/boris-pasternak.jpg)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer
![William S. Burroughs](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/W/william-s-burroughs.jpg)
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
![H.D.](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/H/hd.jpg)
H.D.
American Imagist poet
![Terry Southern](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/T/terry-southern.jpg)
Terry Southern
American author
![Ben Hecht](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/B/ben-hecht.jpg)
Ben Hecht
American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist
![Robert Albert Bloch](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/R/robert-bloch.jpg)
Robert Albert Bloch
American novelist and short story writer
![John Bellairs](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/static/images/dummy.jpg)
John Bellairs
American novelist, primarily speculative fiction for children
![Helen Wills](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/H/helen-wills.jpg)
Helen Wills
American tennis player and writer
![Robert E. Howard](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/R/robert-e-howard.jpg)
Robert E. Howard
American author
![Ernest Hemingway](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/E/ernest-hemingway.jpg)
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist
![Martina Navratilova](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/martina-navratilova.jpg)
Martina Navratilova
Czech-American tennis player
![Tony Abbott](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/static/images/dummy.jpg)
Tony Abbott
American children's writer
![Hilary Duff](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/H/hilary-duff.jpg)
Hilary Duff
American actress and singer
![Gary Gygax](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/G/gary-gygax.jpg)
Gary Gygax
American writer and game designer
![Truman Capote](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/T/truman-capote.jpg)
Truman Capote
American author
![Stephen Crane](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/S/stephen-crane.jpg)
Stephen Crane
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
![Mark Twain](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/M/mark-twain.jpg)
Mark Twain
American author and humorist
![T. Coraghessan Boyle](https://pplstatic.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media/people/thumbs/T/t-coraghessan-boyle.jpg)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
American novelist and short story writer