== Novelists ==

* [[wikipedia:Gish Jen|]] (b. 1955)
* [[wikipedia:Jayne Anne Phillips|]] (b. 1952)
* [[wikipedia:Jane Smiley|]] (b. 1949)
* [[wikipedia:Marilynne Robinson|]] (b. 1943)
* [[wikipedia:Anne Tyler|]] (b. 1941)
* [[wikipedia:Bobbie Ann Mason|]] (b. 1940)
* [[wikipedia:Joyce Carol Oates|]] (b. 1938)
* [[wikipedia:Annie Proulx|]] (b. 1935)
* [[wikipedia:Toni Morrison|]] (b. 1931)
* [[wikipedia:Mary Antin|]] (b. 1881)
* [[wikipedia:Harriet Beecher Stowe|]] (1811 - 1896)