USAs litteratur 1950-2000
Den første litteratur som kan kalles amerikansk er beskrivelser av den nye verden av europeere. Den mest kjente av disse skribentene er John Smith (1580–1631). Det tok forbausende kort tid før den første litteraturen ble skapt i de engelske koloniene i Nord-Amerika, først i New England, der den dominerende puritanismen satte sitt preg på det skrevne ord.
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B
- Baldwin, James
- Ball, John Dudley
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Banks, Russell
- Barry Hannah
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Beattie, Ann
- Bellow, Saul
- Benchley, Peter
- Berger, Thomas Louis
- Blisch, James Benjamin
- Bontemps, Arna Wendell
- Bowles, Jane
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyle, Kay
- Brautigan, Richard
- Bristow, Gwen
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brown, Dee Alexander
- Brown, Harry
- Buchwald, Arthur
- Buechner, Frederick
- Bukowski, Charles
- Burdick, Eugene
- Burroughs, William S.
C
- Caldwell, Taylor
- Cameron, Peter
- Capote, Truman
- Carver, Raymond
- Cervantes, Lorna Dee
- Chayefsky, Paddy
- Cheever, John
- Chessman, Caryl
- Chávez, Denise
- Clancy, Tom
- Clark, Walter van Tilburg
- Clavell, James
- Condon, Richard
- Coover, Robert Lowell
- Corso, Gregory
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Crichton, Michael
- Crouse, Russel
- Cummings, E. E.
- Cunningham, Michael
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E
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G
- Gaddis, William
- Gallico, Paul William
- Gardner, John
- Garro, Elena
- Gass, William H.
- Gelber, Jack
- Gershwin, Ira
- Gibson, William
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Giovanni, Nikki
- Godwin, Gail
- Gold, Herbert
- Goodman, Paul
- Gordon, Caroline
- Gordon, Mary
- Grau, Shirley Ann
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Greene, Ward
- Griffin, John Howard
H
- Haley, Alex Palmer
- Halper, Albert
- Hamilton, Jane
- Harbach, Otto
- Harrison, Harry
- Harrison, James Thomas
- Harte, Bret
- Hawkes, John
- Heller, Joseph
- Hellman, Lillian
- Hersey, John
- Hightower, Lynn S.
- Hijuelos, Oscar
- Himes, Chester
- Hochschild, Adam
- Hoffman, Alice
- Howl and Other Poems
- Hughes, Langston
- Huie, William Bradford
- Hvem er redd for Virginia Woolf?
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M
- MacInnes, Helen
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Maltz, Albert
- Marquand, John Phillips
- Marshall, Paule
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- McCarthy, Cormac
- McCarthy, Mary
- McCourt, Frank
- McCullers, Carson
- McGuane, Thomas
- McMurtry, Larry
- Mehta, Ved
- Meredith, William
- Merwin, William Stanley
- Metalious, Grace
- Michener, James Albert
- Millar, Margaret
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Henry
- Miller, Sue
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Moore, Marianne
- Morris, Wright
- Motley, Willard
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S
- Salinger, J. D.
- Sandburg, Carl
- Saroyan, William
- Schulberg, Budd
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Selby, Hubert
- Shapiro, Karl Jay
- Shaw, Irwin
- Sheckley, Robert
- Shelby Foote
- Sheldon, Sidney
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Silverberg, Robert
- Silverstein, Shel
- Simon, Neil
- Sladek, John Thomas
- Smith, Lillian
- Snyder, Gary
- Song, Cathy
- Sontag, Susan
- Southern, Terry
- Spillane, Mickey
- Stafford, Jean
- Stegner, Wallace
- Steinbeck, John
- Stone, Irving
- Stone, Robert Anthony
- Styron, William
- Susann, Jacqueline