Literature: Novelists and Short-Story Writers

Abe, Kobo

1924–1993

Japanese

The Woman in the Dunes (1962); The Box Man (1973)

Achebe, Chinua

1930–

Nigerian

Things Fall Apart (1958)

Agee, James

1909–1955

American

A Death in the Family (1957)

Amis, Kingsley

1922–1995

English

Lucky Jim (1954)

Anderson, Sherwood

1876–1941

American

Stories: Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

Asimov, Isaac

1920–1992

Russian-born American

Foundation and Empire (1952); Stories: I, Robot (1950)

Atwood, Margaret

1939–

Canadian

The Circle Game (1966); The Handmaid’s Tale (1985); The Blind Assassin (2000)

Austen, Jane

1775–1817

English

Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Emma (1816); Persuasion (1818)

Baldwin, James

1924–1987

American

Another Country (1962)

Balzac, Honoré de

1799–1850

French

The Human Comedy (1842–53); Cousin Bette (1846)

Barth, John

1930–

American

The Floating Opera (1956); The Sot-Weed Factor (1960); Giles Goat-Boy (1966)

Bellow, Saul

1915–

American

The Adventures of Augie March (1953); Seize the Day (1956); Herzog (1964)

Benét, Stephen Vincent

1898–1943

American

Stories :“The King of the Cats” (1929); “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1937)

Bierce, Ambrose

1842–1914

American

Stories: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891); The Eyes of the Panther (1891)

Blackwood, Algernon Henry

1869–1951

English

Stories: The Willows (1907); The Wendigo (1910)

Böll, Heinrich

1917–1985

German

Group Portrait with Lady (1971); The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974)

Borges, Jorge Luis

1899–1986

Argentine

Stories: Fictions (1944); The Aleph (1949); The Maker (1960)

Bowles, Paul

1910–

American

The Sheltering Sky (1948). Stories: “A Distant Episode” (1945); “Pages from Cold Point” (1947)

Bradbury, Ray

1920–

American

The Martian Chronicles (1950); Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Breton, André

1896–1966

French

The Communicating Vessels (1932); Mad Love (1937)

Brontë, Charlotte

1816–1855

English

Jane Eyre (1847)

Brontë, Emily

1818–1848

English

Wuthering Heights (1847)

Bukowski, Charles

1920–1994

American

Post Office (1971); Factotum (1975); Hollywood (1989)

Burgess, Anthony

1917–1993

English

A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Burroughs, William S.

1914–1997

American

Naked Lunch (1962); The Soft Machine (1961)

Cain, James M.

1892–1977

American

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934); Double Indemnity (1936)

Caldwell, Erskine

1903–1987

American

Tobacco Road (1932); God’s Little Acre (1933)

Camus, Albert

1913–1960

French

The Stranger (1942); The Plague (1947)

Capote, Truman

1924–1984

American

The Grass Harp (1951); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958). Non-fiction: In Cold Blood (1965)

Cather, Willa

1873–1947

American

O Pioneers! (1913); My ántonia (1918)

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

1547–1616

Spanish

Don Quixote (1605–15)

Chandler, Raymond

1888–1959

American

The Big Sleep (1939); The Lady in the Lake (1943)

Cheever, John

1912–1982

American

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957); Falconer (1977)

Christie, Agatha

1891–1976

English

Murder on the Orient Express (1934); And Then There Were None (1940)

Clarke, Arthur C.

1917–

English

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Clavell, James

1924–1994

Australian-born American

Tai-Pan (1966); Shogun (1975)

Cocteau, Jean

1889–1963

French

Thomas the Imposter (1923); Les Enfants terribles (1929)

Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette]

1873–1954

French

Gigi (1944)

Conrad, Joseph

1857–1924

English

Lord Jim (1900); Heart of Darkness (1902)

Cooper, James Fenimore

1789–1851

American

The Last of the Mohicans (1826); The Deerslayer (1841)

Crane, Stephen

1871–1900

American

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Crichton, [John] Michael

1942–

American

The Andromeda Strain (1969); Jurassic Park (1990)

Davies, Robertson

1913–1995

Canadian

What’s Bred in the Bone (1985)

Defoe, Daniel

1660–1731

English

Robinson Crusoe (1719); Moll Flanders (1722)

Dickens, Charles

1812–1870

English

The Pickwick Papers (1836–37); A Christmas Carol (1843); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); Great Expectations (1861)

Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

1885–1962

Danish

Stories: Seven Gothic Tales (1934); Winter’s Tales (1942); Memoir: Out of Africa (1937)

Doctorow, E. L.

1931–

American

Ragtime (1975); Billy Bathgate (1989)

Dos Passos, John

1896–1970

American

U.S.A. (trilogy; 1930–36)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich

1821–1881

Russian

Crime and Punishment (1866); The Idiot (1869); The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

1859–1930

English

A Study in Scarlet (1887); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)

Dreiser, Theodore

1871–1945

American

Sister Carrie (1900); An American Tragedy (1925)

Du Maurier, Daphne

1907–1989

English

Rebecca (1938)

Dumas, Alexandre père

1802–1870

French

The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–45); The Three Musketeers (1844)

Eco, Umberto

1932–

Italian

The Name of the Rose (1980); Foucault’s Pendulum (1989)

Eliot, George [Mary Ann Evans]

1819–1880

English

Silas Marner (1861); Middlemarch (1871–72)

Ellison, Harlan

1934–

American

Stories: “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman (1965); A Boy and His Dog (1969)

Ellison, Ralph

1914–1994

American

Invisible Man (1952)

Faulkner, William

1897–1962

American

As I Lay Dying (1930); Sanctuary (1931); Light in August (1932); Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Fielding, Henry

1707–1754

English

Tom Jones (1749)

Finney, Jack

1911–1995

American

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

1896–1940

American

The Great Gatsby (1925); Tender Is the Night (1934)

Flaubert, Gustave

1821–1880

French

Madame Bovary (1857); A Sentimental Education (1869)

Ford, Ford Madox

1873–1939

English

The Good Soldier (1915)

Forster, E. M.

1879–1970

English

Howard’s End (1910); A Passage to India (1924)

Fowles, John

1926–

English

The Collector (1963); The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969)

Fuentes, Carlos

1928–

Mexican

The Old Gringo (1986)

Galsworthy, John

1867–1933

English

The Forsyte Saga (1922)

Garcia Márquez, Gabriel

1928–

Colombian

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); Love in the Time of Cholera (1988)

Gide, André

1868–1951

French

The Immoralist (1902); The Counterfeiters (1926)

Gogol, Nikolai

1809–1852

Russian

Dead Souls (1842). Stories: “Diary of a Madman” (1935); “The Overcoat” (1842)

Golding, William

1911–1993

English

Lord of the Flies (1954)

Goldsmith, Oliver

1730–1774

English

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

Gordimer, Nadine

1923–

South African

The Lying Days (1953); The Conversationist (1974); The House Gun (1998)

Gorky, Maxim

1868–1936

Russian

Mother (1906); Stories: “Chelkash” (1895); “Twenty-Six Men and a Girl” (1899)

Grass, Günther

1927–

German

The Tin Drum (1959)

Graves, Robert

1895–1985

English

I, Claudius (1934)

Greene, Graham

1904–1991

English

The End of the Affair (1951); The Quiet American (1957); Our Man in Havana (1958)

Grisham, John

1955–

American

The Firm (1991); The Client (1993)

Hammett, [Samuel] Dashiell

1894–1961

American

The Maltese Falcon (1930); The Glass Key (1931); The Thin Man (1934)

Hardy, Thomas

1840–1928

English

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
The Return of the Native (1878); Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1896)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

1804–1864

American

The Scarlet Letter (1850); The House of the Seven Gables (1851);
The Blithedale Romance (1852)

Heller, Joseph

1923–2000

American

Catch-22 (1961)

Hemingway, Ernest

1899–1961

American

The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

Henry, O.

1862–1910

American

Stories: “The Gift of the Magi” (1905); “The Ransom of Red Chief” (1910)

Hesse, Hermann

1877–1962

German

Siddhartha (1922); Steppenwolf (1927)

Highsmith, Patricia

1921–1995

American

Strangers on a Train (1949); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)

Hilton, James

1900–1954

English-born American

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934)

Himes, Chester

1909–1984

American

If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945); Cotton Comes to Harlem (1965)

Howells, William Dean

1837–1920

American

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)

Hugo, Victor Marie

1802–1885

French

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831); Les Misérables (1862)

Hurston, Zora Neale

1903–1960

American

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Huxley, Aldous

1894–1963

English

Crome Yellow (1921); Antic Hay (1923); Brave New World (1932)

Irving, John

1942–

American

The World According to Garp (1978) A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

Irving, Washington

1783–1859

American

Stories: The Sketch Book (1819–20

James, Henry

1843–1916

American

The American (1877); Portrait of a Lady (1881); The Ambassadors (1903)

Jong, Erica

1942–

American

Fear of Flying (1973)

Joyce, James

1882–1941

Irish

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916); Ulysses (1922); Stories: Dubliners (1914)

Kafka, Franz

1883–1924

German

Metamorphosis (1915); Amerika (1927)

Keneally, Thomas

1935–

Australian

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972); Schindler’s List (1982)

Kerouac, Jack

1922–1969

American

On the Road (1957)

Kesey, Ken

1935–

American

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

King, Stephen

1947–

American

Carrie (1974); The Shining (1977); The Tommyknockers (1987)

Knowles, John

1926–

American

A Separate Peace (1959)

Krantz, Judith

1927–

American

Scruples (1978); Princess Daisy (1980); I’ll Take Manhattan (1986)

L’Amour, Louis

1908–1988

American

How the West Was Won (1963)

Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de

1741–1803

French

Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)

Lampedusa, Tomasi di

1896–1957

Italian

The Leopard (1958)

Lawrence, D. H.

1885–1930

English

Sons and Lovers (1913); Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928)

Le Carré, John

1931–

English

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963); Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974)

Le Guin, Ursula K.

1929–

American

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969); The Dispossessed (1974)

Lee, Harper

1926–

American

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Lessing, Doris

1919–

English

Children of Violence (5 vols.; 1952– 69); The Golden Notebook (1962)

Levin, Ira

1929–

American

A Kiss Before Dying (1953); Rosemary’s Baby (1967)

Lewis, [Harry] Sinclair Lewis

1885–1951

American

Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Elmer Gantry (1927)

London, Jack

1876–1916

American

The Call of the Wild (1903); White Fang (1906)

Mahfouz, Naguib

1911–

Egyptian

New Cairo (1946); The Palace of Desire (1957); Wedding Song (1987)

Mailer, Norman

1923–

American

The Naked and the Dead (1948); The Executioner’s Song (1979)

Malamud, Bernard

1914–1986

American

The Natural (1952); The Assistant (1957)

Mann, Thomas

1875–1955

German

Buddenbrooks (1900); The Magic Mountain (1924); Doctor Faustus (1947)

Mansfield, Katherine

1888–1923

New Zealander

Stories: “Prelude” (1918); “The Garden Party” (1922)

Maugham, William Somerset

1874–1965

English

The Moon and Sixpence (1916); The Razor’s Edge (1944)

Maupin, Armistead

1944–

American

Tales of the City (1978)

McCarthy, Mary

1912–1989

American

The Group (1963); Autobiography: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)

McCullers, Carson

1917–1967

American

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940); The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)

McCullough, Colleen

1937–

Australian

The Thorn Birds (1977)

Melville, Herman

1819–1891

American

Typee (1846); Moby Dick (1851); Stories: “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)

Michener, James

1907–1997

American

Hawaii (1959); Cheskapeake (1978)

Miller, Henry

1891–1980

American

Tropic of Cancer (1934); Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

Mishima, Yukio

1925–1970

Japanese

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (1963)

Mitchell, Joseph

1908–1996

American

Stories: Up in the Old Hotel (1992)

Mitchell, Margaret

1900–1949

American

Gone with the Wind (1936)

Morrison, Toni

1931–

American

Song of Solomon (1977); Beloved (1987); Jazz (1992)

Murasaki, Lady Shikibu

c.978–c.1014

Japanese

The Tale of Genji (c.1010)

Murdoch, Iris

1919–1999

English

A Severed Head (1961); The Good Apprentice (1985)

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich

1889–1977

Russian-born American

Lolita (1955); Pnin (1957); Pale Fire (1962)

Naipaul, V. S.

1932–

Trinidadian

A Bend in the River (1979); Way in the World (1994)

Natsume, Soseki

1867–1916

Japanese

I Am a Cat (1905–6); The Wayfayer (1912-13)

Nin, Anaïs

1903–1977

French-born American

Cities of the Interior (5 vols.; 1959); Seduction of the Minotaur (1961)

Noma, Hiroshi

1915–1991

Japanese

Zone of Emptiness (1952)

O’Connor, [Mary] Flannery

1925–1964

American

Wise Blood (1949); The Violent Bear It Away (1955)

O’Hara, John

1905–1970

American

Appointment in Samarra (1934); Butterfield 8 (1935)

Oates, Joyce Carol

1938–

American

Do With Me What You Will (1973); Bellefleur (1980)

Orwell, George

1903–1950

English

Animal Farm (1945); 1984 (1949)

Page, Thomas Nelson

1853–1922

American

Stories: In Ole Virgina, Marse Chan, and Other Stories (1887)

Parker, Dorothy

1893–1967

American

“Lady with a Lamp” (1932); “The Waltz” (1933)

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

1890–1960

Russian

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Paton, Alan Stewart

1903–1988

South African

Cry the Beloved Country (1948)

Petronius, Gaius

d. AD 66

Roman

The Satyricon (c.50)

Poe, Edgar Allan

1809–1849

American

Stories: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839); “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843); “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1843); “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846)

Porter, Katherine Anne

1890–1980

American

Ship of Fools (1962). Stories: “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (1939); “Noon Wine” (1939)

Potok, Chaim

1929–

American

The Chosen (1967); The Promise (1969)

Proust, Marcel

1871–1922

French

Remembrance of Things Past (7 vols.; 1913–27)

Puig, Manuel

1932–1990

Argentinian

The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976)

Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich

1789–1837

Russian

Eugene Onegin (1831); The Captain’s Daughter (1836)

Rabelais, François

c.1494–1553

French

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–64)

Rand, Ayn

1905–1982

Russian-born American

The Fountainhead (1943); Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Réage, Pauline

1908–1998

French

The Story of O (1955)

Remarque, Erich Maria

1898–1970

German

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Rice, Anne

1941–

American

Interview with the Vampire (1976); Cry to Heaven (1982); The Vampire Lestat (1985)

Robbins, Tom

1936–

American

Another Roadside Attraction (1971); Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Roth, Philip

1933–

American

Goodbye, Columbus (1959); Portnoy’s Complaint (1969); The Human Stain (2000)

Rushdie, Salman

1947–

Indian

Midnight’s Children (1980); The Satanic Verses (1989)

Sagan, Francoise

1935–

French

Bonjour tristesse (1954)

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

1870–1916

Scottish

The Unbearable Bassington (1912); Stories: “Tobermory” (1911); “The Open Window” (1914)

Salinger, J. D.

1919–

American

The Catcher in the Rye (1951 ); Franny and Zooey (1961)

Sand, George [Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin]

1804–1876

French

The Devil’s Pool (1846); The Country Waif (1848)

Sandburg, Carl

1878–1967

American

Remembrance Rock (1948); Stories: Rootabaga Stories (1922)

Saroyan, William

1908–1981

American

The Human Comedy (1943); Stories: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)

Sartre, Jean-Paul

1905–1980

French

Nausea (1938)

Scott, Sir Walter

1771–1832

Scottish

Rob Roy (1817); Ivanhoe (1819)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

1791–1851

English

Frankenstein (1818)

Shute, Nevil

1899–1960

Australian

A Town Like Alice (1950); On the Beach (1957)

Sinclair, Upton

1878–1968

American

The Jungle (1906)

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

1904–1991

Polish-born American

The Magician of Lublin (1960); Enemies, a Love Story (1972); Stories: “The Spinoza of Market Street” (1944); “Gimpel the Fool” (1945)

Smiley, Jane

1949–

American

A Thousand Acres (1991); Horse Heaven (2000)

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.

1918–

Russian

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962); The Cancer Ward (1968)

Southern, Terry

1926–1995

American

Candy (1958); Blue Movie (1970)

Spark, Muriel

1918–

Scottish-born English

Memento Mori (1959); The Girls of Slender Means (1963)

Stein, Gertrude

1874–1946

American

The Making of Americans (1906–11); Autobiography: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)

Steinbeck, John Ernst

1902–1968

American

The Grapes of Wrath (1939); Of Mice and Men (1937); Cannery Row (1945)

Stendhal [Marie- Henri Beyle]

1788–1842

French

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)

Sterne, Laurence

1713–1768

Irish-born English

Tristam Shandy (1759-67)

Stevenson, Robert Louis

1850–1894

Scottish

Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

Stoker, Bram

1847–1912

Irish

Dracula (1897)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

1811–1896

American

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Styron, William

1925–

American

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967); Sophie’s Choice (1979)

Swift, Jonathan

1667–1745

Irish

Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro

1886–1965

Japanese

The Secret History of the Lord Musashi (1935); Seven Japanese Tales (1963)

Thackeray, William Makepeace

1811–1863

English

Barry Lyndon (1844); Vanity Fair (1847–48)

Theroux, Paul

1941–

American

The Family Arsenal (1976); The Mosquito Coast (1981)

Thurber, James

1894–1961

American

Story: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (1939)

Tolstoy, Leo

1828–1910

Russian

War and Peace (1863–69); Anna Karenina (1875–77); Play: Redemption (1911)

Trollope, Anthony

1815–1882

English

Barchester Towers (1857); He Knew He Was Right (1869)

Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in

c.1715–1763

Chinese

Dream of the Red Chamber (c.1763)

Turgenev, Ivan

1818–1883

Russian

Fathers and Sons (1862); Stories: “ The Diary of a Superfluous Man” (1850)

Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens]

1835–1910

American

Tom Sawyer (1876); Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Updike, John

1932–

American

Rabbit, Run (1960); Gertrude and Claudius (2000)

Vidal, Gore

1925–

American

The City and the Pillar (1948); Burr (1974)

Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

1694–1778

French

Candide (1759)

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

1922–

American

Player Piano (1952); Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Walker, Alice

1944–

American

The Color Purple (1982)

Warren, Robert Penn

1905–1989

American

All the King’s Men (1946); World Enough and Time (1950)

Waugh, Evelyn

1903–1966

English

Decline and Fall (1928); A Handful of Dust (1934); Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Weldon, Faye

1933–

English

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983)

Wells, H. G.

1866–1946

English

The Invisible Man (1897); The War of the Worlds (1898)

Welty, Eudora

1909–

American

Delta Wedding (1946); The Optimist’s Daughter (1972)

West, Nathaniel

1903–1940

American

Miss Lonelyhearts (1933); The Day of the Locust (1939)

Wharton, Edith

1862–1937

American

Ethan Frome (1911); The Age of Innocence (1920)

Wodehouse, P. G.

1881–1975

English-born American

My Man Jeeves (1919)

Wolfe, Thomas

1900–1938

American

Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

Wolfe, Tom

1930–

American

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

Woolf, Virginia

1882–1941

English

Mrs. Dalloway (1925); To the Lighthouse (1927)

Wouk, Herman

1915–

American

The Caine Mutiny (1951)

Wright, Richard

1908–1960

American

Native Son (1940)

Yourcenar, Marguerite

1903–1987

French-born American

The Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)