Authors We Love
Influential authors we love—some from the past, some from today:
James Agee, Harriet Arnow, John Ashbery, James Baldwin, Djuna Barnes, John Barth, Louise Bogan,
Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles, Richard Brautigan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Bukowski, James Branch Cabell,
Abraham Cahan, Tim Cahill, James M. Cain, Wadswroth Camp, Truman Capote, Willa Cather, Michael Chabon,
Raymond Chandler, Robert Coover, Gregory Corso, Michael Cunningham, Diane Di Prima, James Dickey,
Edward Dorn, John Dos Passos, Lloyd C. Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Dave Eggers, T.S. Eliot,
Bret Easton Ellis, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, Donald Hall, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Harrison,
John Hawkes, Lillian Hellman, Carson McCullers

Edith Wharton
Composite of F. Scott Fitzgerald photos
Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, William Inge, John Irving, Shirley Jackson, James Weldon Johnson,
James Jones, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Kenneth Koch, Harper Lee, Jonathan Lethem,
Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer,
![]() Truman Capote |
![]() Harper Lee |
Edgar Lee Masters, Harry Mathews, Cormac McCarthy, Jackson Tippett McCrae, Carson McCullers, H.L. Mencken, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Christopher Moore, Marianne Moore, Willie Morris, Toni Morrison, Anais Nin, Flannery O’Connor, Frank O’Hara, Eugene O’Neill, Joyce Carol Oates, Dorothy Parker, Gordon Parks, Kenneth Patchen, Percy Walker, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Thomas Pychon, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, William Saroyan,
![]() William Faulkner |
![]() Jack London |
James Schuyler, Upton Sinclair, Gary Snyder, Terry Southern, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Hunter S. Thompson, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Thorton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Owen Wister, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright.
![]() Kurt Vonnegut |
![]() Walt Whitman |
![]() Upton Sinclair |






