Liste d'écrivains américains par année de naissance

• Thomas Morton (1579 - 1647)
• John Winthrop (1588 - 1649)
• William Bradford (1590 - 1657)

• Roger Williams (1603 - 1683)
• Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)
• Mary Rowlandson (1636 - 1711)
• Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729)
• Robert Calef (1648 - 1719)
• Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730)
• Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728)
• Sarah Kemble Knight (1666 - 1727)
• William Moraley (1699 - 1762)

• Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
• J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur (1735 - 1813)
• Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
• Robert Bolling (1738-1775)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
• Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797)

1750

• Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
• Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832)
• Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784)
• Hannah Websters Foster, 1758 - 1840
• Mason Locke Weems, 1759 - 1825
• Susanna Rowson, 1762 - 1824
• Tabitha Gilman Tenney, 1762 - 1837
• William Hill Brown, 1765 - 1793

1770

• Charles Brockden Brown, 1771 - 1810
• Francis Scott Key, 1779 - 1843
• Clement Clarke Moore, 1779 - 1863
• Washington Allston, 1779 - 1843

1780

• Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859
• James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 - 1851
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789 - 1867

1790

• John Howard Payne, 1791 - 1852
• Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 1791 - 1867
• John Neal, 1793 - 1876
• William Cullen Bryant, 1794 - 1878
• John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795 - 1870
• John Lofland, 1798 - 1849
• John Kearsley Mitchell, 1798 - 1858
• William Apess, 1798 - 1839
• Robert Charles Sands, 1799 - 1832

1800-1850

1800

• Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800 - 1842
• John Hill Hewitt, 1801 - 1890
• Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, 1801 - 1864
• Lydia Maria Child, 1802 - 1880
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
• George Lunt, 1803 - 1885
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864
• Robert Montgomery Bird, 1806 - 1854
• Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1806 - 1867
• William Gilmore Simms, 1806 - 1870
• Theodore Fay, 1807 - 1898
• Henry Longfellow, 1807 - 1882
• John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 1892
• William Davis Gallagher, 1808 - 1894
• Willis Gaylord Clark, 1808 - 1841
• Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849
• Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

1810

• Margaret Fuller, 1810 - 1850
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 - 1896
• Fanny Fern, 1811 - 1872
• Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812 - 1884
• Harriet Jacobs, 1813 - 1897
• Rebecca Harding Davis, 1813 - 1910
• Jones Very, 1813 - 1880
• Abraham Coles, 1813 - 1891
• William Wells Brown, 1814 - 1884
• Eliza Farnham (1815 - 1864)
• Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
• James Thomas Fields, 1817 - 1881
• Thomas Mayne Reid, 1818 - 1883
• William Ellery Channing, 1818 - 1901
• Frederick Douglass, 1818 - 1895
• Herman Melville, 1819 - 1891
• James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891
• Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892

1820

• Edward Everett Hale, 1822 - 1909
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, 1823 - 1902
• George Henry Boker, 1823 - 1890
• Bayard Taylor, 1825 - 1878
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825 - 1911
• James Madison Bell, 1826 - 1902
• John William De Forest, 1826 - 1906
• Henry Timrod, 1828 - 1867
• Fitz-James O'Brien, 1828 - 1862
• Abel Beach, 1829 - 1899

1830

• Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830 - 1886
• Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
• Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831 - 1905
• Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888
• María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (en), 1832 - 1895
• Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
• Henry Ames Blood, 1836 - 1900
• Bret Harte, 1836 - 1902
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836 - 1907
• William Dean Howells, 1837 - 1920
• Henry Adams, 1838 - 1918
• James A. Herne, 1839 - 1901

1840

• Ingersoll Lockwood, 1841 - 1918
• Sidney Lanier, 1842 - 1881
• William James, 1842 - 1910
• Ambrose Bierce, 1842 - 1914
• Bronson Howard, 1842 - 1908
• Henry James, 1843 - 1916
• Richard Watson Gilder, 1844 - 1909
• Sarah Winnemucca, 1844 - 1891
• George Washington Cable, 1844 - 1925
• Edgar Fawcett, 1847 - 1904
• Joel Chandler Harris, 1848 - 1908
• John Vance Cheney, 1848 - 1922
• Joseph Arthur, 1848 - 1906
• Emma Lazarus, 1849 - 1887
• Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849 - 1909

1850

• Kate Chopin, 1850 - 1904
• Edward Bellamy, 1850 - 1898
• Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, 1850 - 1927
• Eugene Field, 1850 - 1895

1851-1899

• Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1852 - 1930
• W. C. Morrow, 1854 - 1923
• Henry Cuyler Bunner, 1855 - 1896
• Lyman Frank Baum, 1856 - 1919
• Harold Frederic, 1856 - 1898
• Booker T. Washington, 1856 - 1915
• Anna Julia Cooper, 1858 - 1964
• Pauline Hopkins, 1859 - 1930

1860

• Hamlin Garland, 1860 - 1940
• Abraham Cahan (en), 1860 - 1951
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860 - 1935
• O. Henry, 1862 - 1910
• Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937
• Martha Young (1862–1941)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862 - 1931
• Josephine White Bates, 1862-1934
• Joséphine Diebitsch Peary, 1863 - 1955
• Black Elk, 1863 - 1950
• Richard Hovey, 1864 - 1900
• Sui Sin Far (en) (Edith Maude Eaton), 1865 - 1914
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 - 1957
• Mary Hunter Austin, 1868 - 1934
• Elizabeth Dejeans, 1868 - 1928
• W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868 - 1963
• Edgar Lee Masters, 1868 - 1935
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935
• Temple Bailey, 1869 - 1953

1870

• Frank Norris, 1870 - 1902
• Stephen Crane, 1871 - 1900
• Theodore Dreiser, 1871 - 1945
• James Weldon Johnson, 1871 - 1938
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 - 1906
• Willa Cather, 1873 - 1947
• Bell Elliott Palmer (1873 – 1947)
• Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946
• Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925
• Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
• Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875 - 1950
• Jeannette Augustus Marks, 1875 - 1964
• Jack London, 1876 - 1916
• Zitkala-Ša, 1876 - 1938
• Susan Glaspell, 1876 - 1948
• Sherwood Anderson, 1876 - 1941
• Carl Sandburg, 1878 - 1967
• Upton Sinclair, 1878 - 1968
• Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955

1880

• Mina Loy, 1882 - 1966
• William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963
• Cornelia Meigs, 1884 - 1973
• Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951
• Ezra Pound, 1885 - 1972
• Lizzie Yu Der Ling, 1885 - 1944
• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886 - 1961
• Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968
• Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972
• Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959
• T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965
• Alan Seeger, 1888 - 1916
• Eugene O'Neill, 1888 - 1953
• Charles Boardman Hawes, 1889 - 1923
• Conrad Aiken, 1889 - 1973
• Claude McKay, 1889 - 1948

1890

• Katherine Anne Porter, 1890 - 1980
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937
• Conrad Richter, 1890 - 1968
• Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960
• Nella Larsen, 1891 - 1964
• Henry Miller, 1891 - 1980
• Jim Tully, 1891 - 1947
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 - 1950
• Pearl Buck, 1892 - 1973
• Monica Shannon, 1893 - 1965
• Dorothy Parker, 1893 - 1967
• E. E. Cummings, 1894 - 1962
• Jean Toomer, 1894 - 1967
• Dashiell Hammett, 1894 - 1961
• Carol Ryrie Brink, 1895 - 1981
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940
• John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970
• Louis Bromfield, 1896 - 1956
• William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962
• Thornton Wilder, 1897 - 1975
• Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961

1900-1950

1900

• Thomas Wolfe, 1900 - 1938
• Margaret Mitchell, 1900 - 1949
• Sterling Allen Brown, 1901 - 1989
• Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
• Kay Boyle, 1902 - 1992
• John Steinbeck, 1902 - 1968
• Erskine Caldwell, 1903 - 1987
• Countee Cullen, 1903 - 1946
• William Irish, 1903 - 1968
• Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977
• Lorine Niedecker, 1903 - 1970
• Robert Penn Warren, 1905 - 1989
• Stanley Kunitz (en), 1905 - 2006
• Robert A. Heinlein, 1907 - 1988
• William Maxwell, 1908 - 2000
• George Oppen, 1908 - 1984
• Richard Wright, 1908 - 1960
• Jack Williamson, 1908 - 2006
• Theodore Roethke, 1908 - 1963
• William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981
• Nelson Algren, 1909 - 1981
• John Fante, 1909 - 1983
• Chester Himes, 1909 - 1984
• Wallace Stegner, 1909 - 1993
• Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001

1910

• Paul Bowles, 1910 - 1999
• Charles Olson, 1910 - 1970
• Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979
• Tennessee Williams, 1911 - 1983
• L. Ron Hubbard, 1911 - 1986
• John Cheever, 1912 - 1982
• A. E. van Vogt, 1912 - 2000
• Carlos Bulosan (en), 1913 - 1956
• Robert Hayden, 1913 - 1980
• Randall Jarrell, 1914 - 1965
• John Berryman, 1914 - 1972
• William S. Burroughs, 1914 - 1997
• Bernard Malamud, 1914 - 1986
• Ralph Ellison, 1914 - 1994
• Saul Bellow, 1915 - 2005
• Thomas Savage, 1915 - 2003
• Arthur Miller, 1915 - 2005
• Herman Wouk, 1915 - 2019
• Shelby Foote, 1916 - 2005
• Walker Percy, 1916 - 1990
• Carson McCullers, 1917 - 1967
• Robert Lowell, 1917 - 1977
• Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000
• Robert C. O'Brien, 1918 - 1973
• Philip José Farmer, 1918 - 2009
• Frederik Pohl, 1919 - 2013
• Robert Duncan, 1919 - 1988
• J. D. Salinger, 1919 - 2010

1920

• Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992
• Ray Bradbury, 1920 - 2012
• Charles Bukowski, 1920 - 1994
• John Graves, 1920 - 2013
• Patricia Highsmith, 1921 - 1995
• Richard Wilbur, 1921 - 2017
• William Gaddis, 1922 - 1998
• Jack Kerouac, 1922 - 1969
• Damon Knight, 1922 - 2002
• Grace Paley, 1922 - 2007
• Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
• James Dickey, 1923 - 1997
• Joseph Heller, 1923 - 1999
• Denise Levertov, 1923 - 1997
• Norman Mailer, 1923 - 2007
• Gordon R. Dickson, 1923 - 2001
• James E. Gunn, 1923 -
• James Baldwin, 1924 - 1987
• Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984
• William Humphrey, 1924 - 1997
• Leonard Nathan, 1924 - 2007
• Kenneth Koch, 1925 - 2002
• Elmore Leonard, 1925 - 2013
• Flannery O'Connor, 1925 - 1964
• James Salter, 1925 - 2015
• William Styron, 1925 - 2006
• Gore Vidal, 1925 - 2012
• A. R. Ammons, 1926 - 2001
• Poul Anderson, 1926 - 2001
• Robert Creeley, 1926 - 2005
• J. P. Donleavy, 1926 - 2017
• Allen Ginsberg, 1926 - 1997
• Harper Lee, 1926 - 2016
• Alison Lurie, 1926 -
• Ed McBain, 1926 - 2005
• James Merrill, 1926 - 1995
• Frank O'Hara, 1926 - 1966
• Edward Abbey, 1927 - 1989
• John Ashbery, 1927 - 2017
• Mary Higgins Clark, 1927 -
• Galway Kinnell, 1927 -
• William S. Merwin, 1927 -
• James Wright^[Lequel ?], 1927 - 1980
• Philip Levine, 1928 - 2015
• Edward Albee, 1928 - 2016
• Philip K. Dick, 1928 - 1982
• Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
• William J. Kennedy, 1928 -
• Alan E. Nourse, 1928 - 1992
• Cynthia Ozick, 1928 -
• Robert M. Pirsig, 1928 - 2017
• Hubert Selby, 1928 - 2004
• Anne Sexton, 1928 - 1974
• Frederick Exley, 1929 - 1992
• Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 - 2018
• Doris Orgel (1929 - 2020)
• Adrienne Rich, 1929 - 2012

1930

• John Barth, 1930 -
• Gregory Corso, 1930 - 2001
• Gary Snyder, 1930 -
• Newton Thornburg, 1930 - 2011
• Donald Barthelme, 1931 - 1989
• Don Carpenter, 1931 - 1995
• E. L. Doctorow, 1931 - 2015
• Toni Morrison, 1931 - 2019
• Tom Wolfe, 1931 - 2018
• Robert Coover, 1932 -
• Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963
• John Gregory Dunne, 1932 - 2003
• George Powers Cockcroft, 1932 -
• John Updike, 1932 - 2009
• John Gardner, 1933 - 1982
• Ernest Gaines, 1933 -
• Cormac McCarthy, 1933 -
• Jerry Pournelle, 1933 - 2017
• Philip Roth, 1933 - 2018
• Harlan Ellison, 1934 - 2018
• Amiri Baraka, 1934 - 2014
• N. Scott Momaday, 1934 -
• Gerald Vizenor, 1934 -
• Audre Lorde, 1934 - 1992
• Richard Brautigan, 1935 - 1984
• Harry Crews, 1935 - 2012
• Ken Kesey, 1935 - 2001
• Mary Oliver, 1935 - 2019
• Annie Proulx, 1935 -
• Robert Silverberg, 1935 -
• Charles Wright, 1935 -
• Richard Bach, 1936 -
• Lucille Clifton, 1936 - 2010
• Don DeLillo, 1936 -
• Stephen Dixon, 1936 -
• James Lee Burke, 1936 -
• Larry McMurtry, 1936 -
• Rudolfo A. Anaya, 1937 -
• Jerome Charyn, 1937 -
• Jim Harrison, 1937 - 2016
• Andrew J. Offutt, 1937 - 2013
• Toby Olson, 1937 -
• Thomas Pynchon, 1937 -
• Robert Stone, 1937 - 2015
• Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005
• John Kennedy Toole, 1937 - 1969
• Raymond Carver, 1938 - 1988
• William Kotzwinkle, 1938 -
• Joyce Carol Oates, 1938 -
• Ishmael Reed, 1938 -
• Charles Simic, 1938 -
• Michael S. Harper, 1938 -
• Toni Cade Bambara, 1939 -

1940

• Russell Banks, 1940 -
• Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940 -
• Fanny Howe, 1940 -
• Robert Pinsky, 1940 -
• Norman Spinrad, 1940 -
• Max Apple, 1941 -
• Frederick Busch, 1941 - 2006
• Billy Collins, 1941 -
• Simon J. Ortiz, 1941 -
• Anne Tyler, 1941 -
• John Edgar Wideman, 1941 -
• Gloria Anzaldúa, 1942 - 2004
• Leighton Gage, 1942 - 2013
• John Irving, 1942 -
• Ron Padgett, 1942 -
• Sam Shepard, 1943 - 2017
• Louise Glück, 1943 -
• Steven Millhauser, 1943 -
• Dan Fante, 1944 - 2015
• Michael J. Meade, 1944 -
• Alice Walker, 1944 -
• Joy Williams, 1944 -
• Kent Anderson, 1945 -
• Annie Dillard, 1945 -
• Richard Bausch, 1945 -
• Robert Olen Butler, 1945 -
• Thom Jones, 1945 - 2016
• John Perkins, 1945 -
• Tobias Wolff, 1945 -
• Terry Baum (1946 -
• Tim O'Brien, 1946 -
• Paul Auster, 1947 -
• Ann Beattie, 1947 -
• Tom Clancy, 1947 - 2013
• Tim Gautreaux, 1947 -
• Yusef Komunyakaa, 1947 -
• Stephen King, 1947 -
• David Mamet, 1947 -
• T. C. Boyle, 1948 -
• James Ellroy, 1948 -
• William Gibson, 1948 -
• George R. R. Martin, 1948 -
• Marta Randall, 1948 -
• Leslie Marmon Silko, 1948 -
• Art Spiegelman, 1948 -
• Dan Simmons, 1948 -
• Jack Barsky, 1949 -
• Lois McMaster Bujold, 1949 -
• Denis Johnson, 1949 - 2017
• Kent M. Keith, 1949 -
• Richard Russo, 1949 -
• Jane Smiley, 1949 -

1950

• Julia Alvarez, 1950 -
• Jorie Graham, 1950 -
• Mark SaFranko, 1950 -

1951-2000

• Lily Burana (écrit au XXI^e siècle)
• Kirk W. Johnson (écrit au XXI^e siècle)
• Jeffrey McClanahan (écrit au XXI^e siècle)
• Regina Porter (écrit au XXI^e siècle)
• Larry Brown, 1951 - 2004
• Joy Harjo, 1951 -
• Amy Hempel, 1951 -
• Orson Scott Card, 1951 -
• Richard Crasta, 1952 -
• Michael Cunningham, 1952 -
• Rita Dove, 1952 -
• Jayne Anne Phillips, 1952 -
• Alberto Ríos, 1952 -
• Amy Tan, 1952 -
• Kevin Canty, 1953 -
• Tom Gabbay, 1953 -
• Alice McDermott, 1953 -
• Ron Rash, 1953 -
• Don Winslow, 1953 -
• Elmaz Abinader, 1954 -
• Andrea Barrett, 1954 -
• Sandra Cisneros, 1954 -
• Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1954 -
• Louise Erdrich, 1954 -
• Siri Hustvedt, 1955 -
• Barbara Kingsolver, 1955 -
• Cathy Song, 1955 -
• Jim Grimsley, 1955 -
• Douglas Kennedy, 1955 -
• Percival Everett, 1956 -
• David Guterson, 1956 -
• Rob Roberge, 1956 -
• Kevin Shipp (1956-)
• Elizabeth Strout, 1956 -
• Richard Zimler, 1956 -
• Michael Connelly, 1957 -
• Li-Young Lee, 1957 -
• James McBride, 1957 -
• Lorrie Moore, 1957 -
• Richard Powers, 1957 -
• Lionel Shriver, 1957 -
• Linda Joy Singleton, 1957 -
• Donald Antrim, 1958 -
• Rick Bass, 1958 -
• Pete Fromm, 1958 -
• Chris Offutt, 1958 -
• George Saunders, 1958 -
• William T. Vollmann, 1959 -
• Jonathan Franzen, 1959 -
• Bruce Holbert, 1959 -
• Dejan Stojanović, 1959 -

1960

• Jeffrey Eugenides, 1960 -
• Greg Iles, 1960 -
• Colin Harrison, 1960 -
• Laura Kasischke, 1961 -
• David Leavitt, 1961 -
• David Means, 1961 -
• Rick Moody, 1961 -
• Cecilia Samartin, 1961 -
• Paul Beatty, 1962 -
• Suzy Becker, 1962 -
• David Foster Wallace, 1962 - 2008
• Chuck Palahniuk, 1962 -
• Michael Chabon, 1963 -
• Iain Levison, 1963 -
• Nicholas Nicastro, 1963 -
• Donna Tartt, 1963 -
• Jonathan Ames, 1964 -
• Dan Brown, 1964 -
• Dan Chaon, 1964 -
• Craig Clevenger, 1964 -
• Bret Easton Ellis, 1964 -
• Lisa Teasley, 1964-
• Augusten Burroughs, 1965 -
• Beth Fantaskey, 1965 -
• Dennis Lehane, 1965 -
• Scott Wolven, 1965 -
• Sherman Alexie, 1966 -
• Mark Z. Danielewski, 1966 -
• Brian Evenson, 1966 -
• Matthew Specktor, 1966 -
• David Vann, 1966 -
• Paul Harding, 1967 -
• Adam Johnson, 1967 -
• Jhumpa Lahiri, 1967 -
• Willy Vlautin, 1967 -
• James Altucher, 1968 -
• Mitch Cullin, 1968 -
• Junot Díaz, 1968 -
• Rachel Kushner, 1968 -
• Sam Lipsyte, 1968 -
• Arthur Phillips, 1969 -
• Jake Adelstein, 1969 -
• Colson Whitehead, 1969 -

1970

• Chris Adrian, 1970 -
• Dave Eggers, 1970 -
• Simone Elkeles, 1970 -
• Nathan Englander, 1970 -
• Adam Haslett, 1970 -
• Andrew Sean Greer, 1970 -
• Trenton Lee Stewart, 1970-
• Christopher Coake, 1971 -
• Atticus Lish, 1972 -
• Helena Mesa, 1972 -
• Greg Olear, 1972 -
• Andrew Porter, 1972 -
• Gary Shteyngart, 1972 -
• Anthony Doerr, 1973 -
• Alexander Maksik, 1973 -
• Frank Bill, 1974 -
• Nicole Krauss, 1974 -
• John D'Agata, 1975 -
• Travis Mulhauser, 1976 -
• Jesmyn Ward, 1977 -
• Jonathan Safran Foer, 1977 -
• William Boyle, 1978 -
• Lauren Groff, 1978 -
• Nickolas Butler, 1979 -
• Carson Cistulli, 1979 -
• Ben Lerner, 1979 -
• Benjamin Percy, 1979 -

1980

• Genese Davis, 1984-
• Kristen Radtke, 1987-

1990

• Fabrice Guerrier, 1991-

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