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This is a list of notable Jewish American authors. See separate lists for playwrights and poets. For other notable Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.

Jewish American authors

Walter Abish, novelist, poet, and short story writer

Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses,^[1] Random Hearts, and The Sunset Gang ^[2]

Woody Allen, short story writer, screenwriter

Mary Antin, memoir writer

Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee ^[3]

Jacob M. Appel, novelist (The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up) and short story writer (Einstein's Beach House)^[4]

Max Apple, novelist and short story writer, known for memoirs about his grandparents and his collection The Oranging of America, in which he fantastically reimagines the burgeoning commercial monoculture of the 1970s

Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification^[5]

Shalom Auslander, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist

Paul Auster, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist

Herman Baer, author

Melissa Bank, novelist

David Michael Barrett, essayist, screenwriter and film producer

Dorothy Walter Baruch, psychologist, children's stories and their development

Peter S. Beagle, novelist

Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts^[6]

Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters^[7]

Karen Bender, novelist and short story writer

Anne Bernays, novelist and non-fiction writer

Gina Berriault, novelist and short story writer

Alfred Bester, science fiction writer, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953

Robert Bloch, crime, science, and horror fiction writer, author of Psycho

Harold Bloom, literary critic

Judy Blume, young adult fiction writer

José Antonio Bowen, president of Goucher College

Jane Bowles, writer and playwright

Joshua Braff, novelist

Gayle Brandeis, novelist

David Brin, science fiction writer

Harold Brodkey, short story writer and novelist

Judy Budnitz, fiction writer

Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist and critic

Abraham Cahan, novelist, short story writer, and journalist

Hortense Calisher, novelist and short story writer

Ethan Canin, novelist

Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ^[8]

Jerome Charyn, novelist, short story writer and playwright

Alan Cheuse, novelist and short story writer

Ze'ev Chafets, columnist and author

Harlan Coben, mystery fiction writer

Joshua Cohen, novelist

Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer^[9]

Sloane Crosley, novelist, essayist

Avram Davidson, science fiction writer

Anita Diamant, novelist and non-fiction writer

E.L. Doctorow, novelist^[10]

Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard ^[11]

Harlan Ellison, science fiction writer

Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction

Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize^[12]

Nora Ephron, novelist, screenwriter, essayist

Joseph Epstein, short story writer

Howard Fast, novelist

Jules Feiffer, novelist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter

Edna Ferber, playwright and novelist

Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman

Sid Fleischman, children's writer, screenwriter, novelist

Barthold Fles,^[13] literary agent and non-fiction writer

Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

Kinky Friedman, songwriter and novelist

Alan Furst, historical spy novelist

Herbert Gold, novelist

Myla Goldberg, novelist

Emma Goldman, anarchist writer^[14]

Rebecca Goldstein, novelist and philosopher

Allegra Goodman, novelist and short story writer

Vivian Gornick, essayist

Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), children's writer and novelist

Mark Harris, novelist and biographer

Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22^[15]

Lillian Hellman, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, novelist

Mark Helprin, novelist and journalist

Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist^[16]^[17]

Russell Hoban, fantasy and science fiction writer

Laura Z. Hobson, novelist

Dara Horn, novelist

Irving Howe, literary critic^[18]

Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer

Fishel Jacobs, Jewish law, short story, children's writer Two Kings

Rona Jaffe, novelist

Erica Jong, novelist and poet, best known for second-wave feminist work Fear of Flying (1973)

Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer (1972)

Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman

Garson Kanin, playwright, screenwriter

Bel Kaufman, novelist, granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem

Faye Kellerman, mystery writer

Jonathan Kellerman, mystery and suspense writer, psychologist

William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short-story writer

Jamaica Kincaid, novelist and essayist

Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer

Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird

Nicole Krauss, best known for her three novels, Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010)

Ewa Kuryluk, author of Veil of Veronica

Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist^[19]

Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities^[20]

Bruno Lessing (pseudonym of Rudolph Edgar Block), science fiction writer

Julius Lester, children's fiction, non-fiction

Harry Levin, literary critic and Joyce scholar

Ira Levin, novelist and playwright

Sam Lipsyte, novelist and short story writer

David Liss, historical novelist

Norman Mailer, novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate

Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize

Theresa Malkiel (1874-1949), novelist and essayist

Cindy Margolis, author of Having a Baby... when the Old-fashioned Way Isn't Working, Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility

Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist ^[21]

Leonard Michaels, writer of short stories, novels, and essays

Arthur Miller, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

Walter Mosley, novelist

Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works^[22]

Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama^[23]

Tillie Olsen, first-wave feminist writer, best known for her novella Tell Me a Riddle, title story in a collection of four short stories and winner of the O. Henry Prize in 1961

Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist^[24]^[25]

Grace Paley, short story writer and poet; finalist for both National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize

Sara Paretsky, mystery writer

Dorothy Parker, humorist, poet and short story writer

Harvey Pekar, comic book writer, music critic

S. J. Perelman, humorist, essayist, screenwriter

Joan Peters, author of From Time Immemorial

Jodi Picoult, novelist^[26]

Daniel Pinkwater, children's and young adult author

Belva Plain, novelist

Chaim Potok, author and rabbi

Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism^[27]

Lea Bayers Rapp,^[28] non-fiction and children's fiction writer

Charles Reznikoff, poet and novelist

Laura Riding, novelist, poet, short story writer

Harold Robbins, novelist

Jonathan Rosen, editor, journalist, novelist, essayist

Benjamin Rosebaum, science fiction writer

Judith Rossner, novelist Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Leo Rosten, humorist, novelist and short story writer

Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer

Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity^[29]

Norman Rosten, novelist^[30]

Mary Doria Russell, novelist

Louis Sachar, children's writer

Peter Sagal, author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)^[31]^[32]

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye^[33]

James Salter, novelist and short story writer

Sarah Schulman novelist, historian, screenwriter and playwright

Lore Segal, novelist and children's writer

Maurice Sendak, children's writer and illustrator

Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer.

Irwin Shaw, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer

Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer

Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer^[34]

Irving Shulman, novelist and screenwriter

Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman

Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet, screenwriter, cartoonist

Roger L. Simon, novelist and screenwriter

Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid), novelist

Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize{{Sfn | Carr | 1992}}

Israel Joshua Singer, novelist and short story writer

Tess Slesinger, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer

Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist

Art Spiegelman, graphic novelist

George Steiner (born 1929), literary critic^[35]

Daniel Stern, novelist^[36]

Louise Stern, novelist and playwright^[37]

Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award^[38]

R.L. Stine, novelist

Herbert Tarr, novelist

Calvin Trillin, journalist, poet, novelist

Jonathan Tropper, novelist^[39]

Karen X. Tulchinsky, novelist and screenwriter

Scott Turow, novelist and non-fiction writer

Harry Turtledove, science fiction, fantasy and alternative history writer

Leopold Tyrmand, writer^[40]

Leon Uris (1924-2009), historical novelist

Lara Vapnyar, novelist and short story writer

Judith Viorst (born 1932), known for her children's literature^[41]

Stanley M. Wagner (1932-2013), rabbi and academic

Ayelet Waldman, novelist and essayist

Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist

Jennifer Weiner, novelist and short story writer

Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894-1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy^[42]

Nathanael West, novelist

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books^[43]

Herman Wouk, novelist and non-fiction writer

Anzia Yezierska, novelist

Leonard S. Zinberg (Ed Lacy), novelist

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3. ^"The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, 2013" "National Book Foundation"
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7. ^"other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker... Aimee Bender"
8. ^"Arctic Jews: An Interview With Michael Chabon" Dissent Magazine April 14, 2007
9. ^Cooper — "Plenty of Jewish authors will be in the mix, including... Bernard Cooper"
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11. ^https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/chronicles-of-ara-tv-show-joel-eisenberg-steve-hillard-ovation-1201625025/
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13. ^{{cite book | title = Hanging on: or, How to get through a depression and enjoy life | first = Edmund | last = Love | publisher = Wayne State University Press | isbn = 978-0-8143-1931-4 | year = 1988 | page = 258 | quote = I finished the book in 1941 and sent it off to Barthold Fles, a New York literary agent who had been recommended to me. Mr. Fles was a Jew and in March, 1941, Jews were pretty sensitive about heroic German naval officers. To say that Mr. Fles was insulted was the understatement of the year. }}
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15. ^Loveday, Veronica. "Joseph Heller." Joseph Heller (9781429802864) (2005): 1–2. History Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. Dec 1, 2010
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18. ^Rodden, John and Goffman, Ethan (2010). "Chronology". [https://books.google.com/books?id=DCwaO17isQMC&pg=PR15&dq=Irving+Howe+Horenstein&hl=en&redir_esc=y Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations With Irving Howe]. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. {{ISBN|9781557535511}}. Pg. xv.
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20. ^Lebowitz — "Jewish figures such as... author Fran Lebowitz"
21. ^The Economist, Jan 13, 2007, p.42: "a triple outsider — working-class, Jewish and left-wing"
22. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/15550/stay-cold-blooded-sun | work=Jewish Chronicle (London) | title=Stay cold-blooded in the sun | accessdate=2012-04-02}}
23. ^{{cite news| url=http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2009/11/18/vause.china.obama.brother.cnn | work=CNN | title=CNN.com Video | accessdate=2010-05-08}}
24. ^Articles about Cynthia Ozick, New York Times
25. ^Emma Brockes. [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jul/04/cynthia-ozick-life-writing-interview "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick"], The Guardian, 2 July 2011
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27. ^{{harvnb|Heller|2009|pp=3–5}}; {{harvnb|Britting|2004|pp=2–3}}; {{harvnb|Burns|2009|pp=9}}
28. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkon=subsection&linkid=1775 |title=Lea Bayers Rapp |publisher=Kensington Books |quote=As a Jewish daughter, wife, and mother, she has both yeshiva and secular backgrounds and writes from vast personal experience that includes constant joyous rounds of bar and bat mitzvahs, engagement parties, bridal showers, and weddings. |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206093147/http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=1775&linkon=subsection |archivedate=2009-12-06 |df= }}
29. ^U.S. Department of State, U.S. Life, "American Prose, 1945–1990: Realism and Experimentation" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304074205/http://infousa.state.gov/life/artsent/oal/lit8.html |date=2011-03-04 }}
30. ^Jewish American Writers, by Gerhard Falk
31. ^{{cite web|last1=Kaplan|first1=Ron|title=NJ native hosts game show with twist of the news|url=http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/071306/mwNJNativeHostsGame.html|website=New Jersey Jewish News Life and Times Feature|publisher=New Jersey Jewish News|accessdate=7 February 2017}}
32. ^{{cite web|title=Discover Author Peter Sagal|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/cr-102328/peter-sagal|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|accessdate=7 February 2017}}
33. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Salinger.html |title=J.D. Salinger |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=January 1, 1919 |accessdate=2010-01-30}}
34. ^Shteyngart — "Russian Jewish Author Gary Shteyngart"
35. ^http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216113607/http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm |date=2007-02-16 }}
36. ^Lanham, Fritz. "Fiction Writer was a Cullen Distinguished Professor at UH", Houston Chronicle, January 24, 2007.
37. ^{{cite news|last1=Gray|first1=Freddy|title=The chattering classes|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6937683/the-chattering-classes/|accessdate=26 September 2014|work=The Spectator|issue=14 May 2011|date=14 May 2011}}
38. ^https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/steve-stern
39. ^
40. ^http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp
41. ^Viorst — "Two Jewish children's authors have events of note going on this week. At Pepperdine's Smother's Theatre, see the staged musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's..."
42. ^{{cite book|last=Ingall|first=Carol K.|title=The Women who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910-l965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRdPZyJdx54C&pg=PA117|accessdate=10 September 2015|year=2010|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781584658566|pages=117–}}
43. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076939/Elie-Wiesel |title=Elie Wiesel |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate=17 May 2011}}

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