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{{split|date=September 2017}}This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction. {{AlphanumericTOC
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}}A{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Edward Abbey
- Kōbō Abe
- Chinua Achebe
- Kathy Acker
- Forrest J. Ackerman
- Peter Ackroyd
- Douglas Adams
- Richard Adams
- Mirza Adeeb
- Adunis
- James Agee
- Samuel Agnon
- Conrad Aiken
- Anna Akhmatova
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- Alain-Fournier
- Edward Albee
- Rafael Alberti
- Richard Aldington
- Sholom Aleichem
- Sherman Alexie
- Nelson Algren
- Woody Allen
- Isabel Allende
- Julia Alvarez
- Jorge Amado
- Eric Ambler
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- Yehuda Amichai
- Kingsley Amis
- Martin Amis
- A. R. Ammons
- Regina M. Anderson
- Sherwood Anderson
- V. C. Andrews
- Ivo Andrić
- Roger Angell
- Maya Angelou
- Gabriele d'Annunzio
- A. Manette Ansay
- Piers Anthony
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Louis Aragon
- Jeffrey Archer
- Hannah Arendt
- Antonin Artaud
- Sholem Asch
- John Ashbery
- Isaac Asimov
- Miguel Ángel Asturias
- Diana Athill
- Kate Atkinson
- Margaret Atwood
- W. H. Auden
- Jean M. Auel
- Paul Auster
}}B{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Isaak Babel
- Richard Bach
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Howard Bahr
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Larry Baker
- Nicholson Baker
- James Baldwin
- J. G. Ballard
- Melissa Bank
- Iain Banks
- John Banville
- Nick Bantock
- Amiri Baraka
- Alessandro Baricco
- Djuna Barnes
- Julian Barnes
- Margaret Ayer Barnes
- J. M. Barrie
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- Roland Barthes
- Georges Bataille
- L. Frank Baum
- Peter S. Beagle
- Ann Beattie
- Sally Beauman
- Samuel Beckett
- Max Beerbohm
- Brendan Behan
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Hilaire Belloc
- Saul Bellow
- Jacinto Benavente
- Peter Benchley
- Robert Benchley
- Mario Benedetti
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Arnold Bennett
- John Berger
- Thomas Berger
- Henri Bergson
- Thomas Bernhard
- John Berryman
- Alfred Bester
- Mongo Beti
- Doris Betts
- Hayim Nahman Bialik
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Andrei Bitov
- Maurice Blanchot
- Karen Blixen
- Alexander Blok
- Allan Bloom
- Harold Bloom
- Judy Blume
- Roberto Bolaño
- Yves Bonnefoy
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Paul Bowles
- William Boyd
- Kay Boyle
- T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Ray Bradbury
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Gillian Bradshaw
- John Braine
- Richard Brautigan
- Bertolt Brecht
- André Breton
- Joseph Brodsky
- Louis Bromfield
- Rupert Brooke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Terry Brooks
- Dan Brown
- Dee Brown
- Martin Buber
- John Buchan
- Frank Buck
- Pearl S. Buck
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Frederick Buechner
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Charles Bukowski
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Emma Bull
- Ivan Bunin
- Basil Bunting
- Anthony Burgess
- James Lee Burke
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Michel Butor
- Dino Buzzati
- A.S. Byatt
}}C{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- James M. Cain
- Erskine Caldwell
- Italo Calvino
- John W. Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
- Albert Camus
- Matilde Camus
- Elias Canetti
- Truman Capote
- Orson Scott Card
- Peter Carey
- Robert Caro
- Jonathan Carroll
- Rachel Carson
- Angela Carter
- Barbara Cartland
- Raymond Carver
- Joyce Cary
- Carlos Castaneda
- Rosario Castellanos
- Willa Cather
- Sarah Caudwell
- Constantine P. Cavafy
- Edgar Cayce
- Camilo José Cela
- Paul Celan
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Blaise Cendrars
- Elizabeth Chadwick
- Raymond Chandler
- René Char
- Bruce Chatwin
- John Cheever
- Kelly Cherry
- C. J. Cherryh
- G. K. Chesterton
- Tracy Chevalier
- Lee Child
- Erskine Childers
- Noam Chomsky
- Agatha Christie
- Nicholas Christopher
- Winston Churchill
- Carolyn Chute
- Tom Clancy
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Kenneth Clark
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- Paul Claudel
- James Clavell
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Harlan Coben
- Jean Cocteau
- Jonathan Coe
- J. M. Coetzee
- Leonard Cohen
- Isabel Colegate
- Colette
- John Collier
- Jackie Collins
- Laurie Colwin
- Michael Connelly
- Joseph Conrad
- Pat Conroy
- Thomas B. Costain
- Robin Cook
- Glenn Cooper
- Robert Coover
- Cid Corman
- Bernard Cornwell
- Gregory Corso
- Julio Cortázar
- Thomas B. Costain
- Douglas Coupland
- Bryce Courtenay
- Noël Coward
- James Gould Cozzens
- Jim Crace
- Hart Crane
- Robert Creeley
- René Crevel
- Michael Crichton
- Quentin Crisp
- A.J. Cronin
- Harry Crosby
- Aleister Crowley
- John Crowley
- Countee Cullen
- E. E. Cummings
- Michael Cunningham
- Clive Cussler
}}D{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Roald Dahl
- Sandra Dallas
- Edwidge Danticat
- Rubén Darío
- Iris Rainer Dart
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Robertson Davies
- Angela Davis
- H. L. Davis
- Lydia Davis
- Richard Harding Davis
- Samuel R. Delany
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Louis de Bernières
- Len Deighton
- Charles de Lint
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Arnab Jan Deka
- Bhabananda Deka
- Nalini Prava Deka
- Miguel Delibes
- Don DeLillo
- Nelson DeMille
- Anita Desai
- Robert Desnos
- Pete Dexter
- Anita Diamant
- Philip K. Dick
- James Dickey
- Joan Didion
- Pietro di Donato
- Annie Dillard
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Stephen Dixon
- Alfred Döblin
- E. L. Doctorow
- Harriet Doerr
- Stephen R. Donaldson
- J. P. Donleavy
- Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
- Michael Dorris
- John Dos Passos
- Sara Douglass
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Theodore Dreiser
- Allen Drury
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Andre Dubus III
- John Dufresne
- Daphne du Maurier
- David James Duncan
- Helen Dunmore
- Dorothy Dunnett
- John Dunning
- Will Durant
- Marguerite Duras
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Gerina Dunwich
- Émile Durkheim
- Gerald Durrell
- Lawrence Durrell
- Bob Dylan
- Baba Muhammad Dzukogi
}}E{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Roger Ebert
- José Echegaray
- Umberto Eco
- David Eddings
- E. R. Eddison
- David Edgar
- Russell Edson
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Albert Einstein
- Mircea Eliade
- T. S. Eliot
- Stanley Elkin
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Havelock Ellis
- Harlan Ellison
- Ralph Ellison
- James Ellroy
- Paul Éluard
- Odysseas Elytis
- James Emanuel
- Nora Ephron
- Joseph Epstein
- Louise Erdrich
- Barbara Erskine
- Laura Esquivel
- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
- Nicholas Evans
}}F{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Hans Fallada
- John Fante
- Nuruddin Farah
- Richard Fariña
- Philip José Farmer
- J. G. Farrell
- James T. Farrell
- Howard Fast
- William Faulkner
- Raymond Feist
- Edna Ferber
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Helen Fielding
- Jack Finney
- Ronald Firbank
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Martin Flavin
- Ian Fleming
- Dario Fo
- Ken Follett
- Horton Foote
- Ford Madox Ford
- Richard Ford
- C. S. Forester
- E. M. Forster
- Frederick Forsyth
- Alan Dean Foster
- Michel Foucault
- Connie May Fowler
- Karen Joy Fowler
- John Fowles
- Paula Fox
- Anatole France
- Anne Frank
- Jonathan Franzen
- Michael Frayn
- Charles Frazier
- Sigmund Freud
- Betty Friedan
- Bruce Jay Friedman
- Thomas Friedman
- Erich Fromm
- Robert Frost
- Northrop Frye
- Carlos Fuentes
- Athol Fugard
- Buckminster Fuller
- Alan Furst
}}G{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Diana Gabaldon
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- William Gaddis
- Neil Gaiman
- Ernest J. Gaines
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Rómulo Gallegos
- John Galsworthy
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Gao Xingjian
- Jane Gardam
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- John Gardner
- William H. Gass
- Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
- David Gemmell
- Jean Genet
- Kaye Gibbons
- Stella Gibbons
- Kahlil Gibran
- William Gibson
- André Gide
- Jack Gilbert
- Allen Ginsberg
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Jean Giono
- Jean Giraudoux
- Ellen Glasgow
- Louise Glück
- Gail Godwin
- John Henry Goldfrap
- William Golding
- Emma Goldman
- Witold Gombrowicz
- Terry Goodkind
- Allegra Goodman
- Paul Goodman
- Nadine Gordimer
- Mary Gordon
- Noah Gordon
- Maxim Gorky
- Stephen Jay Gould
- William Goyen
- Kenneth Grahame
- Günter Grass
- Robert Graves
- Gerald Green
- Henry Green
- Clement Greenberg
- Graham Greene
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- Germaine Greer
- Philippa Gregory
- Kate Grenville
- Zane Grey
- W. E. B. Griffin
- John Grisham
- João Guimarães Rosa
- Sandra Gulland
- Nikolay Gumilev
- John Gunther
- George Gurdjieff
- Ivor Gurney
- David Guterson
}}H{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Arthur Hailey
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- David Halberstam
- Alex Haley
- James Norman Hall
- Radclyffe Hall
- Edith Hamilton
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Dashiell Hammett
- Earl Hamner
- Amadou Hampâté Bâ
- Knut Hamsun
- James Hanley
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Donald Harington
- Joanne Harris
- Robert Harris
- Jim Harrison
- Kathryn Harrison
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Václav Havel
- John Hawkes
- Robert Hayden
- Melinda Haynes
- Shirley Hazzard
- Seamus Heaney
- Ursula Hegi
- Martin Heidegger
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Lillian Hellman
- Mark Helprin
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Frank Herbert
- James Leo Herlihy
- Michael Herr
- John Hersey
- Hermann Hesse
- Paul Heyse
- Patricia Highsmith
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Susan Hill
- James Hilton
- Christopher Hitchens
- Russell Hoban
- Robin Hobb
- Peter Hoeg
- Alice Hoffman
- Robert Holdstock
- Cecelia Holland
- Nick Hornby
- Ödön von Horváth
- A. E. Housman
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Robert E. Howard
- Bohumil Hrabal
- L. Ron Hubbard
- William Henry Hudson
- Langston Hughes
- Richard Hughes
- Ted Hughes
- Keri Hulme
- E. Howard Hunt
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Aldous Huxley
}}I-J{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- David Ignatow
- William Inge
- Eugène Ionesco
- Muhammad Iqbal
- John Irving
- Christopher Isherwood
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Edmond Jabès
- Shirley Jackson
- Max Jacob
- Ada Jafarey
- Henry James
- P. D. James
- William James
- Storm Jameson
- Randall Jarrell
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Orrick Johns
- James Jones
- Erica Jong
- Robert Jordan
- James Joyce
- C.G. Jung
- Ernst Jünger
}}K{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Pauline Kael
- Franz Kafka
- Jan Karon
- George S. Kaufman
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Terry Kay
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Harry Stephen Keeler
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Yaşar Kemal
- Thomas Keneally
- A.L. Kennedy
- William Kennedy
- Imre Kertész
- Jack Kerouac
- Katharine Kerr
- Ken Kesey
- John Maynard Keynes
- Daniil Kharms
- Joyce Kilmer
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Lily King
- Stephen King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Alfred Kinsey
- Velimir Khlebnikov
- Arthur Koestler
- Bernard-Marie Koltès
- Dean Koontz
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Jon Krakauer
- Karl Kraus
- William Kent Krueger
- Maxine Kumin
- Milan Kundera
- Stanley Kunitz
- Katherine Kurtz
}}L{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Louis L'Amour
- Oliver La Farge
- Pär Lagerkvist
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Harold Lamb
- Wally Lamb
- Anne Lamott
- John Lanchester
- Margaret Landon
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Ring Lardner
- Philip Larkin
- Margaret Laurence
- D. H. Lawrence
- T. E. Lawrence
- Halldór Laxness
- Timothy Leary
- John le Carré
- J. M. G. Le Clézio
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Harper Lee
- Stan Lee
- Madeleine L'Engle
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Michel Leiris
- Stanisław Lem
- Elmore Leonard
- Doris Lessing
- Jonathan Lethem
- Billie Letts
- Maurice Level
- Denise Levertov
- Primo Levi
- Ira Levin
- C. S. Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Wyndham Lewis
- Ash Lieb
- A.J. Liebling
- Sigrid de Lima
- José Lezama Lima
- Astrid Lindgren
- Norman Lindsay
- Vachel Lindsay
- Elinor Lipman
- Walter Lippmann
- Clarice Lispector
- Penelope Lively
- Richard Llewellyn
- Morgan Llywelyn
- David Lodge
- Jack London
- Anita Loos
- Federico García Lorca
- Audre Lorde
- Bret Lott
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Robert Lowell
- Malcolm Lowry
- Mina Loy
- Lu Xun
- Robert Ludlum
}}M{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Rose Macaulay
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Antonio Machado
- Alistair MacLean
- Archibald MacLeish
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Norman Mailer
- Bernard Malamud
- Michael Malone
- David Malouf
- André Malraux
- David Mamet
- Osip Mandelstam
- Heinrich Mann
- Thomas Mann
- Olivia Manning
- Katherine Mansfield
- Hilary Mantel
- William March
- Sándor Márai
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- George R. R. Martin
- John Masefield
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Dan Masterson
- Richard Matheson
- Harry Mathews
- W. Somerset Maugham
- William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- James McBride
- Patrick McCabe
- Colum McCann
- Cormac McCarthy
- Mary McCarthy
- Carson McCullers
- David McCullough
- Ian McEwan
- John McGahern
- Jay McInerney
- Patricia McKillip
- Robin McKinley
- Alistair McLeod
- Marshall McLuhan
- Larry McMurtry
- Margaret Mead
- Mameve Medwed
- H. L. Mencken
- James Merrill
- Thomas Merton
- Grace Metalious
- Henri Michaux
- James A. Michener
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Arthur Miller
- Grażyna Miller
- Henry Miller
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
- A. A. Milne
- Czesław Miłosz
- Anchee Min
- Yukio Mishima
- Gabriela Mistral
- Rohinton Mistry
- Margaret Mitchell
- Nancy Mitford
- Ferenc Molnár
- N. Scott Momaday
- Natyaguru Nurul Momen
- Bob Monkhouse
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Michael Moorcock
- Alan Moore
- Lorrie Moore
- Marianne Moore
- Henry Charles Frank Morant
- Alberto Moravia
- Toni Morrison
- Walter Mosley
- Lewis Mumford
- Heiner Müller
- Herta Müller
- Lewis Mumford
- Alice Munro
- Haruki Murakami
- Iris Murdoch
- Robert Musil
}}N-O{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Vladimir Nabokov
- V. S. Naipaul
- Ogden Nash
- Gloria Naylor
- Irène Némirovsky
- Pablo Neruda
- Edith Nesbit
- Katherine Neville
- Lorine Niedecker
- Anaïs Nin
- Jeff Noon
- Charles Nordhoff
- Howard Norman
- Frank Norris
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Patrick O'Brian
- Flann O'Brien
- Tim O'Brien
- Seán O'Casey
- Flannery O'Connor
- Frank O'Connor
- Joseph O'Connor
- Clifford Odets
- John O'Hara
- Ben Okri
- Robert Olmstead
- Charles Olson
- Stewart O'Nan
- Michael Ondaatje
- Eugene O'Neill
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Brian O'Nolan
- A. R. Orage
- P. J. O'Rourke
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Joe Orton
- George Orwell
- John Osborne
- P. D. Ouspensky
- Wilfred Owen
- Amos Oz
- Cynthia Ozick
}}P-Q{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Chuck Palahniuk
- Grace Paley
- Charles Palliser
- Orhan Pamuk
- Dorothy Parker
- Boris Pasternak
- Alan Paton
- James Patterson
- Richard North Patterson
- David Payne
- Octavio Paz
- Mervyn Peake
- Iain Pears
- T. R. Pearson
- Harvey Pekar
- Sharon Kay Penman
- Walker Percy
- Georges Perec
- S. J. Perelman
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Anne Perry
- Fernando Pessoa
- Julia Peterkin
- Jodi Picoult
- Marge Piercy
- Arturo Uslar Pietri
- Rosamund Pilcher
- Nicholas Pileggi
- Boris Pilnyak
- Robert Pinsky
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Sylvia Plath
- Andrei Platonov
- Francis Ponge
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Chaim Potok
- Beatrix Potter
- Dennis Potter
- Ezra Pound
- Anthony Powell
- Padgett Powell
- Tim Powers
- John Cowper Powys
- T. F. Powys
- Terry Pratchett
- Jacques Prévert
- J. B. Priestley
- Annie Proulx
- Marcel Proust
- Manuel Puig
- Philip Pullman
- Mario Puzo
- Barbara Pym
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ellery Queen
- Raymond Queneau
- Anna Quindlen
}}R{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Raja Rao
- Terence Rattigan
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- James Redfield
- Ishmael Reed
- John Reed
- Wilhelm Reich
- Erich Maria Remarque
- Mary Renault
- Ludwig Renn
- John Rewald
- Władysław Reymont
- Charles Reznikoff
- Jean Rhys
- Mrs. Riazuddin
- Anne Rice
- Grantland Rice
- Tim Rice
- Adrienne Rich
- Dorothy Richardson
- John Richardson
- Mordecai Richler
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Yannis Ritsos
- Augusto Roa Bastos
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Harold Robbins
- Tom Robbins
- Nora Roberts
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Mercè Rodoreda
- Theodore Roethke
- Romain Rolland
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Henry Roth
- Joseph Roth
- Philip Roth
- J. K. Rowling
- Mike Royko
- Robert Ruark
- Juan Rulfo
- Damon Runyon
- Norman Rush
- Salman Rushdie
- Bertrand Russell
- Mary Doria Russell
- Richard Russo
}}S{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Ernesto Sabato
- Nelly Sachs
- Carl Sagan
- Saki
- Tayeb Salih
- J. D. Salinger
- Mark Salzman
- Carl Sandburg
- Aksel Sandemose
- José Saramago
- Nathalie Sarraute
- William Saroyan
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Jack Schaefer
- Meyer Schapiro
- Bernhard Schlink
- James Schuyler
- André Schwarz-Bart
- Paul Scott
- Gil Scott-Heron
- W. G. Sebald
- Alice Sebold
- George Seferis
- Anna Seghers
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Hubert Selby
- Maurice Sendak
- Vikram Seth
- Anya Seton
- Mary Lee Settle
- Anne Sexton
- Michael Shaara
- Karl Shapiro
- Michael Shaara
- George Bernard Shaw
- Irwin Shaw
- Sidney Sheldon
- Sam Shepard
- M. P. Shiel
- Carol Shields
- William L. Shirer
- Anita Shreve
- Nevil Shute
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Alan Sillitoe
- Georges Simenon
- Dan Simmons
- Claude Simon
- Neil Simon
- Upton Sinclair
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Jane Smiley
- Wilbur Smith
- C. P. Snow
- Gary Snyder
- Sasha Sokolov
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Susan Sontag
- Charles Sorley
- Terry Southern
- Wole Soyinka
- Muriel Spark
- Stephen Spender
- Mickey Spillane
- Benjamin Spock
- Olaf Stapledon
- Lincoln Steffens
- Christina Stead
- Wallace Stegner
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Neal Stephenson
- Wallace Stevens
- Mary Stewart
- Robert Lawrence Stine (R. L. Stine)
- S. M. Stirling
- I. F. Stone
- Irving Stone
- Robert Stone
- Tom Stoppard
- Rex Stout
- Lytton Strachey
- Susan Straight
- Peter Straub
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling
- Theodore Sturgeon
- William Styron
- Patrick Süskind
- Italo Svevo
- Graham Swift
- John Millington Synge
- Wisława Szymborska
}}T{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Rabindranath Tagore
- Gay Talese
- Amy Tan
- Ida M. Tarbell
- Booth Tarkington
- Donna Tartt
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Sara Teasdale
- Studs Terkel
- Josephine Tey
- Elswyth Thane
- Dylan Thomas
- R. S. Thomas
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Jim Thompson
- James Thurber
- Miriam Toews
- Alvin Toffler
- Colm Toibin
- John Toland
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Ernst Toller
- Zaim Topčić
- Zlatko Topčić
- John Kennedy Toole
- Jean Toomer
- Georg Trakl
- B. Traven
- Rose Tremain
- Trevanian
- William Trevor
- Lionel Trilling
- Dalton Trumbo
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Barbara W. Tuchman
- Harry Turtledove
- Anne Tyler
- Tristan Tzara
}}U-W{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Lyudmila Ulitskaya
- Giuseppe Ungaretti
- Barry Unsworth
- John Updike
- Leon Uris
- Jane Urquhart
- Paul Valéry
- César Vallejo
- Ramón del Valle-Inclán
- Andrew Vachss
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Jean Venturini
- Boris Vian
- Gore Vidal
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Susan Vreeland
- John Wain
- Derek Walcott
- Alice Walker
- David Foster Wallace
- Irving Wallace
- Robert Walser
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Robert Penn Warren
- Sarah Waters
- Evelyn Waugh
- Max Weber
- Frank Wedekind
- H. G. Wells
- Eudora Welty
- Cornel West
- Morris West
- Nathanael West
- Edith Wharton
- E. B. White
- Patrick White
- T. H. White
- Theodore H. White
- Colson Whitehead
- Elie Wiesel
- Richard Wilbur
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Thornton Wilder
- John Williams
- Tad Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- William Carlos Williams
- Connie Willis
- Colin Wilson
- Edmund Wilson
- Margaret Wilson
- Jeanette Winterson
- Tim Winton
- Owen Wister
- Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
- Monique Wittig
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Christa Wolf
- Gene Wolfe
- Thomas Wolfe
- Tom Wolfe
- Tobias Wolff
- Bob Woodward
- Virginia Woolf
- Herman Wouk
- Alexander Woollcott
- P. C. Wren
- Richard Wright
- Sylvia Wynter
}}X-Z{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- Malcolm X
- Lu Xun
- Richard Yates
- W. B. Yeats
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Helen Zahavi
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Roger Zelazny
- Louis Zukofsky
- Stefan Zweig
}}ReferencesSee also{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|- List of writers of the Lost Generation
- Lists of writers
- 20th century in literature
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