Joan Didion

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1. Joan Didion

   Author of The White Album, Where I Was From, Vintage Didion

2. Ann Patchett

   Author of Bel Canto, Run, Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

3. Marilynne Robinson

   Author of Gilead, Housekeeping

4. Saul Bellow

   Author of The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, More Die of Heartbreak

5. Jhumpa Lahiri

   Author of The Namesake, Interpreter of Maladies

6. Henry James

   Author of The American, Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America

7. Jonathan Franzen

   Author of The Corrections, How to Be Alone: Essays, The Twenty-Seventh City

8. Philip Roth

   Author of Portnoy's Complaint, I Married a Communist, The Ghost Writer

9. Susan Sontag

   Author of On Photography, In America, Styles of Radical Will

10. James Agee

    Author of A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America)

11. John Cheever

    Author of The Stories of John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, The Wapshot Scandal

12. Annie Dillard

    Author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, Living by Fiction

13. Don DeLillo

    Author of White Noise, Libra, Mao II

14. Shirley Hazzard

    Author of The Great Fire, The Transit of Venus

15. Jane Smiley

    Author of A Thousand Acres, Thirteen ways of looking at the novel

16. Andre Dubus III

    Author of House of Sand and Fog, Townie

17. Nora Ephron

    Author of I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

18. Joyce Carol Oates

    Author of Black Water, Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart, Middle Age: A Romance

19. Lorrie Moore

    Author of Birds of America, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, The Best American Short Stories 2004

20. Julia Glass

    Author of Three Junes