E. L. Doctorow

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1. E. L. Doctorow

   Author of The March, Billy Bathgate, City of God

2. Saul Bellow

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

3. John Updike

   Author of Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, More Matter: Essays and Criticism

4. Philip Roth

   Author of The Plot Against America, The Ghost Writer, The Anatomy Lesson

5. John Cheever

   Author of The Stories of John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, Oh What a Paradise It Seems

6. William Styron

   Author of Sophie's Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner, A Tidewater Morning

7. Don DeLillo

   Author of Libra, Mao II, Cosmopolis

8. Richard Ford

   Author of Independence Day, The Sportswriter, The Best American Short Stories 1990

9. Theodore Dreiser

   Author of Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy

10. John Fowles

    Author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, A Maggot, Daniel Martin

11. Philip Milton Roth

    Author of American pastoral, Everyman, Indignation

12. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Babbitt, Main Street

13. Henry James

    Author of Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America), Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America

14. Louise Erdrich

    Author of The Beet Queen, The Plague of Doves, The Best American Short Stories 1993

15. James Agee

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

16. Thornton Niven Wilder

    Author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America), Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis rey and Other Novels 1926-1948

17. T. C. Boyle

    Author of The Road to Wellville, World's End, Without a Hero

18. Norman Mailer

    Author of The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, Tough Guys Don't Dance

19. Bernard Malamud

    Author of The Fixer, The Natural, The Assistant

20. Lorrie Moore

    Author of A Gate at the Stairs, Birds of America, The Best American Short Stories 2004