Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

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1. Sinclair Lewis

   Author of Babbitt, It Can't Happen Here, Elmer Gantry

2. Henry James

   Author of The Wings of the Dove, The Bostonians, The Golden Bowl

3. Willa Cather

   Author of O Pioneers!, Death Comes for the Archbishop, One of Ours

4. Theodore Dreiser

   Author of Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy, The Bulwark

5. William Faulkner

   Author of The Reivers, Intruder in the Dust, A Fable

6. Edith Wharton

   Author of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Hudson River Bracketed

7. Saul Bellow

   Author of Herzog, Henderson the Rain King, Humboldt's Gift

8. John Steinbeck

   Author of In Dubious Battle, The Wayward Bus, America and Americans

9. John Dos Passos

   Author of U.S.A., Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

10. Washington Irving

    Author of History, Tales, and Sketches, Washington Irving : Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra (Library of America), Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives (Library of America)

11. William Dean Howells

    Author of The rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells : Novels 1875-1886: A Foregone Conclusion, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, The Rise of Silas Laph

12. James Fenimore Cooper

    Author of The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea, The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale

13. Richard Wright

    Author of Native Son, Richard Wright: Early Works: Lawd Today! / Uncle Tom's Children / Native Son, Richard Wright: Later Works: Black Boy [American Hunger] / The Outsider

14. Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Author of The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories, The King of the Fields, Isaac Bashevis Singer Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America)

15. Nobel Foundation & The Swedish Academy (ed.)

    Author of St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo, Halldo´r Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann, Eucken France Galsworthy (Nobel Prize Library)

16. Thomas Wolfe

    Author of Look Homeward, Angel, You Can't Go Home Again, The Web and the Rock

17. D. H. Lawrence

    Author of Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, The Trespasser

18. Paul Frederic Bowles

    Author of The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House, Collected Stories and Later Writings

19. Gertrude Stein

    Author of Stein: Writings 1903-1932: 1903-1932, volume 1 (Library of America), Stein: Writings 1932-1946: 1932-1946, Volume 2 (Library of America)

20. Zora Neale Hurston

    Author of Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings : Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Select