Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)

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1. Flannery O'Connor

   Author of The Complete Stories, The Violent Bear It Away, Mystery and Manners
   All: (1 member)

2. William Faulkner

   Author of As I Lay Dying, Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)
   All: (3 members)

3. Walker Percy

   Author of The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins, The Second Coming
   All: (1 member)

4. Willa Cather

   Author of O Pioneers!, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Professor's House
   All: (1 member)

5. Herman Melville

   Author of Redburn, Whitejacket, Moby Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America)
   All: (1 member)

6. Eugene O'Neill

   Author of Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America), Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1920-1931 (Library of America), Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1913-1920 (Library of America)

7. Henry James

   Author of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl
   All: (2 members)

8. Eudora Welty

   Author of The Optimist's Daughter, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
   All: (2 members)

9. Carson McCullers

   Author of The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the Wedding/The Clock
   All: (1 member)

10. 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
    All: (1 member)

11. Edith Wharton

    Author of Edith Wharton : Novels : The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (Library of Am, Edith Wharton : Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Rec
    All: (1 member)

12. Annie Dillard

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

13. Raymond Carver

    Author of Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral

14. Graham Greene

    Author of The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, The Honorary Consul
    All: (1 member)

15. John Steinbeck

    Author of The Grapes of Wrath | The Harvest Gypsies | The Log from the Sea of Cortez | The Long Valley, In Dubious Battle | Of Mice and Men | The Pastures of Heaven | To a God Unknown | Tortilla Flat

16. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Author of The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, Tales and Sketches
    All: (2 members)

17. Washington Irving

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

18. Saul Bellow

    Author of Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King
    All: (1 member)

19. Vladimir Nabokov

    Author of Pale Fire, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
    All: (1 member)

20. John Updike

    Author of Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, The Best American Short Stories of the Century