Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)

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1. Eugene O'Neill

   Author of Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

2. Tennessee Williams

   Author of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Collected Stories (A New Directions Book)
   All: (3 members)

3. William Faulkner

   Author of The Reivers, William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America), The Town
   All: (2 members)

4. Henry James

   Author of The Bostonians, The American, The Europeans
   All: (1 member)

5. Edward Albee

   Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance
   All: (2 members)

6. Arthur Miller

   Author of The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge
   All: (1 member)

7. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Arms and the Man
   All: (1 member)

8. Willa Cather

   Author of Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours (L, Willa Cather : Later Novels : A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (Library of America)

9. Samuel Beckett

   Author of Waiting for Godot, Endgame: A Play in One Act and Act without Words: A Mime for One Player, Krapp's Last Tape
   All: (2 members)

10. 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)

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, Edith Wharton: Vol.2 Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Library of America)
    All: (1 member)

12. William Dean Howells

    Author of The rise of Silas Lapham, A Hazard of New Fortunes, Indian Summer

13. Anton Chekhov

    Author of Five Plays, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya
    All: (3 members)

14. Alexis Gregory

    Author of Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse, Nobel Prize Library : Camus and Churchill (Nobel Prize Library, Camus, Churchill), NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY FRANCOIS MAURIAC FREDERIC MISTRAL THEODOR MOMMSOEN

15. Richard Wright

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

16. 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

17. Herman Melville

    Author of Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America)
    All: (2 members)

18. Peter Shaffer

    Author of Equus, Amadeus

19. James Fenimore Cooper

    Author of The Prairie: A Tale, James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I; The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie (Library of America), James Fenimore Cooper : The Leatherstocking Tales II: The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer (Library of America)
    All: (2 members)

20. Tom Stoppard

    Author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Real Thing
    All: (2 members)