Liste d'écrivains américains (des États-Unis), classés par année de naissance (puis par ordre alphabétique au sein de chaque année).
Thomas Morton (1579 - 1647) John Winthrop (1588 - 1649) William Bradford (1590 - 1657)
Roger Williams (1603 - 1683) Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672) Mary Rowlandson (1636 - 1711) Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729) (1648 - 1719) Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730) Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728) Sarah Kemble Knight (1666 - 1727) William Moraley (1699 - 1762)
Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758) Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur (1735 - 1813) Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801) Robert Bolling (1738-1775) Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797) 1750 Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820) Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832) Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784) Hannah Websters Foster, 1758 - 1840 Mason Locke Weems, 1759 - 1825 Susanna Rowson, 1762 - 1824 Tabitha Gilman Tenney, 1762 - 1837 William Hill Brown, 1765 - 1793
1770 Charles Brockden Brown, 1771 - 1810 Francis Scott Key, 1779 - 1843 Clement Clarke Moore, 1779 - 1863 Washington Allston, 1779 - 1843 1780 Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859 James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 - 1851 Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789 - 1867
1790 John Howard Payne, 1791 - 1852 Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 1791 - 1867 John Neal, 1793 - 1876 William Cullen Bryant, 1794 - 1878 John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795 - 1870 John Lofland, 1798 - 1849 John Kearsley Mitchell, 1798 - 1858 , 1798 - 1839 Robert Charles Sands, 1799 - 1832
1800-1850 1800 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800 - 1842 John Hill Hewitt, 1801 - 1890 Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, 1801 - 1864 Lydia Maria Child, 1802 - 1880 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882 George Lunt, 1803 - 1885 Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864 Robert Montgomery Bird, 1806 - 1854 Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1806 - 1867 William Gilmore Simms, 1806 - 1870 Theodore Fay, 1807 - 1898 Henry Longfellow, 1807 - 1882 John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 1892 William Davis Gallagher, 1808 - 1894 Willis Gaylord Clark, 1808 - 1841 Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849 Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865
1810 Margaret Fuller, 1810 - 1850 Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 - 1896 Fanny Fern, 1811 - 1872 Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812 - 1884 Harriet Jacobs, 1813 - 1897 Rebecca Harding Davis, 1813 - 1910 Jones Very, 1813 - 1880 Abraham Coles, 1813 - 1891 William Wells Brown, 1814 - 1884 Eliza Farnham (1815 - 1864) Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862 James Thomas Fields, 1817 - 1881 Thomas Mayne Reid, 1818 - 1883 William Ellery Channing, 1818 - 1901 Frederick Douglass, 1818 - 1895 Herman Melville, 1819 - 1891 James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891 Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892 1820 Edward Everett Hale, 1822 - 1909 Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, 1823 - 1902 George Henry Boker, 1823 - 1890 Bayard Taylor, 1825 - 1878 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825 - 1911 James Madison Bell, 1826 - 1902 John William De Forest, 1826 - 1906 Henry Timrod, 1828 - 1867 Fitz-James O'Brien, 1828 - 1862 Abel Beach, 1829 - 1899
1830 Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830 - 1886 Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886 Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831 - 1905 Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888 , 1832 - 1895 Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910 Henry Ames Blood, 1836 - 1900 Bret Harte, 1836 - 1902 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836 - 1907 William Dean Howells, 1837 - 1920 Henry Adams, 1838 - 1918 James A. Herne, 1839 - 1901
1840 Ingersoll Lockwood, 1841 - 1918 Sidney Lanier, 1842 - 1881 William James, 1842 - 1910 Ambrose Bierce, 1842 - 1914 Bronson Howard, 1842 - 1908 Henry James, 1843 - 1916 Richard Watson Gilder, 1844 - 1909 Sarah Winnemucca, 1844 - 1891 George Washington Cable, 1844 - 1925 Edgar Fawcett, 1847 - 1904 Joel Chandler Harris, 1848 - 1908 John Vance Cheney, 1848 - 1922 Joseph Arthur, 1848 - 1906 Emma Lazarus, 1849 - 1887 Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849 - 1909
1850 Kate Chopin, 1850 - 1904 Edward Bellamy, 1850 - 1898 Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, 1850 - 1927 Eugene Field, 1850 - 1895
1851-1899 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1852 - 1930 W. C. Morrow, 1854 - 1923 Henry Cuyler Bunner, 1855 - 1896 Lyman Frank Baum, 1856 - 1919 Harold Frederic, 1856 - 1898 Booker T. Washington, 1856 - 1915 Anna Julia Cooper, 1858 - 1964 Pauline Hopkins, 1859 - 1930 1860 Hamlin Garland, 1860 - 1940 , 1860 - 1951 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860 - 1935 O. Henry, 1862 - 1910 Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937 Martha Young (1862–1941) Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862 - 1931 Josephine White Bates, 1862-1934 Joséphine Diebitsch Peary, 1863 - 1955 Black Elk, 1863 - 1950 Richard Hovey, 1864 - 1900 (Edith Maude Eaton), 1865 - 1914 Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 - 1957 Mary Hunter Austin, 1868 - 1934 Elizabeth Dejeans, 1868 - 1928 W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868 - 1963 Edgar Lee Masters, 1868 - 1935 Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935 Temple Bailey, 1869 - 1953
1870 Frank Norris, 1870 - 1902 Stephen Crane, 1871 - 1900 Theodore Dreiser, 1871 - 1945 James Weldon Johnson, 1871 - 1938 Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 - 1906 Willa Cather, 1873 - 1947 Bell Elliott Palmer (1873 – 1947) Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946 Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925 Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963 Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875 - 1950 Jeannette Augustus Marks, 1875 - 1964 Jack London, 1876 - 1916 Zitkala-Ša, 1876 - 1938 Susan Glaspell, 1876 - 1948 Sherwood Anderson, 1876 - 1941 Carl Sandburg, 1878 - 1967 Upton Sinclair, 1878 - 1968 Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955
1880 Anne O'Hare McCormick, 1880 - 1954 Mina Loy, 1882 - 1966 William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963 Cornelia Meigs, 1884 - 1973 Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951 Ezra Pound, 1885 - 1972 Lizzie Yu Der Ling, 1885 - 1944 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886 - 1961 Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968 Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972 Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959 T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965 Alan Seeger, 1888 - 1916 Eugene O'Neill, 1888 - 1953 Charles Boardman Hawes, 1889 - 1923 Conrad Aiken, 1889 - 1973 Claude McKay, 1889 - 1948
1890 Katherine Anne Porter, 1890 - 1980 Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937 Conrad Richter, 1890 - 1968 Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960 Nella Larsen, 1891 - 1964 Henry Miller, 1891 - 1980 Jim Tully, 1891 - 1947 Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 - 1950 Pearl Buck, 1892 - 1973 Monica Shannon, 1893 - 1965 Dorothy Parker, 1893 - 1967 E. E. Cummings, 1894 - 1962 Jean Toomer, 1894 - 1967 Dashiell Hammett, 1894 - 1961 Carol Ryrie Brink, 1895 - 1981 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940 John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970 Louis Bromfield, 1896 - 1956 William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962 Thornton Wilder, 1897 - 1975 Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961
1900-1950 1900 Thomas Wolfe, 1900 - 1938 Margaret Mitchell, 1900 - 1949 Sterling Allen Brown, 1901 - 1989 Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967 Kay Boyle, 1902 - 1992 John Steinbeck, 1902 - 1968 Erskine Caldwell, 1903 - 1987 Countee Cullen, 1903 - 1946 William Irish, 1903 - 1968 Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977 Lorine Niedecker, 1903 - 1970 Robert Penn Warren, 1905 - 1989 , 1905 - 2006 Sanora Babb, 1907 - 2005 Robert A. Heinlein, 1907 - 1988 William Maxwell, 1908 - 2000 George Oppen, 1908 - 1984 Richard Wright, 1908 - 1960 Jack Williamson, 1908 - 2006 Theodore Roethke, 1908 - 1963 William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981 Nelson Algren, 1909 - 1981 John Fante, 1909 - 1983 Chester Himes, 1909 - 1984 Wallace Stegner, 1909 - 1993 Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001
1910 Paul Bowles, 1910 - 1999 Charles Olson, 1910 - 1970 Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979 Tennessee Williams, 1911 - 1983 L. Ron Hubbard, 1911 - 1986 John Cheever, 1912 - 1982 A. E. van Vogt, 1912 - 2000 , 1913 - 1956 Robert Hayden, 1913 - 1980 Randall Jarrell, 1914 - 1965 John Berryman, 1914 - 1972 William S. Burroughs, 1914 - 1997 Bernard Malamud, 1914 - 1986 Ralph Ellison, 1914 - 1994 Saul Bellow, 1915 - 2005 Thomas Savage, 1915 - 2003 Arthur Miller, 1915 - 2005 Herman Wouk, 1915 - 2019 Shelby Foote, 1916 - 2005 Walker Percy, 1916 - 1990 Carson McCullers, 1917 - 1967 Robert Lowell, 1917 - 1977 Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000 Robert C. O'Brien, 1918 - 1973 Philip José Farmer, 1918 - 2009 Frederik Pohl, 1919 - 2013 Robert Duncan, 1919 - 1988 J. D. Salinger, 1919 - 2010
1920 Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992 Ray Bradbury, 1920 - 2012 Charles Bukowski, 1920 - 1994 John Graves, 1920 - 2013 Patricia Highsmith, 1921 - 1995 Richard Wilbur, 1921 - 2017 William Gaddis, 1922 - 1998 Jack Kerouac, 1922 - 1969 Damon Knight, 1922 - 2002 Grace Paley, 1922 - 2007 Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007 James Dickey, 1923 - 1997 Joseph Heller, 1923 - 1999 Denise Levertov, 1923 - 1997 Norman Mailer, 1923 - 2007 Gordon R. Dickson, 1923 - 2001 James E. Gunn, 1923 - James Baldwin, 1924 - 1987 Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984 William Humphrey, 1924 - 1997 Leonard Nathan, 1924 - 2007 Kenneth Koch, 1925 - 2002 Elmore Leonard, 1925 - 2013 Flannery O'Connor, 1925 - 1964 James Salter, 1925 - 2015 William Styron, 1925 - 2006 Gore Vidal, 1925 - 2012 A. R. Ammons, 1926 - 2001 Poul Anderson, 1926 - 2001 Robert Creeley, 1926 - 2005 J. P. Donleavy, 1926 - 2017 Allen Ginsberg, 1926 - 1997 Harper Lee, 1926 - 2016 Alison Lurie, 1926 - Ed McBain, 1926 - 2005 James Merrill, 1926 - 1995 Frank O'Hara, 1926 - 1966 Edward Abbey, 1927 - 1989 John Ashbery, 1927 - 2017 Mary Higgins Clark, 1927 - , 1927 - 2014 William S. Merwin, 1927 - James Wright, 1927 - 1980 Susan Taubes (1928-1969) Philip Levine, 1928 - 2015 Edward Albee, 1928 - 2016 Philip K. Dick, 1928 - 1982 Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009 William J. Kennedy, 1928 - Alan E. Nourse, 1928 - 1992 Cynthia Ozick, 1928 - Robert M. Pirsig, 1928 - 2017 Hubert Selby, Jr., 1928 - 2004 Anne Sexton, 1928 - 1974 Frederick Exley, 1929 - 1992 Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 - 2018 Doris Orgel (1929 - 2020) Adrienne Rich, 1929 - 2012
1930 John Barth, 1930 - Gregory Corso, 1930 - 2001 Gary Snyder, 1930 - Newton Thornburg, 1930 - 2011 Donald Barthelme, 1931 - 1989 Don Carpenter, 1931 - 1995 E. L. Doctorow, 1931 - 2015 Toni Morrison, 1931 - 2019 Tom Wolfe, 1931 - 2018 Robert Coover, 1932 - Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963 John Gregory Dunne, 1932 - 2003 Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft), 1932 - 2020 John Updike, 1932 - 2009 John Gardner, 1933 - 1982 Ernest J. Gaines, 1933 - 2019 Cormac McCarthy, 1933 - Jerry Pournelle, 1933 - 2017 Philip Roth, 1933 - 2018 Harlan Ellison, 1934 - 2018 Amiri Baraka, 1934 - 2014 N. Scott Momaday, 1934 - Gerald Vizenor, 1934 - Audre Lorde, 1934 - 1992 Richard Brautigan, 1935 - 1984 Harry Crews, 1935 - 2012 Ken Kesey, 1935 - 2001 Mary Oliver, 1935 - 2019 Annie Proulx, 1935 - Robert Silverberg, 1935 - Charles Wright, 1935 - Richard Bach, 1936 - Lucille Clifton, 1936 - 2010 Don DeLillo, 1936 - Stephen Dixon, 1936 - James Lee Burke, 1936 - Larry McMurtry, 1936 - , 1937 - 2020 Jerome Charyn, 1937 - Jim Harrison, 1937 - 2016 Andrew J. Offutt, 1937 - 2013 Toby Olson, 1937 - Thomas Pynchon, 1937 - Robert Stone, 1937 - 2015 Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005 John Kennedy Toole, 1937 - 1969 Raymond Carver, 1938 - 1988 William Kotzwinkle, 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, 1938 - Ishmael Reed, 1938 - Charles Simic, 1938 - , 1938 - 2016 Toni Cade Bambara, 1939 -
1940 Russell Banks, 1940 - 2023 Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940 - Fanny Howe, 1940 - Robert Pinsky, 1940 - Norman Spinrad, 1940 - , 1941 - Frederick Busch, 1941 - 2006 Billy Collins, 1941 - , 1941 - Anne Tyler, 1941 - John Edgar Wideman, 1941 - Gloria Anzaldúa, 1942 - 2004 Leighton Gage, 1942 - 2013 John Irving, 1942 - Ron Padgett, 1942 - Sam Shepard, 1943 - 2017 Louise Glück, 1943 - Steven Millhauser, 1943 - Dan Fante, 1944 - 2015 Michael J. Meade, 1944 - Alice Walker, 1944 - Joy Williams, 1944 - Kent Anderson, 1945 - Annie Dillard, 1945 - Richard Bausch, 1945 - Robert Olen Butler, 1945 - Thom Jones, 1945 - 2016 John Perkins, 1945 - Tobias Wolff, 1945 - Terry Baum (1946 - Tim O'Brien, 1946 - Paul Auster, 1947 - 2024