North American Fiction - 20th Century Authors
- Kathy Acker
- Robert Aickman
- Edward Albee
- Donald Antrim
- Paul Auster
- Richard Bach
- Kage Baker
- S. H. Baker
- James Baldwin
- Russell Banks
- Ann Beattie
- Louis Begley
- Madison Smartt Bell
- Anne Bernays
- Barbara Bietz
- Francesca Lia Block
- Lawrence Block
- William Borden
- Blanche McCrary Boyd
- Harold Brodkey
- Dan Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
- Wanda E Brunstetter
- Pearl S. Buck
- Lisa Buie-Collard
- Charles Bukowski
- Emma Bull
- Mark Burnell
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Lisa Carver
- John Cheever
- Lincoln Child
- Sherry Clements
- Shirley Kiger Connolly
- Douglas Coupland
- John Crowley
- Robertson Davies
- Charles De Lint
- Jeffery Deaver
- Nelson Demille
- Pete Dexter
- Theodore Dreiser
- Andre Dubus
- Carola Dunn
- David Eddings
- Stanley Elkin
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Paige Lee Elliston
- James Ellroy
- Louise Erdrich
- Timothy Findley
- Jack Finney
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Earlene Fowler
- Jonathan Franzen
- Sheyna Galyan
- Hal Glatzer
- Glen David Gold
- Kristi Gold
- Michael Gruber
- Philip Gulley
- Barry Hannah
- Karen Harper
- Thomas Harris
- Joseph Heller
- Mark Helprin
- Frank Herbert
- John Hersey
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Eric Hoffer
- Alice Hoffman
- A. M. Homes
- Mary Hood
- Langston Hughes
- John Irving
- Syrie James
- Joyce Johnson
- Jill Jones
- Ward Just
- Mary Jean Kelso
- Harry Kemelman
- Jack Kerley
- Ken Kesey
- Michael Kimball
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Jane Kirkpatrick
- Dean Koontz
- Joyce Reiser Kornblatt
- Nicole Krauss
- Anne Lamott
- Linda Lappin
- Sinclair Lewis
- Sam Lipsyte
- Brad Listi
- Maud Hart Lovelace
- Alison Lurie
- John D. MacDonald
- Bernard Malamud
- Yann Martel
- Steve Martin
- Francine Mathews
- Alice Mattison
- Armistead Maupin
- Charles McCarry
- Carson McCullers
- Joseph McElroy
- Jay McInerney
- Patricia A. McKillip
- Tom McNab
- James A. Michener
- Steven Millhauser
- Susan Minot
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Madeleine Monette
- Paul Monette
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Rick Moody
- Mary Morris
- Toni Morrison
- Brian Morton
- Walter Mosely
- Elizabeth Musser
- Flannery O'Connor
- John O'Hara
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Tillie Olsen
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Grace Paley
- Ellen Pall
- Ann Patchett
- James Patterson
- Judith Pella
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Gene Stratton Porter
- Reynolds Price
- E. Annie Proulx
- Thomas Pynchon
- Anna Quindlen
- Ayn Rand
- Mordecai Richler
- Sylvia Rouss
- Jed Rubenfeld
- Mary Doria Russell
- Richard Russo
- James Salter
- George Saunders
- Glenn Savan
- Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Robert J. Sawyer
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Cynthia Propper Seton
- Anna Shapiro
- Irwin Shaw
- Rachel Sherman
- Sharon Shinn
- Mona Simpson
- Murray Sinclair
- Edith Skom
- Cordwainer Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Rob Smith
- Gertrude Stein
- Sarah Storme
- Mark Strand
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Marly Swick
- Amy Tan
- Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Jim Thompson
- Charles Todd
- Wendy Tokunaga
- Anne Tyler
- Leon Uris
- Cynthia Voigt
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Robert Penn Warren
- Larry Watson
- Janice Weber
- William Wharton
- Thornton Wilder
- Charles Willeford
- Tom Wolfe
- Hilma Wolitzer
- Herman Wouk
- Richard Wright
- Lee Zacharias