Herbert Eugene Caen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from...
For the American basketball player, see Steven Hunter. Stephen Hunter is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. He currently resides in Columbia,...
John Noble Wilford (born October 4, 1933) is an author and award-winning journalist for The New York Times. Wilford's professional career began in 1956 at the Wall Street Journal, where he...
Pearl S. Buck , was a prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. In 1938, she became the first...
Roger Joseph Ebert born June 18, 1942 is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later...
Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, best known for her narrative nonfiction. She has also published poetry, essays, literary criticism,...
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an award-wininng American syndicated comic-strip cartoonist and author. He is the author of numerous plays, screenplays (Carnal Knowledge, 1971,...
David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at NYU. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for...
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which...
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole's novels remained...
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship...
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy , is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic...
Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for March. Brooks was born in October 1955 and grew up in the Western suburbs of...
Marilynne Robinson is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize...
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross...
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. He is of Greek and Irish descent. He attended Grosse Pointe's private...
Richard Russo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. , an M.F.A. , and a Ph.D....
Michael Chabon is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation," according to the The Virginia Quarterly Review. His first novel, The...
Jhumpa Lahiri is an American author of Bengali Indian descent. Lahiri's debut short story...
Michael Cunningham is an award-winning American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham...
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus , cemented...
Steven Millhauser is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Martin Dressler. The prize brought many of his older books...
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The...
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC , OM , D.Litt. , LL.D , FRSC was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which...
Edna Annie Proulx is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book...