Liste d'écrivains américains par ordre chronologique
Liste d'écrivains américains, classés par année de naissance (puis par ordre alphabétique au sein de chaque année).

Voir aussi la liste d'écrivains américains par ordre alphabétique.

William Bradford (1590 - 1657)
 Thomas Morton (1579 - 1647)
 John Winthrop (1588 - 1649)

Roger Williams (1603 - 1683)
 Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)
 Mary Rowlandson (1636 - 1711)
 Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729)
 Robert Calef (1648 - 1719)
 Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730)
 Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728)
 Sarah Kemble Knight (1666 - 1727)

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 (? - 1797)
 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 Tenney, 1762 - 1837
 William Hill Brown, 1765 - 1793
 Charles Brockden Brown, 1771 - 1810
 Francis Scott Key, 1779 - 1843
 Clement Clarke Moore, 1779 - 1863
 Washington Allston, 1779 - 1843
 Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859
 James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 - 1851
 Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789 - 1867
 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 
 William Apess, 1798 - 1839
 Robert Charles Sands, 1799 - 1832



1800-1850
 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
 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
 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
 Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830 - 1886
 Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
 Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831 - 1905
 Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888
 María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, 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
 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
 Kate Chopin, 1850 - 1904
 Edward Bellamy, 1850 - 1898
 Eugene Field, 1850 - 1895

1851-1899
 Mary E. 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
 Hamlin Garland, 1860 - 1940
 Abraham Cahan, 1860 - 1951
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860 - 1935
 O. Henry, 1862 - 1910
 Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937
 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862 - 1931
 Joséphine Diebitsch Peary, 1863 - 1955
 Black Elk, 1863 - 1950
 Richard Hovey, 1864 - 1900
 Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), 1865 - 1914
 Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 - 1957
 Mary Hunter Austin, 1868 - 1934
 W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868 - 1963
 Edgar Lee Masters, 1868 - 1935
 Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935
 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
 Mina Loy, 1882 - 1966
 William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963
 Cornelia Meigs, 1884 - 1973
 Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951
 Ezra Pound, 1885 - 1972
 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
 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
 Thomas Wolfe, 1900 - 1938
 Margaret Mitchell, 1900 - 1949
 Sterling 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
 Stanley Kunitz, 1905 - 2006
 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
 Paul Bowles, 1910 - 1999
 Charles Olson, 1910 - 1970
 Carlos Bulosan, 1911 - 1956
 Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979
 Tennessee Williams, 1911 - 1983
 L. Ron. Hubbard, 1911 - 1986
 John Cheever, 1912 - 1982
 A. E. van Vogt, 1912 - 2000
 Robert Hayden, 1913 - 1980
 Randall Jarrell, 1914 - 1965
 John Berryman, 1914 - 1972
 William 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
 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 -
 Galway Kinnell, 1927 -
 William S. Merwin, 1927 -
 James Wright, 1927 - 1980
 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, 1928 - 2004
 Anne Sexton, 1928 - 1974
 Frederick Exley, 1929 - 1992
 Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 - 2018
 Adrienne Rich, 1929 - 2012
 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
 George Powers Cockcroft, 1932 -
 John Updike, 1932 - 2009
 John Gardner, 1933 - 1982
 Ernest Gaines, 1933 -
 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 -
 Rudolfo A. Anaya, 1937 -
 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 -
 Michael S. Harper, 1938 -
 Toni Cade Bambara, 1939 -
 Russell Banks, 1940 - 
 Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940 -
 Fanny Howe, 1940 -
 Robert Pinsky, 1940 -
 Norman Spinrad, 1940 -
 Max Apple, 1941 -
 Frederick Busch, 1941 - 2006
 Billy Collins, 1941 -
 Simon J. Ortiz, 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 -
 Ann Beattie, 1947 -
 Tom Clancy, 1947 - 2013
 Tim Gautreaux, 1947 -
 Yusef Komunyakaa, 1947 -
 Stephen King, 1947 -
 David Mamet, 1947 -
 T. C. Boyle, 1948 -
 James Ellroy, 1948 -
 William Gibson, 1948 -
 George R. R. Martin, 1948 -
 Marta Randall, 1948 -
 Leslie Marmon Silko, 1948 -
 Art Spiegelman, 1948 -
 Dan Simmons, 1948 -
 Lois McMaster Bujold, 1949 -
 Denis Johnson, 1949 - 2017
 Kent M. Keith, 1949 -
 Richard Russo, 1949 -
 Jane Smiley, 1949 -
 Julia Alvarez, 1950 -
 Jorie Graham, 1950 -
 Mark SaFranko, 1950 -

1951-2000
 Kirk W. Johnson (écrit au )
 Jeffrey McClanahan (écrit au )
 Regina Porter (écrit au )
 Larry Brown, 1951 - 2004
 Joy Harjo, 1951 -
 Amy Hempel, 1951 -
 Orson Scott Card, 1951 -
 Richard Crasta, 1952 -
 Michael Cunningham, 1952 -
 Rita Dove, 1952 -
 Jayne Anne Phillips, 1952 -
 Alberto Ríos, 1952 -
 Amy Tan, 1952 -
 Kevin Canty, 1953 -
 Tom Gabbay, 1953 -
 Alice McDermott, 1953 -
 Ron Rash, 1953 -
 Don Winslow, 1953 -
 Elmaz Abinader, 1954 -
 Andrea Barrett, 1954 -
 Sandra Cisneros, 1954 -
 Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1954 -
 Louise Erdrich, 1954 -
 Siri Hustvedt, 1955 -
 Barbara Kingsolver, 1955 -
 Cathy Song, 1955 -
 Jim Grimsley, 1955 -
 Douglas Kennedy, 1955 -
 Percival Everett, 1956 -
 David Guterson, 1956 -
 Rob Roberge, 1956 -
 Elizabeth Strout, 1956 -
 Richard Zimler, 1956 - 
 Michael Connelly, 1957 -
 Li-Young Lee, 1957 -
 James McBride, 1957 -
 Lorrie Moore, 1957 -
 Richard Powers, 1957 -
 Lionel Shriver, 1957 -
 Linda Joy Singleton, 1957 -
 Donald Antrim, 1958 -
 Rick Bass, 1958 -
 Pete Fromm, 1958 -
 Chris Offutt, 1958 -
 George Saunders, 1958 -
 William T. Vollmann, 1959 -
 Jonathan Franzen, 1959 -
 Bruce Holbert, 1959 -
 Dejan Stojanović, 1959 - 
 Jeffrey Eugenides, 1960 -
 Greg Iles, 1960 -
 Colin Harrison, 1960 -
 Laura Kasischke, 1961 -
 David Leavitt, 1961 -
 David Means, 1961 -
 Rick Moody, 1961 -
 Cecilia Samartin, 1961 -
 Paul Beatty, 1962 -
 Suzy Becker, 1962 - 
 David Foster Wallace, 1962 - 2008
 Chuck Palahniuk, 1962 -
 Michael Chabon, 1963 -
 Iain Levison, 1963 -
 Nicholas Nicastro, 1963 - 
 Donna Tartt, 1963 -
 Jonathan Ames, 1964 -
 Dan Brown, 1964 -
 Dan Chaon, 1964 -
 Craig Clevenger, 1964 -
 Bret Easton Ellis, 1964 -
 Augusten Burroughs, 1965 -
 Beth Fantaskey, 1965 -
 Dennis Lehane, 1965 -
 Scott Wolven, 1965 -
 Sherman Alexie, 1966 -
 Mark Z. Danielewski, 1966 -
 Brian Evenson, 1966 -
 Matthew Specktor, 1966 -
 David Vann, 1966 -
 Paul Harding, 1967 -
 Adam Johnson, 1967 -
 Jhumpa Lahiri, 1967 -
 Willy Vlautin, 1967 -
 Mitch Cullin, 1968 -
 Junot Díaz, 1968 -
 Rachel Kushner, 1968 -
 Sam Lipsyte, 1968 -
 Arthur Phillips, 1969 -
 Jake Adelstein, 1969 -
 Colson Whitehead, 1969 -
 Chris Adrian, 1970 -
 Dave Eggers, 1970 -
 Simone Elkeles, 1970 -
 Nathan Englander, 1970 -
 Adam Haslett, 1970 -
 Andrew Sean Greer, 1970 -
 Trenton Lee Stewart, 1970-
 Christopher Coake, 1971 -
 Atticus Lish, 1972 -
 Greg Olear, 1972 -
 Andrew Porter, 1972 -
 Gary Shteyngart, 1972 -
 Anthony Doerr, 1973 -
 Frank Bill, 1974 -
 Nicole Krauss, 1974 -
 John D'Agata, 1975 -
 Travis Mulhauser, 1976 -
 Jesmyn Ward, 1977 -
 Jonathan Safran Foer, 1977 -
 William Boyle, 1978 -
 Lauren Groff, 1978 -
 Nickolas Butler, 1979 -
 Carson Cistulli, 1979 -
 Ben Lerner, 1979 -
 Benjamin Percy, 1979 -
 Kevin Powers, 1980 -
 Karen Russell, 1981 -
 Atia Abawi, 1981 ou 1982 - 
 Luke Mogelson, 1982 -
 Thomas Pierce, 1982 -
 David Joy, 1983 -
 Phil Klay, 1983 -
 Tao Lin, 1983 -
 Colin Winnette, 1984 -
 Alexandra Kleeman 1986 -
 Brit Bennett, 1990 -
 Chris Colfer, 1990 - 

  
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