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The Great American Novelists

Presented in the order they appear in Goodreads' 518-item long "100 Best American Authors." I have excluded playwrights and poets, who are brilliant, but are working in a different genre. Fannie Flagg shows up before David Foster Wallace, but I'm betting DFW (RIP) wouldn't have appeared on "Match Game" if he'd been invited.
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Harper Lee
Harper Lee
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
3
JD Salinger
JD Salinger
4
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
5
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
6
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
7
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
8
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
9
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
10
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
11
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
12
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
13
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
14
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
15
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
16
Stephen King
Stephen King
17
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
18
EB White
EB White
19
S.E. Hinton
S.E. Hinton
20
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
21
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
22
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
23
John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole
24
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
25
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
26
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
27
John Irving
John Irving
28
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
29
Jack London
Jack London
30
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
31
John Updike
John Updike
32
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
33
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
34
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
35
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
36
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
37
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
38
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins
39
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
40
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