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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
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
4
JD Salinger
JD Salinger
5
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
6
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
7
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe
8
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
9
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
10
Truman Capote
Truman Capote
11
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
12
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
13
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
14
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
15
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
16
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
17
Stephen King
Stephen King
18
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum
19
EB White
EB White
20
S.E. Hinton
S.E. Hinton
21
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
22
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
23
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
24
John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole
25
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
26
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
27
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
28
John Irving
John Irving
29
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
30
Jack London
Jack London
31
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler
32
John Updike
John Updike
33
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
34
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
35
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
36
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
37
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
38
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
39
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins
40
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
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