The Literary World
Prose Writers of the 20th Century
Distinguished prose writers, from 1900 to the turn of the millennium.
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Agatha Christie (born 1890, died 1976)
English mystery writer.
- Wrote Murder on the Orient Express
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Alice Adams (born 1926, died 1999)
American novelist.
- Wrote Careless Love
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Alison Lurie (born 1926)
American novelist.
- Wrote The War Between the Tates
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Amy Tan (born 1952)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Joy Luck Club
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Anne Rice (born 1941)
American novelist.
- Wrote Interview with the Vampire
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Anne Tyler (born 1941)
American novelist.
- Wrote Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Ayn Rand (born 1905, died 1982)
Russian-American novelist.
- Wrote The Fountainhead
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Carson McCullers (born 1917, died 1967)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Christina Stead (born 1903, died 1983)
Australian novelist.
- Wrote The Man Who Loved Children
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(Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine) Colette (born 1873, died 1954)
French novelist and short-story writer.
- Wrote Claudine
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Dorothy Parker (born 1893, died 1967)
American short-story writer and poet.
- Wrote Enough Rope
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E. Annie Proulx (born 1935)
American novelist.
- Wrote Postcards
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Erica Jong (born 1942)
American novelist.
- Wrote Fear of Flying
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Flannery O'Connor (born 1925, died 1964)
American short-story writer and novelist.
- Wrote ''''Everything That Rises Must Converge''''
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Gail Godwin (born 1937)
American novelist.
- Wrote Glass People
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Gertrude Stein (born 1874, died 1946)
American experimental novelist, playwright and poet.
- Wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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Grace Paley (born 1922)
American short-story writer.
- Wrote Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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Hortense Calisher (born 1911)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Bobby-Soxer
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Janet Dailey (born 1944)
American novelist.
- Wrote Calder Born, Calder Bred
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Jean Kerr (born 1923)
American playwright.
- Wrote Please Don''t Eat the Daisies
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Joan Didion (born 1934)
American novelist and essayist.
- Wrote The White Album
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Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Wrote Black Water
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Judith Krantz (born 1928)
American novelist.
- Wrote Scruples
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Judy Blume (born 1938)
American novelist.
- Wrote Wifey
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Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 1867, died 1957)
American children's author who wrote the autobiographical novels on which the popular television series ''Little House on the Prairie'' was based.
- Wrote The Little House in the Big Woods
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Lillian Hellman (born 1905, died 1984)
American playwright.
- Wrote The Little Foxes
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Marge Piercy (born 1936)
American novelist and poet.
- Wrote Woman on the Edge of Time
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Marilyn French (born 1929)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Women''s Room
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Mary Gordon (born 1949)
American novelist.
- Wrote Final Payments
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Mary Higgins Clark (born 1931)
American novelist.
- Wrote A Stranger Is Watching
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Mary McCarthy (born 1912, died 1989)
American novelist.
- Wrote Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
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Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940)
American prose writer.
- Wrote The Woman Warrior
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Zora Neale Hurston (born 1903, died 1960)
American novelist, short-story writer and folklorist.
- Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Rebecca West (born 1892, died 1983)
Pseudonym of English journalist, novelist and critic Cicily Isabel Andrews.
- Wrote The Count and the Castle
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Susan Eloise ''S.E.'' Hinton (born 1948)
American writer of juvenile fiction.
- Wrote The Outsiders
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Selma Lagerlöf (born 1858, died 1940)
Swedish novelist.
- Wrote The Outcast
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Shirley Ann Grau (born 1929)
American novelist and journalist.
- Wrote Nine Women
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Shirley Hardie Jackson (born 1919, died 1965)
American short-story writer.
- Wrote ''''The Lottery''''
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Sigrid Undset (born 1882, died 1949)
Norwegian novelist.
- Wrote Kristin Lavransdatter
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Simone de Beauvoir (born 1908, died 1986)
French novelist and essayist.
- Wrote Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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Toni Morrison (born 1931)
American novelist.
- Wrote Song of Solomon
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Ursula K. LeGuin (born 1929)
American novelist.
- Wrote The Left Hand of Darkness.
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Wendy Wasserstein (born 1950)
American playwright.
- Wrote Uncommon Women and Others
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Willa Cather (born 1873, died 1947)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Wrote My Antonia
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Alice Walker (born 1944)
American novelist, essayist and poet.
- Wrote The Color Purple
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Katherine Mansfield (born 1888, died 1923)
New Zealand short-story writer.
- Wrote The Garden Party and Other Stories
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Virginia Woolf (born 1882, died 1941)
English novelist and essayist.
- Wrote A Room of One''s Own
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Doris Lessing (born 1919)
African-born English novelist.
- Wrote African Stories
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Nadine Gordimer (born 1923)
South African novelist.
- Wrote The Lying Days
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Edna O'Brien (born 1931)
Irish novelist.
- Wrote Sister Imelda
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Susan Hill (born 1942)
English novelist.
- Wrote How Soon Can I Leave?
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(Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst (born 1882, died 1960)
English poet and writer.
- Wrote a biography of her mother, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
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Eudora Welty (born 1909)
American novelist and short-story writer.
- Wrote One Writer''s Beginnings
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Daphne du Maurier (born 1907, died 1989)
English gothic novelist.
- Wrote Rebecca
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Anne Frank (born 1929, died 1945)
Dutch diarist.
- Her diary, written largely while her family was hiding from the Nazis, was published after her death
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Gilda Radner (born 1946, died 1989)
American actress, writer, and comedienne.
- Wrote the autobiography It''s Always Something
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Enid Bagnold (born 1889, died 1981)
English author.
- Wrote the novel National Velvet
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Iris Murdoch (born 1919, died 1999)
Irish novelist.
- Wrote The Black Prince
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (born 1890, died 1995)
Matriarch of the Kennedy family.
- Wrote the autobiography Times to Remember
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Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
Canadian novelist and poet.
- Wrote The Handmaid''s Tale
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Layla Ba'labakki
Lebanese writer.
- Wrote the semiautobiographical novel I Live
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Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1942)
Ghanaian writer
- Ghanaian novelist, winner of the 1992 Commonwealth Writer''s Prize for Africa for the novel Changes
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Aisha Abd al-Rahman (born 1913)
Egyptian writer.
- Best known for Contemporary Arab Women Poets
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Nawal El Saadawi (born 1931)
Egyptian physician and feminist author.
- Wrote The Naked Face of the Arab Woman
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Thea Astley (born 1925)
Australian novelist and short-story writer.
- Wrote The Acolyte
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Caryl Churchill (born 1938)
English playwright.
- Wrote Serious Money
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Mahasweta Devi (born 1926)
Bengalese novelist and short story writer
- Wrote Nati 1957
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Meena Alexander (born 1951)
Poet, novelist and literary critic from India
- Wrote the novel Manhattan Music
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Elspeth Josceline Grant Huxley (born 1907, died 1997)
British author.
- Wrote The Flame Trees of Thika
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Marguerite Duras (born 1914, died 1996)
French novelist and screenwriter. Original name: Marguerite Donnadieu.
- Wrote The Lover
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Jessie Fauset (born 1882, died 1961)
American writer. The most-published novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.
- Wrote The Chinaberry Tree
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