A Conrad Aiken Candace Allen, novelist, cultural critic and screenwriter Washington Allston, artist, writer on art Maya Angelou, poet, memoirs Alan Ansen John Ashbery
B James Baldwin Djuna Barnes Bernard Berenson Mary Berenson Thomas Berger John Peale Bishop Joan Bodger Jane Bowles Paul Bowles Kay Boyle Louis Bromfield John Horne Burns William S. Burroughs
C Vincent O. Carter Jerome Charyn Eldridge Cleaver, non-fiction, criminal, leading "Black Panther" Ira Cohen, poet, publisher Cid Corman Gregory Corso Malcolm Cowley Caresse Crosby Harry Crosby, "Black Sun Press" Robert Crumb, comics E. E. Cummings
D Edward Dahlberg William Demby Helen DeWitt Irene Dische Mabel Dodge (Luhan) J. P. Donleavy Edward Dorn John Dos Passos W. E. B. Du Bois Rikki Ducornet Elaine Dundy Andrea Dworkin, memoirs, feminist
E T. S. Eliot Lucy Ellmann
F Ruth Fainlight F. Scott Fitzgerald Janet Flanner John Gould Fletcher Charles Henri Ford Robert Frost
G William Gaddis William Gibson, science fiction Horatio Greenough, artist, essays on art Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, novelist
H H.D. Bret Harte Marsden Hartley Ernest Hemingway Patricia Highsmith Chester Himes Russell Hoban Langston Hughes
I Rachel Ingalls
J Henry James Ted Joans James Jones
K Steve Katz, in Italy 1959–62
L Robert Lax Andrea Lee Charles Godfrey Leland Robert Littell James Lord
M Archibald MacLeish David Markson Harry Mathews, novels, memoirs, member of Oulipo, editor of Locus Solus Mary McCarthy Claude McKay Stuart Merrill Henry Miller Derek B. Miller
N John Neal, Brother Jonathan: or, the New Englanders, American Writers, critical essays for Blackwood’s Magazine and other British periodicals Harold Norse
O George Oppen Mary Oppen
P Robert M. Pirsig, popular philosophy Katherine Anne Porter Ezra Pound Frederic Prokosch
R John Reed Stephan Regina-Thon Laura Riding Waverley Root, journalism, non-fiction (food) Robert Ruark
S James Sallis, crime, science fiction, editor of New Worlds for two years George Santayana Evelyn Scott David Sedaris Alan Seeger Irwin Shaw John Sladek Agnes Smedley Logan Pearsall Smith Robert Pearsall Smith Gary Snyder Terry Southern Francis Steegmuller Gertrude Stein Donald Ogden Stewart John Strand
T Paul Theroux, travel writer Alice B. Toklas, cookbook writer and life partner of Gertrude Stein
V Gore Vidal
W Glenway Wescott Nathanael West, in Paris in autumn 1926 (not for years as often stated) Edith Wharton Edmund White Robert Wilson, theatre, film Thomas Wolfe Constance Fenimore Woolson Willard Huntington Wright, crime Richard Wright
Y Frank Yerby
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