- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- Robert Caro (1935-)
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
- Mary Gordon (1949-)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
- Isaac B. Singer (1902-1991)
- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
- E.B White (1899-1985)
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- John Ashbery (1927-)
- Willa Cather (1873-1947)
- Julia DeBurgos (1914-1953)
- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
- Paula Fox (1923-)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
- Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
- John Cheever (1912-1982)
- Hart Crane (1899-1932)
- E. L. Doctorow (1931- )
- Edna Ferber (1885-1968)
- Pete Hamill (1935- )
- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- Henry James (1843-1916)
- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)
- Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
- Toni Morrison (1931- )
- Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )
- Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
- Richard Wright (1908-1960)
