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- A Few (mostly contemporary) Authors' Pages: A | Acker | Allison | Alvarez | Auster | B | Banks | Barnes | Donald Barthelme | Bowman | T. C. Boyle | C | Capote | Carver | Chabon | Cheever | Cisneros | Billy Collins | D | DeLillo | Doctorow | Dove | Ducornet | E | Eggers | Eliot | Erdrich | F | Anne Fadiman | Fitzgerald | Franzen | G | Gibson | H | Hoban | I | J | Jen | Charles Johnson | Diane Johnson | K | Kincaid | Kingsolver | L | Leavitt | LeGuin | Levine | M | Marquis | Maso | Moore | Mosley | Morrison | N | Naylor | O | Oates | O'Brien | Ozick | P | Powers | Proulx | Pynchon | Q | R | S | Salinger | Saunders | Sedaris | Simic | Smiley | Spiegelman | T | Tan | Tyler | U | V | Vonnegut | W | Ware | West | Y | Z
- Kathy Acker (1944-1997)
- Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
- Julia Alvarez (b. 1950)
- Paul Auster (b. 1947)
- Russell Banks (b. 1940)
- Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
- David Bowman (b. 1957)
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948)
- Truman Capote (1924-1984)
- Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
- Michael Chabon (b. 1963)
- John Cheever (1912-1982)
- Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)
- Billy Collins (b. 1941)
- Don DeLillo (b. 1936)
- E. L. Doctorow (b. 1931)
- Rita Dove (b. 1952)
- Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943)
- Dave Eggers (b. 1970)
- Michiko Kakutani, "'A Heartbreaking Work . . .' : Clever Young Man Raises Sweet Little Brother" (New York Times, 1 Feb. 2000: review of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)
- Sarah Lyall, "A Wry Survivor of a World That Fell Apart Finds a Quick Celebrity" (New York Times, 10 Feb. 2000: profile of Eggers)
- McSweeney's, the journal edited by Eggers (Note: this is the official site, at McSweeneys.net. In April 2000, there was also a parody [?] McSweeney's site at McSweeneys.com. It is not clear whether this parody -- if it was one -- was created by Dave Eggers or the Massachusetts McSweeneys, who own the domain McSweeneys.com)
- "Q & A: Around the World in a Week" (interview, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2002)
- T. S. Eliot (1888-19)
- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
- Anne Fadiman (b. 1953)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1869-1940)
- Jonathan Franzen (b. 1959)
- "Fiction's New Fab Four" by R. Z. Sheppard (Time, 14 April 1997)
- "Chained" by Jonathan Franzen (Salon.com, 18 Aug. 2000)
- "Jonathan Franzen's Big Book" by Emily Eakin (New York Times Magazine, 2 Sept. 2001)
- "'The Corrections': Jonathan Franzen's American Gothic" by David Gates (New York Times Book Review 9 Sept. 2001)
- New Yorker "Talk of the Town" essay on WTC attacks by Jonathan Franzen (New Yorker, 24 Sept 2001; scroll down to the second piece). Courtesy of The Wayback Machine, which captured the page on 20 Sept. 2001.
- "Mainstream and Meaningful" by Jessica Murphy (interview, The Atlantic Unbound, 3 Oct. 2001)
- "Jonathan Franzen, Uncorrected" by Dave Weich (interview at Powell's Books, 4 Oct. 2001)
- "Winfrey Rescinds Offer to Author for Guest Appearance" by David D. Kirkpatrick (New York Times, 24 Oct. 2001)
- "'Oprah' Gaffe by Jonathan Franzen Draws Ire and Sales" by David D. Kirkpatrick (New York Times, 29 Oct. 2001)
- "Oprah Makes a Correction" (parody "infographic" at The Onion, 7 Nov. 2001). No longer here.
- "One blindfold, two earplugs, nine years" by Alex Blimes (This Is London, 29 Nov. 2001)
- William Gibson (b. 1948)
- Russell Hoban (b. 1925)
- Gish Jen (b. 1956)
- Charles Johnson (b. 1948)
- Diane Johnson (b. 1934)
- Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949)
- Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955)
- David Leavitt (b. 1961)
- Philip Levine (b. 1928)
- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929)
- Don Marquis (1878-1937)
- Carol Maso (b. 1955)
- Lorrie Moore (b. 1957)
- Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
- Walter Mosley (b. 1952)
- Gloria Naylor (b. 1950)
- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
- Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
- Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)
- Richard Powers (b. 1957)
- David G. Dodd's Richard Powers: Bibliography (extensive, includes links) Highly recommended.
- Richard Powers Interview by Michael Tortorello (RainTaxi, 1999). Courtesy of The Wayback Machine, which captured the page on19 Oct. 2001.
- The Salon Interview: Richard Powers by Laura Miller (Salon.com, 1998)
- "Being and Seeming: the Technology of Representation" by Richard Powers (Context 3 at CenterforBookCulture.org, 2000). Courtesy of The Wayback Machine, which captured the page in 2001.
- An Interview with Richard Powers by Jim Neilson (CenterforBookCulture.com, Fall 1998)
- The Last Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers by Jeffrey Williams (1999)
- A Dialogue: Richard Powers and Bradford Morrow (Conjunctions 34, Spring 2000)
- Two Geeks on Their Way to Byzantium: A Conversation with Richard Powers by Harvey Blume (The Atlantic, 28 June 2000)
- "The Author as Science Guy" by Emily Eakin (New York Times, 18 Feb. 2003).
- E. Annie Proulx (b. 1935)
- Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)
- J. D. Salinger (b. 1919)
- George Saunders (b. 1959):
- David Sedaris (b. 1957)
- Charles Simic (b. 1938)
- Jane Smiley (b. 1949)
- Art Spiegelman (b. 1948): see my page of "Visual Arts" links
- Amy Tan (b. 1952)
- Anne Tyler (b. 1941)
- Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922)
- Chris Ware (b. 1967): see my page of "Visual Arts" links
- Nathanael West (1903-1940)
- General Links for American Literature
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- Last updated Tuesday, August 2, 2005.