Who would you consider as the best American authors?

Question

people who really impacted society with their writing.

Answer 1

The following American Authors have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl Buck is one writer who had a huge impact on my life after I read her books.

Toni Morrison (1993) - Well-known author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and several other amazing books.

Czeslaw Milosz (Poland/USA) (1980) - Polish-born poet who spent most of World War II living in Warsaw and writing for the underground press.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) - Won for his tragicomic tales of Jewish life in prewar Poland.

Saul Bellow (1976) - Writes lucid, semi-autobiographical novels, the most recent of which is Ravelstein.

John Steinbeck (1962) - Still sells thousands of books, including the high school staple, Of Mice and Men.

Ernest Hemingway (1954) - "Papa" wrote in his acceptance remarks, "Writing, at its best, is a lonely life."

William Faulkner (1949) - The godfather of Southern literature explored his own imaginary territory, Yoknapatawpha County.

Pearl S. Buck (1938) - The author of The Good Earth published over seventy books, many of them dealing with peasant life in rural China.

Eugene O'Neill (1936) - Wove the agony of his profoundly dysfunctional childhood into several classic plays, including Long Day's Journey into Night.

Sinclair Lewis (1930) - The author of Elmer Gantry and Babbit wrote human comedies inspired by Balzac and Dickens.

Answer 2

I'm very partial to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as my favorite American authors. However, for someone who impacted society, I'd say someone like Upton Sinclair.

Answer 3

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kurt Vonnegut
Orson Welles
Jack Kerouac
Upton Sinclair

Answer 4

I am not familiar with all the American authors, but I will say Edgar Allen Poe and Jack Kerouac went beyond intelligence, creativity, and genius. They were, in the highest and immortal sense of the word, artists.

Answer 5

Oh, definately Samuel Clemens! Sometimes better known as "Mark Twain". Todays writers that I think are greats are "Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy". Louis Lamar is another great writer if you like westerns. I like Cussler because of his intricate study of a subject before he writes it into a fiction. He also has done some documentary work like The Sea Hunt and The Sea Hunt II.

Answer 6

Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac have always done it for me. If you are a new to either I would recommend Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms" and Kerouac's "On the Road" as must-read starting points. I found that both works altered my world view considerably.

Answer 7

Jack Kerouac was wonderful. John Steinbeck was really great too.

Answer 8

fitzgerald, hemingway, faulkner, steinbeck, kerouac, poe,

Answer 9

the bible honktard