Liste d'écrivains américains par année de naissance
Liste d'écrivains américains (des États-Unis), classés par année de naissance (puis par ordre alphabétique au sein de chaque année).

Thomas Morton (1579 - 1647)
 John Winthrop (1588 - 1649)
 William Bradford (1590 - 1657)

Roger Williams (1603 - 1683)
 Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)
 Mary Rowlandson (1636 - 1711)
 Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729)
 Robert Calef (1648 - 1719)
 Samuel Sewall (1652 - 1730)
 Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728)
 Sarah Kemble Knight (1666 - 1727)

Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)
 Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
 J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur (1735 - 1813)
 Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (1737-1801)
 Robert Bolling (1738-1775)
 Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
 Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797)

1750 
 Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
 Philip Freneau (1752 - 1832)
 Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784)
 Hannah Websters Foster, 1758 - 1840
 Mason Locke Weems, 1759 - 1825
 Susanna Rowson, 1762 - 1824
 Tabitha Gilman Tenney, 1762 - 1837
 William Hill Brown, 1765 - 1793

1770 
 Charles Brockden Brown, 1771 - 1810
 Francis Scott Key, 1779 - 1843
 Clement Clarke Moore, 1779 - 1863
 Washington Allston, 1779 - 1843

1780 
 Washington Irving, 1783 - 1859
 James Fenimore Cooper, 1789 - 1851
 Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789 - 1867

1790 
 John Howard Payne, 1791 - 1852
 Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 1791 - 1867
 John Neal, 1793 - 1876
 William Cullen Bryant, 1794 - 1878
 John Pendleton Kennedy, 1795 - 1870
 John Lofland, 1798 - 1849
 John Kearsley Mitchell, 1798 - 1858 
 William Apess, 1798 - 1839
 Robert Charles Sands, 1799 - 1832



1800-1850

1800 
 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800 - 1842
 John Hill Hewitt, 1801 - 1890
 Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, 1801 - 1864
 Lydia Maria Child, 1802 - 1880
 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
 George Lunt, 1803 - 1885
 Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864
 Robert Montgomery Bird, 1806 - 1854
 Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1806 - 1867
 William Gilmore Simms, 1806 - 1870
 Theodore Fay, 1807 - 1898
 Henry Longfellow, 1807 - 1882
 John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 - 1892
 William Davis Gallagher, 1808 - 1894
 Willis Gaylord Clark, 1808 - 1841
 Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849
 Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

1810 
 Margaret Fuller, 1810 - 1850
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811 - 1896
 Fanny Fern, 1811 - 1872
 Thomas Gold Appleton, 1812 - 1884
 Harriet Jacobs, 1813 - 1897
 Rebecca Harding Davis, 1813 - 1910
 Jones Very, 1813 - 1880
 Abraham Coles, 1813 - 1891
 William Wells Brown, 1814 - 1884
 Eliza Farnham (1815 - 1864)
 Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
 James Thomas Fields, 1817 - 1881
 Thomas Mayne Reid, 1818 - 1883
 William Ellery Channing, 1818 - 1901
 Frederick Douglass, 1818 - 1895
 Herman Melville, 1819 - 1891
 James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891
 Walt Whitman, 1819 - 1892

1820 
 Edward Everett Hale, 1822 - 1909
 Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, 1823 - 1902
 George Henry Boker, 1823 - 1890
 Bayard Taylor, 1825 - 1878
 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825 - 1911
 James Madison Bell, 1826 - 1902
 John William De Forest, 1826 - 1906
 Henry Timrod, 1828 - 1867
 Fitz-James O'Brien, 1828 - 1862
 Abel Beach, 1829 - 1899

1830 
 Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830 - 1886
 Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886
 Mary Mapes Dodge, 1831 - 1905
 Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888
 , 1832 - 1895
 Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
 Henry Ames Blood, 1836 - 1900
 Bret Harte, 1836 - 1902
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836 - 1907
 William Dean Howells, 1837 - 1920
 Henry Adams, 1838 - 1918
 James A. Herne, 1839 - 1901

1840 
 Ingersoll Lockwood, 1841 - 1918
 Sidney Lanier, 1842 - 1881
 William James, 1842 - 1910
 Ambrose Bierce, 1842 - 1914
 Bronson Howard, 1842 - 1908
 Henry James, 1843 - 1916
 Richard Watson Gilder, 1844 - 1909
 Sarah Winnemucca, 1844 - 1891
 George Washington Cable, 1844 - 1925
 Edgar Fawcett, 1847 - 1904
 Joel Chandler Harris, 1848 - 1908
 John Vance Cheney, 1848 - 1922
 Joseph Arthur, 1848 - 1906
 Emma Lazarus, 1849 - 1887
 Sarah Orne Jewett, 1849 - 1909

1850 
 Kate Chopin, 1850 - 1904
 Edward Bellamy, 1850 - 1898
 Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, 1850 - 1927
 Eugene Field, 1850 - 1895

1851-1899
 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1852 - 1930
 W. C. Morrow, 1854 - 1923
 Henry Cuyler Bunner, 1855 - 1896
 Lyman Frank Baum, 1856 - 1919
 Harold Frederic, 1856 - 1898
 Booker T. Washington, 1856 - 1915
 Anna Julia Cooper, 1858 - 1964
 Pauline Hopkins, 1859 - 1930

1860 
 Hamlin Garland, 1860 - 1940
 , 1860 - 1951
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860 - 1935
 O. Henry, 1862 - 1910
 Edith Wharton, 1862 - 1937
 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1862 - 1931
 Josephine White Bates, 1862-1934
 Joséphine Diebitsch Peary, 1863 - 1955
 Black Elk, 1863 - 1950
 Richard Hovey, 1864 - 1900
  (Edith Maude Eaton), 1865 - 1914
 Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 - 1957
 Mary Hunter Austin, 1868 - 1934
 W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868 - 1963
 Edgar Lee Masters, 1868 - 1935
 Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869 - 1935
 Temple Bailey, 1869 - 1953

1870 
 Frank Norris, 1870 - 1902 
 Stephen Crane, 1871 - 1900
 Theodore Dreiser, 1871 - 1945
 James Weldon Johnson, 1871 - 1938
 Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 - 1906
 Willa Cather, 1873 - 1947
 Bell Elliott Palmer (1873 – 1947) 
 Gertrude Stein, 1874 - 1946
 Amy Lowell, 1874 - 1925
 Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
 Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875 - 1950
 Jeannette Augustus Marks, 1875 - 1964
 Jack London, 1876 - 1916
 Zitkala-Ša, 1876 - 1938
 Susan Glaspell, 1876 - 1948
 Sherwood Anderson, 1876 - 1941
 Carl Sandburg, 1878 - 1967
 Upton Sinclair, 1878 - 1968
 Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955

1880 
 Mina Loy, 1882 - 1966
 William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963
 Cornelia Meigs, 1884 - 1973
 Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951
 Ezra Pound, 1885 - 1972
 Lizzie Yu Der Ling, 1885 - 1944
 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886 - 1961
 Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968
 Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972
 Raymond Chandler, 1888 - 1959
 T. S. Eliot, 1888 - 1965
 Alan Seeger, 1888 - 1916
 Eugene O'Neill, 1888 - 1953
 Charles Boardman Hawes, 1889 - 1923
 Conrad Aiken, 1889 - 1973
 Claude McKay, 1889 - 1948

1890 
 Katherine Anne Porter, 1890 - 1980
 Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890 - 1937
 Conrad Richter, 1890 - 1968
 Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960
 Nella Larsen, 1891 - 1964
 Henry Miller, 1891 - 1980
 Jim Tully, 1891 - 1947
 Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 - 1950
 Pearl Buck, 1892 - 1973
 Monica Shannon, 1893 - 1965
 Dorothy Parker, 1893 - 1967
 E. E. Cummings, 1894 - 1962
 Jean Toomer, 1894 - 1967
 Dashiell Hammett, 1894 - 1961 
 Carol Ryrie Brink, 1895 - 1981
 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940
 John Dos Passos, 1896 - 1970
 Louis Bromfield, 1896 - 1956
 William Faulkner, 1897 - 1962
 Thornton Wilder, 1897 - 1975
 Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961



1900-1950

1900 
 Thomas Wolfe, 1900 - 1938
 Margaret Mitchell, 1900 - 1949
 Sterling Allen Brown, 1901 - 1989
 Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
 Kay Boyle, 1902 - 1992
 John Steinbeck, 1902 - 1968
 Erskine Caldwell, 1903 - 1987
 Countee Cullen, 1903 - 1946
 William Irish, 1903 - 1968
 Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977
 Lorine Niedecker, 1903 - 1970
 Robert Penn Warren, 1905 - 1989
 , 1905 - 2006
 Robert A. Heinlein, 1907 - 1988
 William Maxwell, 1908 - 2000
 George Oppen, 1908 - 1984
 Richard Wright, 1908 - 1960
 Jack Williamson, 1908 - 2006
 Theodore Roethke, 1908 - 1963
 William Saroyan, 1908 - 1981
 Nelson Algren, 1909 - 1981
 John Fante, 1909 - 1983
 Chester Himes, 1909 - 1984
 Wallace Stegner, 1909 - 1993
 Eudora Welty, 1909 - 2001

1910 
 Paul Bowles, 1910 - 1999
 Charles Olson, 1910 - 1970
 Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979
 Tennessee Williams, 1911 - 1983
 L. Ron Hubbard, 1911 - 1986
 John Cheever, 1912 - 1982
 A. E. van Vogt, 1912 - 2000
 , 1913 - 1956
 Robert Hayden, 1913 - 1980
 Randall Jarrell, 1914 - 1965
 John Berryman, 1914 - 1972
 William S. Burroughs, 1914 - 1997
 Bernard Malamud, 1914 - 1986
 Ralph Ellison, 1914 - 1994
 Saul Bellow, 1915 - 2005
 Thomas Savage, 1915 - 2003
 Arthur Miller, 1915 - 2005
 Herman Wouk, 1915 - 2019
 Shelby Foote, 1916 - 2005
 Walker Percy, 1916 - 1990
 Carson McCullers, 1917 - 1967
 Robert Lowell, 1917 - 1977
 Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 - 2000
 Robert C. O'Brien, 1918 - 1973
 Philip José Farmer, 1918 - 2009
 Frederik Pohl, 1919 - 2013
 Robert Duncan, 1919 - 1988
 J. D. Salinger, 1919 - 2010

1920 
 Isaac Asimov, 1920 - 1992
 Ray Bradbury, 1920 - 2012
 Charles Bukowski, 1920 - 1994
 John Graves, 1920 - 2013
 Patricia Highsmith, 1921 - 1995
 Richard Wilbur, 1921 - 2017
 William Gaddis, 1922 - 1998
 Jack Kerouac, 1922 - 1969
 Damon Knight, 1922 - 2002
 Grace Paley, 1922 - 2007
 Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 - 2007
 James Dickey, 1923 - 1997
 Joseph Heller, 1923 - 1999
 Denise Levertov, 1923 - 1997
 Norman Mailer, 1923 - 2007
 Gordon R. Dickson, 1923 - 2001
 James E. Gunn, 1923 - 
 James Baldwin, 1924 - 1987
 Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984
 William Humphrey, 1924 - 1997
 Leonard Nathan, 1924 - 2007
 Kenneth Koch, 1925 - 2002
 Elmore Leonard, 1925 - 2013
 Flannery O'Connor, 1925 - 1964
 James Salter, 1925 - 2015
 William Styron, 1925 - 2006
 Gore Vidal, 1925 - 2012
 A. R. Ammons, 1926 - 2001
 Poul Anderson, 1926 - 2001
 Robert Creeley, 1926 - 2005
 J. P. Donleavy, 1926 - 2017
 Allen Ginsberg, 1926 - 1997
 Harper Lee, 1926 - 2016
 Alison Lurie, 1926 -
 Ed McBain, 1926 - 2005
 James Merrill, 1926 - 1995
 Frank O'Hara, 1926 - 1966
 Edward Abbey, 1927 - 1989
 John Ashbery, 1927 - 2017
 Mary Higgins Clark, 1927 -
 Galway Kinnell, 1927 -
 William S. Merwin, 1927 -
 James Wright, 1927 - 1980
 Philip Levine, 1928 - 2015
 Edward Albee, 1928 - 2016
 Philip K. Dick, 1928 - 1982
 Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
 William J. Kennedy, 1928 -
 Alan E. Nourse, 1928 - 1992
 Cynthia Ozick, 1928 -
 Robert M. Pirsig, 1928 - 2017
 Hubert Selby, 1928 - 2004
 Anne Sexton, 1928 - 1974
 Frederick Exley, 1929 - 1992
 Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929 - 2018
 Doris Orgel (1929 - 2020)
 Adrienne Rich, 1929 - 2012

1930 
 John Barth, 1930 -
 Gregory Corso, 1930 - 2001
 Gary Snyder, 1930 -
 Newton Thornburg, 1930 - 2011
 Donald Barthelme, 1931 - 1989
 Don Carpenter, 1931 - 1995
 E. L. Doctorow, 1931 - 2015
 Toni Morrison, 1931 - 2019
 Tom Wolfe, 1931 - 2018
 Robert Coover, 1932 -
 Sylvia Plath, 1932 - 1963 
 John Gregory Dunne, 1932 - 2003
 George Powers Cockcroft, 1932 -
 John Updike, 1932 - 2009
 John Gardner, 1933 - 1982
 Ernest Gaines, 1933 -
 Cormac McCarthy, 1933 -
 Jerry Pournelle, 1933 - 2017
 Philip Roth, 1933 - 2018
 Harlan Ellison, 1934 - 2018
 Amiri Baraka, 1934 - 2014
 N. Scott Momaday, 1934 -
 Gerald Vizenor, 1934 -
 Audre Lorde, 1934 - 1992
 Richard Brautigan, 1935 - 1984
 Harry Crews, 1935 - 2012
 Ken Kesey, 1935 - 2001
 Mary Oliver, 1935 - 2019
 Annie Proulx, 1935 -
 Robert Silverberg, 1935 -
 Charles Wright, 1935 -
 Richard Bach, 1936 -
 Lucille Clifton, 1936 - 2010
 Don DeLillo, 1936 -
 Stephen Dixon, 1936 -
 James Lee Burke, 1936 -
 Larry McMurtry, 1936 -
 Rudolfo A. Anaya, 1937 -
 Jerome Charyn, 1937 -
 Jim Harrison, 1937 - 2016
 Andrew J. Offutt, 1937 - 2013
 Toby Olson, 1937 -
 Thomas Pynchon, 1937 -
 Robert Stone, 1937 - 2015
 Hunter S. Thompson, 1937 - 2005
 John Kennedy Toole, 1937 - 1969
 Raymond Carver, 1938 - 1988
 William Kotzwinkle, 1938 -
 Joyce Carol Oates, 1938 -
 Ishmael Reed, 1938 -
 Charles Simic, 1938 -
 Michael S. Harper, 1938 -
 Toni Cade Bambara, 1939 -

1940 
 Russell Banks, 1940 - 
 Maxine Hong Kingston, 1940 -
 Fanny Howe, 1940 -
 Robert Pinsky, 1940 -
 Norman Spinrad, 1940 -
 Max Apple, 1941 -
 Frederick Busch, 1941 - 2006
 Billy Collins, 1941 -
 Simon J. Ortiz, 1941 -
 Anne Tyler, 1941 -
 John Edgar Wideman, 1941 -
 Gloria Anzaldúa, 1942 - 2004
 Leighton Gage, 1942 - 2013
 John Irving, 1942 -
 Ron Padgett, 1942 -
 Sam Shepard, 1943 - 2017
 Louise Glück, 1943 - 
 Steven Millhauser, 1943 -
 Dan Fante, 1944 - 2015
 Michael J. Meade, 1944 -
 Alice Walker, 1944 -
 Joy Williams, 1944 -
 Kent Anderson, 1945 -
 Annie Dillard, 1945 -
 Richard Bausch, 1945 -
 Robert Olen Butler, 1945 -
 Thom Jones, 1945 - 2016
 John Perkins, 1945 -
 Tobias Wolff, 1945 -
 Terry Baum (1946 -
 Tim O'Brien, 1946 -
 Paul Auster, 1947 -
 Ann Beattie, 1947 -
 Tom Clancy, 1947 - 2013
 Tim Gautreaux, 1947 -
 Yusef Komunyakaa, 1947 -
 Stephen King, 1947 -
 David Mamet, 1947 -
 T. C. Boyle, 1948 -
 James Ellroy, 1948 -
 William Gibson, 1948 -
 George R. R. Martin, 1948 -
 Marta Randall, 1948 -
 Leslie Marmon Silko, 1948 -
 Art Spiegelman, 1948 -
 Dan Simmons, 1948 -
 Jack Barsky, 1949 -
 Lois McMaster Bujold, 1949 -
 Denis Johnson, 1949 - 2017
 Kent M. Keith, 1949 -
 Richard Russo, 1949 -
 Jane Smiley, 1949 -

1950 
 Julia Alvarez, 1950 -
 Jorie Graham, 1950 -
 Mark SaFranko, 1950 -

1951-2000
 Lily Burana (écrit au )
 Kirk W. Johnson (écrit au )
 Jeffrey McClanahan (écrit au )
 Regina Porter (écrit au )
 Larry Brown, 1951 - 2004
 Joy Harjo, 1951 -
 Amy Hempel, 1951 -
 Orson Scott Card, 1951 -
 Richard Crasta, 1952 -
 Michael Cunningham, 1952 -
 Rita Dove, 1952 -
 Jayne Anne Phillips, 1952 -
 Alberto Ríos, 1952 -
 Amy Tan, 1952 -
 Kevin Canty, 1953 -
 Tom Gabbay, 1953 -
 Alice McDermott, 1953 -
 Ron Rash, 1953 -
 Don Winslow, 1953 -
 Elmaz Abinader, 1954 -
 Andrea Barrett, 1954 -
 Sandra Cisneros, 1954 -
 Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1954 -
 Louise Erdrich, 1954 -
 Siri Hustvedt, 1955 -
 Barbara Kingsolver, 1955 -
 Cathy Song, 1955 -
 Jim Grimsley, 1955 -
 Douglas Kennedy, 1955 -
 Percival Everett, 1956 -
 David Guterson, 1956 -
 Rob Roberge, 1956 -
 Kevin Shipp (1956-)
 Elizabeth Strout, 1956 -
 Richard Zimler, 1956 - 
 Michael Connelly, 1957 -
 Li-Young Lee, 1957 -
 James McBride, 1957 -
 Lorrie Moore, 1957 -
 Richard Powers, 1957 -
 Lionel Shriver, 1957 -
 Linda Joy Singleton, 1957 -
 Donald Antrim, 1958 -
 Rick Bass, 1958 -
 Pete Fromm, 1958 -
 Chris Offutt, 1958 -
 George Saunders, 1958 -
 William T. Vollmann, 1959 -
 Jonathan Franzen, 1959 -
 Bruce Holbert, 1959 -
 Dejan Stojanović, 1959 -

1960 
 Jeffrey Eugenides, 1960 -
 Greg Iles, 1960 -
 Colin Harrison, 1960 -
 Laura Kasischke, 1961 -
 David Leavitt, 1961 -
 David Means, 1961 -
 Rick Moody, 1961 -
 Cecilia Samartin, 1961 -
 Paul Beatty, 1962 -
 Suzy Becker, 1962 - 
 David Foster Wallace, 1962 - 2008
 Chuck Palahniuk, 1962 -
 Michael Chabon, 1963 -
 Iain Levison, 1963 -
 Nicholas Nicastro, 1963 - 
 Donna Tartt, 1963 -
 Jonathan Ames, 1964 -
 Dan Brown, 1964 -
 Dan Chaon, 1964 -
 Craig Clevenger, 1964 -
 Bret Easton Ellis, 1964 -
 Lisa Teasley, 1964-
 Augusten Burroughs, 1965 -
 Beth Fantaskey, 1965 -
 Dennis Lehane, 1965 -
 Scott Wolven, 1965 -
 Sherman Alexie, 1966 -
 Mark Z. Danielewski, 1966 -
 Brian Evenson, 1966 -
 Matthew Specktor, 1966 -
 David Vann, 1966 -
 Paul Harding, 1967 -
 Adam Johnson, 1967 -
 Jhumpa Lahiri, 1967 -
 Willy Vlautin, 1967 -
 James Altucher, 1968 -
 Mitch Cullin, 1968 -
 Junot Díaz, 1968 -
 Rachel Kushner, 1968 -
 Sam Lipsyte, 1968 -
 Arthur Phillips, 1969 -
 Jake Adelstein, 1969 -
 Colson Whitehead, 1969 -

1970 
 Chris Adrian, 1970 -
 Dave Eggers, 1970 -
 Simone Elkeles, 1970 -
 Nathan Englander, 1970 -
 Adam Haslett, 1970 -
 Andrew Sean Greer, 1970 -
 Trenton Lee Stewart, 1970-
 Christopher Coake, 1971 -
 Atticus Lish, 1972 -
 Greg Olear, 1972 -
 Andrew Porter, 1972 -
 Gary Shteyngart, 1972 -
 Anthony Doerr, 1973 -
 Alexander Maksik, 1973 -
 Frank Bill, 1974 -
 Nicole Krauss, 1974 -
 John D'Agata, 1975 -
 Travis Mulhauser, 1976 -
 Jesmyn Ward, 1977 -
 Jonathan Safran Foer, 1977 -
 William Boyle, 1978 -
 Lauren Groff, 1978 -
 Nickolas Butler, 1979 -
 Carson Cistulli, 1979 -
 Ben Lerner, 1979 -
 Benjamin Percy, 1979 -

1980 
 Genese Davis, 1984-

1990 
 Fabrice Guerrier, 1991-

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