Top 11 Best American Writers

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[shamseshomali]

Hallo and thank you very much . I am From Iran and one of my childhood hobbies in ( 1960) bwas reading books by American authors like Hemingway and Mark Twain or Herman Melville , that had been translated into Persian.I have always enjoyed American and British literature and later French literature .I will never forget these American authors and books.

[IndianOutlaw]

Putting Toni Morrison above Twain and Hemingway discredits the entire video. The same with Fitzgerald. My God.

[rickwilson]

It's interesting that Harper Lee with one novel gets on this list and you have totally ignored Willa Cather, Edith Wharton and Eudora Welty, all of whom have a wide and varied list of works.

[r.s.]

+ Poe, Roth, Whitman & Frost

Amazing list!

[ednorton]

James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne?

[danwilliams]

Well, I sure agree with #1. Cannery Row is my favorite. Steinbeck's sense of humor is so satisfying. And Cup of Gold might go down as the greatest debut novel of all time. Such a shame so few today have read it. The effect in the denouement is unparalleled.

[rabeefarkhondeh]

I do admire your job. Best regards from Iran

[acajudi]

James Balwin. Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Hermann Hesse, Studs Terkel.

[Redbaron_sites]

Oh please, ranking? All of these writers were of value and you are to call one a quarter and the other a dime? Spare what little intelligence I've left❤!

[WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Flannery O' Connor Cormac McCarthy James Baldwin Octavia Butler Alice Walker

[flipindisticalpictures]

Harper Lee does not belong so high, certainly not higher than Herman Melville. The fact that she didn't write anything through all the years of her life should really count against her because it indicates that she really wasn't a truly dedicated writer and surely if you're going to be considered great you have to do a little more than To Kill Mockingbird. Anyway, there are many better than Harper Lee, but then again To Kill a Mockingbird is the only book some people will have read but Flannery O'Connor she wasn't. The rest of the list is pretty good. A lot of the books you mentioned in your piece are books that were required reading on many a syllabus across the country from high school up to college and beyond. Not sure many would have read To Kill a Mockingbird or The Catcher in the Rye otherwise. Anyways, here goes the proper 11 in no Herman Melville 2. Mark Twain 3. Flannery O'Connor. 4. Ernest Hemingway. 5. Richard Yates 6. William Faulkner 7. Eugene O'Neill. 8. Emily Dickinson 9. John Steinbeck 10. Cormac McCarthy 11. Raymond Carver

[nasrinvahidi]

What about Jack London, the best ever?!

[arvindradhakrishnan]

What about Don Delillo, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Robert Frost, Eugene O'Neil?So many great writers have been excluded here.Also, Steinbeck as No.1..gosh!!!

[worldobserver]

The fact that J.D. Salinger is on this list invalidates it, and then you put Toni Morrison ahead of Ernest Hemingway? Ridiculous.

[Sherlika_Gregori]

I don’t see Henry James as an ‘American’ writer. He was always a worldly writer.

[wistariawhispers]

Both Mark Twain and Harper Lee are now banned books in schools. It's really sad.

[christopherreynolds]

Steinbeck was, as Faulkner pointed out, was a journalist and nothing more. Of course, one list is as subjective and biased as another. Best not to take it too seriously

[mr.t]

Be sure to read some Thomas C Stuhr, THE WORLD'S MOST UNDERGROUND AUTHOR. 💞💀☠❤

[joestolzenberger]

Looking for authors that write books in the 1700-1800 in America. Ideas no of any. I can't get answers from the internet

[walkabout]

In the land where quills meet the page's embrace,
Reside the words that time cannot erase.
Eleven writers, with their pens alight,
Illuminate the world with literary might.

Atop the list, the bard from old,
Whose timeless verses oft unfold,
Shakespeare, though not American born,
His influence here is still adorn.

Hemingway, terse and bold,
With stories of men brave and cold.
Faulkner, weaving tales profound,
In Southern echoes, his stories resound.

The reclusive Salinger, catcher in the rye,
Captured youth in his novel's sigh.
Morrison's prose, a rich terrain,
Layered with history's joy and pain.

Dickinson, in her seclusion, wrote,
Poems that in simplicity denote.
Frost, with words as crisp as snow,
Crafted verses that eternally glow.

Twain, in wit and humor's grace,
Gave life to characters in every place.
Baldwin's voice, profound and clear,
Spoke of race and love, a pioneer.

Atwood, a voice both fierce and wise,
Unveils truths beneath her guise.
Angelou's spirit, unbound and free,
Her verses sing of resilience and glee.

Eleven voices, each a gem,
Their words a cultural diadem.
American writers, a treasure trove,
Their legacies, an endless cove.