Jewish American Authors
- Aimee Bender — novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters
- Saul Bellow, novelist that won the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts
- Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer
- E.L. Doctorow, novelist
- Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction
- Barthold Fles, literary agent and non-fiction writer
- Emma Goldman, anarchist writer
- Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
- Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist
- Irving Howe, literary critic
- Roger Kahn. "The Boys of Summer" 1972
- Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird
- Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist
- Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
- Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize
- Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works
- Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama
- Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist
- Jodi Picoult, novelist
- Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism
- Lea Bayers Rapp, non-fiction and children's fiction writer
- Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity
- Norman Rosten, novelist
- J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
- Gary Shteyngart (born 1972) Russian-born writer
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize
- George Steiner (born 1929) literary critic
- Daniel Stern, novelist
- Leopold Tyrmand, writer
- Judith Viorst (born 1932) author, known for her children's literature
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books
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