List of LGBT Jews - Writers

Writers

• Leroy F. Aarons, journalist/editor/author/playwright and activist founder of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA).
• Jon Robin Baitz, playwright and screenwriter
• Steve Berman, speculative fiction writer
• Jane Bowles, novelist and playwright
• Alfred Chester, novelist
• Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media (Jewish mother)
• György Faludy, poet
• Edward Field, poet
• Anne Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
• Sanford Friedman, novelist
• Allen Ginsberg, US Beat generation poet
• Richard Greenberg, playwright
• Jacob Israël de Haan, poet
• Marilyn Hacker, poet
• Aaron Hamburger, novelist
• Max Jacob, poet
• Chester Kallman, poet and librettist
• Arthur Laurents, playwright, screenwriter and librettist.
• David Leavitt, novelist and short-story writer
• Leo Lerman, writer/editor
• Michael Lowenthal, novelist
• Herbert Muschamp (1947–2007), New York Times architecture critic
• Harold Norse, poet
• Marcel Proust, novelist (Jewish mother)
• David Rakoff, essayist
• Lev Raphael, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, reviewer
• Paul Rudnick, playwright, screenwriter and columnist
• Umberto Saba, poet and novelist
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet (Jewish father)
• Martin Sherman, playwright
• Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
• Gertrude Stein, writer
• Julian Stryjkowski, novelist