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
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