List of University of Michigan Arts Alumni - Fiction/non-fiction

Fiction/non-fiction

• Megan Abbott (B.A.) is a US author of crime fiction and of a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction. She won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2008 for Queenpin
• Saladin Ahmed, science fiction and fantasy author, poet.
• Philip Breitmeyer, (AB 1947), wrote Lightening Ridge! Further Adventures of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
• Juliet Winters Carpenter, (BA, MA (1976)), Award Winning Translator of Japanese, Numerous Books
• Meg Waite Clayton (LAW: JD) Clayton's first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a national bestseller and a book club favorite.
• James Oliver "Jim" Curwood (MDNG: 1899-1900) (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist.
• Underwood Dudley, (PhD 1965), is a native of New York City. Is known for his popular writing about crank mathematics.
• Elizabeth Ehrlich, wrote Miriam's Kitchen.
• Steve Hamilton, (AB 1983), wrote Blood is the Sky, an Alex McKnight mystery set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. His 1999 novel A Cold Day in Paradise won an Edgar Award. His 2010 novel The Lock Artist won him a second Edgar Award, this time for Best Novel. With this second win, Hamilton joins only 4 other authors who have won the award twice.
• Raelynn Hillhouse (HHRS: MA, PHD 1993): writes spy novelist and is also a noted national security expert and blogger (The Spy Who Billed Me), and political scientist.
• Kathryn Lasky, (BA 1966), acclaimed children's author and non-fiction writer.
• Ross Macdonald, (MA 1942, PhD 1952), wrote the Lew Archer Mystery Series.
• Brad Meltzer, (AB 1992), has written The Zero Game, The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel and The Millionaires.
• Walter Miller, (MA 1844), was a Classics scholar and the first to translate the Ilad into English in the native dactylic hexameter.
• Sara Moulton (B.A. 1974)is the author of "Sara Moulton Cooks at Home," "Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals," and "Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners."
• Nami Mun (MFA) is a Korean American novelist and short story writer.
• Davi Napoleon, (AB 1966, AM 1968), wrote Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater.
• Elwood Reid is an American novelist and short-story writer.
• Preeta Samarasan (MFA 2006), wrote Evening is the Whole Day.
• Hubert Skidmore, Mr. Skidmore had written six novels by the time he was 30, including Hawk's Nest, about an industrial accident in West Virginia. Married to Maritta Wolff.
• Robert Traver, (JD 1928), pen name for John D. Voelker, wrote Anatomy of a Murder.
• David Treuer (Ph.D. 1999) (born 1970) is an American writer.
• Maritta Wolff (B.A. 1940) Author of Whistle Stop, called by Sinclair Lewis "the most important novel of the year." Ms. Wolff also authored: About Lyddy Thomas (1947), Back of Town (1952), The Big Nickelodeon (1956) and Buttonwood (1962).
• Sarah Zettel (BA) is an American science fiction, fantasy and mystery author.