Worst Movies Made by Great Actors

This is my list of the top three movies I wish these actors never signed on to do.


KEVIN BACON:

The Air Up There
Pyrates
Quicksilver


KATHY BATES:

Diabolique
Primary Colors
Waterboy


JEFF BRIDGES:

The Men Who Stare at Goats
TRON
TRON: Legacy


SANDRA BULLOCK:

In Love and War
Premonition
Speed 2: Cruise Control


STEVE BUSCEMI:

Airheads
Barton Fink
Trees Lounge


MICHAEL CAINE:

Austin Powers in Goldmember
Bewitched
Jaws: The Revenge


HELENA BONHAM CARTER:

Dark Shadows
The Lone Ranger
Terminator Salvation


MATT DAMON:

Chasing Amy
Dogma
The Informant!


JEFF DANIELS:

My Favorite Martian
Trial and Error
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael


GEENA DAVIS:

Earth Girls Are Easy
Cutthroat Island
Stuart Little 3


JUDI DENCH:

Chocolat
J. Edgar
Shakespeare in Love


ROBERT DE NIRO:

The Big Wedding
Hide and Seek
What Just Happened?


JOHNNY DEPP:

Nick of Time
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Secret Window


LEONARDO DICAPRIO:

Critters 3
J. Edgar
Total Eclipse


MICHAEL DOUGLAS:

And So It Goes
It Runs in the Family
You, Me and Dupree


ROBERT DOWNEY JR.:

Bowfinger
In Dreams
Gothika


ROBERT DUVALL:

The Apostle
Colors
Deep Impact


SALLY FIELD:

Absence of Malice
Punchline
Surrender


HARRISON FORD:

Blade Runner
Hollywood Homicide
What Lies Beneath


MORGAN FREEMAN:

Deep Impact
Dreamcatcher
Evan Almighty


JOHN GOODMAN:

Barton Fink
Red State
What Planet are You From?


HUGH GRANT:

Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Mickey Blue Eyes
Night Train to Venice


TOM HANKS:

Bachelor Party
Dragnet
Punchline


WOODY HARRELSON:

Defendor
Semi-Pro
2012


DUSTIN HOFFMAN:

I Heart Huckabees
Ishtar
Little Fockers


PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN:

The Master
Punch-Drunk Love
Strangers With Candy


ANTHONY HOPKINS:

Hannibal
Hearts in Atlantis
Meet Joe Black


ANJELICA HUSTON:

The Crossing Guard
The Dead
The Grifters


SAMUEL L. JACKSON:

1408
Snakes on a Plane
XXX


TOMMY LEE JONES:

Hope Springs
A Prairie Home Companion
Volcano


DIANE KEATON:

And So It Goes
The Big Wedding
Hanging Up


MICHAEL KEATON:

Desperate Measures
The Dream Team
Jack Frost


NICOLE KIDMAN:

Bewitched
The Paperboy
The Stepford Wives


BEN KINGSLEY:

The Dictator
The Love Guru
The Prince of Persia


SHIRLEY MACLAINE:

Bewitched
Bruno
Mrs. Winterbourne


WILLIAM H. MACY:

Jurassic Park III
Mystery Men
Wild Hogs


JOHN MALKOVICH:

Being John Malkovich
Mary Reilly
Shadow of the Vampire


STEVE MARTIN:

Bowfinger
Little Shop of Horrors
The Out-of-Towners


FRANCES MCDORMAND:

Aeon Flux
Laurel Canyon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon


HELEN MIRREN:

Phil Spector
Raising Helen
Teaching Mrs. Tingle


BILL MURRAY:

Garfield 2
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Wild Things


LIAM NEESON:

The A Team
Battleship
The Haunting


JACK NICHOLSON:

Anger Management
The Crossing Guard
How Do You Know


EDWARD NORTON:

Death to Smoochy
The Incredible Hulk
Keeping the Faith


AL PACINO:

Gigli
Glengarry Glen Ross
Jack and Jill


SEAN PENN:

She's So Lovely
Tree of Life
The Weight of Water


JOAQUIN PHOENIX:

Clay Pigeons
8 MM
The Master


BRAD PITT:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Meet Joe Black
Tree of Life


TIM ROBBINS:

Howard the Duck
Jungle Fever
War of the Worlds


SAM ROCKWELL:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Cowboys and Aliens
The Sitter


MARK RUFFALO:

In the Cut
Just Like Heaven
Rumor Has It


GEOFFREY RUSH:

Mystery Men
$9.99
Pirates of the Caribbean 3


SUSAN SARADON:

The Banger Sister
The Big Wedding
Jeff, Who Lives at Home


CHLOE SEVIGNY:

The Brown Bunny
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Sisters


GARY SINESE:

The Big Bounce
Bruno
Reindeer Games


SISSY SPACEK:

Affliction
Blast From the Past
If These Walls Could Talk


KEVIN SPACEY:

Glengarry Glen Ross
The Men Who Stared at Goats
The Ref


MERYL STREEP:

Hope Strings
A Prairie Home Companion
The Series of Unfortunate Events


DONALD SUTHERLAND:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Don't Look Now
The Puppet Masters


HILARY SWANK:

The Black Dahlia
The Core
New Year's Eve


EMMA THOMPSON:

Last Chance Harvey
Men in Black 3
Primary Colors


BILLY BOB THORNTON:

The Apostle
Armageddon
Primary Colors


MARISA TOMEI:

Anger Management
Cyrus
Wild Hogs


CHRISTOPHER WALKEN:

Balls of Fury
Excess Baggage
Gigli


DENZEL WASHINGTON:

Deja Vu
Out of Time
Unstoppable


SIGOURNEY WEAVER:

Ghostbuster 2
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
You Again


ROBIN WILLIAMS:

The Big Wedding
Death to Smoochy
Popeye

KATE WINSLET:

Carnage
Little Children
Movie 43


JAMES WOODS:

Contact
The Specialist
Videodrome

The Best and Worst Writers

THE BEST:

Louisa May Alcott 
Sherman Alexie
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Pearl S. Buck
Charles Bukowski 
Truman Capote
Stephen Chbosky (based on his one book) 
Beverly Cleary 
Paulo Coelho
Barbara Park 
Roald Dahl
Janice Deaner (based on her one book) 
Charles Dickens
Roddy Doyle
Louise Erdrich
Jeffery Eugenides
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Safon Foer
Kaye Gibbons
Arthur Golden (based on his one book) 
Pete Hamill
Ernest Hemingway 
Khaled Hosseini 
Mary Karr
Daniel Keyes
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wally Lamb
Harper Lee (based on her one book) 
Lois Lowry
Adeline Yen Mah
W. Somerset Maugham
Frank McCourt
Carson McCullers
Larry McMurtry
Margaret Mitchell
J.R. Moehringer
Walter Dean Myers
Mei Ng (based on her one book) 
Edna O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
Stewart O'Nan 
Julia Otsuka
Chaim Potok
Ayn Rand
Wilson Rawls 
Cynthia Rylant
J.D. Salinger (based on his one novel) 
Shel Silverstein 
Betty Smith
John Steinbeck
 Kathryn Stockett (based on her one novel) 
Amy Tan
Gail Tsukiyama
Jeanette Walls
Elie Wiesel
Richard Wright
Carlos Ruiz Zafon


THE WORST:

Edward Albee 
Richard Bach
Richard Brautigan
Ray Bradbury
Candice Bushnell
Albert Camus
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Fenimore Cooper
Catherine Coulter
Emily Dickinson
Sarah Dunant
Lois Duncan
Kim Edwards
William Faulkner
Gillian Flynn
Robert Fulghum
Edith Hamilton
Hermann Hesse
E.L. James 
Sophie Kinsella
Lurlene McDaniel (the Danielle Steel of young-adult novels) 
Ian McEwan
George Orwell
Tom Perrotta
Jodie Picoult
Nora Roberts
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris
Shakespeare
Nicholas Sparks 
Danielle Steel
Cecily von Ziegesar (the Candice Bushnell of YA novels) 
Tennessee Williams

The Best and Worst Made for TV Movies or Mini-Series

This is a list of the Best and Worst Made for TV (or streaming) Movies or Mini-Series:

(this list also includes streaming networks) 

THE BEST:

All Quiet on the Western Front (CBS: 1979)
An American Christmas Carol (ABC: 1979)
Anne of Green Gables (PBS: 1985)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (HBO: 1983)
Behind the Candelabra (HBO: 2013)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (CBS: 1965)

Chernobyl (HBO: 2019)
A Christmas Carol (CBS:1984)
A Christmas Carol (FX: 2019)
Christmas Eve (NBC: 1986)
A Christmas Memory (ABC: 1966)
Christmas on Division Street (CBS: 1991)
The Christmas Tree (ABC: 1996)

Dahmer (Netflix: 2022) 

Dr. Cook's Garden (ABC: 1971)
Door to Door (TNT: 2002)

Ebbie (LIFETIME: 1995)

11.22.63 (HULU: 2016) 

Ellis Island (CBS: 1984)
Escape at Dannemora (SHOWTIME: 2018)
Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (NBC: 1993)

Fosse/Verdon (FX: 2019)
A Garfield Christmas (CBS: 1987)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (CBS: 1985)
Gia (HBO: 1998)
Grey Gardens (HBO: 2009)
The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix: 2018)
Here Comes Santa Claus (CBC Canada: 1984)
A Hobo's Christmas (CBS: 1987)
Homecoming: A Christmas Story (CBS: 1971)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (CBS: 1966)

I Know This Much is True (HBO: 2020) 
Iron Jawed Angels (HBO: 2004)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (CBS: 1966)
James Dean (TNT: 2001)
Joan of Arc (CBS:1999)
Katie and Eilish: Siamese Twins (ITV, U.K. 1992, Discovery Channel U.S. 1993)

The Laramie Project (HBO: 2002)

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (ABC: 1975) 
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (ABC: 2001)
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (NBC: 1979)
Manhunt: Unabomber (Discovery/Netflix: 2017)
Making a Murderer (Netflix: 2015)

Midnight Mass (Netflix: 2021)

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Netflix: 2021)

One Special Night (CBS: 1999) 
The Peanut Butter Solution (CBC Canada: 1985)

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (CBS: 1975)
RKO 281 (HBO: 1999)
Rich Little's Christmas Carol (CBC Canada: 1978)
The Ryan White Story (ABC: 1989)
The 60s (NBC: 1999)
That Guy...Who Was In That Thing (SHOWTIME: 2012)

Scream, Pretty Peggy (ABC: 1973)

The Screaming Woman (ABC: 1972)
See Jane Run (ABC: 1995)
Stephen King's It (ABC: 1990)

The Stand (CBS/Paramount: 2020) 
Stone Pillow (CBS: 1985)

The Story Lady (NBC: 1991) 
Stubby Pringle's Christmas (Hallmark Hall of Fame: 1978)
Sybil (NBC:1976)

Tell Me Where It Hurts (CBS: 1974) 
Tuesdays with Morrie (ABC: 1999)

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (NBC: 1987) 

Vanishing Act (CBS: 1986) 

When the Leevees Broke (HBO: 2006)
Wild Wild Country (Netflix: 2018)
Wit (HBO: 2001)
You Don't Know Jack (HBO: 2010)


THE WORST:

The Amy Fisher Story (ABC: 1993)
Babes in Toyland (NBC: 1986)

Black and Blue (CBS: 1999)

Carol for Another Christmas (ABC: 1964) 
Chasing Christmas (ABC Family: 2005)
A Christmas Carol: the Musical (NBC: 2004)
Christmas Do-Over (ABC Family: 2006) 

Christmas Mail (ION: 2011) 
Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (NBC: 2003)
Cinderella (CBS: 1965)
The Day After (ABC: 1983)

Deadly Lessons (ABC:1983)

The Demon Murder Case (NBC:1983) 
Desperation (ABC: 2006)
The Girl (HBO: 2012)
Gypsy (CBS: 1993)
Home For the Holidays (ABC: 1972)
If These Walls Could Talk (HBO: 1996)

Isn't It Shocking? (ABC: 1973) 
It Happened One Christmas (ABC: 1977)
Killing Mr. Griffin (NBC: 1997)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NBC: 1980) 
Lethal Lolita: Amy Fisher, My Story (NBC: 1992)
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (Lifetime: 2014)
Lonesome Dove (CBS: 1989)

Maniac (Netflix: 2018) 
Miracle on 34th Street (CBS: 1973)
National Lampoon's Family Reunion (TBS: 2003)

The Night They Saved Christmas (ABC: 1984) 

Nightmare in Columbia County (CBS: 1991) 
Not Quite Human (ABC: 1987)
Ocean of Fear (Discovery: 2007)
Peter Pan (NBC: 1960)
Phil Spector (HBO: 2013)
Roseanne (FOX: 1994)
The Stand (ABC: 1994)
The Shining (ABC: 1997)
Snow White: a Tale of Terror (SHOWTIME: 1997)

Something Evil (CBS: 1972) 

Sometimes They Come Back (CBS: 1991) 
Super Shark (SCI-FI: 2011)

A Taste of Evil (ABC: 1971) 
The Watcher in the Woods (Lifetime: 2017)

The Best Biographical Books and Movies

BOOKS:

All About Me! by Mel Brooks 

All My Patients Are Under the Bed by Dr. Louis J. Camuti
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Augusta, Gone by Martha Tod Dudman
Ava's Man by Rick Bragg 
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Boy by Roald Dahl

By Myself by Lauren Bacall 

Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer 
The Color of Water by James McBride
Couldn't Keep it to Myself by Wally Lamb
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Dewey by Vicki Myron
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Don't Sing at the Table by Adriana Trigiani 
Down Came the Rain by Brooke Shields 
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
The End go Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Falling Leaves by Yen Mah
A Father's Story by Lionel Dahmer

A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary 
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman 
Growing Up by Russel Baker

Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg

Having Our Say by The Delany Sisters 

A Hell of a Life by Maureen Stapleton 
Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Home is Burning by Dan Marshall 
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I'll Fly Away by Wally Lamb
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

 In the Frame by Helen Mirren 

In Such Good Company by Carol Burnett
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Just Kids by Patti Smith

The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans 
Kiss Me Like a Stranger by Gene Wilder

Lessons on Becoming Myself  by Ellen Burstyn 

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson 
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson 
Limbo by A. Manette Ansay
Lizzie Borden by Edward D. Radin
Look Up for Yes by Julia Tavalaro
A Loss of Words by Lou Ann Walker
A Lotus Grows in the Mud by Goldie Hawn
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Manhattan Country Doctor by Dr. Milton Jonathan Slocum
Margaret Sanger by Elyse Topalian
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Mascot by Mark Kurzem 
Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
ME by Katharine Hepburn
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Mom's Cancer by Brian Fries

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 

The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me by Lillian Gish 
 My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully

My Extraordinary Life by Sissy Spacek 
My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
Name Drop by Ross Mathews
Night by Elie Wiesel
Official Book Club Selection by Kathy Griffin

On Writing by Stephen King 

Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman 
One Child by Torey Hayden

One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty 
Persepolis 1 and 2 by Marjane Satrapi

The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg 
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
Seven Stories of Christmas Love by Leo Buscaglia
She Always Knew How: Mae West by Charlotte Chandler
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry
Stop-Time by Frank Conroy
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Sunshine and Shadow by Mary Pickford 
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

They Went That-A-Way by Malcolm Forbes 
This 'N That by Bette Davis

This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay 
The Times We Had by Marion Davies
Then Again by Diane Keaton
'Tis by Frank McCourt
Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Gildiner
Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi 
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 
The Undertaker's Daughter by Kate Mayfield
Watch Me by Anjelica Huston 
When the Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance 

Name Drop by Ross Mathews 
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Sissy Spacek 


MOVIES:

Alive
All That Jazz
All the Money in the World
Amadeus
Amistad
Apollo 13
The Aviator
Awakenings
The Basketball Diaries
A Beautiful Mind
Beyond the Sea
Blow
Bohemian Rhapsody
Braveheart
Bukowski: Born Into This
Burke and Hare
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Capote
Captain Phillips
Catch Me if You Can
Chaplin 
Citizen Kane 
Conviction 
Dallas Buyers Club 
De Palma

The Dig
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Donnie Brasco 
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story 
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
The Elephant Man 

Elvis (2022)
Elizabeth 
Escape From Alcatraz 

The Fabelmans
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 
First Man 
Frida 
Gandhi 
Ghosts of Mississippi 
Gia 
Girl, Interrupted 
The Glenn Miller Story 

The Good Nurse
Goodfellas 
Gorillas in the Mist 
Green Book
Grey Gardens 
Heavenly Creatures 
Hoffa 
Hotel Rwanda 
I Knew it Was You 
I, Tonya
In the Name of the Father 
In the Valley of Elah 
The Irishman 
JFK 
Joan of Arc (1999)
Joan Rivers: Piece of Work 
The King's Speech 
La Bamba 
La Vie en Rose 
The Laramie Project 
Lee Daniels' The Butler 
Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows 
Man on the Moon 
The Man Who Invented Christmas

McQueen 
Midnight Express 
Milk 
Monster
The Most Hated Woman In America 
Munich 
My Left Foot 
Ned Kelly 
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Not Without My Daughter 
Patton
The Pianist 
Pollock 
The Queen 
Ray 
Rocketman
Roma
Rudy 
The Ryan White Story
Salinger
Saving Mr. Banks 
Schindler's List 
Seabiscuit
Secretariat 
Selena
Shine 
The Sound of Music 
Steel Magnolias 
Sybil 
That Guy...Who Was In That Thing 
This Boy's Life 
Tuesdays with Morrie 
12 Years a Slave

The Two Popes
The Untouchables 

Val
Walk the Line 
What's Love Got to Do With It? 
Won't You Be My Neighbor? 
Woody Allen: a Documentary
You Don't Know Jack 
Zodiac 


SEMI-BIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Ask the Dust by John Fante

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke 
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll 
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Lemon Jelly Cake  by Madeline Babcot Smith
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne 
Women by Charles Bukowski
The Young Wan by Brendan O'Carroll

updated 11/2023

All choices are based solely on the books and movies I have read or seen.  

What American State an Author was Born in

Alabama:

Ace Atkins
Rick Bragg
Libba Bray
Ralph Compton
Zelda Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Anne George
Gail Godwin
Linda Howard
Zora Neale Hurston
Helen Keller
Harper Lee
Sena Jeter Naslund
Walker Percy
Gin Phillips
Tobias Wolff


Alaska:

Lucia Berlin
Stan Jones
Dana Stabenow


Arizona:

Nancy Farmer
Diana Gabaldon
Steven Gould
Bentley Little
Jeanette Walls


Arkansas:

John Grisham
Laurell K. Hamilton
Mercer Meyer
Charles Portis


California:

Stephen J. Cannell
Raymond Chandler
Andre Dubus III
Gretel Ehrlich
Bret Easton Ellis
James Ellroy
John Fante
Janet Fitch
Dian Fossey
Don Freeman
Robert Frost
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Daniel Handler
Shirley Jackson
Maxine Hong Kingston
Suzy Kline
Anne Lamott
Arnold Lobel
Jack London
Steve Martini
Walter Mosley
Joan Lowery Nixon
Frank Norris
Scott O'Dell
Julie Otsuka
Ann Patchett
Richard North Patterson
William Saroyan
John Saul
Jane Smiley
John Steinbeck
Irving Stone
Amy Tan
Gail Tsukiyama
Harry Turtledove


Colorado:

Eleanor Estes
Kent Haruf
Ken Kesey
Gladys Taber
Dalton Trumbo


Connecticut:

Candace Bushnell
Suzanne Collins 
Caroline B. Cooney
Tomie de Paola
Dominick Dunne
Elizabeth Gilbert 
Steven Kellogg
Dave King 
Elizabeth Kostova
Wally Lamb
Jay McInerney
Stephenie Meyer 
Emily Cheney Neville
E. Annie Proulx
George Selden
Louise Shaffer
Harriet Beecher Stowe


Delaware:

Elizabeth Humphreys Penrose
Lisa Ann Sandell


Florida:

Patricia Cornwell
J.T. Ellison
Patricia Gaffney
Heather Graham
Robert Hicks
Carl Hiaasen
Brenda Jackson
Karen Russell


Georgia:

Olive Ann Burns
Jimmy Carter
Pat Conroy
James Dickey
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sue Monk Kidd
Martin Luther King Jr.
Laura Lippman
Frances Mayes
Carson McCullers
Margaret Mitchell
 Flannery O'Connor
Diana Palmer
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Anne River Siddons
Alice Walker
Stuart Woods


Hawaii:

Lois Lowry
Ian MacMillian
Barack Obama


Idaho:

Carol Ryrie Brink
Chandler Brossard
Ezra Pound
Marilynne Robinson
Beatrice Sparks


Illinois:

Stephen Ambrose
Jean Auel
Richard Bach
Ray Bradbury
Terry Brooks
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sandra Cisneros
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Sarah Dessen
Jennifer Egan
Jim Fergus
Jonathan Franzen
Betty Friedan
Kinky Friedman
William Goldman
Johnny Gruelle
John Gunther
John Jakes
Lorraine Hansberry
Ernest Hemingway
Irene Hunt
Mercedes Lackey
Sue Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Z.Z. Packer
Richard Peck
Richard Powers
Sidney Sheldon
Shel Silverstein
Brad Thor
Scott Turow


Indiana:

Norman Bridwell
Meg Cabot
Kate Collins
Theodore Dreiser
Karen Joy Fowler
John Green
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Ward Just
Haven Kimmel
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Booth Tarkington
Maurice Thompson
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jessamyn West


Iowa:

Bill Bryson
Eugene Burdick
David Drake
Tami Hoag
Norman Maclean
Vicki Myron
Sara Paretsky
John Sandford
Wallace Stegner
Robert James Waller


Kansas:

Jill Churchill
Kenneth S. Davis
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Jim Lehrer
Bill Martin Jr.
Scott Phillips


Kentucky:

Jude Deveraux
Michael Dorris
Sue Grafton
Suzan-Lori Parks
Hunter S. Thompson
Robert Penn Warren


Louisiana:

Dee Brown
Truman Capote
Robert Crais
Andre Dubus
Ernest J. Gaines
Elmore Leonard
Patricia Maxwell
Anne Rice
John Kennedy Toole
Jennifer Weiner
Rebecca Wells


Maine:

Joe Hill
Stephen King
Tabitha King
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Elizabeth Strout


Maryland:

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Tom Clancy
Emily Giffin
Dashiell Hammett
Karen Hesse
Barbara Kingsolver
Robin Koontz
Munro Leaf
Sharon Lee
Frank Miller
Emily Post
Nora Roberts
Upton Sinclair
Neal Stephenson
Leon Uris
Robert Ward


Massachusetts:

Russell Banks 
John Bartlett
Virginia Lee Burton
John Cheever
Pearl Cleage
Robert Cormier 
E.E. Cummings
Barbara Delinsky
Jared Diamond
Emily Dickinson
W.E.B. DuBois
Dave Eggers
Esther Forbes
Benjamin Franklin
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Julia Glass
Noah Gordon
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sebastian Junger
 Jack Kerouac
Jon Krakauer
Dennis Lehane
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eugene O'Neil
Michael Palmer
Robert B. Parker
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
R.A. Salvatore
Richard Scarry 
Anne Sexton
Beverly Swerling
 Henry David Thoreau
Cynthia Voigt 


Michigan:

A. Manette Ansay 
K.A. Applegate 
Marguerite de Angeli 
Pete Dexter 
Jeffrey Eugenides
Donald Goines
John Grogan 
Judith Guest 
E. Lynn Harris
Jim Harrison
Tim LaHaye
Terry McMillian
Audrey Niffenegger
Marisha Pessl
Patricia Polacco
Ann Rule
Jon Scieszka 
Chris Van Allsburg


Minnesota:

Charles Baxter
Elizabeth Berg
Leif Enger
Louise Erdrich
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Joanne Fluke
Thomas L. Friedman
Wanda Gag
Garrison Keillor
Chuck Klosterman 
Sinclair Lewis 
Tim O'Brien
Gary Paulsen
Robert Pirsig 
Peggy Rathmann
Anne Tyler 


Mississippi

Jimmy Buffet
William Faulker
Shelby Foote
Richard Ford
Ellen Gilchrist
Charlaine Harris
Melinda Haynes
Kathryn Stockett
Donna Tartt
Mildred Taylor
Eudora Welty
Tennesee Williams
Richard Wright


Missouri:

Maya Angelou
Sylvia Browne 
William S. Burroughs
Jim Butcher 
Dale Carnegie 
Kate Chopin 
T.S. Eliot
Gillian Flynn 
Julie Garwood 
Robert Heinlein 
Langston Hughes
Stephen Hunter 
Paulette Jiles 
Faye Kellerman 
John Lutz
Katherine Neville
Kay Thompson
Calvin Trillin
Margaret Truman
Lisa Tucker 
Mark Twain
Margaret Weis 


Montana:

Ivan Doig
Barbara Ehrenreich 
Torey Hayden
Thomas Savage 


Nebraska:

Harold Thayer Davis 
Kenneth C. Flint 
Ron Hansen 
L. Ron Hubbard 
Alex Kava 
Daniel Quinn
Nicholas Sparks
Jack Todd 


Nevada:

Leigh Bale Nevada Barr 
Deborah Coonts 
Jennifer Lauck
Willy Vlautin 


New Hampshire:

Dan Brown
John Irving
Carolyn Parkhurst
Eleanor H. Porter
Armstrong Sperry


New Jersey:

Mitch Albom
Frank Asch
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Judy Blume
Sandra Boynton
Alan Brennert
Iris Chang
Andrew Clements
Harlan Coben
Joanna Cole
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
 Paula Danziger
Anita Diamant
Janet Evanovich
Allen Ginsberg
Donna Leon
Norman Mailer
Megan McCafferty
Barbara Park
 Dorothy Parker
Philip Roth
Michael Shaara
Martha Stewart
Judith Viorst


New Mexico:

Rudolfo Anaya
Louis Bayard
Alisa Valdes


New York:

David A. Adler
Julia Alvarez
Laurie Halse Anderson
Avi
L. Frank Baum
Peter Benchley
John Berendt
William Peter Blatty
Chris Bohjalian
T.C. Boyle
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Margaret Wise Brown
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Eric Carle
Caleb Carr
Francis Pharcellus Church
Mary Higgins Clark
Billy Collins
Bruce Coville
Mark Z. Danielewski
Don Delillo
Nelson Demille
Alan Dershowitz
E.L. Doctorow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Linda Fairstein
Walter Farley
Paula Fox
Alan Furst
Patricia Reilly Giff
Phoebe Gilman
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Joseph Heller
Mark Helprin
Syd Hoff
Alice Hoffman
Washington Irving
Susan Isaacs
Rona Jaffe
Henry James
Erica Jong
Ezra Jack Keats
Jonathan Kellerman
Daniel Keyes
E.L. Konigsburg
Madeleine L'Engle
Erik Larson
Jonathan Lethem
Elizabeth Levy
Robert Lipsyte
Robert Ludlum
Gregory Maguire
Bernard Malamud
Ed McBain
Herman Melville
Daniel Mendelsohn
Arthur Miller
Henry Miller
J.R. Moehringer
Walter Dean Myers
Joyce Carol Oates
Cynthia Ozick
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Jodi Picoult
Belva Plain
Chaim Potok
Jack Prelutsky
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Ruth Reichl
Ann Rinaldi
Harold Robbins
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
Lawrence Sanders
Alvin Schwartz
David Sedaris
Hubert Selby Jr.
Maurice Sendak
Dani Shapiro
Neil Simon
Betty Smith
Robert Kimmel Smith
Susan Sontag
Mickey Spillane
Todd Strasser
 Gore Vidal
Ned Vizzini
Rosemary Wells
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Eloise Wilkin
Meg Wolitzer
Jane Yolen
Paul Zindel


North Carolina:

Michael Blake
Betsy Byars
Amanda Davis
Bessie Delany
Charles Frazier
Allan Gurganus
Kaye Gibbons
O. Henry
Tom Robbins
Lionel Shriver
Theodore Taylor
Thomas Wolfe


North Dakota:

Louis L'Amour
Larry Watson 


Ohio:

Sherwood Anderson
Robert Atkins
Katherine Ayres
Natalie Babbitt
Ambrose Bierce
Erma Bombeck
Louis Bromfield
Sharon Creech
Jennifer Cruise
Michael Cunningham
Anthony Doerr
Elizabeth George
Zane Grey
Cathy Guisewite
Margaret Peterson Haddix
 Robert McCloskey
Martha Moody
Christopher Moore
Toni Morrison
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Dav Pilkey
James Purdy
Barbara Robinson
Terry Ryan
Gloria Steinem
R.L. Stine
William Strunk Jr.
James Thurber


Oklahoma:

William Bernhardt
John Berryman
Ralph Ellison
Carolyn Hart
Tony Hillerman
 S.E. Hinton
Billie Letts
Mary Pope Osborne
Wilson Rawls
Lane Smith
Sarah Vowell
Karen White


Oregon:

Beverly Cleary
Lisa Gardner
Graham Salisbury
John Varley


Pennsylvania:

Louisa May Alcott
Lloyd Alexander
Melissa Bank
Jan Berenstain
Marc Brown
Augusten Burroughs
Bebe Moore Campbell
Stephen Chbosky
Matt Christopher
Michael Connelly
Kate DiCamillo
Annie Dillard
Lois Duncan
Jack Gantos
Martha Grimes
Jennifer Haigh
Russell Hoban
Dean Koontz
Ann M. Martin
David McCullough
Fern Michaels
James Michener
Robert Munsch
Stewart O'Nan
Anna Quindlen
 Conrad Richter
Lisa Scottoline
Martin Cruz Smith
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
Jacqueline Susann
John Updike
Lauren Weisberger
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Marianne Wiggins


Rhode Island:

Spalding Gray
John Hawkes
David Kessler
 H.P. Lovecraft
Cormac McCarthy
Ron McLarty


South Carolina:

Dorothy Allison
Alice Childress
William Gibson
Robert Jordan
Peggy Parish
Barbara Parker


South Dakota:

J.A. Jance
Spencer Johnson
Watson Parker


Tennessee:

James Agee
Eric Jerome Dickey
Louise Fitzhugh
Arthur Golden
Thomas Harris


Texas:

Sandra Brown
James Lee Burke
Catherine Coulter
Allen Drury
Tony Earley
Kim Edwards
Robert Fulghum
Dorothy Garlock
Fred Gipson
John Howard Griffin
Mary Karr
John Lescroart
Max Lucado
James Marshall
Larry McMurty
Oliver North
Katherine Anne Porter


Utah:

Stephen Covey
Richard Paul Evans
Shannon Hale
Brenda Novak


Vermont:

Jeanne Betancourt
Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Virginia:

Edward Albee
V.C. Andrews
William H. Armstrong
David Baldacci
Russell Baker
Ann Brashares
Liz Carlyle
Willa Cather
Millie Criswell
Sadie Delany
Claudia Emerson
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Napoleon Hill
Barbara Holland
Sheri Holman
Thomas Jefferson
Gary Jennings
Lee Smith
Rene Steinke
William Styron
Adriana Trigiani
Booker T. Washington
David Wisniewski
Tom Wolfe


Washington:

Sherman Alexie
Richard Brautigan
Orson Scott Card
William Dietrich
David Eddings
Timothy Egan
David Guterson
Frank Herbert
Gary Larson
Debbie Macomber
Chuck Palahniuk


Washington, D.C.

Anne Applebaum
Ann Beattie
Suzanne Berne
Michael Chabon
Tracy Chevalier
Jonathan Safran Foer 
Jean Craighead George 
Andrew Sean Greer 
A.M. Homes
Edward P. Jones
Caroline Kennedy 
Armistead Maupin 
George Pelecanos 
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Porter Shreve 
Scott Spencer 
Zane


West Virginia:

 Pearl S. Buck
Stephen Coonts
Homer Hickman
Jeanne Hines 
John Knowles
Walter Dean Myers 
Eugenia Price 
Cynthia Rylant


Wisconsin:

Lynda Barry
Lan Samantha Chang
Kevin Henkes
Marguerite Henry
Peg Kehret
Ron Kovic
Kris Radish
Alice Sebold
Peter Straub
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
David Wroblewski


Wyoming:

Craig Johnson
Patricia MacLachlan
Kyle Mills
Todd Parr

The Country an Author was Born In

This blog lists the country by which these well-known authors were born (but that does not make it his/her ethnicity)  This list is of authors that are well-known in America and not their homeland.  Unfortunately, many foreign authors do not have the opportunity to have their books translated and sold over seas:


AFGANISTAN:

Khaled Hosseini


ALGERIA:

Yasmina Khadra


ANTIGUA:

Jamaica Kincaid


ARGENTINA:

Jorge Luis Borges
Manuel Puig


AUSTRALIA:

Geraldine Brooks
Peter Carey
James Clavell
Helen Garner
Shirley Hazzard
Thomas Keneally
Colleen McCullough
Jaclyn Moriarty
Kate Morton
Garth Nix
Matthew Reilly
Christina Stead
P.L. Travers
Markus Zusah


AUSTRIA:

Viktor Frankl 
Sigmund Freud
Eva Ibbotson
Susan Sheehan


BANGLADESH:

Monica Ali (formerly East Bengal) 


BRAZIL:

Jorge Amado
Paulo Coelho


CANADA:

Margaret Atwood
Saul Bellow
Paulette Bourgeois
Eleanor Coerr
Joy Fielding 
Sara Gruen 
W.P. Kinsella 
Gordon Korman 
Mary Lawson 
Jean Little 
Robert MacNeil
L.M. Montgomery
Alice Munro
Al Purdy 


CHILE:

Roberto Bolano 
Pablo Neruda


CHINA:

J. G. Ballard
Judy Fong Bates
Jung Chang
Yangsze Choo
Confucius 
John Hersey 
Ha Jin
Janice Y.K. Lee
Bette Bao Lord
Adeline Yen Mah
Anchee Min
Katherine Paterson
Lao She
Dai Sijie
Sun Tzu 
Barbara Brooks Wallace 
Weihui Zhou


COLUMBIA:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez


CZECH REPUBLIC:

Franz Kafka (formerly Austria-Hungary) 
Milan Kundera (formerly Czechoslovakia) 
Rainer Maria Rilke (formerly Austria-Hungary)


DENMARK:

Hans Christian Andersen
Isak Dinesen 


DOMINICAN REPUBLICAN:

Junot Diaz


EGYPT:

Julian Fellowes
Penelope Lively


ENGLAND:

Douglas Adams
Richard Adams
Jeffrey Archer
W.H. Auden
Mary Balogh
Lynne Reid Banks
Graeme Base
L. Frank Baum
Louis de Bernieres
Michael Bond
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
 Emily Bronte
Anthony Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A.S. Byatt
Lord Byron
Lewis Carroll
Geoffrey Chaucer
Agatha Christie
Arthur C. Clarke
Jackie Collins
Wilkie Collins
Roald Dahl
Charles Darwin
Daniel Defoe
R.F. Delderfield
Charles Dickens
Margaret Drabble
George Eliot
Sebastian Faulks
Jasper Fforde
Helen Fielding
Henry Fielding
Penelope Fitzgerald
Ian Fleming
Ken Follett
Ford Madox Ford
E.M. Forster
Dick Francis
Alexandra Fuller
William Golding
Graham Greene
Mark Haddon
Thomas Hardy
Joanne Harris
Stephen Hawking
O. Henry
James Herriot
 Jack Higgins
Eric Hill
James Hilton
Nick Hornby
Aldous Huxley
Brian Jacques
P.D. James
John Keats
D.H. Lawrence
John Le Carre
Jhumpa Lahiri
Daphne du Maurier
Peter Mayle
 Ian McEwan
A.A. Milne
John Milton
Edith Nesbit
Mary Norton
Anne Perry
Rosamunde Pilcher
Beatrix Potter
Terry Pratchett
Barbara Pym
Peter Mark Roget
J.K. Rowling
Oliver Sacks
Diane Setterfield
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
 Mary Shelley
Dodie Smith
Zadie Smith
Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
J.R.R. Tolkien
Penny Vincenzi
H.G. Wells
Virginia Woolf


FRANCE:

Honore de Balzac
Jean-Dominique Bauby
Simone de Beauvoir
Pierre Boulle
Jean de Brunhoff
Albert Camus
Colette
 Barby D'Aurevilly
Alexandre Dumas
Gustave Flaubert
Philippe Grimbert
Victor Hugo
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Gaston Leroux
W. Somerset Maugham
Moliere
Anais Nin
Nostradamus
Marcel Proust
Tatiana de Rosnay
Edmond Rostand
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Lisa See
Jules Verne
Voltaire
Emila Zola


GERMANY:

Charles Bukowski
Michael Ende
Anne Frank
Cornelia Funke
Johann Goethe
Gunter Grass (then Free City of Danzig)
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Edith Hamilton
Ursula Hegi
Hermann Hesse
Greg Iles
Judith Kerr
Johanna Lindsey
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Thomas Mann
Friedrich Nietzche (then Prussia)
Erich Maria Remarque
H.A. Rey
Bernhard Schlink
W.G. Sebald


GREECE:

Aristophanes
Aristotle
Homer
Plato
Sophocles


HAITI:

John Audubon
Edwidge Danticat


HUNGARY:

Baroness Emma Orczy


INDIA:

Aravind Adiga
John Bayley (formerly British India) 
Kiran Desai
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mahatma Gandhi
Rudyard Kipling (formerly British India)
Bem Le Hunte
Rohinton Mistry 
Bharati Mukherjee
George Orwell (formerly British India)
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Vikram Seth
Indu Sundaresan
Vikas Swarup 
William Makepeace Thackeray (formerly British India)
Thrity Umrigar
T.H. White (formerly British India)


IRAN:

Doris Lessing (formerly Persia) 


IRELAND:

Cecelia Ahern
John Banville 
Sebastian Barry 
Samuel Beckett
Maeve Binchy
John Boyne
Eve Bunting
Eoin Colfer
John Connolly 
Seamus Deane 
Frank Delaney
Emma Donoghue 
Roddy Doyle
Anne Enright 
Tana French 
Lucy Grealy
Seamus Heaney
James Joyce
Marian Keyes 
C.S. Lewis
Frank McCourt 
Iris Murdoch
Edna O'Brien
Brendan O'Carroll 
Joseph O'Connor
Nuala O'Faolain 
Ardal O'Hanlon 
George Bernard Shaw
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
Patrick Taylor 
Colm Toibin
William Trevor 
Oscar Wilde
William Butler Yeats


ISRAEL:

Ayelet Waldman


ITALY:

Dante Alighieri
Ludwig Bemelmans (formerly Austria-Hungary) 
Italo Calvino 
Carlo Collodi
Umberto Eco
Oriana Fallaci
Primo Levi
Niccolo Machiavelli
Curzio Malaparte
Luigi Pirandello
Virgil


JAMAICAN:

Michelle Cliff


JAPAN:

Kazuo Ishiguro
Natsuo Kirino 
Haruki Murakami 
Koji Suzuki
Oswald Wynd


KENYA:

Philippa Gregory


KOREA:

Chang-rae Lee
Min Jin Lee


LEBANON:

Kahlil Gibran


MALAYSIA:

Rani Manicka


MEXICO:

Laura Esquivel
Carlos Fuentes


MOROCCO:

Malika Oufkir


NETHERLANDS:

Meindert DeJong
Michel Faber
Leo Lionni


NIGERIA:

 Chinua Achebe


NORWAY:

Thor Heyerdahl
Henrik Ibsen
Asne Seierstad 


PALESTINE:

Amos Oz (born in Jerusalem in 1939 currently debated capital of Israel and Palestine) 


PERU:

Isabel Allende


POLAND:

Jurek Becker Uri Orlev 


PORTUGAL:

Jose Saramago


RHODESIA:

Alexander McCall Smith


ROMANIA:

Elie Wiesel


RUSSIA:

Isaac Asimov
Anton Chekhov
Joseph Conrad
Fydor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Irene Nemirovsky
Boris Pasternak
Ayn Rand
Esphyr Slobodkina
Gary Shteyngart
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky
Ivan Turgenev


SCOTLAND:

Iain Banks
J.M. Barrie
M.C. Beaton 
John Buchan
Kenneth Grahame
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Rankin 
Sir Walter Scott 
Muriel Spark 
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irvine Welsh


SIERRA LEONE:

Ishmael Bean


SOUTH AFRICA:

J.M. Coetzee
Athol Fugard
Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela
Beverly Naidoo
Alan Paton (Kwazulul-Natal, South Africa)


SOUTHERN RHODESIA:

Peter Godwin


SPAIN:

Miguel de Cervantes
Yann Martel
Carlos Ruiz Zafon


SRI LANKA:

Michael Ondaatje (then Ceylon)


SWEDEN:

Marianne Fredriksson
Stieg Larsson 
Astrid Lindgren
Linda Olsson 
Art Spiegelman 


SWITZERLAND:

 Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Johanna Spyri
Johann David Wyss


TRINIDAD:

V.S. Naipaul


TURKEY:

Orhan Pamuk


TAIWAN:

Jean Little


UKRAINE:

Louis Begley
Nikolai Gogol (formerly part of Russian empire) 


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

James Agee
Edward Albee
Mitch Albom
Louisa May Alcott
Sherman Alexie
Dorothy Allison
 Julia Alvarez
Stephen Ambrose
V.C. Andrews
Maya Angelou
Jean Auel
Paul Auster
James Baldwin
Russell Banks
Elizabeth Berg
William Peter Blatty
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Erma Bombeck
T.C. Boyle
Ray Bradbury
Richard Brautigan
Terry Brooks
Dan Brown
Margaret Wise Brown
Pearl S. Buck
Edgar Rice Burroughs
 William S. Burroughs
Candace Bushnell
Meg Cabot
Truman Capote
Orson Scott Card
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon
Stephen Chbosky
John Cheever
Kate Chopin
Tom Clancy
Mary Higgins Clark
Beverly Cleary
Harlan Coben
Pat Conroy
Robin Cook
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Cormier
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Crichton
E.E. Cummings
Clive Cussler
Jeffrey Deaver
Nelson Demille
Tomie de Paola
Kate DiCamillo
Emily Dickinson
Annie Dillard
E.L. Doctorow
Michael Dorris
Theodore Dreiser
Lois Duncan
Dave Eggers
T.S. Eliot
Bret Easton Ellis
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eve Ensler
Nora Ephron
Louise Erdrich
Jeffrey Eugenides
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein
William Faulker
 F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fannie Flagg
Dian Fossey
Betty Friedan
Robert Frost
Diana Gabaldon
Ernest J. Gaines
Theodor Geisel (Dr.Seuss)
Elizabeth George
Kaye Gibbons
Emily Giffin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg
Fred Gipson
Sue Grafton
Zane Grey
John Grisham
John Grogan
Judith Guest
David Guterson
Alex Haley
Pete Hamill
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Harris
Kent Haruf
Stephen Hawking
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Carl Hiaasen
Oscar Hijuelos
Tony Hillerman
Tami Hoag
Russell Hoban
Alice Hoffman
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
John Irving
Washington Irving
Shirley Jackson
John Jakes
Henry James
Sebastian Junger
Mary Karr
Ezra Jack Keats
Helen Keller
Jonathan Kellerman
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Sue Monk Kidd
Stephen King
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
E.L. Konigsburg
Dean Koontz
Jon Krakauer
Judith Krantz
Louis L'Amour
Madeleine L'Engle
Wally Lamb
Anne Lamott
Erik Larson
Harper Lee
Elmore Leonard
Sinclair Lewis
Hugh Lofting
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H.P. Lovecraft
Lois Lowry
Robert Ludlum
Patricia MacLachlan
Gregory Maguire
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
Bill Martin Jr.
Steve Martini
Cormac McCarthy
Robert McCloskey
Carson McCullers
David McCullough
Jay McInerney
Ron McLarty
Terry McMillian
Larry McMurty
Herman Melville
James Michener
Arthur Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Margaret Mitchell
J.R. Moehringer
Toni Morrison
Walter Mosley
Walter Dean Myers
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Joan Lowery Nixon
Tim O'Brien
Flannery O'Connor
Eugene O'Neil
Joyce Carol Oates
Z.Z. Packer
Chuck Palahniuk
Barbara Park
Dorothy Parker
Ann Patchett
James Patterson
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Jodi Picoult
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Chaim Potok
Terry Pratchett
E. Annie Proulx
Mario Puzo
Thomas Pynchon
Anna Quindlen
Harold Robbins
Nora Roberts
Philip Roth
Richard Russo
Louis Sachar
J.D. Salinger
William Saroyan
R.A. Salvatore
John Sandford
Richard Scarry
Lisa Scottoline
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris
Maurice Sendak
Ann Seton
Diane Setterfield
Anne Sexton
Sidney Sheldon
Anne Rivers Siddons
Shel Silverstein
Neil Simon
Upton Sinclair
Betty Smith
Susan Sontag
Nicholas Sparks
Jerry Spinelli
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Strout
William Styron
Jacqueline Susann
Amy Tan
Hunter S. Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Adriana Trigiani
Margaret Truman
Gail Tsukiyama
Scott Turow
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Leon Uris
Judith Viorst
Cynthia Voigt
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Alice Walker
Jeanette Walls
Jennifer Weiner
Edith Wharton
E.B. White
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Tennesee Williams
Tom Wolfe
Tobias Wolff
Stuart Woods
Herman Wouk
Richard Wright


VIETNAM:

Marguerite Duras (Saigon, formerly Gia-Dinh, French Territory)
Huynh Quang Nhuong


ZAMBIA:

Wilbur Smith (formerly Northern Rhodesia)