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)
