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This is a list of Jewish American writers.
This page is part of the List of Jewish Americans series.
Authors
- Kathy Acker, writer
- Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan
- Nelson Algren, novelist
- Jonathan Ames, author
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction author
- Paul Auster, author
- Peter S. Beagle, novelist (The Last Unicorn)
- Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)
- Robert Bloch, science fiction author
- Harold Bloom, literary critic
- Judy Blume, children's author
- Jane Bowles, writer & playwright
- David Brin, science fiction author
- Michael Chabon, novelist
- E. L. Doctorow, writer
- Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer
- Howard Fast, novelist
- Edna Ferber, author
- Jonathan Safran Foer, writer
- Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter
- William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter
- Joe Haldeman, science fiction author
- Daniel Handler, writer (A Series of Unfornuate Events)
- Joseph Heller, novelist (Catch 22)
- Mark Helprin, novelist
- Erica Jong, author (Fear of Flying)
- Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist
- Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- Judith Krantz, romance writer
- Julius Lester, children's writer (convert)
- Ira Levin, author (Rosemary's Baby)
- Norman Mailer, writer
- Bernard Malamud, writer
- Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (half)
- Cynthia Ozick, novelist
- Grace Paley, short story writer & poet
- Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (half Jewish)
- S. J. Perelman, humorist
- Chaim Potok, author & rabbi
- H.A. & Margret Rey, children's writers
- Harold Robbins, author
- Philip Roth, novelist
- Louis Sachar, children's writer
- J. D. Salinger, author (Catcher in the Rye)
- Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter
- Maurice Sendak, children's author
- Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter
- Robert Silverberg, science fiction author
- Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet & musician
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
- Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
- Danielle Steel, romance novelist (Jewish father)
- Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright
- George Steiner, literary critic
- Jacqueline Susann, novelist
- Alice B. Toklas, literary figure
- Lionel Trilling, literary critic
- Scott Turow, mystery writer
- Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer
- Leon Uris, novelist
- Chris Van Allsburg, children's writer (converted)
- Irving Wallace, novelist
- Nathanael West, writer (The Day of the Locust)
- Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
- Herman Wouk, author (The Caine Mutiny)
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author (half Jewish)
Poets
- Charles Bernstein, poet
- Joseph Brodsky, poet, Nobel Prize (1987)
- Allen Ginsberg, beat poet
- Louise Glück, poet
- Jorie Graham, poet
- Marilyn Hacker, poet
- Anthony Hecht, poet
- Richard Howard, poet, translator
- Chester Kallman, poet, librettist
- Bob Kaufman, beat poet (half Jewish)
- Kenneth Koch, poet
- Stanley Kunitz, poet
- Emma Lazarus, poet
- Philip Levine, poet
- Howard Nemerov, poet
- George Oppen, Objectivist poet
- Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet
- Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet
- Adrienne Rich, poet
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet
- Delmore Schwartz, poet
- Karl Shapiro, poet
- Louis Simpson, poet
- Mark Strand, poet
- Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet
Playwrights
- Eve Ensler, playwright (half Jewish)
- Herb Gardner, playwright & cartoonist
- Moss Hart, playwright & librettist
- Lillian Hellman, playwright
- Sidney Kingsley, playwright
- Tony Kushner, playwright
- Arthur Laurents, playwright & librettist
- Craig Lucas, playwright
- David Mamet, playwright
- Donald Margulies, playwright
- Arthur Miller, playwright
- Clifford Odets, playwright
- Elmer Rice, playwright
- Neil Simon, playwright
- Alfred Uhry, playwright
- Wendy Wasserstein, playwright
Journalists
- Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter
- Pauline & Esther Friedman, advice columnists (Dear Abby and Ann Landers)
- Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist
- Thomas Friedman, columnist
- Jonah Goldberg, commentator
- David Halberstam, Vietnam reporter
- Seymour Hersh, My Lai reporter
- Paul Krassner, satirist
- Charles Krauthammer, columnist
- Paul Krugman, columnist
- A. J. Liebling, journalist
- Walter Lippmann, journalist & writer
- Joshua Micah Marshall, political blogger
- Shirley Povich, sports columnist
- William Safire, columnist
- George Seldes, investigative journalist
- I. F. Stone, investigative journalist
- Walter Winchell, gossip columnist
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