20th-Century Fiction


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Early 20th-Century American Fiction

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Larsen, Nella (1891-1964)

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)

Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)


Modernist Fiction

Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)

Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)

Faulkner, William (1897-1962)

Joyce, James (1882-1941)

Lawrence, D.H. (1885-1930)

Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957). Article at the Literary Encyclopedia.

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)


British Fiction

Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)

Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)

Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993)

Byatt, A.S. (1936- )

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)

Forster, E.M. (1879-1970)

Golding, William (1911-1993)

Greene, Graham (1904-1991)

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)

Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)

McEwan, Ian (1948-)

Orwell, George (1903-1950)

Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)


Mid-Century American Fiction

Bellow, Saul

Baldwin, James

Cheever, John

Ellison, Ralph

Hemingway, Ernest

Jackson, Shirley

Lee, Harper

O'Connor, Flannery

Porter, Katherine Anne

Salinger, J.D.

Updike, John

Vonnegut, Kurt

Welty, Eudora


Crime and Detective Fiction

Cain, James M.

Chandler, Raymond

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Hammett, Dashiell


The Beats

Bowles, Paul

Burroughs, William

Kerouac, Jack


Later Twentieth-Century Fiction

Barthelme, Donald

Capote, Truman

Carver, Raymond

Didion, Joan

Dubus, Andre Jr.

Kennedy, William

Morrison, Toni

Pynchon, Thomas

Tan, Amy


World Fiction in English

Achebe, Chinua

Allende, Isabel

Coetzee, J.M.

Dinesen, Isac (Karen Blixen)

Gordimer, Nadine

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Kincaid, Jamaica

Kureishi, Hanif

Naipaul, V.S.

Okigbo, Christopher

Ondaatje, Michael

Roy, Arundhati

Rushdie, Salman

Seth, Vikram


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