James Joyce Flannery O'Connor D. H. Lawrence Frank O'Connor Ursula K. Le Guin Luigi Pirandello Barry Holstun Lopez Edgar Allan Poe James Alan McPherson Irwin Shaw Bernard Malamud Art Spiegelman Herman Melville James Thurber Bharati Mukherjee Leo Tolstoy Barbara Neely Stephanie Vaughn Edna O'Brien Alice Walker Tim O'Brien Richard Wright