List of Jewish American authors
This is a list of notable Jewish American authors. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.Authors
- Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses,
- Mary Antin, memoirist, author of The Promised Land
- Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee
- Jacob M. Appel, novelist and short story writer
- Max Apple, novelist and short story writer
- Sholem Asch, novelist, essayist and playwright
- Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification
- Shalom Auslander, novelist
- Paul Auster, novelist
- Dorothy Walter Baruch, author and child psychologist
- Jonathan Baumbach
- Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts
- Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters
- Joshua Braff, novelist
- Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward
- Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
- Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Arthur A. Cohen, novelist
- Joshua Cohen, novelist, author of Witz
- Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer
- Edward Dahlberg, novelist and essayist
- Anita Diamant, writer and author of the novel, The Red Tent
- E.L. Doctorow, novelist
- Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard
- Stanley Elkin, novelist and essayist
- Richard Elman, novelist and journalist
- Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- Marcia Falk, poet, liturgist, painter, translator
- Kenneth Fearing, novelist, editor and poet
- Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- Barthold Fles, literary agent and non-fiction writer
- Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist
- Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist
- Kinky Friedman, novelist and musician
- Sanford Friedman, novelist
- Daniel Fuchs, novelist, screenwriter and essayist
- Herbert Gold, novelist
- Mike Gold, Communist novelist and literary critic
- Emma Goldman, anarchist writer
- Paul Goodman, social critic and author of Growing Up Absurd
- Vivian Gornick, essayist
- Rebecca Gratz, educator and journalist
- Gerald Green, author and journalist
- Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
- Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist
- Irving Howe, literary critic
- Horace Kallen, author, philosopher and academic
- Nicole Krauss, novelist
- Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist
- Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities
- Isaac Leeser, author and publisher
- Julius Lester, author, academic and African-American convert to Judaism
- Meyer Levin, novelist and journalist
- Ludwig Lewisohn, novelist, essayist and editor
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
- Norman Mailer, novelist
- Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer Prize winning author
- Wallace Markfield, novelist
- Theresa Malkiel, novelist and Socialist activist
- Wallace Markfield, novelist
- Helen Aberson-Mayer, American novelist whose best-known work was Dumbo, which was the basis for the Disney film of the same title.
- Walter Mosely, crime novelist
- Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works
- Moyshe Nadir, writer and journalist%
- Mordecai Manuel Noah, journalist, playwright and diplomat
- Joseph Opatoshu, novelist and short story writer
- Cynthia Ozick, novelist and essayist
- S. J. Perelman, Oscar winning screenwriter, and novelist
- Jodi Picoult, novelist
- Marge Piercy, novelist and short story writer
- Belva Plain, novelist
- Chaim Potok, novelist and rabbi
- Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism
- Lev Raphael, novelist and essayist
- Lea Bayers Rapp, non-fiction and children's fiction writer
- Avrom Reyzen, author, poet and editor
- Isaac Rosenfeld, essayist, short story writer and novelist
- Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer
- Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction
- Leo Rosten, humorist and lexicographer
- Norman Rosten, novelist
- Peter Sagal, humorist and author
- J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
- Yente Serdatzky, author of short stories, playwright
- Lamed Shapiro, short story writer
- Irwin Shaw, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
- Gary Shteyngart, Russian-born writer
- Mordechai Sheftal, diarist and officer in the Continental Army
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish language novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize winner
- Tess Slesinger, novelist and screenwriter
- Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
- Gertrude Stein, novelist and patron of the arts
- George Steiner, literary critic
- Daniel Stern, novelist
- Louise Stern, novelist and playwright
- Richard G. Stern, novelist and academic
- Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award
- Harvey Swados, novelist and essayist
- Jonathan Tropper, novelist
- Leopold Tyrmand, writer
- Leon Uris, novelist
- Judith Viorst, known for her children's literature
- Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist
- Jerome Weidman, novelist and playwright
- Sadie Rose Weilerstein, author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy
- Debra Weinstein, poet and novelist, author of Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z.
- Nathaniel West, novelist and screenwriter
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books
- Cora Wilburn, novelist and poet.
- Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi
- Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- Anzia Yezierska, novelist
