Irish-American:Literature

 

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Literature

 Best Examples

 

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Edgar Allan Poe – writer, poet, editor, and literary critic^[38]

 

L. Frank Baum – author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  

 

 

Tom Clancy – author of many bestselling novels, including The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald – novelist and short story writer; The Great Gatsby was named on both the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels and the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005^[31]

 

 

Anne Rice – horror novelist; author of bestselling Interview with a Vampire series

 

Robert C. O'Brien – journalist and children's author; awarded the 1972 Newbery Medal for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

   

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 Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) - poet, novelist, epistolean and author for Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror

 

 

Philip Barry – playwright; author of The Philadelphia Story

 

 

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 Notable Mentions :

 

Ted Berrigan – poet, part of the second generation of the New York School; author of The Sonnets^[30]
 

 

John Berryman – poet; a founder of the confessional school of poetry^[30]
 

 

Louise Bogan – poet, translator, and critic; Poet Laureate of the United States 1945–1946^[30]
 

 

T. Coraghessan Boyle – novelist and short story writer; awarded the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for novel World's End
 

 

Bill Bryson – travel writer; awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to literature
 

 

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008)
 

 

John Horne Burns – novelist and travel writer; author of The Gallery
 

 

Jim Carroll – author, poet, and punk musician; author of The Basketball Diaries
 

 

Neal Cassady – author and poet; the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road
 

 

Raymond Chandler – novelist and short story writer; author of the Philip Marlowe detective series that shaped the modern "private eye" story
 

 

Mary Coyle Chase – playwright and screenwriter; awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Harvey
 

 

Kate Chopin – novelist and short story writer; The Awakening (1899) is considered a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism

 

 
Mary Higgins Clark – bestselling author of suspense novels
 

 

Billy Collins – poet; twice Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001–2003^[30]
 

 

Joe Connelly – novelist; author of Bringing Out the Dead
 

 

Michael Connelly – crime novelist; author of the bestselling Harry Bosch detective series
 

 

Pat Conroy – novelist and memoirist; author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides
 

 

Robert Creeley – poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets; awarded a 2000 American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award^[30]
 

 

Maureen Daly – novelist and short story writer; Seventeenth Summer (1942) is considered the first young adult novel
 

 

J.P. Donleavy – novelist; author of The Ginger Man, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
 

 

Kirby Doyle – poet and novelist; associated with the New American Poetry movement and "third generation" American modernist poets
 

 

Alan Dugan – poet; winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his volume Poems^[30]
 

 

James T. Farrell – novelist; author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels 

 
 

Robert Fitzgerald – poet, critic, and translator; Poet Laureate of the United States 1984–1985
 

 

Thomas Flanagan – novelist and academic; winner of the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Year of the French
 

 

Vince Flynn – political thriller novelist; author of bestselling Mitch Rapp series
 

 

Alice Fulton – poet and short story writer; awarded the 2002 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Felt^[30]
 

 

Tess Gallagher – poet, short story writer, essayist, and playwright^[30]
 

 

Lucy Grealy – poet, memoirist, and essayist; author of Autobiography of a Face
 

 

Pete Hamill – journalist, columnist, novelist, and short story writer
 

 

George V. Higgins – novelist, columnist, and academic; known for bestselling crime novels including The Friends of Eddie Coyle

 

Fanny Howe – poet, novelist, and short-story writer; awarded the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Selected Poems
 

 

Marie Howe – poet; winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series for The Good Thief^[30]
 

 

Susan Howe – poet and literary critic; American Book Awards in 1981 for The Liberties and 1986 for My Emily Dickinson^[30] 

 

 

Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Orchard^[30]
 

 

Robert Kelly – poet associated with the deep image group; awarded a 1980 American Book Award for In Time
 

 

William Kennedy – novelist and author; winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Ironweed, and 1984 American Book Award for O Albany!
 

 

X. J. Kennedy – poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and children's author^[30] 

 

 

Richard Kenney – poet and academic
 

 

Jean Kerr – author and Tony Award-winning playwright
 

 

Galway Kinnell – poet; awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1983 National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems^[30]
 

 

R. A. Lafferty – Hugo and Nebula-nominated science fiction author
 

 

Michael Lally – poet and author; awarded a 2000 American Book Award for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry and Prose
 

 

James Laughlin – poet and publisher; winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1992 National Book Awards Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; namesake of the annual James Laughlin Award administered by the Academy of American Poets
 

 

Dennis Lehane – novelist, author of A Drink Before the War and Mystic River
 

 

John Logan – poet and academic; awarded the 1982 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream 

 

 

William Logan – poet, critic, and scholar; awarded the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
 

 

Thomas Lynch – poet and essayist; awarded a 1998 American Book Award for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
 

 

Michael Patrick MacDonald – memoirist; winner of a 2000 American Book Award for All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
 

 

George R. R. Martin – author of the epic fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire
 

 

Cormac McCarthy – novelist and playwright; author of Blood Meridian and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer for The Road
 

 

Frank McCourt – memoirist; winner of the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Angela's Ashes
 

 

Alice McDermott – novelist; awarded the 1998 National Book Award and a 1999 American Book Award for Charming Billy
 

 

Campbell McGrath – poet
 

 

Thomas McGrath – poet; awarded a 1984 American Book Award for Echoes Inside the Labyrinth and the 1989 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Selected Poems: 1938–1988^[30]
 

 

Thomas McGuane – novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer; nominated for a National Book Award for Ninety-Two in the Shade
 

 

Jay McInerney – novelist; author of Bright Lights, Big City
 

 

James McMichael – poet; awarded the 1999 Arthur Rense Prize
 

 

Terrence McNally – playwright; winner of six Tony Awards and nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Perfect Ganesh
 

 

Maile Meloy – novelist and short story writer; awarded The Paris Review's 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard"
 

 

Margaret Mitchell – novelist; awarded the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Gone with the Wind
 

 

Helen Curtin Moskey – poet
 

 

Robert C. O'Brien – journalist and children's author; awarded the 1972 Newbery Medal for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
 

 

Tim O'Brien – novelist and short story writer; prominent author of fiction about the Vietnam War, including The Things They Carried, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
 

 

Edwin O'Connor – novelist, winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Edge of Sadness
 

 

Flannery O'Connor – novelist and short story writer; notable author in the Southern Gothic style
 

 

Frank O'Hara – poet, prominent member of the New York School^[30]
 

 

John O'Hara – novelist; author of Appointment in Samarra, named one of the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005^[31]
 

 

Charles Olson – poet and critic, associated with the second generation American Modernist poets; author of The Maximus Poems^[30]
 

 

Eugene O'Neill – playwright; awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature; four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
 

 

J.F. Powers – novelist and short story writer; winner of the 1963 National Book Award for Morte d'Urban
 

 

Nora Roberts – romance novelist; first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame
 

 

Kay Ryan – poet and academic; Poet Laureate of the United States
 

 

Michael Ryan – poet; awarded the 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger^[30]
 

 

 John Patrick Shanley – playwright and screenwriter; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable
 

 

Mickey Spillane – crime novelist; author of bestselling Mike Hammer detective novels
 

 

John Kennedy Toole – novelist; posthumously awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Confederacy of Dunces
 

 

Michael Walsh – novelist and screenwriter; awarded a 2004 American Book Award for And All The Saints 

 

 

John Wieners - poet, student of Charles Olson, associated with the Beats and the Boston School.
 

 

Roger Zelazny – fantasy and science fiction author; winner of three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards