This is a list of famous Jewish American authors. See separate lists for playwrights and poets. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews. - Kathy Acker, writer
- Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author
- Karen Ackerman, children's author
- Nelson Algren, novelist
- Jonathan Ames, novelist, essayist
- Mary Antin, novelist
- Hannah Arendt, writer
- Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction author
- Ken Auletta, writer, journalist and New Yorker media critic
- Shalom Auslander, novelist
- Paul Auster, novelist
- Emily Barton, novelist
- Peter S. Beagle, novelist
- Mildred Grosberg Bellin, cookbook author
- Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)
- Aimee Bender — novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters[1]
- David Bergman, gay author, editor, academic
- Steve Berman, gay dark fantasy author
- Robert Bloch, science fiction author
- Lawrence Block, crime novelist
- Rob Bloom, comedy writer
- Judy Blume, children's author
- Maxwell Bodenheim, poet and novelist
- Jane Bowles, writer & playwright
- David Brin, science fiction author
- Harold Brodkey, short story writer
- Geraldine Brooks, author
- Max Brooks, comedic author
- Rob Brownstein, business author
- Abraham Cahan, author
- Hortense Calisher, novelist
- Michael Chabon, novelist
- Noam Chomsky, writer, linguist, political activist
- Harlan Coben, mystery writer
- Joshua Cohen, novelist
- Bernard Cooper (1951–) novelist, short story writer[2]
- Norman Cousins, prominent political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.
- Larry David, writer, actor, producer
- Martin A. David, writer, actor, director
- Peter David, author, columnist and comic book writer
- Barbara Delinsky, writer
- Anita Diamant, writer
- E. L. Doctorow, writer
- Stephen Dubner, writer, journalist, educator
- Andrea Dworkin, writer and theorist
- Elana Dykewomon, writer
- Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, memoirist.
- Joel Eisenberg, author, ghostwriter, screenwriter
- Judah David Eisenstein, encyclopedist, Hebrew author
- Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer
- Richard Ellmann, literary scholar and biographer
- Lillian Faderman, historian
- Saul Silas Fathi, author, educator
- Howard Fast, novelist
- Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer
- Craig Fenton, music author
- Harvey Fierstein, playwright
- Barthold Fles,[3] literary agent and non-fiction writer
- Jonathan Safran Foer, writer
- Shalom Freedman, writer
- Betty Friedan, writer
- Kinky Friedman, novelist and singer
- Sonia Pressman Fuentes, co-founder N.O.W and memoirist
- Alan Furst, novelist
- Marc Gerstein, author, consultant
- Allen Ginsberg, poet
- Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist
- Myla Goldberg, author
- Natalie Goldberg, author
- Tod Goldberg, journalist
- Shari Goldhagen, novelist
- William Goldman, novelist and screenwriter
- Yosef Goldman, author
- Allegra Goodman, novelist
- Paul Goodman, author
- Noah Gordon, author
- Paul Gottfried, author
- Dan Greenburg, author
- Ben Greenman, author
- Joe Haldeman, author
- Chelsea Handler, author and humorist
- Daniel Handler, writer
- Helene Hanff, writer
- Sam Harris, author
- Michael H. Hart, author
- Ben Hecht, playwright and screenwriter
- Joseph Heller, novelist
- Michael Heller, poet and memoirist
- Mark Helprin, novelist
- Richard Herrnstein, author and psychologist
- Laura Z. Hobson, novelist
- Dara Horn, novelist
- Joseph Jacobs, folklorist
- Susan Jacoby, author
- Rona Jaffe, novelist
- Erica Jong, author
- Rodger Kamenetz, author
- Lizzie Black Kander, cookbook author
- Judith Katz-Schwartz, author, educator, humorist
- Mollie Katzen, chef and cookbook author
- Bel Kaufman, author
- Margo Kaufman, humor author
- Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, writer
- Faye Kellerman, novelist; spouse of Jonathan Kellerman
- Jesse Kellerman, novelist; son of the Kellermans
- Jonathan Kellerman, novelist; spouse of Faye Kellerman
- Irena Klepfisz, writer and yiddishist
- Henry Klinger, novelist
- Zvi Kolitz, author of the Holocaust-related Yosl Rakover Talks to God
- Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer
- Jerzy Kosinski, writer
- Jonathan Kozol, writer and educator
- Siegfried Kracauer, writer and critic
- Edward E. Kramer, writer and editor
- Judith Krantz, romance writer
- Nicole Krauss, writer
- James Howard Kunstler, novelist
- Tony Kushner, playwright
- George Lakoff, author, linguist
- Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities[4]
- Wendy Lesser, arts critic, novelist, editor
- Julius Lester, writer
- Jonathan Lethem, novelist
- Oscar Levant, author, composer, pianist
- Ira Levin, author
- Michael Levin, author
- Paul Levinson, science fiction author, non-fiction author, op-ed writer, songwriter
- Barry Levy, screenwriter
- Anthony Lewis, former op-ed columnist, the New York Times, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Laura Lippman, crime novelist
- Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist [5]
- Sari Locker, author, advice columnist and sex educator
- Mina Loy, poet
- Robert Greene, Author of books on Strategy, power, sex and seduction.
- Norman Mailer, writer
- Bernard Malamud, writer
- David Mamet, playwright
- Rucheli Manville, freelance, technical, and SEO writer [6]
- Seth Margolis, novelist (Jewish father)
- John Markoff, writer and journalist
- Kati Marton, writer and journalist
- David Matthews, memoirist and writer
- James McBride, author
- Daniel Mendelsohn, writer
- Jay Michaelson, writer
- Richard Michelson, Poet, Children’s Book Author.
- Bart Midwood, writer
- Arthur Miller, playwright
- Linda Breiner Milstein, author
- Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist
- Lewis Mumford
- Joan Nathan, cookbook author
- Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half brother of 44th President Barack Obama [7]
- Joan Nestle, author and historian
- Stewart Nusbaumer, journalist and writer
- John B. Oakes, journalist and New York Times editor
- Clifford Odets, playwright
- Tillie Olsen, author
- Peter Orner, author
- Cynthia Ozick, novelist
- Abraham Pais, historian of science
- Grace Paley, short story writer & poet
- Paul Palnik, cartoonist and writer.
- Sara Paretsky, mystery writer
- Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father)
- S. J. Perelman, humorist
- Jodi Picoult, novelist[6]
- Marge Piercy, novelist, poet
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin, feminist writer/journalist and founding editor of Ms. Magazine
- Rachel Pollack, science-fiction author
- Gary M. Pomerantz , Nonfiction Author, Journalist, Lecturer
- Virginia Postrel, author & columnist
- Chaim Potok, novelist
- Ayn Rand, writer
- Mickey Rapkin, author
- Lea Bayers Rapp,[7] non-fiction and children's fiction writer
- Abraham Regelson, poet, author and translator
- H.A. & Margret Rey, children's writers
- Alexandra Robbins, author
- Harold Robbins, author
- Steven V. Roberts, journalist, writer, and commentator
- J.I. Rodale, author, publisher, health promoter
- Joel Rosenberg, science fiction and fantasy author
- Thane Rosenbaum, novelist, essayist, social commentator
- Henry Roth, writer
- Philip Roth, novelist
- Murray Rothbard, essayist, economist and social commentator
- Morrie Ruvinsky, novelist, screenwriter
- Louis Sachar, children's writer
- J. D. Salinger, author (Jewish father)
- Michael Savage, author, conservative political commentator and radio talk show host
- Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter
- Benjamin Scolnic, author, theologian
- Maurice Sendak, children's author
- Irwin Shaw, novelist
- Art Shay, author and photographer
- Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter
- Al Sherman, autobiographer, songwriter
- Richard M. Sherman, autobiographer, songwriter & screenwriter
- Robert B. Sherman, author, journalist, autobiographer, songwriter & screenwriter
- Gary Shteyngart (1972– ) Russian-born writer[8]
- Marilyn Singer, author of books for children and young adults
- Robert Silverberg, science fiction author
- Sarah Silverman,
- Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet & musician
- Neil Simon, playwright
- Kate Simon, memoirist
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978)
- Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist
- Danielle Steele, romance novelist (Jewish father)
- Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright
- Joel Stein, columnist
- Gloria Steinem, journalist, editor, writer
- George Steiner (1929–) literary critic[8]
- Daniel Stern, novelist and short story writer
- Jon Stewart, author, television host and comedian
- Jacqueline Susann, novelist
- Jeff Tamarkin, music author
- Sydney Taylor, children's author
- Studs Terkel, author & oral historian
- Scott Turow, mystery writer
- Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer
- Leopold Tyrmand, writer [9]
- Leon Uris, novelist
- Chris Van Allsburg, children's writer (converted)
- Judith Viorst (1932–) author, known for her children's literature[9]
- Ayelet Waldman, mystery writer, novelist
- Rebecca Walker (1969–) activist and writer[10]
- Irving Wallace, novelist
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, also the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[11]
- Jennifer Weiner, author
- Nathanael West, writer
- Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1986)
- Marianne Williamson, author (self-help, spiritual) & lecturer
- Marnie Winston-Macauley, author and columnist (Jewish culture, humor, and relationship advice)
- Naomi Wolf , feminist, author & social critic
- Herman Wouk, novelist, writer
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author
- Anzia Yezierska, author
- Cathy Young, author & columinist
- Richard Zimler, novelist
- Boris Zubry, author (fiction and political satire), inventor, educator
[edit] Literary critics [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ "other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker... Aimee Bender"
- ^ Cooper — [1] "Plenty of Jewish authors will be in the mix, including... Bernard Cooper"
- ^ Love , Edmund (1988). Hanging on: or, How to get through a depression and enjoy life. Wayne State University Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-0814319314. "I finished the book in 1941 and sent it off to Barthold Fles, a New York literary agent who had been recommended to me. Mr. Fles was a Jew and in March, 1941, Jews were pretty sensitive about heroic German naval officers. To say that Mr. Fles was insulted was the understatement of the year."
- ^ Lebowitz — [2] "Jewish figures such as... author Fran Lebowitz"
- ^ The Economist, Jan 13, 2007, p.42: "a triple outsider — working-class, Jewish and left-wing"
- ^ Jewish Chronicle, April 27, 2007 p.50: "The Jodi Picoult mystery"
- ^ "Lea Bayers Rapp". Kensington Books. http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkon=subsection&linkid=1775. "As a Jewish daughter, wife, and mother, she has both yeshiva and secular backgrounds and writes from vast personal experience that includes constant joyous rounds of bar and bat mitzvahs, engagement parties, bridal showers, and weddings."
- ^ Shteyngart — [3] "Russian Jewish Author Gary Shteyngart"
- ^ Viorst — [4] "Two Jewish children's authors have events of note going on this week. At Pepperdine's Smother's Theatre, see the staged musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's..."
- ^ Ross, Ross (2007-04-08). "Rebecca Walker bringing message to Expo". Pensacola News Journal. http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/NEWS01/704080331/1005. Retrieved 2007-04-08. [dead link]
- ^ Wasserstein — [5] "“My father loved me dearly, but I’m not a Jewish American Princess,” playwright Wendy Wasserstein said. “I’m a Jewish mother, but I’m not Molly Goldberg.”"
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