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America's  Authors
of the XXth & XXIst Century
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on Page One-A:  Anthologies & Literary History  •  on Page One-B:  Early American Authors

on Page Two:  Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M

on Page Three:  Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z

on Page Four:  Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L

on Page Five:  Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z

here on Pages Six & Seven:  XX-XXIst Century Authors
top of Page 6 • A thru F • G thru L • M thru S • T thru Z

Ethnic-American Authors Page

New Mexico Authors Page

Authors of Britain Pages • Authors of France Page • Authors of Russia Page

American Poets Pages including The Beats

American Literature of The XIXth Century
American Literature of The XXth Century

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George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, New Mexico
browse books • official website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

George R.R. Martin entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  owner of Jean Cocteau Cinema {closed April 2006; reopened 8/2013} in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Spirit of America Bookstore's "Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page

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humorist Patricia Marx of New York City
browse books • official homepage at The New Yorker • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing At A Time: Rules For Couples" [2020]
by Patricia Marx, illustrated by The New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast

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sci-fi author Richard Matheson [1926-2013]
browse books • browse DVDs • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

'Somewhere In Time' official website
Richard Matheson entry at Internet Speculative Fiction Database

	"Richard Matheson: Collected Stories" [2003-2005] Edited by Stanley Wiater Volume 1: Gauntlet Press 8¼x5¼ pb [12/2003] for $11.53 Volume 2: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [2/2005] for $11.53 Volume 3: Gauntlet Press 8x5¼ pb [11/2005] for $12.71
	"Noir: Three Novels of Suspense" [1988] by Richard Matheson includes "Someone Is Bleeding" [1953], "Fury On Sunday" [1953] & "Ride The Nightmare" [1959] Forge 8¼x5¼ pb [9/2005] for $11.66 Forge 8¼x5½ hardcover [9/2005] for $21.24

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Cormac McCarthy of Tesuque, New Mexico
browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Cormac McCarthy Society [est. 1995]

"The Road" [2006] by Cormac McCarthy A father & son journey toward the sea across the desolate landscape remaining after an unnamed cataclysm destroys civilization on Earth; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Vintage movie tie-in mass pb [11/2008] for $7.99 Vintage 8x5 pb [3/2007] for $10.17 Knopf 9¾x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $16.47 book entry at Wikipedia

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Thomas McGuane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McGuane

selected fiction
"The Sporting Club" novel [1969]
"The Bushwacked Piano" novel [1971]
"Ninety-Two In The Shade" novel [1973]
"The Missouri Breaks" screenplay & paperback original [1976]
"Panama" autobiographical novel [1978]
"Nobody's Angel" novel [1981]
"In The Crazies: Book and Portfolio" limited edition of 185 [1984]
"Something To Be Desired" novel [1985]
"To Skin A Cat" short stories [1986]
"Keep The Change" novel [1989]
"Nothing But Blue Skies" novel [1992]
"The Cadence of Grass" novel [2002]
"Gallatin Canyon" short stories [2006]
"Driving On The Rim" novel [2010]
"Crow Fair" short stories [2015]
"Cloudbursts" [2018] 45 darkly funny stories

screenplays
"Rancho Deluxe (1975)
"92 In The Shade (1975)
"The Missouri Breaks (1976)
"Tom Horn (1981)
"Cold Feet (1989)

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eco-journalist Bill McKibben
browse books • official website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

more info (short bio, books & ebooks, other media, family & friends, links) on
Spirit of America Bookstore's Bill McKibben Page

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Larry McMurtry [1936-2021] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

1985 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Pulitzer-winner John McPhee
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia
won a Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1999
http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-the-world-of-john-mcphee

"The John McPhee Reader" [1976] Edited by William L. Howarth FS&G 8x5½ pb [6/82] for $15.00 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/77] for $29.60 "The Second John McPhee Reader" [1996] Edited by Patricia Strachan FS&G 8x5½ pb [2/96] for $14.04 FS&G 8¼x5½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used

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Lorrie Moore of Madison, Wisconsin
browse books • Wikipedia

"Birds of America: Stories" [1998 bestseller]

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prize-winning Toni Morrison [1931-2019]
browse books • Wikipedia

1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1993 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Walter Mosley Page
at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

Easy Rawlins Mystery Novel Series
Fearless Jones Mystery Novel Series
Leonid McGill Mystery Novel Series
Socrates Fortlow Mystery Novel Series

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Antonya Nelson
Nelson and her husband, novelist Robert Boswell live in Houston, TX and Telluride, CO and Las Cruces, NM
browse books • Wikipedia

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national treasure Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978; she is a recipient of the National Book Award,
the PEN/Malamud Award, the National Humanities Medal, the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature (2003), the Prix Femina (2005),
the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).
browse books • LitEncyc • movie credits

"What are the three saddest words in the English language? Joyce Carol Oates." — Gore Vidal [1925-2012]

"Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories" [2012] by Joyce Carol Oates The title story is about the real-life murder of aspiring Hollywood starlet Betty Short, sensationalized at the time of her death as the 'Black Dahlia', whom Oates contrasts with an angelic 'White Rose' persona for her (fictional) roommate Norma Jean Baker, the future Marilyn Monroe. Oates reinforces the stereotypes that have built up around them: Short is cold-blooded in her ambition, while abusing alcohol and engaging in petty theft; Norma Jean is hardworking, shy, and kindhearted. The effect is almost that of a fairy tale where the mis-behaving child gets her comeuppance - in this case, a horrific one; plus ten other stories. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins [9/2012] for $10.21 Ecco Press 9x6 hardcover [9/2012] for $14.98

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J.R. (Judith) Parker: westerns & mysteries

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Pamela Paul
an award-winning author & journalist and the editor of The New York Times Book Review
browse books • entry at Wikipedia

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Matthew Pearl of Cambridge, Massachusetts
browse books • author's official website • Wikipedia

	"The Dante Club: A Novel" New York Times bestseller [#1 = 2003] A series of gruesome murders in 1865 Boston appear to be based on works of Italian poet Dante Alighieri [1265-1321], requiring the attention of the Dante Club, lest Dante's reputation be tarnished. The reclusive group of scholars – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J.T. Fields – reluctantly exits their sheltered indoor environment to bring the fiend to justice. Kindle Edition from Random House [2003 edition] for $9.99 Ballantine Books mass pb [6/2006] out of print/200+ used Random House Trade 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $13.18 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/200+ used
	"The Poe Shadow: A Novel" New York Times bestseller [#2 = 2006] No one in 1849 Baltimore is much interested in solving the brutal death of minor author Edgar Allan Poe until admirer Quentin Clark, a lawyer, decides to restore Poe's reputation and is soon enmeshed with political schemes, the corrupt local slave trade, and a female assassin. Kindle Edition from Random House [2006 edition] for $9.99 Random House Trade 8x5 pb [7/2007] for $12.50 Random House 9½x6¾ hardcover [5/2006] out of print/200+ used book entry at Wikipedia
	"The Last Dickens: A Novel" national bestseller [#3 = 2009] When world-famous author Charles Dickens suddenly dies in 1870, struggling Boston publisher James Osgood sends his trusted clerk to await the arrival of Dickens's final manuscript. But the clerk does not return, his body turns up by the docks, his sister Rebecca asks for help, and James is off after the killer and the manuscript. Kindle Edition from Random House [3/2009] for $9.99 Random House Trade 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $12.50 Random House 9½x7 hardcover [3/2009] out of print/100+ used
	"The Professor's Assassin" short story for Kindle [2011] Something of a prequel to "The Technologists"; a shocking, almost-forgotten real-life 1840 murder case, attended to here by William Barton Rogers (future founder & president of M.I.T.) while a professor of science at University of Virginia. A startling event rocks the school, followed by riots by masked men and the brutal slaying of a colleague . . .; includes 'preview' of "The Technologists" novel Kindle Edition from Random House [12/2011] for 99’
	"The Technologists: A Novel" national bestseller [#4 = 2012] Boston, 1868: A struggling Massachusetts Institute of Technology is assaulted and harassed by rival Harvard, by anti-science factions, by labor unions, and by the stodgy establishment, and the first graduation is in doubt. A fiery cataclysm, Fortean mysteriousness, and massive destruction at the city center propel a quartet of M.I.T. students to seek answers . . . {Kindle & paperback editions include bonus prequel short story "The Professor's Assassin"} Kindle Edition from Random House [2/2012] for $9.99 Random House Trade 8x5 pb [11/2012] for $13.87 Random House 9½x6½ deckle-edge hardcover [2/2012] out of print/150+ used
	"Company Eight, Boston" article for Kindle Singles [2014] by Matthew Pearl Boston builder and abolitionist Willard Sears set out with a vision of a fire-fighter company that would bring professionalism to a field laced with corruption and violence; he gathered a ragtag group to follow him under the banner of Company Eight. Ultimately, Sears’s quest locked horns with the most powerful forces in the city, in a battle that shaped the future of firefighting in America – a true story of courage and persistence. Kindle Edition from The Atavist [12/2014] for $2.99
	"The Last Bookaneer" [#5 = 2015] by Matthew Pearl The publishing industry used 'bookaneer' agents for a hundred years to operate as literary pirates and steal new manuscripts before publication so that the publishers increase profits by not paying the authors. But in 1890 a new international treaty will soon take effect that will halt the practice. Star bookaneer Pen Davenport and his reluctant assistant Fergins attempt to make one last grab by traveling to American Samoa in hopes of capturing the final novel of the dying consumptive author Robert Louis Stevenson. The job is tough enough, but other bookaneers have gotten the scent . . . Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [4/2015] for $11.99 Penguin Press 9¼x6 pb [undated] - status unclear Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2015] for $19.17

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historian Nathaniel Philbrick of Nantucket, Massachusetts
browse books • credits at IMDb • Wikipedia

	"In The Heart of The Sea: The Tragedy of The Whaleship Essex" [2000] book won the National Book Award Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2001 edition] for $12.99 Penguin Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2001] for $12.70 Viking Adult 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2000] for $16.63 Announced 6/2012: Feature film to be directed by Ron Howard; screenplay by Charles Leavitt, based on the Philbrick novel; starring Chris Hemsworth • latest info at IMDb
	"Revenge of The Whale: The True Story of The Whaleship Essex" [10 years & up; 2002] by Nathaniel Philbrick version of "In The Heart of The Sea" abridged for Young Readers Puffin Books 7½x5 pb [3/2004] for $7.19 Scholastic 8¾x6 pb [9/2003] out of print/130+ used Putnam Juvenile 9¼x6 hardcover [8/2002] out of print/70+ used
	"Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution" [2013] Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin [4/2013] for $16.99 Viking Adult 9x6½ hardcover [4/2013] for $19.53 Announced 4/2013: Warner Bros. captured the rights to Philbrick's new book, pre-publication; Chris Terrio will write the script, Ben Affleck will direct • not yet listed at IMDb

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former screenwriter Burt Prelutsky [b. 1940]
browse books • movie & TV credits [1968-2018] • Wikipedia
archived official weblog, 2008-2015
his recent right-wing blather {1,500+ entries since 11/2009} at The Patriot Post [est. 1996] weblog

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American children's poet Jack Prelutsky [b. 1940]
browse books • official website {broken 2021} • official Facebook page {last update 6/2019} • Wikipedia
Poems by Jack Prelutsky at The Poetry Foundation [est. 2003] in Chicago
Jack Prelutsky page at Academy of American Poets [est. 1934]

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Annie Proulx
browse books • movie credits • Wikipedia

"The Shipping News" [1993] won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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Thomas Pynchon
browse books • movie credits • Wikipedia

Pynchon's 'Trifecta'
"V." [1963]
"The Crying of Lot 49" [1966]
"Gravity's Rainbow" [1973]

"Inherent Vice: A Novel" [New York Times bestseller 2009]

"Part noir, part psychedelic romp." Southern California private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to find himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives & passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, fellow dopers, rockers, an ex-girlfriend, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. Penguin 8½x5½ pb [7/2010] for $10.88 Penguin Press 9x6½ hardcover [8/2009] for $18.45 book entry at Wikipedia • watch official video book promo [2:43] at YouTube

"Inherent Vice" [Warner Bros. Dec 2014?]   Gordita Beach is where the low-rent scum of Los Angeles live and work, while the moneyed scum live and work in Hollywood. Co-produced, adapted & directed by Paul Thomas Anderson; starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Jena Malone, Reese Witherspoon, Sasha Pieterse, Owen Wilson, Wilson Bethel, Maya Rudolph, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, Eric Roberts, Sam Jaeger, Jillian Bell, Katherine Waterston, Yvette Yates, Martin Donovan & Jeannie Berlin DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch 10/2014 official trailer [2:35] at YouTube

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Philip Roth [1933-2018]
Roth won two National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize in 1998, the Man Booker International Prize in 2011,
two National Book Critics Circle awards, and three PEN/Faulkner Awards
browse books • movie credits • Wikipedia

Roth: Novels & Stories, 1959-1962 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5 hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes novella "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Five Short Stories" [1959] & novel "Letting Go [1962] Roth: Novels, 1967–1972 [2005] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [8/2005] for $23.10 includes "When She Was Good" [1967], "Portnoy's Complaint" [1969], "Our Gang" ]1971] & "The Breast" [1972] Roth: Novels, 1973-1977 [2006] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $23.10 includes "The Great American Novel" [1973], "My Life As A Man" [1974] & "The Professor of Desire" [1977] Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy & Epilogue, 1979–1985 [2007] Edited by Ross Miller Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.1 includes "The Ghost Writer' [1979], "Zuckerman Unbound" [1981], "The Anatomy Lesson" [1983], "The Prague Orgy" [1985] & previously unproduced television screenplay for 'The Prague Orgy'

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sci-fi author John Scalzi of Fairfield, California
busy blogger & president (2010-13) of S.F.F.W.A., with 'a reputation as heir to the Heinlein throne'
browse books • official website • Wikipedia

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humorist David Sedaris: browse books & audio

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author Lisa See

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author-actor Sam Shepard [1943-2017]
browse books • Bucknell Univ site • Broadway credits • movie credits

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Jane Smiley of Carmel Valley, California
browse books & audio • Wikipedia

"13 Ways of Looking At The Novel" [2005] by Jane Smiley Anchor 7¾x5¼ pb [9/2006] for $10.85 Knopf 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2005] for $17.79

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screenwriter-playwright Tom Stoppard
browse books • Broadway credits • movie credits • Wikipedia

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Mildred D. Taylor [b. 1943] lives in Colorado
Taylor won the Newbery Medal in 1977 and the 2020 CSK-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
browse books • homepage at Mississippi Writers • IMDb listing • author entry at Wikipedia

Logan Family book series

"The Land" prequel [2001]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803719507/

"Song of The Trees" [1975]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K2EEWMA/

"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" [1976]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/110199388X/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078173/
http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Thunder-Hear-My-Cry/dp/B000H58IZW/ vhs
http://www.amazon.com/Roll-Thunder-Hear-Cry-VHS/dp/6302622867/

"Let The Circle Be Unbroken" [1981]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101997540/

"The Friendship" [1987]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803704186/

"The Gold Cadillac" [1987]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803703422/

"Mississippi Bridge" [1990]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581181183/

"The Road To Memphis" [1992]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803703406/

"The Well: David's Story" [1995]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FKTAQKY/

"All The Days Past, All The Days To Come" concluding novel [2020]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399257306/

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Lisa Tucker of Philadelphia, PA
browse books • official website

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Luis Valdez
browse books • videos/DVDs • Broadway credits • credits at IMDb

El Teatro Campesino [est. 1965]

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Vνctor Villaseρor: books • official website

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David Foster Wallace [1962-2008]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

  "Infinite Jest" [1996] by David Foster Wallace

"The David Foster Wallace Reader" [2014] Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [11/2014] for $16.99 Hamish Hamilton 9¼x6 pb [11/2014] out of print/used Little, Brown & Co. 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2014] for $24.31 Little, Brown & Co. Limited Edition slipcase hardcover [11/2014] out of print/sold out

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scifi/fantasy writer Connie Willis lives in Greeley, Colorado
browse books • official website • author entry at Wikipedia

"The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories" [2013] Ten stories and three award speeches in 500 pages, with 'new author commentary' Kindle Edition from Del Rey/Random House [7/2013] for $13.99 Del Rey Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/2014] for $13.03 deckle-edge hardcover [7/2013] for $28.00

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author & journalist Tom Wolfe [1930-2018]
browse books • official website • credits at IMDb • author entry at Wikipedia

here on the American Authors Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
on Page One-A:  Anthologies & Literary History  •  on Page One-B:  Early American Authors
on Page Two:  Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three:  Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z
on Page Four:  Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five:  Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
here on Page Six: XX-XXIst Century Authors  top of page
Ethnic-American Authors Page
New Mexico Authors Page
Authors of Britain Pages • Authors of France Page • Authors of Russia Page

American Poets Pages including The Beats

Spirit of America Bookstore's American Short Stories Pages

Spirit of America Bookstore's Great Books & Great Authors Page
American Literature of The XIXth Century Page
American Literature of The XXth Century Page

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