EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001)

The Optimist's Daughter

WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG (1911-1999)

Sounder

RALPH ELLISON (1913-1994)

Invisible Man

BERNARD MALAMUD (1914-1986)

The Natural

SAUL BELLOW (1915 in Canada--2005)

Herzog The Adventures of Augie March

HERMAN WOUK (1915- )

The Caine Mutiny The Winds of War

J. D. SALINGER (1919- )

The Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey

ISAAC ASIMOV (1920 in Russia--1992) Science Fiction

Nightfall

RAY BRADBURY (1920- )

Fahrenheit 451 Dandelion Wine

KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (1922- )

Breakfast of Champions Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse-Five

JOSEPH HELLER (1923-1999)

Catch-22

NORMAN MAILER (1923- )

The Naked and the Dead

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)

Go Tell It on the Mountain Giovanni's Room

WILLIAM STYRON (1925-2006)

Sophie's Choice The Confessions Of Nat Turner Lie Down in Darkness

GORE VIDAL (1925- )

Burr Myra Breckinridge

HARPER LEE (1926- )

To Kill a Mockingbird

TONI MORRISON (1931- )

Beloved

JOHN UPDIKE (1932- )

Rabbit, Run Rabbit Redux Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit at Rest

PHILIP ROTH (1933- )

Goodbye, Columbus (novella) Portnoy's Complaint

KEN KESEY (1935-2001)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Sometimes a Great Notion

RICHARD BACH (1936- )

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

THOMAS PYNCHON (1937- )

Gravity's Rainbow