NATHANAEL WEST (1903-1940)

Miss Lonelyhearts

ERSKINE CALDWELL (1903-1987)

Tobacco Road God's Little Acre

JAMES T. FARRELL (1904-1979)

Studs Lonigan

JOHN O'HARA (1905-1970)

Appointment in Samarra

AYN RAND (1905 in Russia--1982)

Atlas Shrugged The Fountainhead

ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)

All the King's Men

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)

Native Son

FREDERICK GIPSON (1908-1973)

Old Yeller

WILLIAM SAROYAN (1908-1981)

The Human Comedy

JAMES AGEE (1909-1955)

A Death in the Family

WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK (1909-1971) Western

The Ox-Bow Incident

CARSON McCULLERS (1917-1967)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Reflections in a Golden Eye The Member of the Wedding

JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969)

On the Road (tales)

MARY FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)

Wise Blood

PHILIP K. DICK (1928-1982) Science Fiction

The Man in the High Castle Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE (1937-1969)

A Confederacy of Dunces