LIST OF JEWISH AMERICAN AUTHORS

''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.''

Contents

A–D

E–K

L–R

S–Z

Literary critics

See also

References

A–D

★ Kathy Acker, writer

★ Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan

★ Nelson Algren, novelist (son of convert)

★ Mary Antin, novelist

★ Bettina Aptheker, lesbian activist, author, and educator^[1]

★ Hannah Arendt, writer

★ Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer

★ Isaac Asimov, science fiction author

★ Paul Auster, author

★ Emily Barton, novelist

★ Peter S. Beagle, novelist

★ Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)

★ Aimee Bender — novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters¹

★ 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

★ Abraham Cahan, author

★ Hortense Calisher, novelist

★ Michael Chabon, novelist

★ 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

★ Anita Diamant, writer

★ E. L. Doctorow, writer

★ Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, memoirist.

E–K

★ Judah David Eisenstein, encyclopedist, Hebrew author

★ Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer

★ Richard Ellmann, literary scholar and biographer ^[3]

★ Howard Fast, novelist

★ Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer

★ Craig Fenton, music author

★ Harvey Fierstein, playwright

★ Jonathan Safran Foer, writer

★ Paula Fox, novelist

★ Betty Friedan, writer

★ Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter

★ Alan Furst, spy novel writer

★ Allen Ginsberg, poet

★ Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the book ''Prisoners''^[4]

★ Myla Goldberg, author

★ Natalie Goldberg, author & teacher

★ Tod Goldberg (1971–) author, journalist^[5]

★ Shari Goldhagen, novelist

★ William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter

★ Yosef Goldman, author

★ Allegra Goodman, novelist

★ Paul Goodman, author

★ Noah Gordon, author

★ Paul Gottfried, author

★ Dan Greenburg, author

★ Scott Greenburg, motivational book author

★ Joe Haldeman, science fiction author

★ Daniel Handler, writer

★ Helene Hanff, writer ^[6]

★ Sam Harris, author

★ Michael H. Hart, author

★ Ben Hecht, journalist, playwright, screenwriter

★ Joseph Heller, novelist

★ Richard Herrnstein, author, psychologist

★ Mark Helprin, novelist

★ J. Richard Jacobs, author, SF novelist

★ Joseph Jacobs [5], folklorist

★ Rona Jaffe, novelist

★ Erica Jong, author

★ Mollie Katzen, chef, cookbook author and artist^[7]

★ Bel Kaufman, author

★ Margo Kaufman, humor author

★ Faye Kellerman, crime novelist; married to Jonathan Kellerman

★ Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist married to Faye Kellerman

★ Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer

★ Jerzy Kosinski, writer

★ Jonathan Kozol, writer & educator

★ Siegfried Kracauer, writer, journalist, film critic/theorist, cultural critic, sociologist

★ Edward E. Kramer, writer & editor

★ Judith Krantz, romance writer

★ Rochelle Majer Krich, author, Anthony Award-winning author of ''Where's Mommy Now?''

★ James Howard Kunstler, novelist and New Urbanist author

★ Tony Kushner, playwright

L–R

★ Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities^[8]

★ Wendy Lesser, arts critic, novelist, editor (atheist)

★ Julius Lester, writer (convert)

★ 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

★ Anthony Lewis, former op-ed columnist, the ''New York Times'', and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer

★ Laura Lippman, crime novelist

★ Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist ^[9]

★ Steve Litt, main author of ''Samba Unleashed'', owner of Troubleshooters.com

★ Sari Locker, author, advice columnist and sex educator

★ Mina Loy, poet

★ Norman Mailer, writer

★ Bernard Malamud, writer

★ David Mamet, playwright

★ Seth Margolis, novelist (Jewish father)

★ John Markoff, writer and journalist

★ Kati Marton, writer and journalist

★ James McBride, author (Jewish mother)

★ Arthur Miller, playwright

★ Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (Jewish mother)

★ Clifford Odets, playwright

★ Tillie Olson, author

★ Cynthia Ozick, novelist

★ Abraham Pais, historian of science

★ Grace Paley, short story writer & poet

★ Sara Paretsky, mystery writer

★ Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (Jewish father)

★ S. J. Perelman, humorist

★ Jodi Picoult, novelist^[10]

★ Marge Piercy, novelist, poet

★ Rachel Pollack, science-fiction author

★ Virginia Postrel , author & columnist (convert)

★ Chaim Potok, novelist

★ Ayn Rand, writer (atheist)

★ H.A. & Margret Rey, children's writers

★ Steven V. Roberts, journalist, writer, and commentator

★ Alexandra Robbins, author

★ Harold Robbins, author

★ J.I. Rodale, author, publisher, health promoter

★ Henry Roth, writer

★ Philip Roth, novelist

★ Murray Rothbard, essayist,economist & social critic.

S–Z

★ Louis Sachar, children's writer

★ J. D. Salinger, author (Jewish father)

★ Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter

★ Maurice Sendak, children's author

★ Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter

★ Irwin Shaw, novelist

★ Art Shay, author and photographer

★ Gary Shteyngart (1972– ) Russian-born writer^[11]

★ Robert Silverberg, science fiction author

★ Jack M. Silverstein, columnist and commentator

★ Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet & musician

★ Neil Simon, playwright

★ 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^[10]

★ Daniel Stern, novelist and short story writer

★ Jacqueline Susann, novelist

★ Jeff Tamarkin, music author

★ Studs Terkel, author & oral historian

★ Alice B. Toklas, literary figure

★ Scott Turow, mystery writer

★ Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer

★ Leopold Tyrmand, writer [11]

★ Leon Uris, novelist

★ Chris Van Allsburg, children's writer (converted)

★ Judith Viorst (1932–) author, known for her children's literature^[12]

★ Ayelet Waldman, mystery writer, novelist

★ Rebecca Walker (1969–) activist and writer^[13]

★ 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^[14]

★ Nathanael West, writer

★ Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986) (naturalized citizen)

★ Marianne Williamson, author (self-help, spiritual) & lecturer

★ Naomi Wolf , feminist, author & social critic

★ Herman Wouk, novelist, writer

★ Elizabeth Wurtzel, author

★ Anzia Yezierska, author

★ Boris Zubry, author (fiction and political satire), inventor, educator

Literary critics

★ M. H. Abrams

★ Harold Bloom

★ Stephen Greenblatt

★ Neil Leon Rudenstine

★ Elaine Showalter

★ Lionel Trilling

See also

★ Jewish American literature

★ List of Jewish American poets

★ List of Jewish American playwrights

★ List of Jewish American journalists

References

1. "other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker... Aimee Bender"
2. 'Cooper' — [1] "Plenty of Jewish authors will be in the mix, including... Bernard Cooper"
3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the second of the three sons (there were no daughters) of James Isaac Ellmann, lawyer, a Jewish Romanian immigrant, and his wife, Jeanette Barsook, an immigrant from Kiev in Ukraine"
4. 'Jeffrey Goldberg' — [2] "Goldberg recently won the Anti-Defamation League's Daniel Pearl Award and goes so far as to suggest that being Jewish has benefited him in his dealings with terrorists. "I've always found it to my advantage. I use my Jewishness as a tool.""
5. 'Todd Goldberg' — [3] "other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Tod Goldberg"
6. ''84 Charing Cross Road'', Nov 18 1949: "I'm Jewish myself." Cited here [4]
7. 'Katzen' — [6] "No, my family was not vegetarian growing up, but I came from a Jewish family that was, although not strictly Kosher, had a lot of awareness when it came to eating meat." [7] "The keynote speakers will be two popular local Jewish cookbook writers, Mollie Katzen and Joyce Goldstein."
8. 'Lebowitz' — [8] "Jewish figures such as... author Fran Lebowitz"
9. ''The Economist'', Jan 13, 2007, p.42: "a triple outsider — working-class, Jewish and left-wing"
10. ''Jewish Chronicle'', April 27, 2007 p.50: "The Jodi Picoult mystery"
11. 'Shteyngart' — [9] "Russian Jewish Author Gary Shteyngart"
12. 'Viorst' — [12] "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..."
13. Rebecca Walker bringing message to Expo Ross Ross
14. 'Wasserstein' — [13] "“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.”"