william s burroughs, hunter s thompson, jack kerouac, mark twain, jd salinger, raymond chandler, william faulkner, dashiel hammett, truman capote, amiri baraka, nelson george, charles bukowski, thomas pynchon, tc boyle, jane bowles....

A superb list Mister Hammett. Thank you.

Charles Bukowski (Ham On Rye)
Tom Wolfe (Bonfire Of Vanities)
Douglas Coupland (Generation X)
Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon)
Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep)
James Ellroy (Black Dahlia)
Brad Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero)
Allen Ginsberg (Howl)
Jack Kerouac (On The Road)
Ernest Hemingway (For Whom The Bell Tolls)
Philip K. Dick (Ubik)
T.C. Boyle (Water Music)
Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex)
Scott F. Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)
Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint)
Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer )
Truman Capote (In Cold Blood)
Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)
Jack London (White Fang)
Carson McCullers (The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter)
John Irving (The World According To Garp)
John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
Henry David Thoreau (Walden & Civil Disobedience)
Henry Miller (Tropic Of Cancer)
Hunter S. Thompson (Kingdom Of Fear)
David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
Raymond Carver (Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?)
William Burroughs (Naked Lunch)
Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)
William Faulkner (The Sound And The Fury)
Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy)
Arthur Miller (Dead Of A Salesman)
Saul Bellow (Herzog)
Toni Morrison (Jazz)
T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five)
Robert Frost (The Collected Poems)
Walt Whitman (Leaves Of Gras)
Hubert Selby (Last Exit To Brooklyn)
Edgar Allen Poe (The Fall Of The House Of Usher)
Das sind dann schon mehr als vierzig und ich fürchte, es fehlen immer noch ganz viele: Jonathan Franzen, David Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Herman Melville, Ray Bradbury, Wally Lamb, Irene Dische, Sylvia Plath, Siri Hustvedt (und dass mir nicht mehr Frauen einfallen, liegt primär an mir. Und nicht daran, dass es nicht auch grossartige amerikanische SchriftstellerINNEN gäbe), Don DeLillo, Ken Kesey, Armistead Maupin, Harold Brodkey, Ezra Pound, H.P. Lovecraft und irgendwie... gehört wohl auch Stephen King auf diese Liste.

Try the concept of the 'Great American Novel':
19th century
1851: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
1884: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20th century
1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
1936: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
1938: John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy
1939: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
1951: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
1952: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
1953: Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
1955: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
1960: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
1973: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
1975: William Gaddis's J R
1985: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
1987: Toni Morrison's Beloved
1997: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

Henry David Thoreau gehört von mir aus auch noch dazu.

Mark Twain gehört definitiv dazu (Huckleberry Finn).

Stephen King

Arthur Miller

Walter Whitman - Leaves of Grass
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Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, John Steinbeck, James Sallis..?!?

Hariet Beecher Stowe

...scott f. fitzgerald...

philip roth
tc boyle
john irving
joyce carol oates
jack kerouac
upton sinclair

...evtl. Jonathan Franzen...

John Updike, Virginia Woolfe, Philippe Roth, T.C. Boyle, J.D.Salinger, Richard Yates, Patricia Highsmith, James Ellroy....