Jewish Writers

This is a list of Jewish American writers.

Authors

* Kathy Acker, writer

* Forrest J. Ackerman, science fiction author & fan

* Nelson Algren, novelist

* Jonathan Ames, author

* Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer

* Isaac Asimov, science fiction author

* Paul Auster, author

* Peter S. Beagle, novelist

* Saul Bellow, writer, Nobel Prize (1976)

* Robert Bloch, science fiction author

* Harold Bloom, literary critic

* Judy Blume, children's author

* Jane Bowles, writer & playwright

* David Brin, science fiction author

* Michael Chabon, novelist

* E. L. Doctorow, writer

* Harlan Ellison, 'speculative fiction' writer

* Howard Fast, novelist

* Raymond Federman, postmodernist writer

* Edna Ferber, author

* Jonathan Safran Foer, writer

* Kinky Friedman, crime writer & singer/songwriter

* Natalie Goldberg, author & teacher

* William Goldman, novelist & screenwriter

* Joe Haldeman, science fiction author

* Daniel Handler, writer

* Joseph Heller, novelist

* Mark Helprin, novelist

* Erica Jong, author

* Jonathan Kellerman, crime novelist

* Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer

* Jerzy Kosinski, writer

* Jonathan Kozol, writer & educator

* Edward E. Kramer, writer & editor

* Judith Krantz, romance writer

* Julius Lester, children's writer (convert)

* Ira Levin, author

* Norman Mailer, writer

* Bernard Malamud, writer

* Walter Mosley, murder-mystery novelist (half)

* Cynthia Ozick, novelist

* Grace Paley, short story writer & poet

* Dorothy Parker, writer, poet & wit (half Jewish)

* S. J. Perelman, humorist

* Marge Piercy, novelist, poet

* Chaim Potok, author & rabbi

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

* Harold Robbins, author

* Philip Roth, novelist

* Louis Sachar, children's writer

* J. D. Salinger, author

* Budd Schulberg, novelist & screenwriter

* Maurice Sendak, children's author

* Sidney Sheldon, novelist & screenwriter

* Robert Silverberg, science fiction author

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

* Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize (1978)

* Susan Sontag, essayist & novelist

* Danielle Steel, romance novelist (Jewish father)

* Gertrude Stein, writer, poet & playwright

* George Steiner, literary critic

* Jacqueline Susann, novelist

* Studs Terkel, author & oral historian

* Alice B. Toklas, literary figure

* Lionel Trilling, literary critic

* Scott Turow, mystery writer

* Harry Turtledove, science fiction writer

* Leon Uris, novelist

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

* Irving Wallace, novelist

* Nathanael West, writer

* Elie Wiesel, writer & Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize (1986)

* Herman Wouk, author

* Elizabeth Wurtzel, author (half Jewish)

Journalists

* Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter

* Dan Daniel, sports writer

* Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist

* Pauline & Esther Friedman, advice columnists (Dear Abby and Ann Landers)

* Thomas Friedman, columnist

* Jonah Goldberg, commentator

* David Halberstam, Vietnam reporter

* Seymour Hersh, My Lai reporter

* Michael Kinsley, journalist & commentator

* Paul Krassner, satirist

* Charles Krauthammer, columnist

* Paul Krugman, columnist

* A. J. Liebling, journalist

* Walter Lippmann, journalist & writer

* Joshua Micah Marshall, political blogger

* Shirley Povich, sports columnist

* William Safire, columnist

* George Seldes, investigative journalist

* I. F. Stone, investigative journalist

* Walter Winchell, gossip columnist

Playwrights

* Eve Ensler, playwright (half Jewish)

* Herb Gardner, playwright & cartoonist

* James Goldman, playwright & screenwriter

* Moss Hart, playwright & librettist

* Lillian Hellman, playwright

* George S. Kaufman, playwright

* Sidney Kingsley, playwright

* Arthur Kopit, playwright

* Tony Kushner, playwright

* Arthur Laurents, playwright & librettist

* Jerome Lawrence, playwright

* Craig Lucas, playwright

* David Mamet, playwright

* Donald Margulies, playwright

* Arthur Miller, playwright

* Clifford Odets, playwright

* Elmer Rice, playwright

* Martin Sherman, playwright

* Neil Simon, playwright

* Alfred Uhry, playwright

* Wendy Wasserstein, playwright

Poets

* Charles Bernstein, poet

* Joseph Brodsky, poet, Nobel Prize (1987)

* Allen Ginsberg, beat poet

* Louise Glück, poet

* Jorie Graham, poet

* Marilyn Hacker, poet

* Anthony Hecht, poet

* Richard Howard, poet, translator

* Chester Kallman, poet, librettist

* Bob Kaufman, beat poet (half Jewish)

* Kenneth Koch, poet

* Maxine Kumin, poet

* Stanley Kunitz, poet

* Emma Lazarus, poet

* Philip Levine, poet

* Howard Nemerov, poet

* George Oppen, Objectivist poet

* Alicia Ostriker, poet

* Carl Rakosi, Objectivist poet

* Charles Reznikoff, Objectivist poet

* Adrienne Rich, poet

* Jerome Rothenberg, poet

* Muriel Rukeyser, poet

* Delmore Schwartz, poet

* Karl Shapiro, poet

* Louis Simpson, poet

* Gerald Stern, poet

* Mark Strand, poet

* Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poet

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