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This is an alphabetical, referenced list of '''notable authors'''. For other Jewish Americans, see [[Lists of American Jews]].
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== Authors ==
==A–C==
* [[Renata Adler]], journalist, critic, novelist<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bigsby |first1=Christopher W. E. |title=Arthur Miller, 1915–1962 |date=2008 |publisher= [[Harvard University Press]] |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0674035058 |page=244}}</ref>
* [[Warren Adler]], novelist (''[[The War of the Roses (novel)|The War of the Roses]]''), short-story writer<ref>Berger, Warren (December 18, 1989). [https://books.google.com/books?id=NugCAAAAMBAJ&dq=warren+adler+New+York+Magazine&pg=PA31 "The Spoils of War"]. ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''. Retrieved May 26, 2026.</ref>
* [[Mary Antin]], memoirist (''[[The Promised Land (autobiography)|The Promised Land]]'')<ref>{{cite web | url =https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/antin-mary | title =Mary Antin | last =Nadell | first =Pamela S. | date =February 27, 2009 | website =Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia | publisher = [[Jewish Women's Archive]] | access-date =January 1, 2020 | quote =Although earlier she had found that her Jewish heritage paled before the American past that now belonged to her, she never repudiated her Jewish identity. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/190 190] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Molly Antopol]], short-story writer; 2014 [[National Book Award]] nominee<ref>"The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35, 2013" "[[National Book Foundation]]" [http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2013_antopol.html#.VGvxJFfF-RU] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904155921/http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2013_antopol.html#.VGvxJFfF-RU |date=September 4, 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Jacob M. Appel]], novelist (''[[The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up]]''), short-story writer (''[[Einstein's Beach House]]'' collection)<ref>Appel, JM. ''Phoning Home'' 2014.</ref>
* [[Max Apple]], novelist, short-story writer<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/8 8]–12 | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Sholem Asch]], novelist, essayist, playwright<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/165 165] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Isaac Asimov]], novelist, short-story writer, prolific author of nonfiction; known for his science-fiction works about robots and for writing books in nine of the ten categories of the [[Dewey Decimal Classification]]<ref name="AsimovFAQ-DeweyDecimal">{{cite web | last1 = Seiler| first1 = Edward | last2 = Jenkins |first2 = John H.|url=http://www.asimovonline.com/asimov_FAQ.html#others11| title= Isaac Asimov FAQ|publisher=Isaac Asimov Home Page | date = June 27, 2008| access-date =July 2, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Shalom Auslander]], novelist<ref>{{cite news | last =Anastas | first =Benjamin | title =Painfully Religious | newspaper =[[The New York Times]] | date =October 21, 2007 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/books/review/Anastas-t.html | access-date =January 1, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Paul Auster]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/13 13]–20 | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Dorothy Walter Baruch]], author, child [[psychologist]]<ref>{{cite web | url =https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/baruch-dorothy-walter | title =Dorothy Walter Baruch | last =Hurwitz | first =Ann | date =February 27, 2009 | website =Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia | publisher = [[Jewish Women's Archive]] | access-date =January 1, 2020 | quote =Dorothy Baruch was a member of B’nai B’rith and, in 1928, organized and directed a parent education department for the National Council Of Jewish Women.}}</ref>
* [[Jonathan Baumbach]]<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | publisher =[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | date =1997 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/21 21]–27| url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Saul Bellow]], novelist; winner, [[Pulitzer Prize]], the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]], and the [[National Medal of Arts]]<ref>[[Mel Gussow|Gussow, Mel]];  [[Charles McGrath (critic)|McGrath, Charles]] (April 6, 2005). [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/books/06bellow.html "Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life into American Novel, Dies at 89"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> 
* [[Aimee Bender]], novelist, short-story writer; known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters<ref name="journal">"other Jewish authors who may be of interest... Bettina Aptheker... Aimee Bender"</ref>
* [[Rosebud Ben-Oni]], winner, the [[Alice James Award]] (for ''If This Is the Age We End Discovery'')
* [[Harold Bloom]], literary critic<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maltby |first1=Kate |title=Harold Bloom, an Irreplaceable Genius of Criticism |url=https://www.thejc.com/life/books/harold-bloom-an-irreplaceable-genius-of-criticism-xwzzl9al |work = [[The Jewish Chronicle]] |language=en |date=23 October 2019}}</ref>
* [[Judy Blume]], children's author
* [[Agnes Borinsky]], young-adult author, playwright
* [[Shmuley Boteach]], author of over thirty nonfiction books, including ''Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy'' and ''[[Kosher Jesus]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thejewishvoice.com/2019/08/shmuley-boteachs-daughter-opens-kosher-sex-shop-in-tel-aviv-as-dad-promotes-his-book/|title = Shmuley Boteach's Daughter Opens 'Kosher Sex' Shop in Tel Aviv as Dad Promotes His Book|date = 27 August 2019}}</ref>
* [[Joshua Braff]], novelist<ref name="jj">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12853 |title=Another Braff Tale of Jewish Ennui |access-date=February 13, 2008 |date=September 17, 2004 |first=Naomi
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|work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018222133/http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=12853 |archive-date=October 18, 2006 }}</ref> 
* [[Melvin Jules Bukiet]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/41 41]–45 | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Abraham Cahan]], writer (including journalist); editor of Yiddish newspaper ''[[Jewish Daily Forward]]''<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/abraham-cahan | title =Abraham Cahan (1860–1951)| website =Jewish Virtual Library | publisher =American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise | access-date =January 1, 2020 | quote =Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), was a Lithuanian-born Jewish American author, socialist leader and editor of the Yiddish newspaper the ''Jewish Daily Forward''. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/122 122] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Hortense Calisher]], novelist; president, [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/512 512] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal]], colonial-era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/26 26] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Michael Chabon]], novelist, short-story writer; winner, 2001 [[Pulitzer Prize]] (for ''[[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]'')<ref>"Arctic Jews: An Interview With Michael Chabon" ''[[Dissent (American magazine)|Dissent Magazine]]'' April 14, 2007 [http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/arctic-jews-an-interview-with-michael-chabon]</ref>
* [[Arthur A. Cohen]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook | publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/46 46]–54 | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Joshua Cohen (writer)|Joshua Cohen]], novelist (''[[Witz (novel)|Witz]]'')<ref>DeAngelis, Martin, [http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/former-cape-may-resident-receives-glowing-reviews-for-page-book/article_96ebd46f-9dd9-5b7c-aa37-f9140072c4b4.html "Former Cape May Resident Receives Glowing Reviews for 800+ Page Book, ''Witz''"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', July 30, 2010. Retrieved January 1, 2020. "He pulls off that trick in fiction by referring to his tribe as 'The Affiliated,' but in his real life, Cohen has hardly shied away from Jewish culture. He spent five years writing for ''The Forward'', the international Jewish newspaper whose past writers have included Nobel Prize winners Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel. Cohen also wrote for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, or 'the AP of Jewish newspapers,' as he puts it."</ref>
* [[Bernard Cooper]], novelist, short-story writer<ref>{{dead link|date=May 2026}} ''Cooper'' – [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16464 "Plenty of Jewish Authors Will Be in the Mix, including... Bernard Cooper"]. ''[[Jewish Journal]]''.</ref>

==D–F==
* [[Edward Dahlberg]], novelist, essayist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/378 378] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Anita Diamant]], non-fiction writer (including journalist), novelist (''[[The Red Tent (Diamant novel)|The Red Tent]]'')<ref>Ghent, Janet Silver (February&nbsp;14, 2014). "[https://www.jweekly.com/2014/02/14/celebrating-the-power-of-sisterhood-and-jewish-ritual-author-anita-diamant/ Celebrating the power of women and ritual: Author Diamant in conversation at JCCs]". ''[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]]''. jweekly.com. Retrieved January 1, 2020</ref>
* [[E. L. Doctorow]], novelist<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1975374 Intersections: E.L. Doctorow on Rhythm and Writing], June 28, 2004.</ref><ref name=Codde/>
* [[Bob Dylan]], singer-songwriter; often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time; winner, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] 2016<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/facts/, Bob Dylan
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016</ref>
* [[Joel Eisenberg]], screenwriter, producer, novelist (co-wrote, with [[Steve Hillard]], ''[[The Chronicles of Ara]]'' fantasy series)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/chronicles-of-ara-tv-show-joel-eisenberg-steve-hillard-ovation-1201625025/|title = 'Chronicles of Ara' Miniseries in the Works at Ovation (Exclusive)|date = 23 October 2015}}</ref>
* [[Stanley Elkin]], novelist, essayist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Richard Elman (writer)|Richard Elman]], novelist, journalist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Nathan Englander]], short-story writer, novelist; finalist, [[Pulitzer Prize]]<ref>"Translating God and Others: An Interview with Nathan Englander" ''[[Heeb Magazine]]'' April 4, 2012 [http://heebmagazine.com/nathan-englander/35005]</ref>
* [[Nora Ephron]], journalist, screenwriter<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Hannah |title=The Jewish side of Nora Ephron |url=https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-711523 |work = [[The Jerusalem Post]] |language=en |date=8 July 2022}}</ref>
* [[Marcia Falk]], poet, liturgist, painter, translator<ref name=wpa>[http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/falk-marcia Marcia Falk, Jewish Women's Archive]</ref>
* [[Preston Fassel]], novelist, biographer, screenwriter<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Paikoff |first=Ilana |title=New Member Spotlight |url=https://www.tedallas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/May-June-2024-final.pdf |magazine=The Window |location=Dallas, Texas |publisher=Temple Emanu-El}}</ref>
* [[Kenneth Fearing]], novelist, editor, poet<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/390 390] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Edna Ferber]], Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist<ref>{{cite web | url =https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/ferber-edna | title =Edna Ferber | last =Burstein | first =Janet| date =February 27, 2009 | website =Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia | publisher =Jewish Women's Archive | access-date =January 1, 2020 | quote =In time Ferber even developed a sense of collective Jewish identity that highlighted the positive compensatory effects of oppression. She believed that the Jew, left in peace, would have lost his 'aggressiveness, his tenacity and neurotic ambition.' More important, oppression had yielded to Jews the priceless gift of 'creative self-expression.'}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/269 269] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Barthold Fles]],<ref>{{cite book
  | title = Hanging On: Or, How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life
  | first = Edmund
  | last = Love
  | publisher = [[Wayne State University Press]]
  | isbn = 978-0-8143-1931-4
  | year = 1988
  | page = 258
  | quote = I finished the book in 1941 and sent it off to Barthold Fles, a New York literary agent who had been recommended to me. Mr. Fles was a Jew and in March, 1941, Jews were pretty sensitive about heroic German naval officers. To say that Mr. Fles was insulted was the understatement of the year.
 }}</ref> literary agent, non-fiction writer
* [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], novelist<ref>{{cite news|last=Menaker|first=Daniel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/books/review/jonathan-safran-foer-here-i-am.html?emc=edit_bk_20160909&nl=bookreview&nlid=11915705&ref=headline|title=Jonathan Safran Foer's New Novel Wrestles with the Demands of Jewish Identity |work=[[The New York Times Book Review]]|date=September 9, 2016|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Bruce Jay Friedman]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook | publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/92 92]–96 | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Kinky Friedman]], novelist, musician<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-15-vw-489-story.html|title=The Tale of a Kinky Cowboy Who Made Good|last=Teitelbaum|first=Sheldon|date=1989-10-15|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>
* [[Sanford Friedman]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Shatzky | first1 =Joel | last2 =Taub | first2 =Michael| last3 =Sampath Nelson | first3 = Emmanuel| title =Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook | publisher =Greenwood Publishing Group | date =1997 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat/page/357 357] | url =https://archive.org/details/contemporaryjewi0000shat| url-access =registration | isbn =9780313294624}}</ref>
* [[Abraham Solomon Freidus]], author of bibliographic and library works<ref>{{cite journal |author-link=Richard James Horatio Gottheil |first=Richard |last=Gottheil |title=Abraham Solomon Freidus |journal=Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society |volume=29 |pages=163–165 |year=1925}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Fuchs]], novelist, screenwriter, essayist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/501 501] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>

==G–J==
* [[Jacob Geller]], video-game critic<ref name=Geller>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishboston.com/read/running-on-serendipity-jacob-geller-on-video-game-journalism/ |title=Running on Serendipity: Jacob Geller on Video Game Journalism |last=Engber |first=Corinne |work=Jewish Boston |date=February 16, 2021 |accessdate=June 2, 2024 |archive-date=May 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512025131/https://www.jewishboston.com/read/running-on-serendipity-jacob-geller-on-video-game-journalism/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Herbert Gold]], novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8g44nq1/?query=Herbert%2520Gold|title=Finding Aid to the Herbert Gold Papers, 1942–2011}}</ref>
* [[Mike Gold]], communist novelist, literary critic<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/357 357]| url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Emma Goldman]], anarchist writer<ref>Emma Goldman, ''Living'', p. 24.</ref>
* [[Paul Goodman]], social critic and author of ''[[Growing Up Absurd]]''<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n551 522] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Vivian Gornick]], essayist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian|title=Vivian Gornick|author=Grauer, Tresa|publisher=Jewish Women's Archives Encyclopedia|access-date=July 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924002048/https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/gornick-vivian|archive-date=September 24, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Rebecca Gratz]], educator, journalist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n9 44] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Gerald Green (author)|Gerald Green]], author, including journalist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Joseph Heller]], novelist (''[[Catch-22]]'')<ref>Loveday, Veronica. "Joseph Heller." Joseph Heller (9781429802864) (2005): 1–2. History Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. Dec 1, 2010</ref><ref name=Codde/>
* [[Christopher Hitchens]], literary critic, political activist<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/14/politics Look who's talking] ''The Observer'', 14 April 2002</ref><ref>Hitch-22, page 352.</ref>
* [[Alice Hoffman]], novelist, author of ''Practical Magic'', and thirty-odd other books. 
* [[Irving Howe]], literary critic<ref>Rodden, John and Goffman, Ethan (2010). "Chronology". ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=DCwaO17isQMC&dq=Irving+Howe+Horenstein&pg=PR15 Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations With Irving Howe]''. West Lafayette, IN: [[Purdue University Press]]. {{ISBN|9781557535511}}. Pg. xv.</ref>
* [[Horace Kallen]], author, philosopher and academic<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n235 206] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Ben Joravsky]], American newspaper columnist, author

==K–M==
* [[Daniel Keyes]], novelist (''[[Flowers for Algernon]]''); teacher
* [[Nicole Krauss]], novelist<ref name="Wagner">{{Cite magazine |author = Wagner, Erica |date=20 August 2017 |title= Nicole Krauss: 'The self is more or less an invention from beginning to end'|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/20/nicole-krauss-forest-dark-self-israel-kafka-interview |magazine=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=October 9, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Emma Lazarus]], poet, novelist<ref>{{cite web| title = Jewish Women's Archive: Emma Lazarus| url = http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/lazarus/el2.html| access-date = 2008-01-10| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109112415/http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/lazarus/el2.html| archive-date = 2008-01-09}}</ref> 
* [[Jane Leavy]], sportswriter, biographer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://povichcenter.umd.edu/still-no-cheering-press-box/chapter/Jane-Leavy/index.html |title=Still No Cheering in the Press Box: Jane Leavy |website=Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism |publisher=[[University of Maryland]] |access-date=2024-03-02 |archive-date=2022-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707012850/https://povichcenter.umd.edu/still-no-cheering-press-box/chapter/Jane-Leavy/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Fran Lebowitz]], author (including humorist), public speaker<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hennigan |first1=Adrian |title=A Legendary Jewish New Yorker Is Never Lost for Words in Netflix’s 'Pretend It's a City' |url=https://www.haaretz.com/life/television/2021-01-11/ty-article/.premium/a-legendary-new-york-jew-is-never-lost-for-words-in-netflixs-pretend-its-a-city/0000017f-db0b-df62-a9ff-dfdfbec50000 |work = [[Haaretz]]}}</ref>
* [[Isaac Leeser]], author, publisher<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n102 73]| url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Julius Lester]], author, academic; African-American convert to Judaism<ref>{{cite news | last =Fox | first =Margalit | title =Julius Lester, Chronicler of Black America, Is Dead at 78| newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | date =January 19, 2018 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/obituaries/julius-lester-chronicler-of-black-america-is-dead-at-79.html| access-date =January 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title =Julius Lester: There's 'no magic formula' for blacks and Jews | newspaper =[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]] | publisher =San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc. | date =February 16, 1996 | url =http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/2554/julius-lester-there-s-no-magic-formula-for-blacks-and-jews | access-date =January 3, 2020 }}</ref>
* [[Meyer Levin]], novelist, journalist<ref name=Codde/><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n466 437] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Ludwig Lewisohn]], novelist, essayist, editor<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n372 343] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Seymour Martin Lipset]], [[political sociologist]]<ref>''The Economist'', Jan 13, 2007, p.42: "a triple outsider — working-class, Jewish and left-wing"</ref>
* [[Norman Mailer]], novelist, journalist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Bernard Malamud]], Pulitzer Prize–winning author<ref>{{cite news |title= Bernard Malamud Dies at 71 |author= Rothstein, Mervyn|newspaper= [[The New York Times]]|date= March 19, 1986|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/19/books/malamud-obit.html|format=obituary|access-date=2010-07-30}}</ref>
* [[David Mamet]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]–, [[Academy Award]]–, [[Golden Globe]]–, and [[Tony Award]]–winning author
* [[Wallace Markfield]], novelist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Theresa Malkiel]], novelist, [[socialist]] activist<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Sally M. |last1=Miller |title=From Sweatshop Worker to Labor Leader: Theresa Malkiel, A Case Study |journal=American Jewish History |volume=68 |issue=2 |date=December 1978 |pages=189–205 |jstor=23881894}}</ref>
* [[Wallace Markfield]], novelist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Brad Meltzer]], novelist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Walter Mosley]], crime novelist<ref>Johanna Neuman (September–October 2010) [http://www.momentmag.com/the-curious-case-of-walter-mosley/ "The Curious Case of Walter Mosley"]. ''[[Moment Magazine]]''.</ref>

==N–R==
* [[Reggie Nadelson]], novelist; known particularly for her mystery works<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thejc.com/arts/books/15550/stay-cold-blooded-sun | work=Jewish Chronicle (London) | title=Stay cold-blooded in the sun | access-date=2012-04-02}}</ref>
* [[Moyshe Nadir]], writer, including journalist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n259 230] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Mordecai Manuel Noah]], journalist, playwright, diplomat<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n83 54] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Joseph Opatoshu]], novelist, short-story writer<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n282 253] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Cynthia Ozick]], novelist, essayist<ref>Brockes, Emma,[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jul/04/cynthia-ozick-life-writing-interview "A life in writing: Cynthia Ozick"], ''The Guardian'', 2 July 2011</ref>
* [[Leo Pearlstein]], food writer<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=CFSI |date=2020-10-01 |title=Leo Pearlstein Celebrates His 100th Birthday on October 5, 2020 |url=https://calseafood.net/2020/10/01/leo-pearlstein-celebrates-his-100th-birthday-on-october-5-2020/ |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=California Fisheries and Seafood Institute (CFSI) |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[S. J. Perelman]], [[Academy Award]]–winning screenwriter, novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n429 400] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Jodi Picoult]], novelist<ref>"The Jodi Picoult Mystery". ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]''. April 27, 2007. p.50.</ref>
* [[Marge Piercy]], novelist, short-story writer
* [[Belva Plain]], novelist<ref name=NYT-20101017>{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Belva Plain, Novelist of Jewish-American Life, Dies at 95|first=Elsa|last=Dixler|date=October 17, 2010|access-date=January 3, 2020|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101018232301/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18plain.html| archive-date= 18 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> 
* [[Chaim Potok]], novelist, rabbi<ref name="Fox">{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=Chaim Potok, 73, Dies; Novelist Illumined the World of Hasidic Judaism|work= [[The New York Times]]|page=17|date=July 24, 2002|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/24/books/chaim-potok-73-dies-novelist-illumined-the-world-of-hasidic-judaism.html|author-link=Margalit Fox}}</ref>
* [[Nathan Raab]], author, including historian<ref>{{cite news |last=Zehavi |first=Ben |title=Only copy of US recognition of Israel signed by Truman up for sale |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/only-copy-of-us-recognition-of-israel-signed-by-truman-up-for-sale/#:~:text=Raab%20is%20an%20active%20member,community%20and%20has%20visited%20Israel. |access-date=2025-05-06 |work = [[The Times of Israel]] |language=en-US |issn=0040-7909}}</ref>
* [[Ayn Rand]], novelist; founder of [[Objectivism]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Heller |first=Anne C. |title=Ayn Rand and the World She Made |location=New York |publisher=Nan A. Talese/Doubleday |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-385-51399-9 |title-link=Ayn Rand and the World She Made |pages=3–5}}; {{cite book |last=Britting |first=Jeff |title=Ayn Rand |author-link=Jeff Britting |location=New York |publisher=Overlook Duckworth |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58567-406-0 |series=Overlook Illustrated Lives |pages=2–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/aynrand00jeff}}; {{cite book |last=Burns |first=Jennifer |title=Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right |location=New York |publisher= [[Oxford University Press]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-19-532487-7 |title-link=Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right |page=9}}</ref>
* [[Lev Raphael]], novelist, essayist<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.levraphael.com/sgWAJL.html | title =Writing a Jewish Life | last =Raphael | first =Lev | website =Lev Raphael: voice of the second generation | access-date = January 4, 2020| quote =A son of Holocaust survivors, Raphael came to a positive Jewish identity late in life and his gay identity even later. }}</ref>
* [[Lea Bayers Rapp]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkon=subsection&linkid=1775 
 |title=Lea Bayers Rapp 
 |publisher=[[Kensington Books]] 
 |quote=As a Jewish daughter, wife, and mother, she has both [[yeshiva]] and secular backgrounds and writes from vast personal experience that includes constant joyous rounds of [[bar and bat mitzvah]]s, engagement parties, bridal showers, and weddings. 
 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206093147/http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=1775&linkon=subsection 
 |archive-date=2009-12-06 
}}</ref> non-fiction writer, children's fiction writer
* [[Marcus Eli Ravage]], memoirist, essayist, biographer; author of ''An American in the Making'', ''The Jew Pays'' and others<ref>{{cite journal
 | author= Stanciu, Cristina
 | title = Marcus E. Ravage's ''An American in the Making'', Americanization, and New Immigrant Representation
 | journal = [[MELUS]]
 | volume = 40
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 5–29
 | year = 2015
 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]], Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
 | issn = 0163-755X
| doi=10.1093/melus/mlv007
 | jstor = 24569972
 | url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/24569972
 | accessdate = 15 September 2025}}</ref>
* [[Avrom Reyzen]], autobiographer, editor, poet, short-story writer<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n173 144] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Frank Rich]], essayist, journalist<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silverman |first1=Jacob |title=Frank Rich Visits Reddit |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/frank-rich-visits-reddit-2 |website=Tablet |language=en |date=30 August 2012}}</ref>
* [[Nathaniel Rich (novelist)|Nathaniel Rich]], essayist, novelist<ref>{{cite web |last1=Holson |first1=Laura M. |title=The Family Franchise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/fashion/nathaniel-and-simon-the-brothers-rich.html | work = [[The New York Times]] |date=4 January 2013}}</ref>
* [[Simon Rich]], humorist, short-story writer, novelist<ref>{{Cite web |last=Meyer |first=Tami Kamin |date=November 4, 2019 |title=Jewish writer Simon Rich wins Thurber Prize for American Humor |url=https://www.columbusjewishnews.com/news/local_news/jewish-writer-simon-rich-wins-thurber-prize-for-american-humor/article_c68fc864-ff2d-11e9-aff2-83f2014f427d.html |website=Columbus Jewish News |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Isaac Rosenfeld]], essayist, short-story writer, novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n599 570] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Leo Rosten]], humorist, lexicographer<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/books/leo-rosten-a-writer-who-helped-yiddish-make-its-way-into-english-is-dead-at-88.html|title=Leo Rosten, a Writer Who Helped Yiddish Make Its Way Into English, Is Dead at 88|first=Margalit|last=Fox|date=February 20, 1997|work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n525 496] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Norman Rosten]], novelist<ref>[http://www.jbuff.com/c070303.htm Jewish American Writers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427121345/http://jbuff.com/c070303.htm |date=April 27, 2015 }}, by Gerhard Falk</ref>
* [[Henry Roth]], novelist, short-story writer<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n442 413] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Philip Roth]], known for [[Biography in literature|autobiographical fiction]]<ref>U.S. Department of State, U.S. Life, [http://infousa.state.gov/life/artsent/oal/lit8.html "American Prose, 1945–1990: Realism and Experimentation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304074205/http://infousa.state.gov/life/artsent/oal/lit8.html |date=2011-03-04 }}</ref><ref name=Codde/>
* [[M. A. Rothman]], inventor, speculative-fiction writer<ref name="rothman fb jewish heritage">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/MARothman/posts/10209323057529503|title=I've not made a secret of my Jewish heritage|first=M. A.|last=Rothman|date=June 19, 2017|website=[[Facebook]]|access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref>

==S–Z==
* [[Peter Sagal]], writer, including humorist<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kaplan|first1=Ron|title=NJ native hosts game show with twist of the news|url=http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/071306/mwNJNativeHostsGame.html|website=New Jersey Jewish News Life and Times Feature|publisher=New Jersey Jewish News|access-date=7 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920204054/http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/071306/mwNJNativeHostsGame.html|archive-date=20 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Discover Author Peter Sagal|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/cr-102328/peter-sagal|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|access-date=7 February 2017}}</ref>
* [[J. D. Salinger]], short-story writer, novelist (''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Salinger.html |title=J.D. Salinger |publisher=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |date=January 1, 1919 |access-date=2010-01-30}}</ref><ref name=Codde/>
* [[Nachman Seltzer]], novelist, short-story writer, biographer<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Farkas |first=Tali |date=2011-05-25 |title=הרלן קובן עם כיפה שחורה |trans-title=[[Harlan Coben]] With a Black Kippah |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4073691,00.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |work=[[Ynet]] |language=he}}</ref>
* [[Yente Serdatzky]], short-story writer, playwright<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n179 150] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Lemony Snicket]] ([[pen name]] of [[Daniel Handler]]), novelist (''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', a series of children's novels)
* [[Lamed Shapiro]], short-story writer<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n183 154] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Irwin Shaw]], novelist, screenwriter, playwright<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n577 548] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Gary Shteyngart]] (born 1972), Russian-born writer<ref>Wiland, Harry (September 7, 2006). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515030045/http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/q_a_with_russian_jewish_author_gary_shteyngart_20060908/ "Q&A with Russian Jewish Author Gary Shteyngart"]. Retrieved May 27, 2026.</ref>
* [[Mordechai Sheftal]], diarist; officer in the [[Continental Army]]<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n58 29] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]], Yiddish-language novelist and journalist; Nobel Prize winner<ref name=yivo>{{Citation |url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Singer_Isaac_Bashevis |contribution=Singer, Isaac Bashevis |title=The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe}}.</ref>
* [[Tess Slesinger]], novelist, screenwriter<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n452 423] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Susan Sontag]], essayist, novelist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Gertrude Stein]], novelist and patron of the arts<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/why-the-witch-hunt-against-gertrude-stein |title=Why the Witch-Hunt Against Gertrude Stein? |work=tikkun.org |date=June 4, 2012 |access-date=April 24, 2014 |first1=Renate |last1=Stendhal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140424220426/http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/why-the-witch-hunt-against-gertrude-stein |archive-date=April 24, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n363 334] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[George Steiner]] (1929–2020), literary critic<ref>[http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216113607/http://www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com/catalogue/general.htm |date=2007-02-16 }}</ref>
* [[Daniel Stern (writer)|Daniel Stern]], novelist<ref>Lanham, Fritz. [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2007_4272645 "Fiction Writer was a Cullen Distinguished Professor at UH"], Houston Chronicle, January 24, 2007.</ref><ref name=Codde/>
* [[Louise Stern]], novelist, playwright<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gray|first1=Freddy|title=The chattering classes|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6937683/the-chattering-classes/|access-date=26 September 2014|work=[[The Spectator]]|issue=14 May 2011|date=14 May 2011}}</ref>
* [[Richard G. Stern]], novelist, academic<ref name=Codde/>
* Samuel Sattin (born 1982), essayist, writer of the [[OEL manga|OEL Manga]] series [[Unico]], a reboot of [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s Unico franchise<ref>https://13thdimension.com/superman-in-the-land-of-pen-and-ink-by-samuel-sattin/</ref>
* [[Steve Stern (writer)|Steve Stern]], novelist and short-story writer; work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/steve-stern |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115141019/https://www.graywolfpress.org/author-list/steve-stern |archive-date=2016-11-15 |title=Steve Stern {{!}} Graywolf Press}}</ref>
* [[Harvey Swados]], novelist, essayist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Judd L. Teller]], writer, including historian, journaliat, poet<ref name="nytimes-dr-judd-teller-author-was-59-consultant-to-many-jewish">{{Cite news|date=1972-05-05|title=Dr. Judd L. Teller (Published 1972)|language=en-US|work=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/05/archives/dr-judd-teller-author-was-59-consultant-to-many-jewish.html|access-date=2021-01-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
* [[Jonathan Tropper]], novelist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/Q-and-A-with-JonathanTropper,1841|title=Q and a with Jonathan Tropper}}</ref>
* [[Leopold Tyrmand]], writer<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/frum031903.asp]</ref>
* [[Leon Uris]], novelist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jun/25/guardianobituaries.books|title=Obituary: Leon Uris|first=Eric|last=Homberger|date=June 25, 2003|website=the Guardian|access-date=January 4, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Judith Viorst]] (born 1932), children's writer<ref>'''Viorst''' — [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16603] "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..."</ref>
* [[Edward Lewis Wallant]], novelist<ref name=Codde/>
* [[Jerome Weidman]], novelist, playwright<ref name=Codde>{{cite book | last =Codde | first =Philippe | title =The Jewish American Novel| publisher =[[Purdue University Press]] | date =2007 | pages =84 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6i3piWmjDDcC | isbn =9781557534378 }}</ref>
* [[Sadie Rose Weilerstein]] (1894–1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy<ref name="Ingall2010">{{cite book|last=Ingall|first=Carol K.|title=The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education, 1910–1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LRdPZyJdx54C&pg=PA117|access-date=10 September 2015|year=2010|publisher=UPNE|isbn=9781584658566|pages=117–}}</ref>
* [[Nathanael West]], novelist and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n423 394] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Elie Wiesel]], Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of fifty-seven books<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076939/Elie-Wiesel |title=Elie Wiesel |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=17 May 2011}}</ref>
* [[Isaac Meyer Wise]], author and rabbi<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n112 83] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>
* [[Victoria Wolff]] (1903–1992), German-born American writer, including novelist and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schlör |first1=Joachim |title=Escaping Nazi Germany: One Woman's Emigration from Heilbronn to England |date=26 November 2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-15413-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m8IAEAAAQBAJ&q=Victoria+Wolff+1903%E2%80%931992&pg=PA201 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Herman Wouk]], Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist<ref name="Homberger">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/17/herman-wouk-obituary|title=Herman Wouk obituary: author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War who championed traditional Jewish values and American patriotism|first=Eric|last=Homberger|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=May 17, 2019|access-date=May 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518010323/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/17/herman-wouk-obituary|archive-date=May 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Anzia Yezierska]], novelist<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Chametzky | first1 =Jules | last2 =Felstiner| first2 =John| last3 =Flanzbaum | first3 =Hilene | last4 = Hellerstein| first4 =Kathryn| title =Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology| publisher = [[W.W. Norton & Company]]| date =2001 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule/page/n262 233] | url =https://archive.org/details/jewishamericanli00jule | url-access =registration | isbn =9780393048094 }}</ref>

== See also ==
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* [[Jewish American literature]]
* [[The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States|Multi-ethnic literature of the United States]]
* [[Before Columbus Foundation]]
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==References==
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