Prose:

Poetry:

Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

Stanley Kunitz (b. 1905)

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

John Cheever (1912-1982)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)

Saul Bellow (b. 1915)

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Grace Paley (b. 1922)

Robert Hayden (1913-1980)

Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

James Baldwin (1924-1987)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Paule Marshall (b. 1929)

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

Donald Barthelme (b. 1931)

Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

James Dickey (1923-1997)

John Updike (b. 1932)

Denise Levertov (1923-1997)

Philip Roth (b. 1933)

A. R. Ammons (1926-2001)

LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) (b. 1934)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)

Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

Gerald Vizenor (b. 1934)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Rudolfo A. Anaya (b. 1937)

Frank O'Hara (1926-1966)

Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937)

Galway Kinnell (b. 1927)

Raymond Carver (b. 1938)

John Ashbery (b. 1927)

Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927)

Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)

James Wright (1927-1980)

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)

Philip Levine (b. 1928)

Diane Glancy ( b. 1941)

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Gloria Anzaldúa (b. 1942)

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

Barry Hannah (b. 1942)

Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

Alice Walker (b. 1944)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Ann Beattie (b. 1947)

Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

David Mamet (b. 1947)

Charles Wright (b. 1935)

Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948)

Charles Simic (b. 1938)

Denise Chávez (b. 1948)

Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)

Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)

Robert Pinsky (b. 1940)

Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954)

Simon J. Ortiz (b. 1941)

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)

Billy Collins (b. 1941)

Richard Powers (b. 1957)

Louise Glück (b. 1943)

Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1964)

Jorie Graham (b. 1950)

Joy Harjo (b. 1951)

Rita Dove (b. 1952)

Alberto Ríos (b. 1952)

Lorna Dee Cervantes (b. 1954)

Cathy Song (b. 1955)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)