A leading figure-especially award-winning, and with crossover appeal to mainstream readers, reviewers, and scholars-in a major genre or subcategory of fiction: Romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, young adult fiction, regional or 'local color' fiction, proletarian fiction, etc. The upcoming 'Weetzie Bat' series is the second from Gamble to get the go-ahead from Peacock, who also tapped her for the adaptation of Caroline Kepnes' book 'Providence.' The latter is the.Had several massive bestsellers, or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon ( Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example).A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable 'first' of some kind in U.S.Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards.(Note: The only Pulitzer winner for Fiction not on the list is James Alan McPherson, who has never published a novel.) Winner of a major literary prize, even if the winning work was a story collection rather than a novel: The Pulitzer Prize, The PEN American Center Book Awards, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Prize, and some others.

All American novelists who have articles in Wikipedia should be on this list, and even if they do not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed until the article itself is removed.The writers on the current list fall into one or more of the following categories: This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each.

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