Raymond Carver Tobias Wolff Flannery O'Connor Phillip Roth Denis Johnson Richard Ford Cormac Mccarthy John Cheever Alice Mcdermott Alexander Solzhenitsen Jamaica Kincaid William Faulkner Joan Didion Truman Capote Richard Yates Wolfe George Saunders John Fante Michael Chabon Donald Barthelme T. Coraghessan Boyle Ian Mcewan Philip Roth Tracy Kidder John Kennedy Toole Richard Brautigan Barry Hannah Thom Jones Roberto Bolano Mark Twain Samuel Beckett Alice Munro Thomas Pynchon F. Scott Fitzgerald Michael Ondaatje John Mcgahern David Foster Wallace Junot Diaz Ken Kesey Paul Auster Charles Baudelaire Don Delillo Lorrie Moore Jonathan Lethem Ann Beattie Dan Chaon Raymond Chandler Julio Cortazar Mary Robison