Tobias Wolff Alice Mcdermott Raymond Carver Jamaica Kincaid Alexander Solzhenitsen John Cheever Richard Ford Flannery O'Connor Denis Johnson Joan Didion Phillip Roth Susan Orlean William Carlos Williams Tracy Kidder Dan Chaon Tim O'Brien Cormac Mccarthy Ann Beattie Lorrie Moore Julie Orringer Tom Bailey Alice Munro Herman Mellville Ursula Hegi Anne Morrow Lindbergh Ann Tyler William Faulkner Michael Chabon B.S. Johnson Charles Pallister William Begley Kate Braverman Andre Dubus Iii Lin Enger Joy Williams Jonathan Foer Stuart Dybek Roger Zelazney Lynda Barry Erik Larson Jeanette Walls Susanne Kaysen David Berman Pat Barker Mary Roach Richard Yates Paul Theroux Sherman Alexie