List of novelists from the United States

This is a list of novelists from the United States. Novelists on this list should be notable in some way, and ideally have a Wikipedia article.

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• Richard Bach (born 1936)
• James Baldwin (1924-1987), Another Country
• Irving Bacheller A Man for the Ages
• Nicholson Baker (born 1957) The Mezzanine, and Vox
• Russell Banks (born 1940), The Sweet Hereafter
• John Franklin Bardin
• Joel Barlow (1754-1812)
• John Barth (born 1930)
• Charles Baxter (born 1947)
• K. K. Beck (born 1950)
• Madison Smartt Bell (born 1957), The Washington Square Ensemble, Waiting for the End of the World, and A Soldier's Joy
• Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), '
• Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953)
• Saul Bellow (born 1915), Henderson the Rain King
• Robert Montgomery Bird (1803-1854)
• Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914)
• George Borrow (1803-1881)
• Paul Bowles (1910-1999)
• Kay Boyle (1902-1992)
• T.C. Boyle (born 1948), The Road to Wellville, The Tortilla Curtain, and A Friend of the Earth
• Ray Bradbury (born 1920), The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Richard Brautigan (1935-1984)
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
• Dan Brown (born 1964), Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code
• William Hill Brown (1756-1793)
• Frederick Buechner (born 1926)
• Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), The Good Earth
• Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), Post Office, Factotum, and Pulp.
• William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), Little Lord Fauntleroy