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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• John D. MacDonald (1916-1986)
• Norman Maclean (1902-1990), A River Runs Through It
• Norman Mailer (born 1923), The Naked and the Dead
• Charles Major
• Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
• Richard Malcolm
• Jorge Majfud (born 1969)
• Hans J. Massaquoi (born 1926), Destined to Witness
• Cotton Mather (1664-1728), Magnalia
• Armistead Maupin (born 1944), Tales of the City
• William Starbuck Mayo
• Nathan McCall
• Cormac McCarthy (born 1933), All the Pretty Horses
• Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
• George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928)
• Bill McKibben
• Larry McMurtry (born 1936)
• Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick
• Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951)
• James A. Michener (1907-1997), Tales of the South Pacific
• Henry Miller (1891-1980), Tropic of Cancer
• Steven Millhauser (born 1943)
• Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908)
• Isaac Mitchell
• S. Weir Mitchell
• Christopher Moore '
• Toni Morrison, (born 1931), Beloved
• John F. Murray Smart Tennis
• Bharati Mukherjee (born 1940), Jasmine