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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• J. D. Salinger (born 1919), Catcher in the Rye
• Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
• Budd Schulberg (born 1914), What Makes Sammy Run?, and On the Waterfront
• Sybil Scott
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
• Hubert Selby Jr. (1928-2004) Last Exit to Brooklyn. and Requiem for a Dream
• Sidney Sheldon (born 1917)
• William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870}
• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), The Jungle
• Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915), Colonel Carter of Cartersville
• Terry Southern (1924-1995), The Magic Christian
• Emma D. E. N. Southworth
• Mickey Spillane (born 1918), I, the Jury
• Elizabeth Spires (born 1952)
• Charlie Steel, Fight For Wet Springs
• Danielle Steel (born 1947)
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Three Lives, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men
• Neal Stephenson (born 1959), Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon
• Charles D. Stewart
• Frederick Jesup Stimson
• Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
• Peter Straub (born 1943)
• Jacqueline Susann (1918-1974), Valley of the Dolls