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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• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• David Foster Wallace (born 1962)
• Lew Wallace (1827-1905), Ben-Hur
• William Ware
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890-1979), Boxcar Children
• Susan Warner (1819-1895)
• Justin Weaver, Vintage Pimp
• Mason Locke Weems (1756-1825)
• Edward Noyes Westcott
• E. B. White (1899-1985), Charlotte's Web
• Stewart Edward White
• William Allen White (1868-1944)
• Brad Whitlock
• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• Augusta Jane Wilson (Evans) (1835-1909)
• Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861)
• William Wirt (1772-1834)
• Owen Wister (1860-1938), The Virginian
• Gene Wolfe (born 1931)
• Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), You Can't Go Home Again
• Tom Wolfe (born 1931), The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Tobias Wolff (born 1945)
• Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842), Champions of Freedom, ...
• Constance Fenimore Woolson
• Herman Wouk (born 1915), The Caine Mutiny, and The Winds of War