List of American expatriate writers

A

 * Conrad Aiken
 * Washington Allston, artist, writer on art
 * Maya Angelou, poet, memoirs
 * Alan Ansen
 * John Ashbery

B

 * James Baldwin
 * Djuna Barnes
 * Bernard Berenson
 * Mary Berenson
 * Thomas Berger (novelist)
 * John Peale Bishop
 * Joan Bodger
 * Jane Bowles
 * Paul Bowles
 * Kay Boyle
 * Louis Bromfield
 * John Horne Burns
 * William S. Burroughs

C

 * Vincent O. Carter
 * Jerome Charyn
 * Eldridge Cleaver, non-fiction; criminal, leading "Black Panther"
 * Ira Cohen, poet, publisher
 * Cid Corman
 * Gregory Corso
 * Malcolm Cowley
 * Caresse Crosby
 * Harry Crosby, "Black Sun Press"
 * Robert Crumb, comics
 * E.E. Cummings

D

 * Edward Dahlberg
 * William Demby
 * Helen DeWitt
 * Irene Dische
 * Mabel Dodge (Luhan)
 * J. P. Donleavy
 * Edward Dorn
 * John Dos Passos
 * W.E.B. DuBois
 * Rikki Ducornet
 * Elaine Dundy
 * Andrea Dworkin, memoirs, feminist

E

 * T. S. Eliot
 * Lucy Ellmann

F

 * Ruth Fainlight
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Janet Flanner
 * John Gould Fletcher
 * Charles Henri Ford
 * Robert Lee Frost

G

 * William Gaddis
 * William Gibson, science fiction
 * Horatio Greenough, artist, essays on art
 * Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, novelist

H

 * H.D.
 * Bret Harte
 * Marsden Hartley
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Patricia Highsmith
 * Chester Himes
 * Russell Hoban
 * Langston Hughes

I

 * Rachel Ingalls

J

 * Henry James
 * Ted Joans
 * James Jones

K

 * Steve Katz, in Italy 1959–62

L

 * Robert Lax
 * Andrea Lee
 * Charles Godfrey Leland
 * Robert Littell
 * James Lord

M

 * Archibald MacLeish
 * David Markson
 * Harry Mathews, novels; memoirs; member of Oulipo; editor of "Locus Solus"
 * Mary McCarthy
 * Claude McKay
 * Stuart Merrill
 * Henry Miller
 * Derek B. Miller

N

 * Harold Norse

O

 * George Oppen
 * Mary Oppen

P

 * Robert Maynard Pirsig, popular philosophy
 * Katherine Anne Porter
 * Ezra Pound
 * Frederic Prokosch

R

 * John Reed
 * Laura Riding
 * Waverly Root, journalism, non-fiction (food)
 * Robert Ruark

S

 * James Sallis, crime, science fiction; editor of New Worlds for two years
 * George Santayana
 * Evelyn Scott
 * David Sedaris
 * Alan Seeger
 * Irwin Shaw
 * John Sladek
 * Agnes Smedley
 * Logan Pearsall Smith
 * Robert Pearsall Smith
 * Gary Snyder
 * Terry Southern
 * Frances Steegmuller
 * Gertrude Stein
 * Donald Ogden Stewart

T

 * Paul Theroux, travel writer
 * Alice B. Toklas, cookbook writer and life partner of Gertrude Stein.

V

 * Gore Vidal

W

 * Glenway Wescott
 * Nathanael West, in Paris in autumn 1926 (not for years as often stated)
 * Edith Wharton
 * Edmund White
 * Robert Wilson (director), theatre, film
 * Thomas Wolfe
 * Constance Fenimore Woolson
 * Willard Huntington Wright, crime
 * Richard Wright

Y

 * Frank Yerby