List of Jewish American authors

This is an alphabetical, referenced list of notable Jewish American authors. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.

Authors

 * Renata Adler, journalist, critic and novelist.
 * Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses
 * Mary Antin, memoirist, author of The Promised Land
 * Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee
 * Jacob M. Appel, novelist (The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up) and short story writer (Einstein's Beach House)
 * Max Apple, novelist and short story writer
 * Sholem Asch, novelist, essayist and playwright
 * Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification
 * Shalom Auslander, novelist
 * Paul Auster, novelist
 * Dorothy Walter Baruch, author and child psychologist
 * Jonathan Baumbach
 * Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts
 * Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters
 * Judy Blume, children's author.
 * Shmuley Boteach, author of over 30 books, including best seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy, and Kosher Jesus
 * Joshua Braff, novelist
 * Abraham Cahan, journalist, author and editor of Yiddish newspaper Jewish Daily Forward
 * Hortense Calisher, novelist and president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
 * Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal, colonial era rabbi who published the first Jewish sermons in America
 * Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
 * Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
 * Arthur A. Cohen, novelist
 * Joshua Cohen, novelist, author of Witz
 * Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer
 * Edward Dahlberg, novelist and essayist
 * Anita Diamant, writer and author of the novel, The Red Tent
 * E.L. Doctorow, novelist
 * Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
 * Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard
 * Stanley Elkin, novelist and essayist
 * Richard Elman, novelist and journalist
 * Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
 * Marcia Falk, poet, liturgist, painter, translator
 * Kenneth Fearing, novelist, editor and poet
 * Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
 * Barthold Fles, literary agent and non-fiction writer
 * Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist
 * Bruce Jay Friedman, novelist
 * Kinky Friedman, novelist and musician
 * Sanford Friedman, novelist
 * Abraham Solomon Freidus, author of bibliographic and library works
 * Daniel Fuchs, novelist, screenwriter and essayist
 * Herbert Gold, novelist
 * Mike Gold, Communist novelist and literary critic
 * Emma Goldman, anarchist writer
 * Paul Goodman, social critic and author of Growing Up Absurd
 * Vivian Gornick, essayist
 * Rebecca Gratz, educator and journalist
 * Gerald Green, author and journalist
 * Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
 * Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist
 * Alice Hoffman, novelist, author of Practical Magic, and thirty odd other books.
 * Irving Howe, literary critic
 * Horace Kallen, author, philosopher and academic
 * Franz Kafka, author of the Metamorphosis
 * Daniel Keyes, novelist, author of Flowers for Algernon, and teacher.
 * Nicole Krauss, novelist
 * Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist
 * Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities
 * Isaac Leeser, author and publisher
 * Julius Lester, author, academic and African-American convert to Judaism
 * Meyer Levin, novelist and journalist
 * Ludwig Lewisohn, novelist, essayist and editor
 * Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist
 * Norman Mailer, novelist
 * Bernard Malamud, Pulitzer Prize winning author
 * David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Tony Award-winning author
 * Wallace Markfield, novelist
 * Theresa Malkiel, novelist and Socialist activist
 * Wallace Markfield, novelist
 * Walter Mosley, crime novelist
 * Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works
 * Moyshe Nadir, writer and journalist %
 * Mordecai Manuel Noah, journalist, playwright and diplomat
 * Alan Oirich, writer, animator, director, and producer
 * Joseph Opatoshu, novelist and short story writer
 * Cynthia Ozick, novelist and essayist
 * Leo Pearlstein, food writer
 * S. J. Perelman, Oscar winning screenwriter, and novelist
 * Jodi Picoult, novelist
 * Marge Piercy, novelist and short story writer
 * Belva Plain, novelist
 * Chaim Potok, novelist and rabbi
 * Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of Objectivism
 * Lev Raphael, novelist and essayist
 * Lea Bayers Rapp, non-fiction and children's fiction writer
 * Avrom Reyzen, author, poet and editor
 * Isaac Rosenfeld, essayist, short story writer and novelist
 * Leo Rosten, humorist and lexicographer
 * Norman Rosten, novelist
 * Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer
 * Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction
 * M. A. Rothman, inventor and speculative fiction writer
 * Peter Sagal, humorist and author
 * J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
 * Yente Serdatzky, author of short stories, playwright
 * Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * Lamed Shapiro, short story writer
 * Irwin Shaw, novelist, screenwriter and playwright
 * Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer
 * Mordechai Sheftal, diarist and officer in the Continental Army
 * Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish language novelist and journalist, Nobel Prize winner
 * Tess Slesinger, novelist and screenwriter
 * Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist
 * Gertrude Stein, novelist and patron of the arts
 * George Steiner (1929–2020), literary critic
 * Daniel Stern, novelist
 * Louise Stern, novelist and playwright
 * Richard G. Stern, novelist and academic
 * Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award
 * Harvey Swados, novelist and essayist
 * Judd L. Teller, writer, historian, poet.
 * Jonathan Tropper, novelist
 * Leopold Tyrmand, writer
 * Leon Uris, novelist
 * Judith Viorst (born 1932), known for her children's literature
 * Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist
 * Jerome Weidman, novelist and playwright
 * Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894–1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy
 * Nathaniel West, novelist and screenwriter
 * Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books
 * Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi
 * Victoria Wolff (1903–1992), German born American writer and screenwriter
 * Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
 * Anzia Yezierska, novelist