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