List of postmodern authors

This is a list of postmodern authors.

A

* Kōbō Abe
* Kathy Acker
* Peter Ackroyd
* Oscar Zeta Acosta
* Rabih Alameddine
* Sherman Alexie
* Martin Amis
* Grace Andreacchi
* Gloria E. Anzaldúa
* John Ashbery
* Isaac Asimov
* Oğuz Atay
* Paul Auster
* Margaret Atwood
* Maya Angelou

B

* James Baldwin
* J. G. Ballard
* Julian Barnes
* John Barth
* Donald Barthelme
* Samuel Beckett
* Saul Bellow
* Louis de Bernières
* Roberto Bolaño
* Jorge Luis Borges
* Xurxo Borrazás
* William Boyd
* T. Coraghessan Boyle
* Malcolm Bradbury
* Ray Bradbury
* William S. Burroughs
* Octavia E. Butler
* A. S. Byatt

C

* Pat Cadigan
* Italo Calvino
* Albert Camus
* Norma Elia Cantú
* Truman Capote
* Angela Carter
* Raymond Carver
* Ana Castillo
* Mircea Cărtărescu
* Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
* Michael Chabon
* James Chapman
* Stephen Chbosky
* Noah Cicero
* Sandra Cisneros
* Chris Cleave
* Paulo Coelho
* John Maxwell Coetzee
* Albert Cohen
* Robert Coover
* Julio Cortázar
* Douglas Coupland
* John Crowley
* Andrew Crumey
* Mitch Cullin

D

* Roald Dahl
* Mark Z. Danielewski
* Alice Elliott Dark
* Don DeLillo
* Samuel R. Delany
* Junot Diaz
* Philip K. Dick
* Josh Dies
* J. P. Donleavy
* Marguerite Duras
* Glen Duncan
* Lawrence Durrell

E

* Umberto Eco
* Bret Easton Ellis
* Ralph Ellison
* Dave Eggers
* Louise Erdrich
* Péter Esterházy

F

* William Faulkner
* Raymond Federman
* Timothy Findley
* Jonathan Safran Foer
* John Fowles
* Jonathan Franzen
* Carlos Fuentes

G

* William Gaddis
* Neil Gaiman
* John Gardner
* Alex Garland
* Romain Gary
* William H. Gass
* Eckhard Gerdes
* William Gibson
* Allen Ginsberg
* James Gunn
* Alasdair Gray
* Gabriel García Márquez

H

* Jessica Hagedorn
* Joseph Heller
* John Hawkes
* Daniel Handler

I

* Juana de Ibarbourou
* Guillermo Cabrera Infante
* Robert Irwin
* Kazuo Ishiguro

J

* Shelley Jackson
* B. S. Johnson
* Michael Joyce
* Ha Jin

K

* Metin Kaçan
* Jack Kerouac
* Maxine Hong Kingston
* Danilo Kis
* Jan Kjærstad
* Chuck Klosterman
* Jerzy Kosinski
* John Knowles
* Prakash Kona
* Christian Kracht
* László Krasznahorkai
* Milan Kundera
* Ken Kesey

L

* Ursula K. Le Guin
* Jonathan Lethem
* Mark Leyner
* Sissel Lie
* Randie Lipkin
* Clarice Lispector
* Dimitris Lyacos

M

* Norman Mailer
* Cormac McCarthy
* Tom McCarthy
* Joseph McElroy
* Ian McEwan
* Jon McGregor
* Medbh McGuckian
* Ib Michael
* Steven Millhauser
* Arthur Miller
* David Mitchell
* N. Scott Momaday
* Michael Moorcock
* Alan Moore
* Toni Morrison
* Bharati Mukherjee
* Alice Munro
* Haruki Murakami
* Grant Morrison

N

* Vladimir Nabokov
* Péter Nádas
* Lawrence Norfolk
* Jeff Noon

O

* Tim O'Brien

* Michael Ondaatje
* Brian O'Nolan
* Cynthia Ozick

P

* Chuck Palahniuk
* Orhan Pamuk
* Suzan-Lori Parks
* Tim Parks
* Milorad Pavić
* Victor Pelevin
* Georges Perec
* Alejandra Pizarnik
* Sylvia Plath
* E. Annie Proulx
* Thomas Pynchon

Q

* Raymond Queneau

R

* Ishmael Reed
* Jean Rhys
* Adrienne Rich
* Tomás Rivera
* C. L. Roberts
* José Luis Rodríguez Pittí
* João Guimarães Rosa
* Philip Roth
* Tom Robbins
* Theodore Roethke
* Benjamin Rosenbaum
* Salman Rushdie

S

* José Saramago
* George Saunders
* Ann Scott
* Will Self
* Anne Sexton
* Leslie Marmon Silko
* Patti Smith
* Zadie Smith
* Sasha Sokolov
* Vladimir Sorokin
* Lemony Snicket
* Art Spiegelman
* Neal Stephenson
* Tom Stoppard
* Graham Swift
* Muriel Spark
* Sam Shepard

T

* Amy Tan
* Juha K. Tapio
* Hunter S. Thompson
* Latife Tekin
* Hasan Ali Toptaş
* Manuel Talens

U

* John Updike

V

* Luisa Valenzuela
* William T. Vollmann
* Kurt Vonnegut

W

* David Foster Wallace
* Mark Wallace
* Alice Walker
* Colson Whitehead
* Jeanette Winterson
* Gene Wolfe
* Hans Wollschläger
* Richard Wright

X

Y

Z

*Zygmunt Bauman

ee also

* list of postmodern critics
* Postmodern literature