A Guide to American Novelists of the 1990s and Beyond

Contents: Sherman Alexie [Indian Killer, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, The Toughest Indian in the World], Stephen Amidon [The New City, Splitting the Atom], A. Manette Ansay [River Angel, Vinegar Hill], Donald Antrim [The Hundred Brothers, The Verificationist], Sara Backer [American Fuji], Kevin Baker [Paradise Alley], Nicholson Baker [The Fermata, The Mezzanine, Vox], Nikki Baker [In the Game], Rick Bass [The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness, Where the Sea Used to Be], Madison Smartt Bell [All Souls’ Rising, Save Me, Joe Louis, The Washington Square Ensemble], Peter Blauner [Slow Motion Riot], Chris Bohjalian [Midwives], Po Bronson [Bombadiers], Peter Cameron [Andorra, The City of Your Final Destination], Ethan Canin [Blue River, Emperor of the Air], Michael Chabon [The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Model World, Mysteries of Pittsburgh], Dan Chaon [Among the Missing], Tracy Chevalier [Girl with a Pearl Earring], Mark Childress [Crazy in Alabama, Tender], Susan Choi [American Woman, The Foreign Student], Jennifer Clement [A True Story Based on Lies], Michael Connelly City of Bones, The Concrete Blonde], Joe Coomer [The Decatur Road], Ricardo Cortez Cruz [Straight Outta Compton], Mark Costello [Bag Men, Big If], Mark Danielewski [House of Leaves], Annie Dawid [Lily in the Desert, York Ferry], Eric Jerome Dickey [Sister, Sister], Andre Dubus III [House of Sand and Fog], Tananarive Due [The Living Blood], Tony Earley [Jim the Boy], Fernanda Eberstadt [Isaac and His Devils], Dave Eggers [A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius], Jill Eisenstadt [From Rockaway], Bret Easton Ellis [American Psycho, Less than Zero], Trey Ellis [Home Repairs, Right Here, Right Now], Lucy Ellmann [Sweet Desserts], Leif Enger [Peace Like a River], Jeffrey Eugenides [Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides], J onathan Safran Foer [Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close], Jonathan Franzen [The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City], Peter Gadol [Mystery Roast], Cristina Garcia [Dreaming in Cuban], Kaye Gibbons [A Cure for Dreams, Ellen Foster, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon], Elizabeth Gilbert [Pilgrims], Glen David Gold [Carter Beats the Devil], Allegra Goodman [Kaaterskill Falls], Elizabeth Graver [The Honey Thief], David Guterson [East of the Mountains], Alyson Hagy [Graveyard of the Atlantic, Keeneland], Jane Hamilton [The Book of Ruth, Disobedience, A Map of the World, The Short History of a Prince], Brooks Hansen [The Chess Garden], E. Lynn Harris [Just as I Am], Kathryn Harrison [The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife], Tami Hoag [Night Sins], Sheri Holman [The Dress Lodger], A. M. Homes [In a Country of Mothers, Music for Torching], Ann Hood [Somewhere off the Coast of Maine],James Hynes [The Wild Colonial Boy], Sheneska Jackson [Caught up in the Rapture], Tama Jamowitz [Slaves of New York], Lilian “Gish” Jen [Mona in the Promised Land, Typical American], Wayne Johnson [Don’t Think Twice], Heidi Julavits [The Mineral Palace], Cynthia Kadohata [The Floating World], Karen Karbo [The Diamond Lane], Laura Kasischke [Suspicious River, White Bird in a Blizzard], John Keene [Annotations], Patricia "Pagan" Kennedy [Stripping and Other Stories, ‘Zine: How I Spent Six Years of My Life in the Underground and Finally Found Myself], Chip Kidd [The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters], Sue Monk Kidd [The Secret Life of Bees], Jean Hanff Korelitz [The Sabbathday River], Gary Krist [Chaos Theory], Allen Kurzweil [A Case of Curiosities], David Leavitt [Family Dancing, The Lost Language of Cranes], Chang-Rae Lee [Aloft, A Gesture Life, Native Speaker], Nancy Lemann [Lives of the Saints], Jonathan Lethem [Fortress of Solitude, Gun, with Occasional Music, Motherless in Brooklyn], Mark Leyner [I Smell Esther Williams, My Cousin, the Gastroenterologist, Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog], Jill McCorkle [The Cheerleader, Ferris Beach, July 7th], Elizabeth McCracken [The Giant’s House, Niagra Falls All Over Again], Jane Mendelsohn [I Was Amelia Earhart], Susan Minot [Monkeys], Rick Moody [Demonology, Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America], Lorrie Moore [Anagrams, Birds of Prey, Self-Help, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?], Fae Myenne Ng [Bone], Lance Olsen [Girl Imagined by Chance], Stewart O'Nan [The Names of the Dead, Snow Angels], Chuck Palahniuk [Fight Club, Lullaby], Suzan-Lori Parks [Getting Mother’s Body], Ann Patchett [Bel Canto, The Patron Saint of Liars], T. R. Pearson [Off for the Sweet Hereafter, A Short History of a Small Place], Dale Peck [Martin and John], Tom Perrotta [Bad Haircut, Joe College], Arthur Phillips [Prague], Jodi Picoult [Salem Falls], Susan Power [The Grass Dancer], Richard Powers [Galatea 2.2, Plowing the Dark, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, The Time of Our Singing], Abraham Rodriguez [Spidertown], Mark Salzman [Lying Awake, The Soloist], Sandra Tsing Loh [If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now], Christina Schwarz [Drowning Ruth], Alice Seabold [The Lovely Bones], Danzy Senna [Caucasia], Mona Simpson [Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father], Matthew Stadler [Alan Stein], Neal Stephenson [The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash], Donna Tartt [The Little Friend, The Secret History], Melanie Rae Thon [Girls in the Grass, Iona Moon, Meteors in August], William T. Vollmann [The Royal Family, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, You Bright and Risen Angels], David Foster Wallace [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Broom of the System, Girl with Curious Hair, Infinite Jest], Mark Winegardner [Crooked River Burning], Shay Youngblood [The Big Mama Stories, Black Girl in Paris].