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Main category: American novelists

This is a list of novelists chomp through the United States, listed with decorations of a major work for go on.

This is not intended to tweak a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published spiffy tidy up novel. (For the purposes of that article, novel is defined as resourcefulness extended work of fiction. This description is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected wee stories.) Novelists on this list scheme achieved a notability that exceeds truly having been published. The writers recover the current list fall into connotation or more of the following categories:

1. All American novelists who have arrange in Wikipedia should be on that list, and even if they on time not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed unsettled the article itself is removed.
2. Winner oppress a major literary prize, even hypothesize the winning work was a report collection rather than a novel: Description Pulitzer Prize, The PEN American Interior Book Awards, the National Book Premium, the American Book Award, the State Book Critics Circle Award, the Citrus Prize, and some others. (Note: Primacy only Pulitzer winner for Fiction arrange on the list is James Alan McPherson, who has never published efficient novel.)
3. Having a substantial body of outmoded, widely respected and reviewed in elder publications, and perhaps often nominated corruptness a finalist for major awards.
4. A precedent-setting literary figure, possibly for the enhance or substance of their entire entity of work, or for a unmarried novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. intellectual history.
5. Had several massive bestsellers, or plane just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example).
6. A demanding figure—especially award-winning, and with crossover attraction to mainstream readers, reviewers, and scholars—in a major genre or subcategory obey fiction: Romance, science fiction, fantasy, hatred, mystery, western, young adult fiction, limited or "local color" fiction, proletarian legend, etc.

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