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Male Writers born 1900-1929(previous)
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| Derek Alton Walcott 1 ? 758 Castries, LC 1930(01/23) | Stanley Lawrence Elkin 1 10001? New York, NY 1930(05/11) - 1995(05/31) | Edward James Hughes 44 ? Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, GB 1930(08/17) - 1998(10/28) | Francis McCourt 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1930(08/19) - 2009(07/19) |
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| Harold Pinter 44 ? Hackney, East London, England, GB 1930(10/10) - 2008(12/24) | Albert Chinualumogu Achebe 234 ? Nneobi, NG 1930(11/16) | Edgar Lawrence Doctorow 1 10001? Bronx, NY 1931(01/06) | Thomas Kennerly Wolfe 1 23232? Richmond, VA 1931(03/02) |
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| John Angus McPhee 1 08540? Princeton, NJ 1931(03/08) | William Goldman 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1931(08/12) | John le Carré 44 ? Poole, Dorset, England, GB 1931(10/19) | Umberto Eco 39 ? Alessandria, Piedmont, IT 1932(01/05) |
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| John Hoyer Updike 1 19612? Reading, PA 1932(03/18) - 2009(01/27) | John Gregory Dunne 1 06101? Hartford, CT 1932(05/25) - 2003(12/30) | Robert Brown Parker 1 01101? Springfield, MA 1932(09/17) - 2010(01/18) | Sheldon Allan Silverstein 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1932(09/25) - 1999(05/10) |
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| Yevgeny Yevtushenko 7 ? Zima, Irtutsk Oblast, Russia, SU 1933(07/18) | Michael J. Frayn 44 ? Mill Hill, England, GB 1933(09/08) | Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka 234 ? Abeokuta, NG 1934(07/13) | Kenzaburo Oe 81 ? Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, JP 1935(01/31) |
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| Calvin Trillin 1 64108? Kansas City, MO 1935(12/05) | Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa 51 ? Arequipa, Arequipa, PE 1936(03/28) | Larry Jeff McMurtry 1 76351 Archer City, TX 1936(06/03) | Václav Havel 420 ? Prague, CZ 1936(10/05) |
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| Lanford Wilson 1 65536 Lebanon, MO 1937(04/13) | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon 1 11542 Glen Cove, NY 1937(05/08) | Tom Stoppard 420 ? Zlín, CZ 1937(07/03) | Hunter Stockton Thompson 1 40232? Louisville, KY 1937(07/18) - 2005(02/20) |
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| John Guare 1 10001? New York, NY 1938(02/05) | Frederick Forsyth 44 ? Ashford, Kent, England, GB 1938(08/25) | Seamus Heaney 44 ? Mossbaum, County Derry, Northern Ireland, GB 1939(04/13) | Edmund Valentine White 1 45202? Cincinnati, OH 1940(01/19) |
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| John Maxwell Coetzee 27 ? Capetown, ZA 1940(02/09) | Jeffrey Archer 44 ? City of London Maternity Hospital, London, England, GB 1940(04/15) | Robin Cook 1 10001? New York, NY 1940(05/04) | Peter Benchley 1 10001? New York, NY 1940(05/08) - 2006(02/12) |
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| Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky 7 ? Saint Petersburg, Russia, SU 1940(05/24) - 1996(01/28) | Óscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez 506 ? Heredia, CR 1940(09/13) | Robert Pinsky 1 07740 Long Branch, NJ 1940(10/20) | Paul Edward Theroux 1 02155 Medford, MA 1941(04/10) |
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| John Winslow Irving 1 03833 Exeter, NH 1942(03/02) | Gary Edward Keillor 1 55303? Anoka, MN 1942(08/07) | Michael Crichton 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1942(10/23) - 2008(11/04) | Robert Lawrence Stine 1 ? Bexley, OH 1943(10/08) |
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| Sam Shepard 1 60037 Fort Sheridan, IL 1943(11/05) | Armistead Jones Maupin 1 20090? Washington, DC 1944(04/13) | August Wilson 1 15233? Pittsburgh, PA 1945(04/27) - 2005(10/02) | Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff 1 35203? Birmingham, AL 1945(06/19) |
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| Philip Pullman 44 ? Norwich, Norfolk, England, GB 1946(10/19) | Paul Benjamin Auster 1 07102? Newark, NJ 1947(02/03) | Salman Rushdie 91 ? Bombay, IN 1947(06/19) | Paulo Coelho 55 ? Rio de Janeiro, BR 1947(08/24) |
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| Stephen Edwin King 1 04101? Portland, ME 1947(09/21) | David Alan Mamet 1 60422 Flossmoor, IL 1947(11/30) | James Ellroy 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA 1948(03/04) | Ian McEwan 44 ? Aldershot, Hampshire, England, GB 1948(06/21) |
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| T. Coraghessan Boyle 1 10566 Peekskill, NY 1948(12/02) | Haruki Murakami 81 ? Kyoto, JP 1949(01/12) | Scott F. Turow 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1949(04/12) - 1971 - | Ken Follet 44W ? Cardiff, Wales, GB 1949(06/05) |
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| Richard Russo 1 12095 Johnstown, NY 1949(07/15) | Martin Amis 44 ? Oxford, England, GB 1949(08/25) | Walter Ellis Mosley 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA 1952(01/12) | Michael Cunningham 1 45202? Cincinnati, OH 1952(11/06) |
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| Christopher Taylor Buckley 1 06904? Stamford, CT 1952(12/24) | Kazuo Ishiguro 81 ? Nagasaki, JP 1954(11/08) | John Ray Grisham 1 72401 Jonesboro, AR 1955(02/08) | Tony Kushner 1 10001? Manhattan, NY 1956(07/16) |
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| Nicholson Baker 1 10001? New York, NY 1957(01/07) | Roddy Doyle 353 ? Dalkey, Dublin, IE 1958(05/05) | Jonathan Franzen 1 60607? Chicago, IL 1959(08/17) | Jeffrey Eugenides 1 48231? Detroit, MI 1960(03/08) |
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| Ethan Andrew Canin 1 48106? Ann Arbor, MI 1960(07/19) | Michael Chabon 1 20090? Washington, DC 1963(05/24) | Yann Martel 34 ? Salamanca, ES 1963(06/25) | Jonathan Lethem 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY 1964(02/19) |
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| Bret Easton Ellis 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA 1964(03/07) | Dan Brown 1 03833 Exeter, NH 1964(06/22) | Augusten Burroughs 1 15233? Pittsburgh, PA 1965(10/23) | Dave Eggers 1 02205? Boston, MA 1970(03/12) |
| John Simmons Barth | 1 21613 Cambridge, MD | 1930(05/27)
| John Jakes | 1 60607? Chicago, IL | 1932(03/31)
| Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul | 1 ? 868 Chaguanas, TT | 1932(08/17)
| Edward Reynolds Price | 1 27551 Macon, NC | 1933(02/01)
| Philip Roth | 1 07102? Newark, NJ | 1933(03/19)
| Charles McCarthy | 1 02904? Providence, RI | 1933(07/20)
| Norman Rush | 1 94617? Oakland, CA | 1933(10/24)
| Mark Strand | 1C ? Summerside, PEI, Canada | 1934(04/11)
| Piers Anthony | 44 ? Oxford, England, GB | 1934(08/06)
| David Lodge | 44 ? Brockley, London, England, GB | 1935(01/28)
| Harry Crews | 1 31510 Bacon County, GA | 1935(06/07)
| Thomas Keneally | 61 ? Sydney, New South Wales, AU | 1935(10/07)
| Don DeLillo | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1936(11/20)
| James Lee Burke | 1 17331? Houston, TX | 1936(12/05)
| Joseph Wambaugh | 1 15112 East Pittsburgh, PA | 1937(01/22)
| Robert Anthony Stone | 1 10001? Brooklyn, NY | 1937(08/21)
| James Harrison | 1 ? Grayling, MI | 1937(12/11)
| Ishmael Scott Reed | 1 37401? Chattanooga, TN | 1938(02/22)
| Charles H. Fuller | 1 19104? Philadelphia, PA | 1939(03/05)
| Alan Ayckbourn | 44 ? Hampstead, London, England, GB | 1939(04/12)
| Ted Kooser | 1 50010? Ames, IA | 1939(04/25)
| Robert James Waller | 1 50468 Rockford, Floyd County, IA | 1939(08/01)
| Terrence McNally | 1 33733? Saint Petersburg, FL | 1939(11/03)
| John Berendt | 1 13220? Syracuse, NY | 1939(12/05)
| Thomas Francis McGuane | 1 48192? Wyandotte, MI | 1939(12/11)
| David William Rabe | 1 52001? Dubuque, IA | 1940(03/10)
| Russell Banks | 1 02456? Newton, MA | 1940(03/28)
| Robert L. Hass | 1 94142? San Francisco, CA | 1941(03/01)
| Billy Collins | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1941(03/22)
| John Edgar Wideman | 1 20090? 202 Washington, DC | 1941(06/14)
| Peter Philip Carey | 61 ? Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, AU | 1943(05/07)
| Nelson Richard DeMille | 1 10001? Jamaica, Queens, NY | 1943(08/23)
| Philip Michael Ondaatje | 94 ? Colombo, LK | 1943(09/12)
| Reinaldo Arenas | ? ? north Oriente, CU | 1943(07/16) - 1990(12/07)
| Richard Ford | 1 39205? Jackson, MS | 1944(02/16)
| Robert Olen Butler | 1 62040 Granite City, IL | 1945(01/20)
| Dean Ray Koontz | 1 15537 Everett, PA | 1945(07/09)
| Donald Patrick Conroy | 1 30301? Atlanta, GA | 1945(10/26)
| Tim O'Brien | 1 55912 Austin, MN | 1946(10/01)
| Thomas Leo Clancy | 1 21203? Baltimore, MD | 1947(04/12)
| David Hare | 44 ? Saint Leonard's-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, England, GB | 1947(06/05)
| Mark Helprin | 1 10001? New York, NY | 1947(06/28)
| Richard Price | 1 10001? Bronx, NY | 1949(10/12)
| Charles Frazier | 1 28802? Asheville, NC | 1950(11/04)
| Oscar Hijuelos | 1 10001? Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY | 1951(08/24)
| Vikram Seth | 91 ? Calcutta, West Bengal, IN | 1952(06/20)
| David Handler | 1 90086? Los Angeles, CA | 1952(09/14)
| Andrew Motion | 44 ? London, England, GB | 1952(10/26)
| Carl Hiaasen | 1 33318? Plantation, FL | 1953(03/12)
| Gregory Maguire | 1 12201? Albany, NY | 1954(06/09)
| Caleb Carr | 1 10001? Manhattan, NY | 1955(08/02)
| Ha Jin | 86 ? Liaoning, CN | 1956(02/21)
| David Sedaris | 1 13902? Binghamton, NY | 1956(12/26)
| David Leavitt | 1 15233? Pittsburgh, PA | 1961(06/23)
| David Auburn | 1 60607? Chicago, IL | 1970
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