List of Novelists From The United States - B

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• Richard Bach (born 1936), Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• Irving Bacheller (1859–1950), A Man for the Ages
• George Bagby (1906–1985), Murder at the Piano
• Dorothy Baker (1907–1968), Young Man with a Horn
• James Robert Baker (1947–1997), Fuel-Injected Dreams
• Nicholson Baker (born 1957), Vox
• Kirsten Bakis (born 1968), Lives of the Monster Dogs
• Faith Baldwin, (1893–1978), The Heart Has Wings
• James Baldwin (1924–1987), Go Tell It on the Mountain
• John Ball (1911–1988), In the Heat of the Night
• Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995), The Salt Eaters
• Russell Banks (born 1940), The Sweet Hereafter
• Margaret Culkin Banning (1891–1982), Country Club People
• Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (born 1934), The System of Dante's Hell
• Anna Maynard Barbour (died 1941), That Mainwaring Affair
• John Franklin Bardin (1916–1981), Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly
• Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), Nightwood
• Linda Barnes (born 1949), A Trouble of Fools
• Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967), Years of Grace
• Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919), Jan Vedder's Wife
• Nevada Barr (born 1952), Track of the Cat
• Andrea Barrett (born 1964), The Voyage of the Narwhal
• John Barth (born 1930), Giles Goat-Boy
• Donald Barthelme (1931–1989), Snow White
• Frederick Barthelme (born 1943), Chroma
• Rick Bass (born 1958), Where the Sea Used to Be
• Hamilton Basso (1904–1964), The View from Pompey's Head
• L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Richard Bausch (born 1945), The Last Good Time
• Robert Bausch (born 1945), Almighty Me
• Charles Baxter (born 1947), Shadow Play
• Peter S. Beagle (born 1939), The Last Unicorn
• Greg Bear, (born 1951), Darwin's Radio
• Ann Beattie, (born 1947), Chilly Scenes of Winter
• Louis Begley (born 1933), About Schmidt
• Madison Smartt Bell (born 1957), All Souls' Rising
• Edward Bellamy (1850–1898), Looking Backward: 2000–1887
• Saul Bellow (1915–2005), Henderson the Rain King
• Peter Benchley (1940–2006), Jaws
• Aimee Bender (born 1969), An Invisible Sign of My Own
• Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), Dogs of God
• Stephen Vincent Benet (1898–1943), Spanish Bayonet
• Gregory Benford (born 1941), Timescape
• Thomas Berger (born 1924), Little Big Man
• Gina Berriault (1926–1999), The Descent
• Don Berry (1931–2001), Trask
• Wendell Berry (born 1934), A Place on Earth
• Alfred Bester (1913–1987), The Demolished Man
• Doris Betts (born 1932), Souls Raised from the Dead
• Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933), The Chinese Parrot
• Robert Montgomery Bird (1803–1854), The Infidel
• Michael Bishop (born 1945), No Enemy But Time
• William Peter Blatty (born 1928), The Exorcist
• Robert Bloch (1917–1994), Psycho
• Lawrence Block (born 1938), Eight Million Ways to Die
• Amy Bloom (born 1953), Love Invents Us
• Judy Blume (born 1938), Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
• Chris Bohjalian (born 1960), The Law of Similars
• Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), God Sends Sunday
• Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), The Case of the Seven of Calvary
• Vance Bourjaily (born 1922), Brill Among the Ruins
• Ben Bova (born 1932), The Starcrossed
• Jane Bowles (1917–1973), Two Serious Ladies
• Paul Bowles (1910–1999), The Sheltering Sky
• Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945), The Revolution of Little Girls
• James Boyd (1888–1944), Drums
• Jennifer Finney Boylan (previously James Finney Boylan) (born 1958), The Planets
• Kay Boyle (1902–1992), Death of a Man
• T. Coraghessan Boyle (born 1948), The Road to Wellville
• Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978), The World of Carrick's Cove
• Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816), Modern Chivalry
• Leigh Brackett (1915–1978), The Secret of Sinharat
• Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), The Illustrated Man
• David Bradley (born 1950), The Chaneysville Incident
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), The Mists of Avalon
• Billy Lee Brammer (1929–1978), The Gay Place
• Max Brand (1892–1944), Destry Rides Again
• Giannina Braschi (born 1954) "Yo-Yo Boing!"
• Richard Brautigan (1935–1984), Trout Fishing in America
• Kate Braverman (born 1950), Lithium for Medea
• Matt Briggs (born 1970), Shoot the Buffalo
• David Brin (born 1950), The Uplift War
• Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967), Exquisite Corpse
• Harold Brodkey (1930–1996), The Runaway Soul
• Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), The Rains Came
• Geraldine Brooks (born 1955), March
• Terry Brooks (born 1944), The Sword of Shannara
• Alice Brown (1857–1948), Fools of Nature
• Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), Wieland
• Dan Brown (born 1964), The Da Vinci Code
• Harry Brown (1917–1986), A Walk in the Sun
• Larry Brown (1951–2004), Dirty Work
• Rita Mae Brown (born 1944), Rubyfruit Jungle
• Rosellen Brown (born 1939), Before and After
• William Hill Brown (1756–1793), The Power of Sympathy
• Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), The Good Earth
• Frederick Buechner (born 1926), Godric
• Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), Factotum
• Edward Bunker (1933–2005), Little Boy Blue
• Eugene Burdick (1918–1965), The Ugly American (with William Lederer)
• James Lee Burke (born 1936), The Neon Rain
• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), Little Lord Fauntleroy
• William R. Burnett (1899–1982), Little Caesar
• Olive Ann Burns (1924–1990), Cold Sassy Tree
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), Tarzan of the Apes
• William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), Naked Lunch
• Frederick Busch (1941–2006), Harry and Catherine
• Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), Patternmaster
• Robert Olen Butler (born 1945), The Alleys of Eden