Contemporary American women fiction writers
- Dorothy Allison
- A. Manette Ansay
- Elizabeth Arthur
- Joan Barfoot
- Andrea Barrett
- Elizabeth Berg
- Joan Brady
- Connie Briscoe
- Rita Mae Brown
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Susan Cheever
- Carolyn Chute
- Kathryn Davis
- Carol Dawson
- Joan Didion
- Andrea Dworkin
- Louise Erdrich
- Carrie Fisher
- Fannie Flagg
- Laurie Foos
- Connie May Fowler
- Karen Joy Fowler
- Marilyn French
- Kaye Gibbons
- Ellen Gilchrist
- Gail Godwin
- Mary Gordon
- Joanne Greenberg
- Doris Grumbach
- Judith Guest
- Beth Richardson Gutcheon
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
- Jane Hamilton
- Alice Hoffman
- A. M. Homes
- Ann Hood
- Pam Houston
- Tama Janowitz
- Gish Jen
- Diane Johnson
- Erica Jong
- Laura Kalpakian
- Laura Kasischke
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Sheila Kohler
- Marti Leimbach
- Billie Letts
- Benilde Little
- Alison Lurie
- Alice McDermott
- Diane McKinney- Whetstone
- Terry McMillan
- Rosalyn McMillan
- Jo-Ann Mapson
- Valerie Martin
- Bobbie Ann Mason
- Alice Mattison
- Claire Messud
- Sue Miller
- Valerie Miner
- Susan Minot
- Lisa Miscione
- Mary Morris
- Mary McGarry Morris
- Toni Morrison
- Mary Morrissy
- Sigrid Nunez
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Whitney Otto
- Grace Paley
- Cathie Pelletier
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Jodi Picoult
- Marge Piercy
- Caroline Preston
- E. Annie Proulx
- Anna Quindlen
- Naomi Ragen
- Sheri Reynolds
- Luanne Rice
- Caryl Rivers
- Roxana Robinson
- Anne Roiphe
- Judith Rossner
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
- Cathleen Schine
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Joanna Scott
- Mary Lee Settle
- Dyan Sheldon
- Anita Shreve
- Susan Richards Shreve
- Paullina Simons
- Anne Rivers Siddons
- Jane Smiley
- Lee Smith
- Amy Tan
- Nancy Thayer
- Anne Tyler
- Alice Walker
- Marianne Wiggins
- Meg Wolitzer
- Laura Zigman






