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This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.) Novelists on this list have achieved a notability that exceeds merely having been published. The writers on the current list fall into one or more of the following categories: All American novelists who have articles in Wikipedia should be on this list, and even if they do not clearly meet any other criteria they should not be removed until the article itself is removed. Winner of a major literary prize, even if the winning work was a story collection rather than a novel: The Pulitzer Prize, The PEN American Center Book Awards, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Prize, and some others. (Note: The only Pulitzer winner for Fiction not on the list is James Alan McPherson, who has never published a novel.) Having a substantial body of work, widely respected and reviewed in major publications, and perhaps often nominated or a finalist for major awards. A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history. Had several massive bestsellers, or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example). A leading figure—especially award-winning, and with crossover appeal to mainstream readers, reviewers, and scholars—in a major genre or subcategory of fiction: Romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, young adult fiction, regional or "local color" fiction, proletarian fiction, etc. A Victoria Aveyard (born 1990), Red Queen series B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also "The Great American Novel" American literature Colonial American literature Southern literature African American literature Jewish American literature LGBT literature Lists of writers List of short story authors List of novelists by nationality List of women writers List of African-American writers List of Asian-American writers List of Jewish American authors List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas Awards Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1918–1947) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1948 to present) National Book Award Bestsellers Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States (The top ten each year from 1900 to 2008) References Nelson, Emmanuel S. Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000) Specific. Discover the Frances Hodgson Burnett Martha Hailey popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Frances Hodgson Burnett Martha Hailey books.