List of American expatriate writers
A
[edit]- Conrad Aiken
- Washington Allston, artist, writer on art
- Maya Angelou, poet, memoirs
- Alan Ansen
- John Ashbery
B
[edit]- James Baldwin
- Djuna Barnes
- Bernard Berenson
- Mary Berenson
- Thomas Berger
- John Peale Bishop
- Joan Bodger
- Jane Bowles
- Paul Bowles
- Kay Boyle
- Louis Bromfield
- John Horne Burns
- William S. Burroughs
C
[edit]- Vincent O. Carter
- Jerome Charyn
- Eldridge Cleaver, non-fiction; criminal, leading "Black Panther"
- Ira Cohen, poet, publisher
- Cid Corman
- Gregory Corso
- Malcolm Cowley
- Caresse Crosby
- Harry Crosby, "Black Sun Press"
- Robert Crumb, comics
- E. E. Cummings
D
[edit]- Edward Dahlberg
- William Demby
- Helen DeWitt
- Irene Dische
- Mabel Dodge (Luhan)
- J. P. Donleavy
- Edward Dorn
- John Dos Passos
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Rikki Ducornet
- Elaine Dundy
- Andrea Dworkin, memoirs, feminist
E
[edit]F
[edit]- Ruth Fainlight
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Janet Flanner
- John Gould Fletcher
- Charles Henri Ford
- Robert Frost
G
[edit]- William Gaddis
- William Gibson, science fiction
- Horatio Greenough, artist, essays on art
- Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, novelist
H
[edit]- H.D.
- Bret Harte
- Marsden Hartley
- Ernest Hemingway
- Patricia Highsmith
- Chester Himes
- Russell Hoban
- Langston Hughes
I
[edit]J
[edit]K
[edit]- Steve Katz, in Italy 1959–62
L
[edit]M
[edit]- Archibald MacLeish
- David Markson
- Harry Mathews, novels; memoirs; member of Oulipo; editor of Locus Solus
- Mary McCarthy
- Claude McKay
- Stuart Merrill
- Henry Miller
- Derek B. Miller
N
[edit]O
[edit]P
[edit]- Robert M. Pirsig, popular philosophy
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Ezra Pound
- Frederic Prokosch
R
[edit]- John Reed
- Laura Riding
- Waverley Root, journalism, non-fiction (food)
- Robert Ruark
S
[edit]- James Sallis, crime, science fiction; editor of New Worlds for two years
- George Santayana
- Evelyn Scott
- David Sedaris
- Alan Seeger
- Irwin Shaw
- John Sladek
- Agnes Smedley
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- Robert Pearsall Smith
- Gary Snyder
- Terry Southern
- Francis Steegmuller
- Gertrude Stein
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- John Strand
T
[edit]- Paul Theroux, travel writer
- Alice B. Toklas, cookbook writer and life partner of Gertrude Stein.
V
[edit]W
[edit]- Glenway Wescott
- Nathanael West, in Paris in autumn 1926 (not for years as often stated)
- Edith Wharton
- Edmund White
- Robert Wilson, theatre, film
- Thomas Wolfe
- Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Willard Huntington Wright, crime
- Richard Wright