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What are the best American authors?

>> No.2453776

Flannery O'Connor

>> No.2453779

I like Octavio Paz

>> No.2453780

>>2453768
Tomas Pinecone

>> No.2453781

"Who are" would be the correct start of the sentence.

>> No.2453787

I feel like John Williams is underappreciated.

>> No.2453792

>>2453781
You are correct. I'll make a new thread.

>> No.2453797

Hemingway.

You can thank him for inventing modernist writing.

>> No.2453812

>>2453787
probably because he shares his name with a guy who has a National Medal of Arts, 21 Grammys, is in the Olympic order and tied Walt Disney for number of Oscar nominations.

>> No.2453816

Melville

>> No.2453950

>>2453797
>In anon's world, Pessoa, Stein, Joyce, and Pound never existed.
Hahaha, no.

He did have an "indelible effect on style," which I believe his Nobel award states.

>> No.2454016

Samuel Clemens.