Filter: American novelist (54 people)

Walter Abish

Walter Abish
Will Alexander

Will Alexander
John Allman

John Allman
Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson
Paul Auster

Paul Auster
Djuna Barnes

Djuna Barnes
Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño
Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch
Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu
Marvin Cohen

Marvin Cohen
Robert Coles

Robert Coles
Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar
Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley
Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg
Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat
Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis
Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander
Romain Gary

Romain Gary
William H. Gass

William H. Gass
Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll
Lars Gustafsson

Lars Gustafsson
James B. Hall

James B. Hall
John Hawkes

John Hawkes
Samuel Hazo

Samuel Hazo
Maude Hutchins

Maude Hutchins
Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood
Henry James

Henry James
John Keene

John Keene
Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd
Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš
Elaine Kraf

Elaine Kraf

Jonathan Lethem
Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn
Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

Ian S. MacNiven
David Markson

David Markson
Carole Maso

Carole Maso
Michael McClure

Michael McClure
Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers
Henry Miller

Henry Miller
Rick Moody

Rick Moody
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates
Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen
James Purdy

James Purdy
Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Rodrigo Rey Rosa
William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag
John Updike

John Updike
Liz Werner

Liz Werner
Paul West

Paul West
William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams
James Wood

James Wood

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."