List of Alfred A. Knopf authors explained

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915. This is a list of authors published by Alfred A. Knopf.

A

• Kōbō Abe, famous Japanese writer^[1]
• Leonard J. Arrington, American historian

B

• John Banville, Irish writer
• Carl Bernstein, American journalist
• Elizabeth Bowen, Irish writer^[2]
• Frederick Buechner, American author
• Richard Bushman, American historian^[3]
• Witter Bynner, American author

C

• James M. Cain, American author and journalist
• Albert Camus, French author and journalist
• Robert Caro, American journalist and author
• Willa Cather, American writer and novelist
• Raymond Chandler, American novelist and screenwriter
• Julia Child, American chef and cookbook author
• Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States

D

• Floyd Dell, novelist, poet, playwright, critic, editor
• Joan Didion, American writer

E

• T. S. Eliot, English author
• Bret Easton Ellis, American novelist
• James Ellroy, novelist and writer

F

• Gustave Flaubert, French writer
• Barbara Newhall Follett, American child writer

G

• Martin Gardner, American writer
• Théophile Gautier, French writer
• Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
• Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
• Robert Graves, English poet and novelist

H

• Lee H. Hamilton, politician
• Dashiell Hammett, American writer
• Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist, short-story writer
• John Hersey, American journalist, novelist and professor
• Carl Hiaasen, American author^[4]
• Langston Hughes, American writer and social activist

I

• Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British writer

K

• John Keegan, British military historian and writer

L

• Nella Larsen, novelist and librarian
• Wyndham Lewis, English painter, writer and critic
• Jack London, American author and journalist

M

• Ross Macdonald, Canadian novelist
• Thomas Mann, German novelist and 1929 Nobel Prize Laureate
• Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer
• Cormac McCarthy, American novelist
• H. L. Mencken, American journalist and writer
• Toni Morrison, American writer
• Haruki Murakami, Japanese author and writer
• Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist

N

• George Jean Nathan, American drama critic and magazine editor

P

• Christopher Paolini, American writer
• Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
• Ezra Pound, American poet and critic

R

• James "Scotty" Reston, American journalist
• Anne Rice, American writer
• Dorothy Richardson, writer

S

• Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher
• William Shirer, American journalist
• Stephen M. Silverman, American journalist
• Muriel Spark, Scottish writer
• Susan Swan, Canadian author

T

• Anne Tyler, American novelist

V

• Andrew Vachss, American writer and lawyer
• Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer

W

• James D. Watson, writer
• Elinor Wylie, American poet
• Lawrence Wright, American writer and journalist

Z

• Émile Zola, French writer

Notes and References

1. Web site: 18 October 2021. Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe. goodreads.
2. Book: Claridge, Laura. The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2016. 9780374114251. First. New York. 908176194.
3. Woodworth. Jed (interviewer). Fall 2009. The Historian's Craft: A Conversation with Richard Lyman Bushman. live. Mormon Historical Studies. 10. 2. 134–173. https://web.archive.org/web/20180726234254/http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Historian%E2%80%99s-Craft-A-Conversation-with-Richard-Lyman-Bushman.pdf. July 26, 2018.
4. Web site: 2003. 2003 Newbery Medal and Honor Books. May 12, 2021. Association for Library Service to Children.