Five greatest American authors?

Five greatest American authors?

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Pretty conventional tastes here, but for my money:

Melville, Faulkner, Gaddis, Delillo, and Pynchon.

Herman Melville
Henry James
Emily Dickinson
William Gaddis
William Gass

huckleberry finn

James Patterson
Stephen King
John Grisham
Dan Brown
Jeff Kinney

wallace stevens
f. scott fitzgerald
edna saint vincent millay
edith wharton
john steinbeck

Herman Melville
James Thurber
John Updike
James Gould Cozzens
Henry James

Melville
Faulkner
Melville
Faulkner
Melville

>DeLillo
Extremely plebeian taste

Charles Portis
Mark Twain
Phillip K Dick
Gene Wolfe
Herman Melville

Certainly not DFW.

Melville
Salinger
Roth
Bellow
Auster

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Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Octavia Butler
Alice Walker
Angela Davis
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>Auster

Are you a forty year old recently divorced man?

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Coover
Gaddis
DeLillo
Barth
Carver

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Herman Melville
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Fitzgerald
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Dick
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Melville, Faulkner, Dickinson, Henry James, Hart Crane

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Your time is over.

Morrison
Baldwin
Pynchon
Fitzgerald
Twain

>only two Pynchons

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Melville
Twain
Faulkner
Pynchon
H. James

This is the definite list. Honorary mention for Gaddis