| A | B |
| Elward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Delicate Balance |
| Katherina Anne Porter | Collected Short Stories 1966 |
| Shirley Ann Grau | Keepers of the House 1965 |
| Ellen Glasgow | Is This Our Life 1942 |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | The Yearling 1939 |
| Margaret Mitchell | Gone With the Wind 1937 |
| Josephine Winslow Johnson | Now in November 1035 |
| Caroline Miller | Lamb in His Bosom 1934 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | In the Mecca 1968; Annie Allen 1962 |
| John Updike | Rabbit at Rest 1982 Rabbit is Rich 1991 |