More Contemporary Writers
Fiction.
Contemporary American fiction can be characterized by its many strands and variety of voices. In the
realistic tradition, several writers have consistently produced high-quality fiction about American life:
Saul Bellow
(1915-Present)
is best known for his
Bildungsroman, The Adventures of Augie March
;
Norman Mailer (1923-Present)
writes a bolder fiction usually critical of American society, as in his Vietnam War novel,
The Armies of the Night
;
JohnUpdike (1932-Present)
is best known for his series of novels about Rabbit Angstrom, a contemporary anti-hero;
and
Phil Roth (1933-Present)
achieved early fame with
Goodbye, Columbus,
a volume of short stories about Jewish
middle-class life and then shifted gradually toward fantasy and metafiction. One of the most influential writers of the
immediate post-World War II years was
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