List of Alfred A. Knopf authors

• Kōbō Abe, famous Japanese writer{{Cite web|date=18 October 2021|title=Inter Ice Age 4 by Kōbō Abe|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2119263.Inter_Ice_Age_4|website=goodreads}}
• Leonard J. Arrington, American historian

• John Banville, Irish writer
• Carl Bernstein, American journalist
• Elizabeth Bowen, Irish writer{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908176194|title=The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire|last=Claridge|first=Laura|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=2016|isbn=9780374114251|edition=First|location=New York|pages=|oclc=908176194}}
• Frederick Buechner, American author
• Richard Bushman, American historian{{Cite journal|last=Woodworth|first=Jed (interviewer)|date=Fall 2009|title=The Historian's Craft: A Conversation with Richard Lyman Bushman|url=https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Historian%E2%80%99s-Craft-A-Conversation-with-Richard-Lyman-Bushman.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Mormon Historical Studies|volume=10|issue=2|pages=134–173|archive-url=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|archive-date=July 26, 2018}}
• Witter Bynner, American author

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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{{Cite web|date=2003|title=2003 Newbery Medal and Honor Books|url=http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/2003newberymedal|access-date=May 12, 2021|website=Association for Library Service to Children}}
• Langston Hughes, American writer and social activist

• Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British writer

• John Keegan, British military historian and writer

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

• 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

• George Jean Nathan, American drama critic and magazine editor

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

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

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

• Anne Tyler, American novelist

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

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

• Émile Zola, French writer

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