Modernist Prose Masters
14 entries in the Modernist Prose Masters compendium.
Modernist Prose Masters — Era Chart
Sherwood AndersonAmerican novelist and short story writer, author of *Winesburg, Ohio*.William FaulknerAmerican writer and Nobel laureate known for Southern literature.Virginia WoolfEnglish modernist writer and pioneer of stream of consciousness.James JoyceIrish modernist writer whose *Ulysses* transformed narrative form.Franz KafkaGerman-language Jewish Czech writer of surreal bureaucratic predicaments.Marcel ProustFrench novelist often presented as an early stream of consciousness writer, though some crTheodore DreiserAmerican novelist and journalist of the naturalist school, associated with Chicago literatThomas WolfeScottish essayist, historian and philosopher; known as the "sage of Chelsea".William StyronWilliam Clark Styron Jr.Truman CapoteAmerican novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of New Journalism.Susan SontagAmerican writer and critic of culture, conflict, and illness.Yukio MishimaJapanese novelist and short story writer; first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Yasunari KawabataFirst Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.Shūsaku EndōJapanese Catholic writer known for Silence.
Browse Modernist Prose Masters in the interactive codex →