Betty Smith (1)Similar Authors

Help LibraryThing improve these recommendations by voting their validity below. As members rate, recommendations move up and down, on and off the list. Be sure to rate the validity of the recommendation, not the quality of author recommended.

1. Willa Cather

   Author of O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, A Lost Lady
   How valid? —

2. Edith Wharton

   Author of The Custom of the Country, Summer, The Mother's Recompense
   How valid? —

3. Margery Sharp

   Author of Cluny Brown, The Nutmeg Tree, Britannia Mews
   How valid? —

4. Pearl S. Buck

   Author of The Good Earth, Imperial Woman
   How valid? —

5. Daphne du Maurier

   Author of Hungry Hill, Rebecca, Mary Anne
   How valid? —

6. Rumer Godden

   Author of The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, China Court: The Hours of a Country House, In This House of Brede
   How valid? —

7. Herman Wouk

   Author of Marjorie Morningstar, The Winds of War
   How valid? —

8. Edna Ferber

   Author of So Big, Giant, Ice Palace
   How valid? —

9. Dodie Smith

   Author of I Capture the Castle, The Town in Bloom, The New Moon with the Old
   How valid? —

10. Amy Tan

    Author of The Joy Luck Club
    How valid? —

11. Jean Kerr

    Author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies
    How valid? —

12. Mary McCarthy

    Author of The Group, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
    How valid? —

13. Ann Patchett

    Author of The Dutch House, Bel Canto, Tom Lake
    How valid? —

14. Betty Bard MacDonald

    Author of The Egg and I, The Plague and I, Onions in the Stew
    How valid? —

15. Olive Ann Burns

    Author of Cold Sassy Tree, Leaving Cold Sassy
    How valid? —

16. Barbara Kingsolver

    Author of The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees
    How valid? —

17. Jeannette Walls

    Author of The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    How valid? —

18. Benedict Freedman

    Author of Mrs. Mike: The Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan
    How valid? —

19. Zora Neale Hurston

    Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
    How valid? —

20. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Main Street, Cass Timberlane, Arrowsmith
    How valid? —

21. Bel Kaufman

    Author of Up the Down Staircase
    How valid? —

22. E. H. Young

    Author of Jenny Wren, Miss Mole, The Curate's Wife
    How valid? —

23. Sue Monk Kidd

    Author of The Secret Life of Bees, The Invention of Wings
    How valid? —

24. Jacqueline Woodson

    Author of Another Brooklyn, Red at the Bone
    How valid? —

25. Helen Hooven Santmyer

    Author of ...And the Ladies of the Club
    How valid? —

26. Henry Roth

    Author of Call It Sleep
    How valid? —

27. Margaret Kennedy

    Author of The Ladies of Lyndon, Together and Apart, Troy Chimneys
    How valid? —

28. Colm Tóibín

    Author of Brooklyn
    How valid? —

29. Helene Hanff

    Author of 84, Charing Cross Road, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
    How valid? —

30. Laurie Colwin

    Author of Happy All the Time, Family Happiness
    How valid? —

31. John Knowles

    Author of A Separate Peace
    How valid? —

32. Elizabeth Strout

    Author of Olive Kitteridge
    How valid? —

33. Elizabeth von Arnim

    Author of The Enchanted April, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Solitary Summer
    How valid? —

34. John Steinbeck

    Author of East of Eden, The Red Pony
    How valid? —

35. Fannie Flagg

    Author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
    How valid? —

36. Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    Author of The Home-Maker, The Brimming Cup, The Deepening Stream
    How valid? —

37. Maya Angelou

    Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    How valid? —

38. Barbara Comyns

    Author of A Touch of Mistletoe, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
    How valid? —

39. Christina Baker Kline

    Author of Orphan Train, The Exiles
    How valid? —

40. Frank McCourt

    Author of Angela's Ashes
    How valid? —

41. Celeste Ng

    Author of Little Fires Everywhere, Everything I Never Told You
    How valid? —

42. Pietro di Donato

    Author of Christ in Concrete
    How valid? —

43. Richard Llewellyn

    Author of How Green Was My Valley
    How valid? —

44. Rona Jaffe

    Author of The Best of Everything, Class Reunion
    How valid? —

45. Sylvia Plath

    Author of The Bell Jar
    How valid? —

46. Margaret Mitchell

    Author of Gone with the Wind
    How valid? —

47. Jamie Ford

    Author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    How valid? —

48. D. E. Stevenson

    Author of Celia's House
    How valid? —

49. Mary Stewart

    Author of Airs Above the Ground, The Moon-Spinners
    How valid? —

50. Cornelia Otis Skinner

    Author of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
    How valid? —