List_of_American_expatriate_writers
- Conrad Aiken
- Washington Allston, artist, writer on art
- Maya Angelou, poet, memoirs
- Alan Ansen
- John Ashbery
- Vincent O. Carter
- Jerome Charyn
- Eldridge Cleaver, non-fiction; criminal, leading "Black Panther"
- Ira Cohen, poet, publisher
- Cid Corman
- Gregory Corso
- Malcolm Cowley
- Caresse Crosby
- Harry Crosby, "Black Sun Press"
- Robert Crumb, comics
- E.E. Cummings
- William Gaddis
- William Gibson, science fiction
- Horatio Greenough, artist, essays on art
- Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent, novelist
- Steve Katz, in Italy 1959–62
- Archibald MacLeish
- David Markson
- Harry Mathews, novels; memoirs; member of Oulipo; editor of "Locus Solus"
- Mary McCarthy
- Claude McKay
- Stuart Merrill
- Henry Miller
- Derek B. Miller
- Robert Maynard Pirsig, popular philosophy
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Ezra Pound
- Frederic Prokosch
- John Reed
- Laura Riding
- Waverly Root, journalism, non-fiction (food)
- Robert Ruark
- James Sallis, crime, science fiction; editor of New Worlds for two years
- George Santayana
- Evelyn Scott
- David Sedaris
- Alan Seeger
- Irwin Shaw
- John Sladek
- Agnes Smedley
- Logan Pearsall Smith
- Robert Pearsall Smith
- Gary Snyder
- Terry Southern
- Frances Steegmuller
- Gertrude Stein
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Paul Theroux, travel writer
- Alice B. Toklas, cookbook writer and life partner of Gertrude Stein.
- Glenway Wescott
- Nathanael West, in Paris in autumn 1926 (not for years as often stated)
- Edith Wharton
- Edmund White
- Robert Wilson (director), theatre, film
- Thomas Wolfe
- Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Willard Huntington Wright, crime
- Richard Wright