Are Erskine Caldwell and Richard Ford both American novelists?
Richard Ford Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day", "The Lay of the Land" and "Let Me Be Frank With You", and the short story collection "Rock Springs", which contains several widely anthologized stories.
Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.