the United States 2001–2003 Joe Connelly – novelist; author of Bringing Out the Dead Michael Connelly – crime novelist; author of the bestselling Harry Bosch detective series Pat Conroy – novelist and memoirist; author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides Robert Creeley – poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets; awarded a 2000 American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award Maureen Daly – novelist and short story writer; her novel Seventeenth Summer (1942) is considered the first young adult novel Philip K. Dick – science fiction author J.P. Donleavy – novelist; author of The Ginger Man, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels Kirby Doyle – poet and novelist; associated with the New American Poetry movement and "third generation" American modernist poets Alan Dugan – poet; winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his volume Poems James T. Farrell – novelist; author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels F. Scott Fitzgerald – novelist and short story writer; his novel The Great Gatsby was named on both the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels and the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 Robert Fitzgerald – poet, critic, and translator; served as Poet Laureate of the United States 1984–1985 Thomas Flanagan – novelist and academic; winner of the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Year of the French Vince Flynn – political thriller novelist; author of bestselling Mitch Rapp series Alice Fulton – poet and short story writer; awarded the 2002 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Felt Tess Gallagher – poet, short story writer, essayist, and playwright Lucy Grealy – poet, memoirist, and essayist; author of Autobiography of a Face Pete Hamill – journalist, columnist, novelist, and short story writer George V. Higgins – novelist, columnist, and academic; known for his best-selling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle Fanny Howe – poet, novelist, and short-story writer; awarded the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Selected Poems Marie Howe – poet; winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series for The Good Thief Susan Howe – poet and literary critic; awarded American Book Awards in 1981 for The Liberties and 1986 for My Emily Dickinson Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Orchard Myra Kelly