Editing Lists of Italian Americans (section)

==Writers==
*[[Kim Addonizio]] - poet and novelist
*[[Vince Aletti]] (born 1945)- writer, curator, and photography critic
*[[Maria Arena Bell]] - novelist, television and freelance writer
*[[Paul Attanasio]] - screenwriter
*[[Ken Auletta]] - writer/journalist and media critic for ''[[The New Yorker]]''
*[[David Baldacci]] (born 1960) - best-selling novelist; a distant cousin of [[John Baldacci]], former governor of [[Maine]]
*[[Andrew Berardini]] - art critic and fiction writer
*[[Greg Berlanti]] - television writer and producer
*[[Giannina Braschi]] - poet and novelist
*[[Leo Buscaglia]] (1924–1998) - author and motivational speaker
*[[Christopher Castellani]] - novelist
*[[Nick Cafardo]] (1956–2019) - sportswriter
*[[Duane Capizzi]] - screenwriter
*[[Lorenzo Carcaterra]] - novelist and screenwriter
*[[Christopher Carosa]] (born 1960) - author, journalist, and investment adviser
*[[John Ciardi]] - poet and etymologist
*[[Diablo Cody]] - screenwriter, producer, author, journalist, memoirist, stripper and exotic dancer
*[[Bob Colacello]] - writer
*[[Angelo F. Coniglio]] - civil engineer, genealogist and author
*[[Gregory Corso]] - poet
*[[Wendy Corsi Staub]] - novelist
*[[John Corvino]] - philosopher
*[[Lorenzo Da Ponte]] - poet, writer, librettist 
*[[William L. DeAndrea]] - mystery writer
*[[Keith R. A. DeCandido]]
*[[Frank De Felitta]] - author
*[[Don DeLillo]] (born 1936) - author
*[[Guy Anthony De Marco]] - author
*[[Tomie dePaola]] - author
*[[Louise DeSalvo]] - writer, editor, professor, and lecturer
*[[Pietro Di Donato]] - writer
*[[Janine di Giovanni]] - author, journalist and war correspondent
*[[John Fante]] - novelist and screenwriter
*[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] - poet, essayist and painter
*[[David Franzoni]] - screenwriter of ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'' and ''[[King Arthur (2004 film)|King Arthur]]''
*[[John Fusco]] - novelist (Paradise Salvage) and screenwriter of ''Young Guns, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron''
*[[Paul Gallico]] - Italian father
*[[Daniela Gioseffi]] (born 1941) - poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, performer, social justice activist
*[[Arturo Giovannitti]] - poet, political activist
*[[Barbara Grizzuti Harrison]] (1934–2002) - writer
*[[Evan Hunter]] - aka Ed MacBain, born Salvatore Lombino
*[[Philip Lamantia]]
*[[Teresa de Lauretis]]
*[[Luis Marden]] - born Annibale Luis Paragallo, writer for ''[[National Geographic Magazine|National Geographic]]''
*[[Fulvio Melia]] - author of several popular science books, including ''The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy''
*[[Charles Messina]] - writer/director of the play ''[[Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God]]'', the film ''Merging'', and co-author the book ''My Father, My Don''
* [[Henry Samuel Morais]] - writer, rabbi
*[[Diana Ossana]] - Academy Award-winning screenwriter
*[[Camille Paglia]] - post-feminist literary and cultural critic
*[[Christopher Paolini]] - writer. he is best known for ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' 
*[[Michael Parenti]]
*[[P.M. Pasinetti]] - novelist, playwright, journalist, professor
*[[Mario Pei]]
*[[Tom Perrotta]] - novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels ''Election'' (1998) and ''Little Children'' (2004)<ref name="tgu">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/21/tom-perrotta-interview |title=A life in writing: Tom Perrotta |last=Crace |first=John |date=February 21, 2009 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 29, 2013 |quote=He was born in 1961 in Newark, where he spent his entire childhood. His father was an Italian immigrant postal worker, his mother an Albanian-Italian – "that made her a second-class Italian" – secretary.}}</ref><ref name="motoko">Rich, Motoko. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/14rich.html "A Writer's Search for the Sex in Abstinence"], [[The New York Times]], 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.it/en/uomo-vogue/people-stars/2012/03/tom-perrotta |title=Tom Perrotta at the end of real life in the new novel of a cult author |last=Fiamma |first=Florinda |date=March 1, 2012 |website=[[Vogue Italia|L'Uomo Vogue]] |access-date=September 29, 2013 |quote=My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother's relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.}}</ref><ref name="globe">Shanahan, Mark. [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/10/18/adaptation/ "Adaptation: Tom Perrotta is growing accustomed to seeing his books on the big screen"], [[The Boston Globe]], 2006-10-18. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.</ref> 
*[[Nicholas Pileggi]] (born 1933) - writer, producer and screenwriter. He wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for ''[[Goodfellas]]''
*[[Joseph D. Pistone]]
*[[Diane di Prima]] - poet of the Beat generation
*[[Mario Puzo]] (1920–1999) - writer/screenwriter and best-selling author of ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]'' 
*[[Marco Rafalà]] - first-generation descendant of immigrants from [[Melilli]], Sicily. He is the author of the novel, [[How Fires End]], a work of historical fiction set in [[World War II]] Sicily and 1980s [[America]]. 
*[[Terry Rossio]] - screenwriter
*[[Shane Salerno]] - screenwriter
*[[R.A. Salvatore]] (born 1959) - born Robert Anthony Salvatore, science fiction and [[fantasy]] author, best known for his ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' and ''[[Star Wars]]'' novels
*[[Leslie Scalapino]] - poet
*[[Piero Scaruffi]] - poet, historian, scientist
*[[Dom (Domenico) Serafini]] - TV trade magazine editor
*[[Michelangelo Signorile]] - journalist, columnist, [[talk radio]] host and gay activist
*[[Michael Smerconish]] - radio host and television presenter, newspaper columnist, author, and lawyer
*[[Gay Talese]]
*[[Adriana Trigiani]]
*[[Jessica Valenti]] - blogger and feminist writer
*[[Mark Valenti]] - screenwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0884131/|title=Mark Valenti|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-05-18}}</ref>
*[[Tom Verducci]] - sportswriter
*[[Luisa Weiss]] - food writer
*[[Rebecca Zanetti]] - bestselling author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense