Michigan is home to many noted authors. Whether native born or longtime residents, writing fiction, nonfiction or poetry, the following authors have produced a remarkable body of work.

• William X. Kienzle  (Detroit)
• Jeffrey Eugenides  (Detroit)
• Marge Piercy  (Detroit)
• Terry McMillan  (Port Huron)
• Elmore Leonard  (raised in Detroit, lived in Oakland County)
• Jim Harrison  (Grayling)
• Loren Estleman  (Ann Arbor)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell  (Kalamazoo)
• Thomas McGuane  (Wyandotte)
• Pete Dexter  (Pontiac)
• Robert Traver  (Ishpeming)
• William J. Coughlin (lived in Detroit & Grosse Pointe Woods)
• Ellen Airgood  (lives in Grand Marais)
• Scott Lasser  (Detroit)
• Beverly Jenkins  (lives in Belleville)
• D.E. Johnson  (Kalamazoo)
• Steve Hamilton  (Detroit)
• John Smolens  (lives in Marquette)
• Joseph Heywood  (lives in the Upper Peninsula)
• Donald Goines  (Detroit)
• James Oliver Curwood  (Owosso)
• Michael Moore  (Flint)
• Nancy Willard  (Ann Arbor) 
• Thomas Lynch  (Detroit)
• Philip Levine  (Detroit)
• Ring Lardner  (Niles)
• Wayne Dyer  (Detroit)