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Article title?[edit]

S/be List of Jewish American authors. 24.17.48.241 18:35, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It appears this issue has been corrected. Aristophanes68 (talk) 15:57, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging[edit]

List needs to be sourced and references (see List of Jewish American journalists for an example). Tagging until this is done.--Isotope23 12:16, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you reference whether or not someone is jewish? - m0laria

Is "authors" the most appropriate word? Since this list excludes poets and playwrights (who are authors) for brevity and clarity, mightn't "Prose Authors" be more accurate?

Maybe a link to the Poets, Playwrights, and other sections at the top would clarify which section this is? - m0laria

Should there be a separate page for children's vs. adult authors? -m0laria

I have removed all of the notations of "convert" as Judaism does not distinguish between Jews born Jewish and Jews who had converted. This is an unnecessary distinction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.7.165.28 (talk) 14:17, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And Woody Allen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.103.3.4 (talk) 04:10, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about Jonathan Safran Foer? and michael chabon?2601:D:CE00:898:6233:4BFF:FE21:9207 (talk) 02:54, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Reference named "nytimes":

From Stanley Elkin: Horner, Shirley (November 29, 1987). "About Books". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
From Saul Bellow: "The New York Times, Mel Gussow and Charles McGrath[2005], in Saul Bellow, Who Breathed Life into American Novel, Dies at 89". nytimes.com. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
From Molly Antopol: "Tales From Tel Aviv and Upper West Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-11.
From Dewey Decimal Classification: Luo, Michael (September 23, 2003). "Where Did Dewey File Those Law Books?". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
From Judd L. Teller: "Dr. Judd L. Teller (Published 1972)". The New York Times. 1972-05-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-02.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:30, 3 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]