U.S. citizens who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature:
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1938 Pearl S. Buck
1949 William Faulkner
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1962 John Steinbeck
1976 Saul Bellow
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1993 Toni Morrison
2016 Bob Dylan