American Literature: Biographies
- Joseph Heller
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Juanita Bynum
- Judith Bloom Fradin
- Jules Feiffer
- Julia Ward Howe
- Julianne Malveaux
- Julius Rosenberg
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Katherine Applegate
- Ken Elton Kesey
- Kenneth Duva Burke
- Kenneth Patchen
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- L Frank Baum
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Langston Hughes
- Larry Leon Hamlin
- Laura Ingalls Wilder