Following is a list of Michigan writers, who are noteworthy either by having been born in Michigan or by living there during their writing career.
Journalists and nonfiction
Bruce Ableson, inventor of Open Diary (born in West Bloomfield)
Mitch Albom, author, sportswriter, radio talk show host (born in Trenton, New Jersey; moved to Philadelphia; lives in metro Detroit)
Joel Bakan, legal writer and Canadian lawyer (born in Lansing)
Ray Stannard Baker, 19th Century muckraking journalist (born in Lansing)
Michael Barone, journalist, pundit, editor (born in Highland Park)
Jim Bellows, newspaper editor in Washington, New York and Los Angeles (born in Detroit)
Robert K. Brown, war correspondent, founder of Soldier of Fortune magazine (born in Monroe)
Amanda Carpenter, author, former correspondent (born in Montrose)
E. Jean Carroll, magazine writer and advice columnist (born in Detroit)
Jill Carroll, journalist, Iraqi terrorists' kidnap victim (born in Ann Arbor)
Bruce Catton, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (born in Petoskey)
Zev Chafets, journalist and columnist (born in Pontiac)
Jonathan Chait, senior editor and columnist (grew up in metro Detroit)
David Chardavoyne, legal writer (born in Ohio, moved to metro Detroit)
Arthur Danto, art critic for The Nation (born in Ann Arbor)
Paul de Kruif, science writer and microbiologist (born in Zeeland)
James Deren, literary nonfiction writer (born in Detroit, (resides in White Lake)
Fred Dustin, early 20th Century writer (born in Glens Falls, New York; settled and died in Saginaw)
Joe Falls, sportswriter for Detroit newspapers from 1956-2004 (born in New York, moved to Detroit)
M. F. K. Fisher, food writer (born in Albion)
Terry Foster, sportswriter and radio personality (born in Detroit)
Ron Fournier, national political journalist (born in Detroit)
Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, literary nonfiction writer (born in Wayne, raised in West Bloomfield, in 1994 moved to Istanbul, Turkey)
Lou Gordon, television commentator and talk show host, newspaper columnist, radio host, political reporter (born and based in Detroit)
Jerry Green, sportswriter for Detroit newspapers from 1963-2004
John Grogan, columnist and author (born in Detroit)
Ben Hamper, journalist and non-fiction writer (born in Flint, Michigan)
Jemele Hill, columnist for ESPN (born in Detroit)
Michael Kinsley, editor, columnist (born in Detroit)
Charlie LeDuff, journalist, author (born in Virginia, grew up in Westland)
Karl Ludvigsen, editor of Car and Driver, Motor Trend (born in Kalamazoo)
Betty Mahmoody, author (born in Alma, Michigan)
John J. Miller, national political reporter (born in Detroit)
Elvis Mitchell, film critic (born in Detroit)
Michael Moore, documentary filmmaker and nonfiction writer (born in Flint, Michigan)
Jay Nordlinger, senior editor (born in Ann Arbor)
Isabel Paterson, author, co-founder of American libertarianism (born on Manitoulin Island, Canada; grew up on a rural Upper Peninsula ranch)
Neal Rubin, columnist, writer of comic strip Gil Thorp (born in California, lives in Farmington Hills)
Joseph Sobran, paleo-conservative syndicated columnist (raised in Ypsilanti)
Helen Thomas, journalist, White House correspondent (born in Winchester, Kentucky; moved to Detroit)
Paul Vachon, freelance journalist and local historian (born in Detroit in 1959)
Bob Wojnowski, sports columnist and radio personality (born in Buffalo, New York, lives in metro Detroit)
Playwrights and screenwriters
Ron Allen, playwright (born in Detroit)
Mike Binder, actor, director, screenwriter (born in Detroit, raised in Birmingham)
Bruce Campbell, actor and autobiographer (born in Royal Oak, Michigan);
Jim Cash, screenwriter(born in Boyne City, lived in Grand Rapids)
Francis Ford Coppola, screenwriter, director (born in Detroit)
Pete Dexter, novelist, screenwriter (born in Pontiac)
Gerald Di Pego, screenwriter (born in Flint)
Jack Epps, Jr., screenwriter (attended Michigan State)
Jim Harrison, novelist, screenwriter (attended Michigan State)
Jake Kasdan, screenwriter, director (born in Detroit)
Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter, director (attended University of Michigan)
Neil LaBute, playwright, director, screenwriter (born in Detroit)
Elmore Leonard, novelist, screenwriter (lived in Bloomfield Hills)
Thomas McGuane, novelist, screenwriter (attended Michigan State)
Arthur Miller, playwright (attended University of Michigan)
Ron Milner, playwright (born in Detroit)
Jane Murfin, playwright, screenwriter (born in Quincy)
Terry Rossio, screenwriter, producer (born in Kalamazoo)
Ivan Raimi, screenwriter (born in Royal Oak)
Sam Raimi, screenwriter, director, producer (born in Royal Oak)
Heather Raffo, playwright, actress (raised in Michigan)
Paul Schrader, screenwriter, director (born in Grand Rapids)
Sandra Seaton, playwright, librettist (lives in Michigan)
Donald E. Stewart, screenwriter (born in Detroit)
John Malcolm Brinnin, poet (born in Halifax Nova Scotia; raised in Detroit)
Jim Daniels, poet (born in Detroit)
Toi Derricotte, poet (born in Hamtramck)
Dorothy Donnelly, poet and prose writer (born in Detroit, raised in Grosse Pointe Park, lived in Ann Arbor)
Stuart Dybek, poet (born in Chicago, Illinois; lives in Kalamazoo)
Clayton Eshleman, poet (born in Indianapolis, moved to Ypsilanti)
Carolyn Forché, poet (born in Detroit)
Robert Frost, poet. (moved to Ann Arbor).
Alice Fulton, MacArthur "Genius Award" poet (born in Troy, New York; moved to Ypsilanti)
Edgar Guest, poet (born in Birmingham, England; moved to Detroit)
Jim Harrison, poet and novelist (born in Grayling)
Robert Hayden, poet (born in Detroit; moved to Ann Arbor)
Conrad Hilberry, poet (born in Ferndale; moved to Kalamazoo)
Lawrence Joseph, poet (born in Detroit)
Jane Kenyon, poet (born in Ann Arbor)
Philip Levine, poet (born in Detroit)
Naomi Long Madgett, poet (born in Norfolk, Virginia, raised in East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Detroit and Ypsilanti)
Thomas Lynch, poet (born in Detroit)
John Frederick Nims, poet (born in Muskegon)
Marge Piercy, poet and novelist (born in Detroit)
Dudley Randall, poet, Broadside Press founder (born in Detroit)
Theodore Roethke, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet (born in Saginaw)
Carol Smallwood, poet, born in Cheboygan
Richard Tillinghast, poet (born in Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Ann Arbor)
Nancy Willard, poet, novelist, children's writer and literary critic (born in Ann Arbor)
Wayne Dyer, self-help book writer (born in Detroit)
James Finn Garner, humorist (born in Dearborn)
Jerry B. Jenkins, religious writer, "as told to" biographer, romance writer (born in Kalamazoo)
Ring Lardner, Sr., satirist, short story writer and sports columnist (born in Niles)
Robert McKee, well-known creative writing instructor (born in Detroit)
Peter McWilliams, writer and cannabis legalization advocate (born in Detroit)
Stewart Edward White, writer (born in Grand Rapids)
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