To be fair, there arent a lot of American authors of prominence these days.
The one who cries out for a Nobel is Tom Wolfe.
But he wont get one of course, politics.
A genre author of genuinely high literary merit, and still living, whose works are probably outstanding examples of US letters, is the science fiction author Gene Wolfe - yeah, theres something about all those wolves.
The Nobel is nothing but a joke these days. American authors should be proud not to be on their list.
Black Balls Matter!
Who cares. It’s a whole bunch of people who vote for their buddies - along political lines of course.
As Pat Buchanan wrote: “All my life, said Voltaire, I have had but one prayer: “O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous. And God granted it.”
In awarding the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the Nobel committee has just made itself look ridiculous.”
A Nobel Prize in anything other than the sciences is worth about as much as a Dorkbama birth certificate.
But wait, there’s more.
The lib trolls are certain to go after the sciences, which are the only professions still requiring high IQ.
Assuredly, a Nobel Prize for some sort of climate change “research” is in the future.
After that, one can completely disregard anything coming out of Norway.