[The following statement was issued by a group of authors in support of the Occupy movements. It was recently published on occupywriters.com]
We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.
- Lorraine Adams, author of Harbor
- Rose Aguilar, author of Red Highways
- Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
- Steve Almond, author of Letters from People Who Hate Me
- Katie Arnold-Ratliff, author of Bright Before Us
- Margaret Atwood, author The Handmaid`s Tale
- Rosecrans Baldwin, author of You Lost Me There
- Russell Banks, author of Lost Memory of Skin
- Jon Robin Baitz, author of Other Desert Cities
- Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West
- Matthew Battles, author of Library
- Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed
- Alison Bechdel, author of Dykes to Watch Out For
- Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
- Karen E. Bender, author of Like Normal People
- Kate Bernheimer, author of Horse, Flower, Bird
- Anselm Berrigan, author of Notes from Irrelevance
- David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World
- Carla Blumenkranz, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah
- Robert Boswell, author of The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
- Helen Boyd, author of My Husband Betty
- Adam Braver, author of November 22, 1963
- Jane Brox, author of Brilliant
- Maria Bustillos, author of Dorkismo
- Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble
- Cynthia Carr, author of Our Town
- Emily Chenoweth, author of Hello Goodbye
- Lance Cleland, editor, Tin House
- Joshua Cohen, author of Witz
- Randy Cohen, author of The Good, the Bad and the Difference
- Kim Cooper, author of Neutral Milk Hotel`s `In the Aeroplane Over the Sea`
- Lucy Corin, author of The Entire Predicament
- Caleb Crain, author of American Sympathy
- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
- Anne-Christine D`Adesky, author of Under the Bone
- John D`Agata, author of About a Mountain
- Eric Darton, author of Divided We Stand
- Siddhartha Deb, author of The Beautiful and the Damned
- Jonathan Dee, author of The Privileges
- Samuel R. Delany, author of Through The Valley of the Nest of Spiders
- Stacey D`Erasmo, author of A Seahorse Year
- Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad Marie
- Toi Derricotte, author of The Black Notebooks
- Matthew Dickman, author of All-American Poem
- Kira Brunner Don, editor, Lapham`s Quarterly
- Timothy Donnelly, author of The Cloud Corporation
- Andre Dubus III, author of Townie
- Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed
- Ben Ehrenreich, author of Ether
- Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues
- Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain
- Paul La Farge, author of Luminous Airplanes
- Henry Farrell, Crooked Timber
- Harriet Fasenfest, author of A Householder`s Guide to the Universe
- Paul Ford, Ftrain
- Steve Fraser, author of Wall Street
- Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker
- Jaclyn Friedman, author of What You Really Want
- Peter Gadol, author of Silver Lake
- Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods
- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Love Marriage
- Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Jennifer Gilmore, author of Something Red
- Todd Gitlin, author of Undying
- Christopher Glazek, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season
- Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments
- Kevin Alexander Gray, author of Waiting For Lightning to Strike
- Mark Greif, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Tom Grimes, author of Mentor
- Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton
- Jason Grote, author of Maria/Stuart
- Allan Gurganus, author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- Beth Gutcheon, author of Leeway Cottage
- D.D. Guttenplan, author of American Radical
- Marilyn Hacker, author of Names
- J.C. Hallman, author of In Utopia
- A.S. Hamrah, n+1 Magazine
- Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding
- Thom Hartmann, author of Threshold
- Adam Haslett, author of Union Atlantic
- Ernest Hebert, author of Never Back Down
- Chris Hedges, author of War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
- Jane Hirshfield, author of Nine Gates
- Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars
- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift
- Roger D. Hodge, author of The Mendacity of Hope
- Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck
- Michael Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road
- Adam Horowitz, co-editor, The Goldstone Report
- Andrew Hsiao, editor, Verso Book of Dissent
- Cynthia Huntington, author of Heavenly Bodies
- Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift
- Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women
- Sarah Jones, author of Bridge & Tunnel
- Kathryn Joyce, author of Quiverfull
- Jessica Francis Kane, author of The Report
- Esther Kaplan, author of With God On Their Side
- Mary Karr, author of Lit
- Remi Kanazi, author of Poetic Injustice
- Ismail Khalidi, author of Tennis in Nablus
- Richard Kim, editor, The Nation
- Laura Kipnis, author of Against Love
- Roger King, A Girl From Zanzibar
- A.S. King, author of Please Ignore Vera Dietz
- Mark Kingwell, author of The World We Want
- Jay Kirk, author of Kingdom Under Glass
- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
- Cheston Knapp, editor, Tin House
- Scott Korb, author of Life in Year One
- Nancy Kricorian, author of Dreams of Bread and Fire
- Jim Krusoe, author of Toward You
- Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision
- Dorianne Laux, author of The Book of Men
- Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation
- Young Jean Lee, author of The Shipment
- Gary Lenhart, author of The World in a Minute
- Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude
- Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
- Kenji Liu, author of You Left Without Your Shoes
- William Bryant Logan, author of Dirt
- Eireann Lorsung, author of Music For Landing Planes By
- Maria Luarino, author of Were You Always an Italian?
- Fiona Maazel, author of Last Last Chance
- Holly MacArthur, editor, Tin House
- Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher`s Daughter
- Amanda Marcott, author of Get Opinionated
- Miriam Markowitz, editor, The Nation
- Sara Marcus, author of Girls to the Front
- Alane Mason, translator of Conversations in Sicily
- Anthony McCann, author of I Heart Your Fate
- Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
- Sheila McClear, author of Last of the Live Nude Girls
- Patrick McGrath, author of Asylum
- Askold Melnyczuk, author of House of Windows
- China Miéville, author of Embassytown
- Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon
- Katherine Min, author of Secondhand World
- Lee Montgomery, author of The Things Between Us
- Rick Moody, author of The Four Fingers of Death
- Honor Moore, author of The Bishop`s Daughter
- Keith Lee Morris, author of The Dart League King
- Bradford Morrow, author of The Diviner`s Tale
- Brian Morton, author of Starting Out in the Evening
- Yascha Mounk, The Utopian
- Quince Mountain, editor, Killing the Buddha
- Duncan Murrell, Harper`s Magazine
- Eileen Myles, author of Cool for You
- David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie
- Debbie Nathan, author of Sybil Exposed
- Maggie Nelson, author of The Art of Cruelty
- Ann Neumann, editor, The Revealer
- Maud Newton, author of When the Flock Changed
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Lucky Fish
- Hoa Nguyen, author of Hecate Lochia
- Danica Novgorodoff, author of Slow Storm
- D. Nurkse, author of The Border Kingdom
- Meghan O`Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye
- Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder
- Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding
- Tony Perez, editor, Tin House Books
- Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland
- Charles Petersen, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Dushko Petrovich, editor, Paper Monument
- Tom Piazza, author of Why New Orleans Matters
- Darryl Pinckney, author of High Cotton
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author of Deborah, Golda, and Me
- Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time
- Katha Pollitt, author of The Mind-body Problem
- D.A. Powell, author of Chronic
- Francine Prose, author of Blue Angel
- Stephen Prothero, author of Religious Literacy
- David Rakoff, author of Don`t Get Too Comfortable
- Jon Raymond, author of Livability
- Paul Reyes, author of Exiles in Eden
- Carolina De Robertis, author of The Invisible Mountain
- Matthew Rohrer, author of Destroyer and Preserver
- Theodore Ross, author of Am I a Jew
- Marco Roth, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses
- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Life Inc
- Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
- Mike Sacks, author of Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason
- Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, author of When Skateboards Will Be Free
- Lilith Saintcrow, author of Redemption Alley
- Luc Sante, author of Low Life
- George Saunders, author of In Persuasion Nation
- Nikil Saval, editor, n+1 Magazine
- Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater
- Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God
- Elissa Schappell, author of Blueprints for Building Better Girls
- George Scialabba, author of What Are Intellectuals Good For?
- Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family
- Brenda Shaughnessy, author of Human Dark with Sugar
- Helen Schulman, author of This Beautiful Life
- Jim Shepard, author of You Think That`s Bad
- Karen Shepard, author of Don`t I Know You?
- David Shields, author of Reality Hunger
- Jody Shields, author of The Fig Eater
- Rachel Shukert, author of Everything is Going to Be Great
- Alix Kates Shulman, author of To Love What Is
- Sarah Shulman, author of Ties That Bind
- Choire Sicha, The Awl
- Daniel Smith, author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets
- Lemony Snicket, author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events
- Laurel Snyder, author of Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to Be Kosher
- Alisa Solomon, author of Re-Dressing the Canon
- Anna Solomon, author of The Little Bride
- Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell
- Ahdaf Soueif, author of The Map of Love
- Scott Sparling, author of Wire to Wire
- Scott Spencer, author of Endless Love
- Rob Spillman, editor, Tin House
- Kio Stark, author of Follow Me Down
- Mary Helen Stefaniak, author of The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
- Darcey Steinke, author of Easter Everywhere
- Matthew Stewart, author of The Management Myth
- Meg Storey, editor, Tin House Books
- Ginger Strand, author of Inventing Niagara
- Meera Subramanian, editor, Killing the Buddha
- Donna Tartt, author of The Little Friend
- Justin Taylor, author of The Gospel of Anarchy
- Baratunde Thurston, editor, The Onion
- Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius
- Gioia Timpanelli, author of What Makes a Child Lucky
- Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief
- Pauls Toutonghi, author of Red Weather
- Catherine Tudish, author of American Cream
- Jessica Valenti, author of The Purity Myth
- Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road
- Alice Walker, author of Anything We Love Can Be Saved
- Mike Wallace, co-author of Gotham
- Michael Walzer, author of Spheres of Justice
- Philip Weiss, author of American Taboo
- Gina Welch, author of In the Land of Believers
- Joel Whitney, editor, Guernica
- Roger White, editor, Paper Monument
- Michelle Wildgen, author of But Not For Long
- Brook Wilensky-Lanford, author of Paradise Lust
- James Wolcott, author of Lucking Out
- Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth
- John Wray, author of Lowboy
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation
- JoAnn Wypijewski, co-author of Painting by Numbers
- Matthew Zapruder, author of Come on All You Ghosts
- Eric Zencey, author of Panama
- Rachel Zucker, author of Home/Birth