Everything Is Green

Amazing writers* that are actually still alive:
Don DeLillo
Alice Munro
Maxine Hong Kingston
John Updike
Thomas Pynchon
Sherman Alexie
Philip Roth
Margaret Atwood
Bret Easton Ellis
Ray Bradbury

(maybe amazing, definitely alive)
Amy Tan
Tim O'Brien (only on this list because Tomcat in Love was horrible)
Mark Z. Danielewski
Jeff Noon
Chuck Palahniuk
J. G. Ballard

*This list does not include poets because I'm not qualified to make those decisions.