Once every ten years Granta publishes a list of the twenty best American fiction writers under
the age of forty. In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Anthony Doerr Jeffrey
Eugenides Jonathan Franzen Nicole Krauss Lorrie Moore and Yiyun Li. This issue distils the
preoccupations of another generation a selection of fascinating writers you will be hearing
more from.
