Another BTW: neither Orwell or Atwood are American authors. I am yearning for an American author who can write social criticism and satire in a sort of neo-social realism style, like Lewis once did. Both American letters, and American society, need writers like Upton Sinclair and Rebecca Harding David and Kate Chopin and Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Theodore Dreiser, and their descendants--Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Clifford Odets.

The American literary genre of social realism has specific social, political, and artistic characteristics that set it apart from other genres, as well as the social realist writing in other countries.