I'm not really well-read so others will have a better idea, but Pynchon, Alice Munro, and Murakami, at least, are living legends. Toni Morrison and Philip Roth

I'm not really well-read so others will have a better idea, but Pynchon, Alice Munro, and Murakami, at least, are living legends. Toni Morrison and Philip Roth just died this year.