Jonathan Lethem is one of my favorite authors, and is from Brooklyn and also places most of his novels there.Jonathan Ames is from Brooklyn, besides a few novels he s also the writer and creator of the HBO show Bored to Death, which is set in Brooklyn.This article lists a number of famous authors from the past who lived in Brooklyn for at least part of their lives, including Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, and W.H. Auden:http://www.observer.com/2008/brooklyn-li��