AMERICAN LITERATURE |
Oral Traditions |
Stories, songs, ballads, sayings, riddles |
Written Traditions |
Non-Fiction: travel log, autobiography,
tracts Fiction: short story, song, poetry, novel |
AMERICAN POETS |
Walt Whitman | Robert Frost | Gary Snyder |
Emily Dickenson | John Robinson Jeffers | Allen Ginsberg |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | e.e. cummings | Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) |
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Robert Penn Warren | Gary Soto |
Edgar Allen Poe | Ogden Nash | Joy Harjo |
William Cullen Bryant | Dorothy Parker | Wendy Rose |
Henry David Thoreau | Sylvia Plath | Pedro Pietri |
John Greenleaf Whittier | Ezra Pound | Garret Hongo |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | William Carlos Williams | Victor Hernandez Cruz |
James Russell Lowell | Carl Sandburg | Arna Bontemps |
Edgar Lee Masters | Amy Lowell | Anne Sexton |
Edith Wharton | Vachel Lindsay | Adrienne Rich |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | T.S. Elliot | Gwendolyn Brooks |
Philip Freneau | Hilda Doolittle | John Ashbery |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Langston Hughes | Maya Angelou |
Stephen Collins Foster | Marianne Moore | Toni Morrison |
Wallace Stevens | Jack Kerouac |
American Authors (Novels) |
James Fennimore Cooper | Jack London | Joseph Heller |
Philip Freneau | Ernest Hemingway | James Baldwin |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Robert Penn Warren | Saul Bellow |
Washington Irving | Upton Sinclair | Kurt Vonnegut |
Louisa May Alcott | Langston Hughes | Vladimir Nabakov |
Herman Melville | Richard Wright | Ole Rolvaag |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Norman Mailer | |
Henry James | Zora Neale Hurston | Joyce Carol Oates |
Theodore Dreiser | Gertrude Stein | Scott Momaday |
Stephen Crane | John Dos Passos | Louise Erdrich |
Sherwood Anderson | Arthur Miller | Michael Dorris |
Willa Cather | Tennessee Williams | Paula Gunn Allen |
John O'Hara | Sylvia Plath | Maxine Hong Kingston |
Mark Twain | Amy Tan | James Welch |
Sinclair Lewis | William Carlos Williams | William Dickey |
William Faulkner | Mari Sandoz | Phillip Roth |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Helen Hunt Jackson | Katherine Anne Porter |
Francis Bret Harte | Laura Ingalls Wilder | Pearl S. Buck |
Sidney Lanier | Zane Grey | James Thurber |
Truman Capote | J.D. Salinger | William Saroyan |
Somerset Maugham | Tom Clancey | Stephen E. King |
Alice Walker | ||
Harper Lee | Mario Puzo | Anne Rice |
American Playwrights |
Eugene O'Neill | William Penn Warren | Henry Miller |
Thornton Wilder | Edward Franklin Albee | Hanay Gieogamah |
Tennessee Williams | ||