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AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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Oral Traditions |
Stories, songs, ballads, sayings, riddles |
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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 | ||