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Latest revision as of 05:55, 2 August 2009
American literary figures
Colonial America
- William Bradford: (1590-1657) First governor, long-time leader, and historian of the Plymouth Colony. [e]
- Anne Bradstreet: (c. 1612 - 1672) Colonial American poet, considered the first English poet in the New World. [e]
- Samuel Sewall: Add brief definition or description
- Edward Taylor: Add brief definition or description
- Cotton Mather: (1663-1728) New England Puritan clergyman whose writings on witchcraft helped spark the Salem witch hunts in1692. [e]
- Jonathan Edwards: (1703-58) Puritan theologian who helped spark the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. [e]
- Phillis Wheatley: (1753 or 1754 - 1784) African-American slave whose poems and letters are among the earliest writings of blacks in America. [e]
- Sarah Kemble Knight: Add brief definition or description
- William Byrd: Add brief definition or description
John Woolman: A prominent 18th century American Quaker and abolitionist, and the author of a classic Journal. [e]- St. Jean de Crevecoeur: Add brief definition or description
Early Republic to Civil War
- Philip Freneau: Add brief definition or description
- Joel Barlow: Add brief definition or description
- Royall Tyler: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Brockden Brown: Add brief definition or description
- Meriwether Lewis: Add brief definition or description
- Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. [e]
- James Fenimore Cooper: (1789-1851) The first major American novelist, most famous for his adventuresome Leather-Stocking Tales set in the American frontier. [e]
- William Cullen Bryant: Add brief definition or description
- Francis Parkman: Add brief definition or description
Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-64) American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. [e]- Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. [e]
- Herman Melville: (1819-91) American fiction writer, author of Moby Dick, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-82) American poet, essayist, and lecturer; leading exponent of New England transcendentalism. [e]
- Henry David Thoreau: (1817-62) New England transcendentalist philosopher, naturalist, and writer; one of key inspirations for the modern conservation movement. [e]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: (1811-96) American social reformer and novelist; wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. [e]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: (1807-82) US poet and essayist whose ballads and verses made him the best-loved American poet of the 19th century. [e]
- John Greenleaf Whittier: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Wendell Holmes: Add brief definition or description
- James Russell Lowell: American poet, abolitionist and man of letters (1819 - 1891); older second cousin of Amy Lowell [e]
- Frederick Douglas: Add brief definition or description
Abraham Lincoln: (1809-65) Sixteenth U.S. President (from 1861 to 1865) who prosecuted the American Civil War to reclaim 11 seceding states and abolish slavery; assassinated in 1865 near the beginning of his second term. Considered the greatest of all American presidents. [e]- Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' [e]
Works of literature
- Leatherstocking Tales: Add brief definition or description
- Moby Dick: Add brief definition or description
- The Scarlet Letter: Add brief definition or description
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon: Add brief definition or description
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Add brief definition or description
- Walden: Add brief definition or description
Late 19th century to WW I
- Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
- Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: Add brief definition or description
- Bret Harte: Add brief definition or description
- Constance Fenimore Woolson: Add brief definition or description
- Ambrose Bierce: Add brief definition or description
- Henry James: Add brief definition or description
- Joel Chandler Harris: Add brief definition or description
- Sarah Orne Jewett: Add brief definition or description
- Kate Chopin: Add brief definition or description
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Add brief definition or description
- Booker T. Washington: Add brief definition or description
- Charles W. Chesnutt: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Eastman: Add brief definition or description
- Hamlin Garland: Add brief definition or description
- Abraham Cahan: Add brief definition or description
- Chalotte Perkins Gilman: Add brief definition or description
- Eidth Wharton: Add brief definition or description
- Edith Maud Eaton: Add brief definition or description
- W.E.B. DuBois: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Crane: Add brief definition or description
- Theodore Dreiser: Add brief definition or description
- John M. Oskison: Add brief definition or description
- Jack London: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Adams: Add brief definition or description
- Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description
Works of literature
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Add brief definition or description
- The Call of the Wild: Add brief definition or description
- Little Women: Add brief definition or description
- Looking Backwards: Add brief definition or description
- The Red Badge of Courage: Add brief definition or description
- Up From Slavery: Add brief definition or description
Interwar years
Highest priority: Black Elk - Willa Cather - Robert Frost - Carl Sandburg - Ezra Pound - Eugene O'Neill - T.S. Eliot - F. Scott Fitzgerald - William Faulkner - Ernest Hemingway - Langston Hughes - John Steinbeck
- Black Elk: Add brief definition or description
- Edgar Lee Masters: Add brief definition or description
- Edwin Arlington Robinson: Add brief definition or description
- Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description
- Amy Lowell: Add brief definition or description
- Gertrude Stein: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
- Susan Glaspell: Add brief definition or description
- Sherwood Anderson: Add brief definition or description
- Carl Sandburg: Add brief definition or description
- Wallace Stevens: Add brief definition or description
- William Carlos Williams: Add brief definition or description
- Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description
- Hilda Doolittle: Add brief definition or description
- Robinson Jeffers: Add brief definition or description
- Marianne Moore: Add brief definition or description
- Eugene O'Neill: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- John Crowe Ransom: Add brief definition or description
- Claude McKay: Add brief definition or description
- Katherine Anne Porter: Add brief definition or description
- Zora Neale Hurston: Add brief definition or description
- Nella Larsen: Add brief definition or description
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: Add brief definition or description
- Dorothy Parker: Add brief definition or description
- E.E. Cummings: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Toomer: Add brief definition or description
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Add brief definition or description
- John Dos Passos: Add brief definition or description
- William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
- Louise Bogan: Add brief definition or description
- Hart Crane: Add brief definition or description
- Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Wolfe: Add brief definition or description
- Sterling A. Brown: Add brief definition or description
- Langston Hughes: Add brief definition or description
- John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
- Countee Cullen: Add brief definition or description
- D'Arcy McNickle: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Wright: Add brief definition or description
- Carlos Bulosan: Add brief definition or description
- Muriel Rukeysur: Add brief definition or description
Works of literature
- Black Elk Speaks: Add brief definition or description
- A Farewell to Arms: Add brief definition or description
- Gone With the Wind: Add brief definition or description
- The Grapes of Wrath: Add brief definition or description
- My Ántonia: Add brief definition or description
- The Sound and the Fury: Add brief definition or description
- The Sun Also Rises: Add brief definition or description
- Winesburg, Ohio: Add brief definition or description
Post WWII
- Emile Zola: Add brief definition or description
- Harper Lee: Add brief definition or description
- J. D. Salinger: Add brief definition or description
- Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
- Sylvia Plath: Add brief definition or description
- Gore Vidal: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Heller: Add brief definition or description
- Ralph Ellison: Add brief definition or description
- Norman Mailer: Add brief definition or description
- Joyce Carol Oates: Add brief definition or description
Works of literature
- The Bell Jar: Add brief definition or description
- Catch-22: Add brief definition or description
- The Catcher in the Rye: Add brief definition or description
- Invisible Man: Add brief definition or description
- Lolita: Add brief definition or description
- Ragtime: Add brief definition or description
- Slaughterhouse-Five: Add brief definition or description
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Add brief definition or description