20th and 21st Century American Literature
Topics
- 1984 (by George Orwell)
- Abercrombie, Lascelles
- Absalom, Absalom! (by William Faulkner)
- Agee, James
- Aiken, Conrad
- Albee, Edward
- All the King's Men (by Robert Penn Warren)
- Ammons, A. R.
- Anaya, Rudolfo
- Anderson, Maxwell
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Angelou, Maya
- As I Lay Dying (by William Faulkner)
- Ashbery, John
- Asimov, Isaac
- Atherton, Gertrude
- Auster, Paul
- Austin, Mary
- Baker, Ray Stannard
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Baraka, Imamu Amiri
- Barnes, Djuna
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Baum, L. Frank
- Beat Generation
- Bellow, Saul
- Beloved (by Toni Morrison)
- Benet, Stephen Vincent
- Benet, William Rose
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Bluest Eye (by Toni Morrison)
- Bogan, Louise
- Bontemps, Arna
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyle, Kay
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bromfield, Louis
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Brown, Sterling
- Buck, Pearl S.
- Buckley, Jr., William F.
- Bulosan, Carlos
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Burroughs, William S.
- Butler, Octavia
- Cabell, James Branch
- Cable, George Washington
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Call of the Wild (by Jack London)
- Canfield, Dorothy (Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
- Capote, Truman
- Castillo, Ana
- Catcher in the Rye, The (by J. D. Salinger)
- Cather, Willa
- Chandler, Raymond
- Chapman, John Jay
- Cheever, John
- Chesnutt, Charles W.
- Childress, Alice
- Churchill, Winston (American Novelist)
- Cisneros, Sandra
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Color Purple, The (by Alice Walker)
- Coover, Robert
- Corso, Gregory
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Crane, Hart
- Crews, Harry
- Crothers, Rachel
- Crucible, The (by Arthur Miller)
- Cullen, Countee
- cummings, e e
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Davidson, Donald Grady
- Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller)
- Delany, Samuel R.
- DeLillo, Don
- Dick, Philip K.
- Dickey, James
- Didion, Joan
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)
- Doren, Mark Van
- Dos Passos, John
- Dove, Rita
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Ducornet, Rikki
- Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
- Dworkin, Andrea
- Eastman, Charles A. (Ohiyesa)
- Eliot, T. S.
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdrich, Louise
- Ethan Frome (by Edith Wharton)
- Farewell to Arms (by Ernest Hemingway)
- Farrell, James T.
- Fast, Howard
- Faulkner, William
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Ferber, Edna
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Fletcher, John Gould
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (by Ernest Hemingway)
- Frank, Waldo
- Frost, Robert
- Gaddis, William
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Gale, Zona
- Garcia, Cristina
- Gardner, John
- Garland, Hamlin
- Gass, William H.
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Glaspell, Susan
- Glass Menagerie, The (by Tennessee Williams)
- Gold, Herbert
- Golden Bowl, The (by Henry James)
- Good Man Is Hard to Find, A (by Flannery O'Connor)
- Gordon, Mary
- Grapes of Wrath (by John Steinbeck)
- Gravity's Rainbow (by Thomas Pynchon)
- Great Gatsby (by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- Grey, Zane
- Guare, John
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hawkes, John
- Heinlein, Robert
- Heller, Joseph
- Hellman, Lillian
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Henry, O.
- Herrick, Robert (American Novelist)
- Himes, Chester
- Hogan, Linda
- Hopkins, Pauline
- House of Mirth, The (by Edith Wharton)
- House on Mango Street (by Sandra Cisneros)
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hwang, David Henry
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (by Maya Angelou)
- Inge, William
- Invisible Man (by Ralph Ellison)
- Irving, John
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Joy Luck Club, The (by Amy Tan)
- Kennedy, Adrienne
- Kenyon, Jane
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kesey, Ken
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- King, Stephen
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Kracauer, Siegfried
- Kreymborg, Alfred
- Kushner, Tony
- Lardner, Ring
- Larsen, Nella
- Le Guin, Ursula
- Levertov, Denise
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Lolita (by Vladimir Nabokov)
- London, Jack
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, Robert
- Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- MacLeish, Archibald
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mamet, David
- Marquand, John P.
- Marshall, Paule
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- McCarthy, Mary
- McCullers, Carson
- McKay, Claude
- McMillan, Terry
- Micheaux, Oscar
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Henry
- Milosz, Czeslaw
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Momaday, N. Scott
- Moody, William Vaughn
- Moore, Marianne
- Morley, Christopher
- Morrison, Toni
- Mosley, Walter
- Mourning Dove
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- My Antonia (by Willa Cather)
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Nathan, Robert
- Native Son (by Richard Wright)
- Naylor, Gloria
- Neihardt, John G.
- Nick Adams Stories (by Ernest Hemingway)
- O Pioneers! (by Willa Cather)
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O'Brien, Tim
- O'Connor, Flannery
- Odets, Clifford
- Okada, John
- Old Man and the Sea, The (by Ernest Hemingway)
- Olsen, Tillie
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Oz Series (by L. Frank Baum)
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Paley, Grace
- Parker, Dorothy
- Peabody, Josephine Preston (Mrs. Lionel S. Marks)
- Percy, Walker
- Phillips, David Graham
- Piercy, Marge
- Plath, Sylvia
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Pound, Ezra
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rechy, John
- Reed, Ishmael
- Rice, Anne
- Rice, Elmer
- Rich, Adrienne
- Richter, Conrad
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Rodriguez, Richard
- Roethke, Theodore
- Rose for Emily, A (by William Faulkner)
- Roth, Philip
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Russ, Joanna
- Salinger, J. D.
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sanders, Edward
- Sandoz, Mari
- Santiago, Esmeralda
- Saroyan, William
- Sexton, Anne
- Shange, Ntozake
- Shepard, Sam
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Sinclair, Upton
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Sister Carrie (by Theodore Dreiser)
- Skinner, Cornelia Otis
- Slaughterhouse-Five (by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
- Sontag, Susan
- Sound and the Fury, The (by William Faulkner)
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevens, Wallace
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (by Tennessee Williams)
- Styron, William
- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton)
- Sula (by Toni Morrison)
- Tan, Amy
- Tarkington, Booth
- Tate, Allen
- Teasdale, Sara
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (by Zora Neale Hurston)
- Thurber, James
- Thurman, Wallace
- To Kill a Mockingbird (by Harper Lee)
- Toomer, Jean
- Twentieth Century American Literature
- Tyler, Anne
- Untermeyer, Louis
- Updike, John
- Valdez, Luis
- Vidal, Gore
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Walker, Alice
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Welch, James
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Nathanael
- Wharton, Edith
- Wilder, Thornton
- Williams, Tennessee
- Williams, William Carlos
- Wilson, August
- Winesburg Ohio (by Sherwood Anderson)
- Wings of the Dove, The (by Henry James)
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wong, Jade Snow
- Woolf, Virginia
- Wouk, Herman
- Wright, Richard
- Yamamoto, Hisaye
- Yellow Wall-Paper, The (by Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
- Yezierska, Anzia
- Yutang, Lin
- Zukofsky, Louis