Novelists are in normal type.
Poets are in italicized type
Writers who are both novelists and poets are in bold italizied
type.
Romantics:
Washington Irving
William Cullen Bryant
James Fenimore Cooper
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne (except The Scarlet Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville (except Moby Dick)
Transcendentalists:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Bronson Alcott
Emily Dickinson
Margaret Fuller
James Freeman Clarke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abolitionists
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Ada Grimke
Harriet Beecher Stowe (read James Baldwin's "Everybody's Protest Novel"
essay with this)
Realists
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Sidney Lanier
Henry James
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
Sinclair Lewis
William Dean Howells
Hamlin Garland
Naturalists
Theodore Drieser
Stephen Crane
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Ambrose Bierce
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Frank Norris
Jack London
Late 19th Century African Americans
W. E. B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Charles Chestnut
Pauline Hopkins
James Weldon Johnson
Paul Dunbar
American Drama 1911-1945
Eugene O'Neil
Clifford Odetts
Lillian Hellman
Dubose and Dorothy Heyward
Thornton Wilder
American Drama 1946-1980
Tenessee Williams
Arthur Miller (except The Crucible)
August Wilson (except Fences)
Edward Albee
Neil Simon
Sam Shepherd
Lorraine Hansberry
Amiri Baraka
American Writers Before World War II
Wallace Stevens
Richard Wright
Melvin B. Tolson
Edgar Lee Masters
T. S. Eliot
Dorothy West
Robert Frost
Thomas Wolfe
Ezra Pound
Ernest Hemingway
Edna St. Vincent Milay
William Faulkner (except The Bear)
Katherine Ann Porter
F. Scott Fitzgerald (except The Great Gatsby)
John Steinbeck
The Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
Claude MaKay
Zora Neal Hurston (except Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Jean Toomer
Arna Bontemps
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Angelina Weld Grimke
W. E. B. DuBois
James Weldon Johnson
American Writers after World War II
Ralph Ellison
Vladimir Nobokov
Norman Mailer
Allen Ginsberg
Carson McCullers
Bernard Malamud
Flannery O'Connor
N. Scott Momaday
J. D. Salinger
Muriel Rukeyser
James Agee
Gary Snyder
James Baldwin
Theodore Roethke
Saul Bellow
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegut
Eudora Welty
The Beats
Jack Kerouac
Richard Brautigan
Allen Ginsberg
Neal Cassady
William S. Burroughs
Gregory Corso
Gary Snyder
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Michael McClure
Phillip Whalen
American Writers After 1970
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Elizabeth Bishop
Toni Cade Bambara
Raymond Carver
Ishmael Reed
Sandra Cisneros
Maxine Hong Kingston
Tillie Olsen
Hisaye Yamamoto
Edgar Allan Poe
Vachel Lindsay
William Faulkner
Tennessee Williams
Flannery O'Connor
Carson McCullers
Katherine Anne Porter
James Agee
Ernest Gaines
Zora Neale Hurston (except Their Eyes Were Watching God)
