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American Literature

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This small, highly selective set of articles is recommended by Oxford editors to help students get started doing research in this massive biography collection and The Oxford Companion to United States History encyclopedia content that supports it. Browse the biographies on the American National Biography Online, or start with an overview article.

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Overview Articles

  • Literature
  • Poetry

Fiction Writers

  • Abbey, Edward
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Alcott, Louisa May
  • Baldwin, James
  • Capote, Truman
  • Carver, Raymond
  • Chopin, Kate
  • Crane, Stephen
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Faulkner, William
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott
  • Hemingway, Ernest
  • Kesey, Ken
  • London, Jack
  • Melville, Herman
  • O'Connor, Flannery
  • Plath, Sylvia
  • Stein, Gertrude
  • Twain, Mark
  • Warren, Robert Penn

Poets

  • Auden, W. H.
  • Berryman, John
  • Bradstreet, Anne
  • Cullen, Countée
  • Cummings, E. E.
  • Dickinson, Emily
  • Eliot, T. S.
  • Frost, Robert
  • Ginsberg, Allen
  • Hughes, Langston
  • Lorde, Audre
  • MacLeish, Archibald
  • McKay, Claude
  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent
  • Moore, Marianne
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Sandburg, Carl
  • Sexton, Anne
  • Stevens, Wallace
  • Whitman, Walt

 
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