American Literature
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Overview Articles
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
