American Authors
by students of Survey of American Literature Class
Captain John Smith (1580 - 1631)
Samuel Sewell (1652-1730)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
James Fenimore Cooper (1989 - 1851)
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
Earnest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Eugene O’ Neill (1888 - 1953)
T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Frank O'Hara (1962 - 1966)
Ezra Loomis Pound (1885 – 1972)
William Carlos William (1883 - 1962)
Arthur Miller (1915 - )
Saul Bellow (1915 - )
Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)
Toni Morrison ( 1931 - )
Grace Paley (1922 - )
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Amy Tan (1952 - )