Authors

  1. James Baldwin
  2. John Barth
  3. Saul Bellow
  4. John Berryman
  5. Robert Beverley
  6. Elizabeth Bishop
  7. William Bradford
  8. Anne Bradstreet
  9. Charles Brockden Brown
  10. William Byrd
  11. Neal Cassady**
  12. Willa Cather
  13. Raymond Chandler*
  14. John Cheever
  15. Lydia Child
  16. Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  17. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
  18. Hart Crane
  19. Stephen Crane
  20. James Fenimore Cooper
  21. Robert Creeley
  22. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  23. Edward Estlin Cummings
  24. James Dickey
  25. Emily Dickinson
  26. John Dos Passos
  27. Frederick Douglass
  28. Theodore Dreiser
  29. W.E.B. Du Bois
  30. Jonathan Edwards
  31. T.S. Eliot
  32. Ralph Waldo Ellison
  33. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  34. Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
  35. William Faulkner
  36. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  37. Benjamin Franklin
  38. Philip Freneau
  39. Robert Frost
  40. Margaret Fuller
  41. John Gardner
  42. Ellen Glasgow
  43. Angelina Grimké
  44. Jupiter Hammon
  45. Bret Harte
  46. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  47. Ernest Hemingway
  48. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  49. Langston Hughes
  50. Richard Hugo
  51. Zora Neale Hurston
  52. Washington Irving
  53. Harriet Jacobs
  54. Henry James
  55. Robinson Jeffers
  56. James Weldon Johnson
  57. Jack Kerouac
  58. Ken Kesey**
  59. Philip Levine
  1. Sinclair Lewis
  2. Vachel Lindsay
  3. Jack London
  4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  5. James Russell Lowell
  6. Robert Lowell
  7. Norman Mailer
  8. Bernard Malamud
  9. Edgar Lee Masters
  10. Cotton Mather
  11. Herman Melville
  12. Arthur Miller
  13. Marianne Moore
  14. Toni Morrison
  15. Vladimir Nabokov
  16. Flannery O'Connor
  17. Clifford Odets
  18. John O'Hara
  19. Eugene O'Neill
  20. Thomas Paine
  21. Sylvia Plath
  22. Edgar Allan Poe
  23. Katherine Anne Porter
  24. Ezra Pound
  25. Thomas Pynchon
  26. Adrienne Rich
  27. Edwin Arlington Robinson
  28. Theodore Roethke
  29. Mary Rowlandson
  30. J.D. Salinger
  31. Carl Sandburg
  32. Anne Sexton
  33. Samuel Sewall
  34. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  35. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  36. John Steinbeck
  37. Wallace Stevens
  38. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  39. Edward Taylor
  40. Henry David Thoreau
  41. Jean Toomer
  42. Sojourner Truth
  43. John Updike
  44. Alice Walker
  45. Robert Penn Warren
  46. Booker T. Washington
  47. Eudora Welty
  48. Edith Wharton
  49. Phyllis Wheatley
  50. Walt Whitman
  51. John Greenleaf Whittier
  52. Michael Wigglesworth
  53. Thorton Wilder
  54. Roger Williams
  55. Tennessee Williams
  56. William Carlos Williams
  57. Harriet Wilson
  58. Tom Wolfe
  59. John Woolman
  60. Richard Wright