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PERIOD: TO 1820.
Adams, John and Abigail.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth.
Barlow, Joel.
Bradford, William.
Bradstreet, Anne.
Brooke, Henry.
Brown, Charles Brockden.
Byles, Mather.
Byrd II, William.
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez.
Cherokee.
Chippewa.
Columbus, Christopher.
Cooke, Ebenezer.
Creek Tribe.
de Champlain, Samuel.
De Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John.
de la Casas, Bartolome.
de Villagra.
del Castillo, Bernal Diaz.
Dyer, Mary.
Equiano, Olaudah.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Freneau, Philip.
George, Keller.
Graeme, Elizabeth.
Green, Joseph.
Hamilton, Alexander.
Hancock, John.
Hariot, Thomas.
Hopi Tribe.
Hutchinson, Anne.
Jefferson, Thomas.
Lewis, Richard.
Madison, James.
Mather, Cotton.
MicMac Tribe.
Morton, Sarah Wentworth.
Morton, Thomas.
Murray, Judith Sargent.
Native American Oral Narrative.
Occom, Samson.
Paine, Thomas.
Penn, William.
Revel, James.
Rowlandson, Mary.
Seneca, Red Jacket.
Sewall, Samuel.
Six Nations, The.
Smith, Charles.
Smith, John.
Taylor, Edward.
Tompson, Benjamin.
Turell, Jane Colman.
Tyler, Royall.
Washington, George.
Webster, Noah.
Wheatley, Phillis.
Wigglesworth, Michael.
Williams, Roger.
Winslow, Edward.
Winthrop, John.
Wood, William.
Woolman, John.
Wright, Susanna.
Yavapai.
PERIOD: 1820 to 1865.
African American Spirituals.
Aiken, George L.
Alcott, Bronson.
Alcott, Louisa May.
Allen, William G.
Allston, Washington.
Apess, William.
Bibb, Henry.
Boker, George Henry.
Boucicault, Dion.
Boudinet, Elias.
Briggs, Charles Frederick.
Brown, Henry Box.
Brown, William Wells.
Brownson, Orestes.
Bryant, William Cullen.
Cary, Alice.
Cary, Phoebe.
Channing, William Ellery.
Cherokee Tribe Memorials.
Chief Seattle.
Child, Lydia Maria.
Chivers, Thomas Holly.
Cole, Thomas.
Cooper, James.
Copway, George.
Craft, William and Ellen.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse.
Crockett, David.
Curtis, George William.
Dana Jr., Richard H.
Davis, Rebecca Harding.
Delany, Martin.
Douglass, Frederick.
Drake, Joseph Rodman.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
English, Thomas Dunn.
Fern, Fanny.
Foster, Stephen.
Fuller, Sarah Margaret.
Garnet, Henry.
Garrison, William Lloyd.
Grimke, Sarah.
Hale, Sarah Josepha.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene.
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins.
Harris, George W.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
Horton, George Moses.
Howe, Julia Ward.
Irving, Washington.
Jacobs, Harriet Ann.
Jones, William Alfred.
Kemble, Fanny.
Kirkland, Carolyn.
Lincoln, Abraham.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
Longstreet, Augustus B.
Lowell, James Russell.
Mathews, Cornelius.
Melville, Herman.
Mitchell, David G.
Osgood, Frances Sargent.
O'Sullivan, John.
Parker, Theodore.
Parkman, Francis.
Paul, Nathaniel.
Paulding, James K.
Payne, John Howard.
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer.
Philips, Wendell.
Plato, Ann.
Poe, Edgar Allan.
Prescott, William H.
Prince, Mary.
Reason, Charles Lewis.
Redpath, James.
Ridge, John Rollin.
Sargent, Epes.
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe.
Schoolcraft, Jane J.
Sedgwick, Catherine M.
Seguin, Juan.
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley.
Simms, William Gilmore.
Simpson, Joshua McCarter.
Smith, W.L.G.
Spofford, Harriet.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Stewart, Maria W.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Taylor, Bayard.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Thorpe, T.B.
Trowbridge, John T.
Truth, Sojourner.
Tuckerman, Frederick G.
Vallejo, Mariano.
Very, Jones.
Walker, David.
Webb, Frank J.
Weld, Angelina Grimke.
Whitfield, James Monroe.
Whitman, Walt.
Whittier, John Greenleaf.
Wilde, Richard Henry.
Willis, N.P.
Wilson, Harriet.
Wilson, William J.
PERIOD: 1865 to 1915.
Adams, Henry.
Addams, Jane.
African-American Folk Tales.
Alcott, Louisa May.
Austin, Mary.
Bellamy, Edward.
Bierce, Ambrose.
Boas, Franz.
Bonnin, Gertrude (Zitkala-Sa).
Cable, George Washington.
Cahan, Abraham.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell.
Chopin, Kate.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain).
Cooper, Anna Julia.
Corridos.
Crane, Stephen.
Crane, Stephen.
Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo.
Dewey, John.
Dickinson, Emily.
Dreiser, Theodore.
DuBois, W.E.B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence.
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice.
Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa).
Eaton, Edith Maud (Sui Sin Far).
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.
Garland, Hamlin.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
Harris, Joel Chandler.
Harte, Bret.
Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth.
Howells, William Dean.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.
James, Alice.
James, Henry.
James, William.
Jewett, Sarah Orne.
Johnson, James Weldon.
Johnson, Pauline (Tekahionwake).
Lazarus, Emma.
London, Jack.
Markham, Edwin.
Marti, Jose.
Masters, Edgar Lee.
Mencken, Adah Isaacs.
Muir, John.
Native American Tales, Songs and Chants.
Norris, Frank.
Oskison, John M.
Peirce, Charles.
Piatt, Sarah.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington.
Santaya, George.
Sinclair, Upton.
Washington, Booker T.
Wharton, Edith.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler.
PERIOD: 1915 to 1945.
Agee, James.
Anderson, Sherwood.
Barnes, Djuna.
Bogan, Louise.
Boyle, Kay.
Brown, Sterling A.
Cather, Willa.
Crane, Hart.
Cullen, Countee.
Cummings, E.E.
Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.).
Dos Passos, John.
DuBois, W. E. B.
Eliot, T.S.
Faulkner, William.
Fauset, Jessie.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
Frost, Robert.
Glaspell, Susan.
Grimke, Angelina.
Hellman, Lillian.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Hughes, Langston.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Jeffers, Robinson.
Johnson, Helene.
Johnson, James Weldon.
Larsen, Nella.
Lewis, Sinclair.
Lindsay, Vachel.
Locke, Alain.
Lowell, Amy.
Masters, Edgar Lee.
McKay, Claude.
Mencken, H.L.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Moore, Marianne.
Odets, Clifford.
O'Neill, Eugene.
Porter, Katherine Anne.
Pound, Ezra.
Ransom, John Crowe.
Rice, Elmer.
Sandburg, Carl.
Spencer, Anne.
Stein, Gertrude.
Steinbeck, John.
Stevens, Wallace.
Taggard, Genevieve.
Tate, Allen.
Toomer, Jean.
West, Nathaniel.
Wilder, Thorton.
Williams, William Carlos.
Wright, Richard.
Wylie, Elinor.
Yezierska, Anzia.
PERIOD: 1945 to Present.
Ammons, A.R.
Anzaldua, Gloria.
Ashbery, John.
Baldwin, James.
Bambara, Toni Cade.
Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones).
Barth, John.
Barthelme, Donald.
Bellow, Saul.
Berryman, John.
Bishop, Elizabeth.
Bly, Robert.
Bradley, David.
Brooks, Gwendolyn.
Carver, Raymond.
Cheever, John.
Cisneros, Sandra.
Clifton, Lucille.
Cofer, Judith Ortiz.
Creeley, Robert.
DeLillo, Don.
Dickey, James.
Dillard, Annie.
Dove, Rita.
Ellison, Ralph Waldo.
Erdrich, Louise.
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.
Forche, Carolyn Louise.
Ginsberg, Allen.
Gluck, Louise.
Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian.
Harjo, Joy.
Harper, Michael S.
Hayden, Robert.
Hwang, David Henry.
Jarrell, Randall.
Jordan, June.
Kerouac, Jack.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Kinnell, Galway.
Komunyakaa, Yusef.
Lee, Li-Young.
Levertov, Denise.
Lorde, Audre.
Lowell, Robert.
Malamud, Bernard.
Malcolm X.
Mamet, David.
Mason, Bobbie Ann.
McPherson, James Alan.
Merrill, James.
Merwin, W.S.
Miller, Arthur.
Morrison, Toni.
Naylor, Gloria.
Oates, Joyce Carol.
O'Connor, Flannery.
O'Hara, Frank.
Olsen, Tillie.
Olson, Charles John.
Ortiz, Simon J.
Paley, Grace.
Piercy, Marge.
Plath, Sylvia.
Pynchon, Thomas.
Reed, Ishmael.
Rich, Adrienne.
Roethke, Theodore.
Roth, Philip.
Sanchez, Sonia.
Sexton, Anne.
Shange, Ntzoke.
Silko, Leslie Marmon.
Snyder, Gary.
Song, Cathy.
Tan, Amy.
Updike, John.
Walker, Alice.
Warren, Robert Penn.
Welty, Eudora.
Wilbur, Richard.
Williams, Tennessee.
Wilson, August.
Wright, James.
Yamamoto, Hisaye.
