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Beginnings to 1820

  • Native American writersThe Norton Anthology of American Literature 9th edition 9780393935714 039393571X
  • Christopher Columbus
  • John Smith
  • William Bradford
  • Thomas Morton
  • John Winthrop
  • Roger Williams
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Cotton Mather
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Paine
  • Washington Irving

1820-1865

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  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Edgar Allan poe
  • Walt Whitman
  • Herman Melville
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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1865-1914

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  • Emily Dickinson
  • Mark Twain (Samuel L Clemens)
  • Bret Harte
  • William Dean Howells
  • Henry Adams
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Henry James
  • Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Kate Chopin
  • Booker T Washington
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Edith Wharton
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Stephen Crane
  • Jack London
  • Upton Sinclair

1914-1945

  • Willa CatherThe Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1914-1945: Levine, Robert S.
  • Robert Frost
  • Carl Sandburg
  • Wallace Stevens
  • Ezra Pound
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Claude McKay
  • Zora Neal Hurston
  • Nella Larsen
  • E.E. Cummings 
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Langston Hughes
  • William Faulkner

 


1945 - present

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