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===Early Republic to Civil War===
===Early Republic to Civil War===


{{rpl|Benjamin Franklin}}
{{rpl|Thomas Paine}}
{{rpl|Thomas Jefferson}}
{{rpl|Philip Freneau}}
{{rpl|Philip Freneau}}
{{rpl|Joel Barlow}}
{{rpl|Joel Barlow}}
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{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson}}
{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson}}
{{rpl|Henry David Thoreau}}
{{rpl|Henry David Thoreau}}
{{rpl|Harriet Beecher Stowe}}
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}}
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}}
{{rpl|John Greenleaf Whittier}}
{{rpl|John Greenleaf Whittier}}
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{{rpl|Abraham Lincoln}}
{{rpl|Abraham Lincoln}}
{{rpl|Walt Whitman}}
{{rpl|Walt Whitman}}
'''Works of literature'''
{{rpl|Leatherstocking Tales}}
{{rpl|Moby Dick}}
{{rpl|The Scarlet Letter}}
{{rpl|The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon}}
{{rpl|Uncle Tom's Cabin}}
{{rpl|Walden}}


===Late 19th century to WW I===
===Late 19th century to WW I===
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{{rpl|Jack London}}
{{rpl|Jack London}}
{{rpl|Henry Adams}}
{{rpl|Henry Adams}}
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott}}
'''Works of literature'''
{{rpl|Adventures of Huckleberry Finn}}
{{rpl|The Call of the Wild}}
{{rpl|Little Women}}
{{rpl|Looking Backwards}}
{{rpl|The Red Badge of Courage}}
{{rpl|Up From Slavery}}


===Interwar years===
===Interwar years===
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{{rpl|Carlos Bulosan}}
{{rpl|Carlos Bulosan}}
{{rpl|Muriel Rukeysur}}
{{rpl|Muriel Rukeysur}}
'''Works of literature'''
{{rpl|Black Elk Speaks}}
{{rpl|A Farewell to Arms}}
{{rpl|Gone With the Wind}}
{{rpl|The Grapes of Wrath}}
{{rpl|My Ántonia}}
{{rpl|The Sound and the Fury}}
{{rpl|The Sun Also Rises}}
{{rpl|Winesburg, Ohio}}
===Post WWII===
{{rpl|Emile Zola}}
{{rpl|Harper Lee}}
{{rpl|J. D. Salinger}}
{{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov}}
{{rpl|Sylvia Plath}}
{{rpl|Gore Vidal}}
{{rpl|Joseph Heller}}
{{rpl|Ralph Ellison}}
{{rpl|Norman Mailer}}
{{rpl|Joyce Carol Oates}}
'''Works of literature'''
{{rpl|The Bell Jar}}
{{rpl|Catch-22}}
{{rpl|The Catcher in the Rye}}
{{rpl|Invisible Man}}
{{rpl|Lolita}}
{{rpl|Ragtime}}
{{rpl|Slaughterhouse-Five}}
{{rpl|To Kill a Mockingbird}}

Latest revision as of 06:55, 2 August 2009

American literary figures

Colonial America

Early Republic to Civil War

Works of literature

Late 19th century to WW I

Works of literature

Interwar years

Highest priority: Black Elk - Willa Cather - Robert Frost - Carl Sandburg - Ezra Pound - Eugene O'Neill - T.S. Eliot - F. Scott Fitzgerald - William Faulkner - Ernest Hemingway - Langston Hughes - John Steinbeck

Works of literature

Post WWII

Works of literature