American Author Suggestions

Adams, Alice

Alcott, Louisa May

Agee, James

Alger Jr. Horatio

Anderson, Sherwood

Angelou, Maya

Anthony, Piers

Asimov, Isaac

Atwood, Margaret

Auden, W. H.

Baldwin , James

Bass, Rick

Beattie, Anne

Bellow, Saul

Benchley, Robert

Benchley, William

Berger, Thomas

Bowles, Paul

Bradbury, Ray

Bradley, Marian Zimmer

Buck, Pearl S.

Burrows, William

Caldwell, Erskine

Capote , Truman

Carver, Raymond

Cather, Willa

Casey, J.

Cheever, John

Cherryh, C. J.

Chopin, Kate

Cisneros, Sandra

Clark, Mary Higgins

Cooper, James Fennimore

Coraghessan,

Cowley, Malcolm

Crane, Stephen

Davies, Robertson

Danicat, Edwidge

Day , Clarence

Doctorow, E. L.

Dillard, Annie

DeLillo, Don

Doerr, Hariett

Dorris, Michael

Dos Passos, John

Dreiser ,Theodore

Eddimgs, David

Edgerton, Clyde

Elkin, Stanley

Ellis, Brent E.

Ellison, Ralph

Erdrich, Louise

Fast, Howard

Faulkner, William

Ferber , Edna

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Galbraith,John Kenneth

Gardner, John

Gilcrest, Ellen

Gilman,Charlotte Perkins

Gish, Jenm

Glasgow , Ellen

Gordon, Mary

Grafton, Sue

Short Works

Edward Bellany,

William Bradford,

William Cullen Bryant,

William Byrd

Richard Dana Jr.

Benjamin Franklin

Jonathan Edwards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patrick Henry

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thomas Jefferson

Increase Mather

Thomas Paine

Edgar Allen Poe

Francis Parkman

Henry Timrod

Edward Taylor

James Thurber

William Sydney Porter (OHenry)

Gray, Zane

Green, Bette

Gutherie, A. B.

Haley, Alex

Harte, Bret

Hammet , Dashill

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hazard, Shirley

Heinlein, Robert

Helprin, Mark

Hemmingway, Ernest

Hillerman, Tony

Hijuelos, O.

Hoffman, Alice

Hopkins, Francis

Houston, Pam

Howe, Julia Ward

Hubert, Frank

Hurston, ZoraNeal

Huges, Langston

Irving, Jonathan

Irving, Washington

Jackson, Shirley

James, Henry

Jewet, Sarah Orne

Kennedy, William

Keroac, Jack

Kesey, Ken

King Jr., Martin Luther

Kingsolver, Barbara

Laurie, Alison

Lardner, Ring

LaFarge, Oliver

LeGuin, Ursula

Lenst, William

Lewis, Sinclair

Light man, Alan

Lincoln, Abraham

London , Jack

Lowell, Robert

Ludlum, Robert

Mailer, Norman

Malamud, Bernard

Mason, Bobby- Ann

Matthieson, Peter

Maupin, Amastead

McCullers, Carson

McCarthy, Cormac

McMurtry, Larry

Melville, Herman

Miller, Arthur

Mitchell, Margaret

Michener, James

Momaday, N.Scott

Montgomery, E.M.

Morrison, Toni

Mowatt, Farley

Mukherjee,Bharati

Munro, Alice

Oates, Joyce Carol

O’Brien, Tim

O’Conner,Flanney

O’ Hara

Ozick, Cynthia

Playwrights

Robert Anderson

Mary Chase

T. S. Eliot

Susan Glaspell

Frank Gilroy

Beth Henley

Lillian Helman

George Kaufman

Eugene O’Neil

Elmer Rice

Saroyan, William

Sam Shepard

Elie Wiesel

Thorton Wilder

Paul Zindel

Parker, Dorothy

Percy , Marge

Plath, Sylvia

Poltac, Chaim

Porter, Katherine Ann

Price, Reynolds

Proulx, E. Annie

Pyncheon, Tom

Rand, Ayn

Rawlings,Marjorie Kinnan

Richter, Conrad

Roberts, Kenneth

Robbins, Tim

Roth, Phillip

Salinger , J. D.

Shaw, Irwin

Shange, Ntozake

Sherman, Alexie

Silko, Leslie M..

Sinclair , Upton

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Smiley, Jane

Steven, James

Stegner, Wallace

Stein , Gertrude

Steinbeck, John

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stuart, Jesse

Styron, William

Tan, Amy

Tarkington, Booth

Taylor, Peter

Tyler, Anne

Thoreau, Henry David

Thurston, Zora Neale

Twain Mark (SamClemmens)

Updike, John

Voight, Cynthia

Vidal, Gore

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Walker, Alice

Warren, Robert Penn

Welty, Eudora

West, Nathaniel

Wharton, Edith

White , E. B.

Whittier, J. G.

Williams , Ben Ames

Williams, Tennessee

Wilson, August

Wolfe, Tom

Wolff, Thomas

Wolff, Tobias

Wolff, Geoff

Wouk, Herman

Wright, Richard

Poets

Conrad Aiken

W. H. Auden

Arna Bontemps

Guendolyn Brooks

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Carolos Corten

Victor Cruz

Steven Vincent Benet

ee cummings

Countee Cullen

Hart Crane

Emily Dickenson

T. S. Eliot

Robert Frost

Kenneth Fearing

Lauerence Ferlinghetti

Allen Ginsberg

Robert Hayden

Michael Harper

Robinson Jeffers

Leroi Jones

James Weldon Johnson

Vachel Lindsey

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Amy Lowell

Robert Lowell

James Lowell

Edgar Lee Masters

ArchibaldMacleish

Phylis Mc Ginley

Edna St.Vincent Milay

Sylvia Plath

Ezra Pound

E. A. Robinson

Theodore Roethke

Carl Sandburg

Anne Sexton

W. D. Snodgrass

Wallace Stevens

Karl Shapiro

Sara Teasdale

Jean Starr Untermeyer

Walt Whitman

Wm. Carlos Williams

Margaret Walker

John Greenleaf Whittier

Richard Wilbur

James Wright

Elinor Wylie