The Literature of the United States (by Author)

• Lafcadio Hearn
• Ernest Hemingway
• Harriot E. Wilson
• Christopher Columbus
• Alvar Nuez Cabeza de Vaca
• Bernal Diaz del Castillo
• Thomas Harriot
• Samuel de Champlain
• Michael Wigglesworth
• Anne Bradstreet
• Edward Taylor
• Thomas Jefferson's Autobiography
• Thomas Paine - Common Sense
• Royall Tyler - The Contrast
• Phillip Freneau
• William Cullen Bryant
• Phillis Wheatley
• Judith Sargent Murray
• Mercy Otis Warren
• Washington Irving
• Lydia Maria Child
• Olaudah Equiano - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
• Hannah Webster Foster - The Coquette
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Lydia Sigourney
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Rebecca Harding Davis
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• Herman Melville
• Susan Warner
• Maria Susanna Cummins - The Lamplighter
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
• William Wells Brown
• Harriet E. Wilson
• George Aiken - Uncle Tom's Cabin, based on Stowe's novel
• Walt Whitman
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Emily Dickinson
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Zitkala-Sa
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman - "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• George Washington Cable
• Kate Chopin
• Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• William Dean Howells
• Bret Harte
• Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
• Henry James
• Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona
• Frances E.W. Harper - Iola Leroy
• Hamlin Garland
• Frank Norris - McTeague
• Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie
• Jack London - The Sea-Wolf
• Stephen Crane - Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
• Robert Frost
• Carl Sandburg
• Wallace Stevens
• William Carlos Williams
• T.S. Eliot
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• e.e. cummings
• H.D.
• Edith Wharton
• Willa Cather
• Sherwood Anderson
• John Dos Passos
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• William Faulkner
• Sinclair Lewis
• John Steinbeck
• Eugene O'Neill - The Emperor Jones
• Susan Glaspell - Trifles
• Clifford Odets
• Langston Hughes
• Countee Cullen
• James Weldon Johnson
• Claude McKay
• W.E.B DuBois
• Jean Toomera
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Nella Larsen
• Passing
• Jessie Redmon Fauset
• James Weldon Johnson
• Claude McKay
• Randolph Edmonds
• Ezra Pound
• Gertrude Stein
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
• Allen Ginsberg - How
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• William Burroughs
• Jack Kerouac - On the Road
• Sylvia Plath
• Marianne Moore
• Robert Penn Warren
• Anne Sexton
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Adrienne Rich
• Philip Larkin.
• Eudora Welty
• Raymond Carver
• John Cheever
• Alice Walker
• Saul Bellow
• Ralph Ellison
• John Updike
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Richard Wright
• Thomas Pynchon
• E.L Doctorow
• James Baldwin]
• Toni Morrison
• Edward Albee
• Arthur Miller
• Tennessee Williams
• Lorraine Hansberry
• August Wilson
• David Mamet
• Zuni, Aztec, Navajo, Lakota, Seneca, Tlingit, Cherokee, Blackfoot, Cree, Inuit
• Seneca legend "How America was Discovered."
• Alexander Hamilton and James Madison - Federalist Papers
• The Constitution
• "Yankee Doodle"
• "The Liberty Song"
• Hartland, Marion (1830-1922) in 1922.