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Colonial America
John Smith (1580-1631)
The Revolutionary Period
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
The Romantic Period (the end of the 18th century---the civil war)
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Realistic Period (1865-1914)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
The Modern Period (1914-present)
Ezra Pound (1885-1975)
Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
Eugene O¡¯Neill (1888-1953)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Jerome David Salinger (1919- )
Colonial America
John Smith
the first American writer
A map of Virginia with a Description of the Country
The Revolutionary Period
Benjamin Franklin
His place in literature owes much to his almanac and autobiography.
Poor Richard¡¯s Almanac
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
his most famous political pamphlet
the greatest of the Revolutionary pamphlets
The Age of