American Authors in Chronological Order

 

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Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Henry James (1843 - 1916)
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862 - 1910)
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)               
Edgar Lee (E.L.) Masters (1868 - 1950)
Frank Norris (1870 - 1902)
Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945)
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Jack London (1876 - 1916)
Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968)
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886 - 1961)
Robinson Jeffers (1887 - 1962)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 - 1953)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890 - 1980)
Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Vladimir (Dmitri) Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899 -1977)
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948)
John Steinbeck ( 1902 - 1968)
Nathanael West (1903 - 1940)
Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)
Henry Roth (1906 - 1995)
Richard Wright (1908 - 1960)
Nelson Algren (1909 -1981)
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
Irwin Shaw (1913 - 1984)
Ralph Ellison (1914 - 1994)
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Saul Bellow (1915)
Arthur Miller (1915)
Shirley Jackson (1919 - 1965)
J. D. Salinger (1919)
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Ray Bradbury (1920)
James Jones (1921 - 1977)
Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922)
Joseph Heller (1923)
Harper Lee (1926)
Toni Morrison (1931)
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
Robert L. Forward (1932)
Cormac McCarthy (1933)
Philip Roth (1933)
Don DeLillo (1936)
Thomas Pynchon (1937)
Joyce Carol Oates (1938)
Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)
John Irving (1942)
Alice Walker (1944)