As you know if you have browsed it, All
American: Literature, History, and Culture is an online reference guide
to dozens of American authors, as well as other information. We still
have a long way to go, however. We still need Web pages on all of
the authors below. If you would like to build a site on one of these
writers, please let me know.
Colonial Period (1607-1783)
Poets
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Michael Wigglesworth
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Phillis Wheatley
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Sidney Lanier
Writers of Nonfiction
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William Bradford
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Thomas Morton
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John Winthrop
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Roger Williams
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Mary Rowlandson
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Cotton Mather
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Samuel Sewall
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William Byrd
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John Woolman
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Jonathan Edwards
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Thomas Paine
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Thomas Jefferson
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William Bartram
Playwright
Antebellum and Civil War Period (1784-1865)
Poets
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James Russell Lowell
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Writers of Nonfiction
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Henry David Thoreau
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Frederick Douglass
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Abraham Lincoln
Writers of Short Stories
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A.B. Longstreet
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George Washington Harris
Postbellum Period (1866-1913)
Poets
Writers of Nonfiction
Writers of Short Stories
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Mary Wilkins Freeman
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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George Washington Cable
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Charles Chestnutt
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Hamlin Garland
Modern Period (1914-)
Poets
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Ezra Pound
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Robert Frost
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T.S. Eliot
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Hilda Doolittle
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e.e. cummings
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Hart Crane
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Wallace Stevens
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William Carlos Williams
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Robinson Jeffers
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Marianne Moore
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Countee Cullen
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John Crowe Ransom
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Langston Hughes
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Theodore Roethke
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Randall Jarrell
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Elizabeth Bishop
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John Berryman
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Richard Wilbur
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Allen Ginsberg
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Adrienne Rich
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Denise Levertov
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Sylvia Plath
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James Dickey
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W.S. Merwin
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James Wright
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A.R. Ammons
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Louise Gluck
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Amy Clampitt
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Amiri Baraka
Writers of Nonfiction
Writers of Short Stories
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Katherine Anne Porter
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James Thurber
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Eudora Welty
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Flannery O'Connor
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Joyce Carol Oates
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Donald Barthelme
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Ann Beattie
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Bobbie Ann Mason
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Leslie Silko
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Raymond Carver
Playwrights
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Eugene O'Neill
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Arthur Miller
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Edward Albee
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Sam Shepard