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AGBMS : Reference : Literature - American Literature
Abbey, Edward Abbott, George Abbott, Jacob Abish, Walter Abrahams, William Miller Abrams, M.H. Acker, Kathy Ackerman, Diane Adamic, Louis Adams, Charles Follen Adams, Franklin Pierce Adams, Hannah Adams, Leonie Adams, Samuel Hopkins Adams, William Taylor Ade, George Adler, Renata African American literature Agee, James Aiken, Conrad Albee, Edward Alcott, Louisa May Alden, Cynthia May Westover Aldrich, Bess Genevra Streeter Aldrich, Thomas Bailey Alexander, Francesca Alger, Horatio Algren, Nelson Allen, Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen, Hervey Allen, Paula Gunn Allen, Woody Alsop, Joseph American Renaissance Ames, Winthrop Ammons, A.R. Anaya, Rudolfo A. Anderson, Jervis Anderson, Maxwell Anderson, Poul Anderson, Regina M. Anderson, Sherwood Angelou, Maya Anger, Kenneth Antin, David Apgar, Virginia Apple, Max Arnow, Harriette Ashbery, John Asimov, Isaac Astor, Brooke Russell Atherton, Gertrude Auchincloss, Louis Auden, W H Auslander, Joseph Auster, Paul Austin, Mary Axelrod, George Bacheller, Irving Bacon, Delia Salter Baker, Augusta Braxton Baker, Houston A., Jr. Baker, Russell Baldwin, Faith Baldwin, James Bambara, Toni Cade Banks, Russell Baraka, Amiri Barber, Red Barlow, Joel Barnes, Djuna Barrett, Lawrence Barry, Philip Barth, John Barthelme, Donald Barthelme, Frederick Bates, Katharine Lee Baum, L. Frank Baum, Vicki Beach, Edward Latimer, Jr. Beach, Sylvia Beat movement Beattie, Ann Beers, Ethel Lynn Behrman, S N Belasco, David Bellamy, Edward Bellow, Saul Benet, Stephen Vincent Bennett, Gwendolyn Benson, Mildred Augustine Wirt Berger, Thomas Bernstein, Aline Frankau Berrigan, Daniel Berry, Wendell Berryman, John Bester, Alfred Bidart, Frank Bierce, Ambrose Bird, Robert Montgomery Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop, John Peale Bissell, Richard Black Mountain poet Blaik, Red Blake, Lillie Devereux Bloom, Allan Bloom, Harold Bly, Robert Bodenheim, Maxwell Bogan, Louise Bollingen Prize Bombeck, Erma Louise Bonnin, Gertrude Bontemps, Arna Boucicault, Dion Bowles, Jane Bowles, Paul Boyle, Kay Brackenridge, Hugh Henry Bradbury, Ray Bradford, Roark Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradstreet, Anne Brahmin Brautigan, Richard Brer Rabbit Brinnin, John Malcolm Brodkey, Harold Brodsky, Joseph Bromfield, Louis Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maria Gowen Brooks, Phillips Brooks, Richard Brooks, Van Wyck Brougham, John Brown, Alice Brown, Charles Brockden Brown, Claude Brown, Dan Brown, Dorris Alexander Brown, Helen Gurley Brown, Margaret Wise Brown, Sterling Brown, William Hill Brown, William Wells Bryant, William Cullen Buck, Pearl Bukowski, Charles Bullins, Ed Bunner, Henry Cuyler Burgess, Gelett Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Burroughs, William S. Burton, Virginia Lee Busch, Frederick Butler, Octavia E. Cabell, James Branch Cable, George W. Cahan, Abraham Cain, James M. Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Taylor Calisher, Hortense Campbell, John W. Capote, Truman Carr, John Dickson Carroll, Anna Ella Carruth, Hayden Carver, Raymond Cary, Alice; and Cary, Phoebe Cash, W.J. Castillo, Ana Cather, Willa Cave, Hugh Barnett Chandler, Raymond Chapman, John Jay Chase, Mary Ellen Chayefsky, Paddy Cheever, John Chesnutt, Charles W. Chicago literary renaissance Child, Lydia Maria Childress, Alice Chodorov, Jerome Chopin, Kate Churchill, Winston Ciardi, John Cisneros, Sandra Clampitt, Amy Clare, Ada Clark, Walter van Tilburg Clarke, Helen Archibald; and Porter, Charlotte Endymion Clarke, Rebecca Sophia Cleary, Beverly Clement, Hal Clifton, Lucille Coates, Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Cobb, Irvin S Coffin, Robert P Tristram Colum, Padraic Condon, Richard Thomas Connell, Evan S., Jr. Connelly, Marc Conroy, Frank Conroy, Jack Cook, George Cram Cooke, Rose Terry Coolbrith, Ina Donna Cooney, Barbara Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Augusta Fenimore Coover, Robert Corn, Alfred Cornwell, Patricia Corso, Gregory Cortez, Jayne Cosby, Bill Costain, Thomas B Cowl, Jane Cowley, Malcolm Cozzens, James Gould Crane, Hart Crane, Stephen Crapsey, Adelaide Craven, Frank Crawford, F Marion Creeley, Robert Crosby, Fanny Crosby, Harry Crothers, Rachel Crouch, Stanley Crumley, James Cullen, Countee Cummings, E.E. Cummings, Robert Cummins, Maria Susanna Curtis, Christopher Paul Daly, Augustin Danticat, Edwidge Danziger, Paula Darling, Flora Adams Davenport, Guy Mattison, Jr. Davidson, Donald Davis, H.L. Davis, Ossie; and Dee, Ruby Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis, Richard Harding De Voto, Bernard De Vries, Peter DeForest, John William DeLillo, Don Deland, Margaret Delany, Samuel R. Dell, Floyd Deloria, Vine, Jr. Deren, Maya Deutsch, Babette Di Prima, Diane Diaz, Abby Morton Dick, Philip K. Dickey, James Dickinson, Emily Dickson, Gordon Rupert Didion, Joan Dillard, Annie Dixon, Thomas Dobyns, Stephen Doctorow, E.L. Dodge, Mary Abigail Dodge, Mary Mapes Dodson, Owen Donleavy, J.P. Donnelly, Ignatius Doolittle, Hilda Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley Dorris, Michael Anthony Dos Passos, John Dove, Rita Drake, Joseph Rodman Dreiser, Theodore Drury, Allen Stuart Dubus, Andre Dugan, Alan Dumas, Henry Dunbar Nelson, Alice Dunbar, Paul Laurence Duncan, Robert Duniway, Abigail Jane Scott Dunne, John Gregory Duyckinck, Evert Augustus Dwight, Timothy Dworkin, Andrea Dylan, Bob Earle, Alice Morse Eastman, Mary Henderson Eberhart, Richard Eckstorm, Fannie Pearson Hardy Edel, Leon Edmonds, Walter Dumaux Eggleston, Edward Elder, Lonne, III Eliot, T.S. Elkin, Stanley Ellet, Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Ellroy, James Emerson, Ralph Waldo Erdrich, Louise Erskine, John Evans, Dale Evans, Mari Everson, William Eyre de Lanux, Elizabeth Fadiman, Clifton Farina, Richard; and Farina, Mimi Farrell, James T. Fassi, Carlo Fast, Howard Melvin Faulkner, William Fauset, Jessie Redmon Fearing, Kenneth Ferber, Edna Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Field, Eugene Fierstein, Harvey Finley, Martha Fisher, M.F.K. Fiske, Harrison Grey Fitch, Clyde Fitts, Dudley Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Flanner, Janet Foote, Mary Anna Hallock Foote, Shelby Forche, Carolyn Ford, Charles Henri Ford, Richard Forrest, Leon Forward, Robert Lull Foster, Hannah Webster Fowler, Lydia Folger Frederic, Harold Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton Freneau, Philip Friedman, Bruce Jay Frost, Robert Fugitive Fuller, Charles Fuller, Henry Blake Gaddis, William Gag, Wanda Hazel Gaiman, Neil Gaines, Ernest J. Gale, Zona Gallagher, Tess Gardener, Helen Hamilton Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner, Herbert George Gardner, John Garis, Howard R Garland, Hamlin Gass, William H. Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Gavin, James Maurice Geisel, Theodor Seuss Gelber, Jack Gellhorn, Martha Ellis George, Elizabeth Gerould, Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Ghose, Zulfikar Gibran, Khalil Gibson, William Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, Jr. Gilded Age Gilder, Jeannette Leonard Gillette, William Hooker Gilman, Caroline Howard Gilman, Charlotte Anna Perkins Ginsberg, Allen Giovanni, Nikki Glasgow, Ellen Glaspell, Susan Gluck, Louise Godwin, Gail Goetz, Ruth Goodman Goldbarth, Albert Goldman, James Goldsmith, Olivia Gordon, Mary Gordon, Ruth Gorey, Edward Graham, Jorie Grau, Shirley Ann Gray, Spalding Green, Anna Katharine Green, Julian Green, Paul Gregory, Dick Gregory, Horace Grey, Zane Griswold, Rufus Wilmot Guare, John Guest, Edgar A Guiney, Louise Imogen Guo Moruo Guthrie, A.B., Jr. Guy, Rosa Hale, Edward Everett Hale, Louise Closser Hale, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Sarah Josepha Haley, Alex Hall, Donald Hall, James Halleck, Fitz-Greene Hamilton, Edith Hamilton, Virginia Hammett, Dashiell Handler, Daniel Hannah, Barry Hansberry, Lorraine Hansen, Joseph Hardwick, Elizabeth Harjo, Joy Harlem Renaissance Harper, Frances E.W. Harper, Michael S. Harrigan, Edward Harris, George Washington Harris, Joel Chandler Harrison, Jim Hart, Moss Harte, Bret Hartford wit Hartog, Jan de Hass, Robert Hawkes, John Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hayden, Robert Hayne, Paul Hamilton Hazzard, Shirley Hearn, Lafcadio Hecht, Anthony Hecht, Ben Heilbrun, Carolyn Heinlein, Robert A Heller, Joseph Hellman, Lillian Hemingway, Ernest Henley, Beth Henry, Marguerite Henry, O. Herbert, Frank Hergesheimer, Joseph Herne, James A. Hersey, John Heyward, DuBose Hicks, Granville Highsmith, Patricia Hijuelos, Oscar Himes, Chester Hoagland, Edward Hoban, Russell Hobson, Laura Z Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman, Alice Hoffman, Daniel Holley, Marietta Holmes, Oliver Wendell Hopkins, Pauline Horgan, Paul Horton, George Moses Hovey, Richard Howard, Bronson Howard, Richard Howard, Sidney Howe, E.W. Howe, Julia Ward Howells, William Dean Hughes, Langston Humphrey, William Humphreys, Josephine Huneker, James Gibbons Hunter, Evan Hunter, Kristin Hurst, Fannie Hurston, Zora Neale Ignatow, David Imagist Inge, William Irving, John Irving, Washington Isherwood, Christopher Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Shirley Jacobsen, Josephine James, Henry Janeway, Elizabeth Jarrell, Randall Jeffers, Robinson Jewett, Sarah Orne Jin, Ha Johnson, Diane Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Osa Jones, James Jordan, June Judson, E.Z.C. Justice, Donald Kanin, Garson Kanter, Rosabeth Moss Kantor, MacKinlay Kaplan, Justin Kaufman, Bob Kaufman, George S Kazin, Alfred Kelly, George Kennedy, John P. Kennedy, William Kerouac, Jack Kerr, Jean Kesey, Ken Kilmer, Joyce Kincaid, Jamaica King, Stephen Kingsolver, Barbara Kingston, Maxine Hong Kinnell, Galway Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill Kirkland, Joseph Kirkwood, James Kizer, Carolyn Knickerbocker school Knight, Damon Francis Knight, Etheridge Knowles, John Koch, Kenneth Kolodny, Annette Kooser, Ted Kopit, Arthur Kornbluth, C.M. Kosinski, Jerzy Kostelanetz, Richard Krutch, Joseph Wood Kumin, Maxine Kunitz, Stanley Kuralt, Charles L'Amour, Louis L'Engle, Madeleine La Farge, Oliver Lafferty, R A Lagasse, Emeril Lamour, Dorothy Lanier, Sidney Lardner, Ring Larsen, Nella Latsis, Mary Jane Lattimore, Richmond Laughlin, James Lawrence, Jerome Lawson, John Howard Lazarus, Emma Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Sueur, Meridel Lee, Harper Lee, Sammy Leiber, Fritz Leland, Charles Godfrey Leonard, Elmore Levertov, Denise Levin, Meyer Levine, Philip Lewis, Janet Lewis, R W B Lewis, Shari Lewis, Sinclair Lindbergh, Anne Spencer Morrow Lindsay, Howard; and Crouse, Russel Lindsay, Vachel Locke, Alain Lofting, Hugh Logan, Joshua London, Jack Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Loos, Anita Lopez, Barry Lord, Walter, Jr. Lorde, Audre Lost Generation Lovecraft, H.P. Lowell, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Robert, Jr. Loy, Mina Luce, Clare Boothe Ludlum, Robert Lukas, J Anthony Lurie, Alison Maas, Peter MacArthur, Charles MacDonald, John D. MacInnes, Helen Clark MacKaye, Percy MacKaye, Steele MacLeish, Archibald Macdonald, Cynthia Macdonald, Ross Madhubuti, Haki R. Mailer, Norman Malamud, Bernard Mamet, David Mandino, Augustine A. Mannes, Marya Manning, Marie Marasco, Robert Marion, Frances Markham, Edwin Marot, Helen Marquand, J P Marshall, Paule Martin, Bill, Jr. Martin, Steve Mason, Bobbie Ann Masters, Edgar Lee Matthews, Brander Matthews, William Procter, III Matthiessen, Peter Maupin, Armistead Maxwell, Elsa Maxwell, William McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Mary McCorkle, Susannah McCullers, Carson McCutcheon, George Barr McElroy, Joseph McGinley, Phyllis McGuane, Thomas McKay, Claude McKay, Gardner McMillan, Terry McMurtry, Larry McPhee, John McPherson, James Alan Meisner, Sanford Melville, Herman Mencken, H.L. Menken, Adah Isaacs Meredith, William Merrill, James Merton, Thomas Merwin, W.S. Michaels, Leonard Michener, James Midwestern Regionalism Millay, Edna St. Vincent Miller, Alice Duer Miller, Arthur Miller, Harriet Mann Miller, Henry Miller, Jason Miller, Joaquin Miller, May Mitchell, Joseph Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, S. Weir Momaday, N. 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