American Literature Anthology
Writers' Index
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Pictorial Index
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"The Federalist Papers"
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(The "high crimes and misdemeanors" section)
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Civil War Music and Poetry
Constitution of the Confederate States of American
"The Mayflower Compact"
American Verse Project
Abigail Adams
Henry Adams
John Adams
George Ade
James Agee
Conrad Aiken
Zoe Akins
Edward Albee
Louisa May Alcott
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Horatio Alger
Nelson Algren
Hervey Allen
Maxwell Anderson
Sherwood Anderson
Maya Angelou
John Ashbery
Isaac Asimov
W. H. Auden
Leonard Bacon
James Baldwin
Imamu Amiri Baraka
(LeRoi Jones)
Joel Barlow
John Barth
Donald Barthelme
L. Frank Baum
Edward Bellamy
Saul Bellow
Stephen Vincent Benet
William Rose Benet
John Berryman
Robert Beverley
Ambrose Bierce
Robert M. Bird
Elizabeth Bishop
Louise Bogan
Arna Bontemps
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Ray Bradbury
William Bradford
Anne Bradstreet
Louis Bromfield
Gwendolyn Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Charles Brockden Brown
Claude Brown
William Cullen Bryant
Pearl Buck
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Burroughs
Robert Olen Butler
William Byrd
James Branch Cabell
George Washington Cable
Erskine Caldwell
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
Raymond Chandler
William Ellery Channing
Mary Chase
John Cheever
Charles W. Chesnutt
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Kate Chopin
Samuel L. Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Robert P. Tristam Coffin
George M. Cohan
Marc Connelly
Ebenezer Cook
James Fenimore Cooper
Malcolm Cowley
James Gould Cozzens
Hart Crane
Stephen Crane
Robert Creeley
St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Countee Cullen
E. E. Cummings
Richard Henry Dana
H. L. Davis
Owen Davis
Emily Dickinson
E. L. Doctorow
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
John Dos Passos
Frederick Douglass
Rita Dove
Theodore Dreiser
W. E. B. DuBois
Paul Dunbar
William Dunlap
Will Durant
Jonathan Edwards
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oloudah Equiano
James T. Farrell
William Faulkner
Edna Ferber
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Eugene Field
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Martin Flavin
James Gould Fletcher
Horton Foote
Richard Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Phillip Freneau
Robert Frost
Margaret Fuller
Zona Gale
Hamlin Garland
George Gershwin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alan Ginsberg
Nikki Giovanni
Ellen Glasgow
Susan Glaspell
Louise Gluck
Thomas Godfrey
Charles Gordone
Jorie Graham
A. B. Guthrie, Jr
Edward Everett Hale
Alexander Hamilton
Oscar Hammerstein II
Dashiell Hammett
Jupiter Hammon
Lorraine Hansberry
Joel Chandler Harris
Moss Hart
Bret Harte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Hayden
Anthony Hecht
Joseph Heller
Lillian Hellman
Ernest Hemingway
John Hersey
Oscar Hijuelos
Robert Hillyer
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sidney Howard
Julia Ward Howe
William Dean Howells
Hatcher Hughes
Langston Hughes
Fannie Hurst
Zora Neale Hurston
William Inge
Washington Irving
Henry James
Randall Jarrell
Robinson Jeffers
Thomas Jefferson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Josephine Johnson
James Jones
Donald Justice
MacKinlay Kantor
George S. Kaufman
George Kelly
William Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Francis Scott Key
Sidney Kingsley
Yusef Komunyakaa
Arthur Kopit
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz
Tony Kushner
Oliver LaFarge
Sidney Lanier
Ring Lardner
Johnathan Larson
Harper Lee
Ursula LeGuin
Denise Levertov
Philip Levine
Sinclair Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Vachel Lindsay
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amy Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell
Clare Booth Luce
Alison Lurie
Archibald MacLeish
Norman Mailer
Bernard Malamud
David Mamet
J. P. Marquand
Edgar Lee Masters
Cotton Mather
Cormac McCarthy
Carson McCullers
Phyllis McGinley
Larry McMurtry
James Alan McPherson
Herman Melville
H. L. Mencken
William Meredith
James Merrill
W. S. Merwin
James Michener
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Arthur Miller
Caroline Miller
Henry Miller
Joaquin Miller
Steven Millhauser
Margaret Mitchell
Natachee Scott Momaday
William Vaughn Moody
Marianne Moore
Toni Morrison
Lisel Mueller
Ogden Nash
Howard Nemerov
Frank Norris
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery O'Connor
Clifford Odets
John O'Hara
Eugene O'Neill
Thomas Paine
Dorothy Parker
Walker Percy
Julia Peterkin
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Ernest Poole
Katherine Anne Porter
William Sydney Porter
(O Henry)
Ezra Pound
Annie Proulx
Thomas Pynchon
John Crowe Ransom
Elmer Rice
Adrienne Rich
Conrad Richter
James Whitcomb Riley
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Rodgers
Theodore Roethke
Philip Roth
Mary Rowlandson
Susanna Rowson
J. D. Salinger
Carl Sandburg
William Saroyan
Robert Schenkkan
Alan Seeger
Samuel Sewall
Anne Sexton
Karl Shapiro
Irwin Shaw
Robert Sherwood
Carol Shields
Charles Simic
Neil Simon
Upton Sinclair
Jane Smiley
John Smith
W. D. Snodgrass
Lenora Speyer
Jean Stafford
Gene Stratton-Porter
Wallace Stegner
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Wallace Stevens
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Styron
May Swenson
Booth Tarkington
Allen Tate
James Tate
Edward Taylor
Peter Hillsman Taylor
Sara Teasdale
Tecumseh
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurber
John Kennedy Toole
Jean Toomer
John Trumbull
Sojourner Truth
Mark Twain
Anne Tyler
Royall Tyler
Alfred Uhry
John Updike
Mark Van Doren
Mona Van Duyn
Gore Vidal
Peter Viereck
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Nathaniel Ward
Robert Penn Warren
Booker T. Washington
Wendy Wasserstein
Eudora Welty
Nathanael West
Edith Wharton
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Margaret Widdemer
Michael Wigglesworth
Richard Wilbur
Thornton Wilder
Jesse L. Williams
Roger Williams
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
August Wilson
Lanford Wilson
John Winthrop
Thomas Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
John Woolman
Herman Wouk
James Wright
Richard Wright
Elinor Wylie