American authors
U.S.-born literary creators
Writers of literature who are citizens of or closely associated with the United States.
The phrase typically appears in discussions of national literary tradition: a survey course on American authors, Twain ranks among the greatest American authors.
The category spans from colonial-era figures through contemporary novelists, poets, and essayists.
- confessional poetryPoetry of raw personal revelation
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- Toni Morrison"Song of Solomon"
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
- Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
Edgar Allan Poe · Emily Dickinson · Ernest Hemingway · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Maya Angelou · slave narratives · naturalism · postmodernism · immigration · creative writing · James Baldwin · transcendentalism · Sylvia Plath · American Dream · realism · social justice · Langston Hughes · John Steinbeck
- author groupsBritish authors, French authors, German authors, Russian authors, Japanese authors
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- book reviewsbook review, critique, book ratings, critical analysis, critiques
- literary criticismliterary theory, literary analysis, close reading, New Criticism, criticism
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