American novelists

U.S. fiction writers

American novelists are writers of novels who are American by birth, citizenship, or long residence.

The category spans from early figures like Hawthorne and Melville through Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner to contemporary writers.

Literary discussions often treat American novelists as a distinct tradition, shaped by themes of frontier, identity, race, and the national experience.

transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
realismAccepting things as they are
Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
Harlem RenaissanceBlack arts explosion, 1920s
raceCompetition of speed

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