American Literature: Timeline of authors born before the 20th Century
Charlotte Temple
Susanna Rowson (1762-1824)
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)
A Microsoft Excel 2013 chart experiment
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
(in "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.")
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Nature
20
The American Scholar
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Twice-Told Tales
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Raven
Eureka: A Prose Poem
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Walden
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
15
Life Without Principle
Benito Cereno
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
The first volume of Dickinson's Poems
appeared posthumously in November 1890
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James (1843-1916)
The Turn of the Screw
The Ambassadors
10
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The Waste Land
5
Four Quartets
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Farewell to Arms
A Moveable Feast
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
(published posthumously)
Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
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Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
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