American Literature: Biographies
- Rice, Anne
- Young, Al
- Adams, Alice
- Adams, Samuel Hopkins
- Ade, George
- Agee, James
- Aiken, Conrad
- Albee, Edward
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Alexie, Sherman
- Alger, Horatio
- Algren, Nelson
- Allen, Hervey
- Allen, James Lane
- Alsop, Richard
- Ammons, A. R.
- Anderson, Maxwell
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Angelou, Maya
- Ashbery, John
- Asimov, Isaac
- Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn)
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Auster, Paul
- Babbitt, Natalie
- Bacheller, Irving
- Baker, Ray Stannard
- Baldwin, James
- Bangs, John Kendrick
- Banks, Russell
- Baraka, Amiri
- Barker, James Nelson
- Barlow, Joel
- Barnes, Djuna
- Barry, Philip
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Bates, Katharine Lee
- Baum, L. Frank
- Beattie, Ann
- Beer, Thomas
- Behrman, S. N.
- Bellamy, Edward
- Bellow, Saul
- Bemelmans, Ludwig
- Benchley, Robert Charles
- Benét, Stephen Vincent
- Benét, William Rose
- Bentley, Eric
- Berger, Thomas
- Berry, Wendell Erdman
- Berryman, John
- Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
- Billings, Josh
- Bird, Robert Montgomery
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blackmur, Richard Palmer
- Bloom, Harold
- Bly, Robert Elwood
- Bodenheim, Maxwell
- Bogan, Louise
- Boker, George Henry
- Bontemps, Arna
- Bourne, Randolph Silliman
- Bowles, Jane Auer
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyd, Ernest
- Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
- Boyle, Kay
- Boyle, T. C.
- Brackenridge, Henry Marie
- Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
- Bradbury, Ray
- Bradford, Gamaliel
- Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley)
- Brautigan, Richard
- Breuer, Lee
- Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth
- Brooks, Maria Gowen
- Brooks, Van Wyck
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Brown, Margaret Wise
- Browne, Charles Farrar
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker
- Bukowski, Charles
- Bulfinch, Thomas
- Bullins, Ed
- Buntline, Ned
- Burgess, Gelett
- Burke, Kenneth Duva
- Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice
- Burroughs, John
- Burroughs, William Seward
- Bynner, Witter
- Cabell, Branch
- Cable, George Washington
- Cain, James Mallahan
- Caldwell, Erskine
- Caldwell, Taylor
- Calisher, Hortense
- Canby, Henry Seidel
- Canfield, Dorothy
- Capote, Truman
- Carle, Eric
- Carleton, Will
- Carver, Raymond
- Cather, Willa Sibert
- Chabon, Michael
- Chandler, Raymond Thornton
- Channing, William Ellery
- Chapman, John Jay
- Chase, Mary Ellen
- Cheever, John
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
- Chopin, Kate O'flaherty
- Churchill, Winston, American Novelist
- Ciardi, John
- Claflin, Tennessee
- Clampitt, Amy
- Clancy, Tom
- Cleary, Beverly
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
- Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury
- Colum, Padraic
- Connell, Evan Shelby, Jr.
- Connelly, Marc
- Cook, Ebenezer
- Cook, George Cram
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Cowley, Malcolm
- Cox, Palmer
- Cozzens, James Gould
- Craddock, Charles Egbert
- Crane, Hart
- Crane, Stephen
- Crapsey, Adelaide
- Creeley, Robert
- Crichton, Michael
- Crothers, Rachel
- Cullen, Countee
- Cummings, E. E.
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- Dahlberg, Edward
- Dana, Richard Henry
- Davis, Lydia
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- Davis, Richard Harding
- Day, Clarence Shepard
- De Forest, John William
- De Voto, Bernard Augustine
- Delany, Samuel R.
- Delillo, Don
- Deutsch, Babette
- Dewdney, Anna
- Dick, Philip K.
- Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Dickey, James
- Dickinson, Emily
- Didion, Joan
- Dillard, Annie
- Dixon, Thomas
- Doctorow, E. L.
- Dodge, Mary Mapes
- Dole, Nathan Haskell
- Donnelly, Ignatius
- Doolittle, Hilda
- Dos Passos, John Roderigo
- Dove, Rita
- Drake, Joseph Rodman
- Dreiser, Theodore
- Du Plessix Gray, Francine
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Duncan, Robert
- Dunlap, William
- Dunn, Stephen Elliott
- Duyckinck, Evert Augustus
- Dwight, Theodore
- Eastman, Max
- Eberhart, Richard
- Eggers, Dave
- Eggleston, Edward
- Elkin, Stanley
- Ellison, Harlan
- Ellison, Ralph
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Ephron, Nora Louise
- Erskine, John, American Educator, Author, And Musician
- Evans, Augusta Jane
- F. P. A.
- Falkner, William
- Farrell, James Thomas
- Fast, Howard
- Faulkner, William
- Feiffer, Jules
- Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco
- Ferber, Edna
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Fiedler, Leslie
- Field, Eugene
- Field, Rachel
- Fields, Annie Adams
- Fields, James Thomas
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
- Fitch, Clyde
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre
- Fletcher, John Gould
- Flint, Timothy
- Foote, Horton
- Ford, Richard
- Fornés, María Irene
- Foster, Hannah Webster
- Fox, Paula
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
- Freneau, Philip
- Frost, Robert
- Gaddis, William
- Gale, Zona
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Gardner, John
- Garland, Hamlin
- Gass, William Howard
- Geisel, Theodor Seuss
- Gibson, William
- Gilder, Richard Watson
- Ginsberg, Allen
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Glaspell, Susan
- Glass, Montague Marsden
- Godfrey, Thomas
- Graham, Jorie
- Grayson, David
- Green, Anna Katherine
- Green, Paul
- Gregory, Horace
- Grey, Zane
- Grisham, John
- Griswold, Rufus Wilmot
- Guare, John
- Gunn, Thom
- Gurney, A. R.
- H. D.
- Ha Jin
- Hale, Edward Everett
- Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell)
- Haley, Alex
- Hall, Donald
- Halleck, Fitz-Greene
- Hammett, Dashiell
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Harjo, Joy
- Harland, Henry
- Harris, Frank
- Harris, Joel Chandler
- Harrison, Jim
- Hart, Moss
- Harte, Bret
- Hawkes, John
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Hayden, Robert
- Hayne, Paul Hamilton
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Hecht, Ben
- Hedge, Frederic Henry
- Heinlein, Robert Anson Macdonald
- Heller, Joseph
- Hellman, Lillian
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Henry, O.
- Hergesheimer, Joseph
- Herrick, Robert, American Novelist
- Hersey, John Richard
- Heyward, Dubose
- Hicks, Granville
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Hijuelos, Oscar Jerome
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, American Author And Physician
- Hooks, Bell
- Hopkins, Lemuel
- Horgan, Paul
- Horton, George Moses
- Howard, Bronson
- Howard, Richard
- Howard, Sidney Coe
- Howe, Irving
- Howe, Julia Ward
- Howells, William Dean
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Hudson, Henry Norman
- Hughes, Langston
- Huneker, James Gibbons
- Hunter, Evan
- Hurst, Fannie
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Inge, William
- Irving, John
- Irving, Washington
- Ivins, Molly
- Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry, American Novelist And Critic
- Jarrell, Randall
- Jeffers, Robinson
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Jin, Xuefei
- Johnson, Denis
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Johnston, Mary
- Johnston, Richard Malcolm
- Jones, James
- Jones, Leroi
- Jong, Erica
- Judson, Edward Zane Carroll
- Just, Ward
- Kanin, Garson
- Kaufman, George S.
- Kazin, Alfred
- Keats, Ezra Jack
- Kelly, George
- Kennedy, Adrienne
- Kennedy, Charles Rann
- Kennedy, William
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kerr, Jean Collins
- Kesey, Ken Elton
- Key, Francis Scott
- Kilmer, Joyce
- King, Stephen
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Knight, Sarah Kemble
- Knowles, John
- Koch, Kenneth
- Kopit, Arthur
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Kreymborg, Alfred
- Krutch, Joseph Wood
- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon
- L'amour, Louis
- L'engle, Madeleine
- Lane, Rose Wilder
- Lanier, Sidney
- Lardner, Ring
- Lathrop, George Parsons
- Lazarus, Emma
- Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
- Lee, Harper
- Lee, Stan
- Leland, Charles Godfrey
- Leonard, Elmore
- Leonard, William Ellery
- Levertov, Denise
- Levine, Philip
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Lewisohn, Ludwig
- Leyner, Mark
- Lin Yutang
- Lindsay, Vachel
- Locke, Alain Leroy
- Lofting, Hugh
- London, Jack
- Long, John Luther
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Lorde, Audrey Geraldine
- Lothrop, Amy
- Lovecraft, H. P.
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowell, Robert
- Luce, Clare Boothe
- Macdonald, Dwight
- Macdonald, Ross
- Macinnes, Helen
- Macleish, Archibald
- Mailer, Norman
- Malamud, Bernard
- Mamet, David
- Marciano, John Bemelmans
- Markham, Edwin
- Marquand, John Phillips
- Marquis, Don
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Masters, Edgar Lee
- Matthiessen, F. O.
- Matthiessen, Peter
- Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr.
- Mcbain, Ed
- Mccarthy, Cormac
- Mccarthy, Mary Therese
- Mcclatchy, J. D.
- Mccloskey, Robert
- Mccourt, Frank
- Mccullers, Carson
- Mcginley, Phyllis
- Mcinerney, Jay
- Mckay, Claude
- Mcmurtry, Larry
- Mcnally, Terrence
- Mcphee, John Angus
- Melville, Herman
- Mencken, H. L.
- Merrill, James
- Merwin, W. S.
- Michener, James Albert
- Millar, Kenneth
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Miller, Arthur
- Miller, Cincinnatus Heine
- Miller, Henry
- Miller, Joaquin
- Mitchell, Margaret
- Monroe, Harriet
- Moody, William Vaughn
- Moore, Clement Clarke
- Moore, Marianne
- Morley, Christopher
- Morris, Wright
- Morrison, Toni
- Morton, Sarah Wentworth
- Mosley, Walter
- Murfree, Mary Noailles
- Murray, Albert Lee
- N. Scott Momaday
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Nash, Ogden
- Nemerov, Howard
- Nin, Anaïs
- Nordhoff, Charles Bernard
- Norris, Charles Gilman
- Norris, Frank
- O'brien, Fitz-James
- O'connor, Flannery
- O'hara, Frank
- O'hara, John
- O'neill, Eugene (Gladstone)
- O. Henry
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Odets, Clifford
- Oliver, Mary
- Olson, Charles
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Page, Thomas Nelson
- Paine, Albert Bigelow
- Paley, Grace
- Parker, Dorothy
- Parton, James
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Patchett, Ann
- Paulding, James Kirke
- Percy, Walker
- Perelman, S. J.
- Peters, Samuel
- Phillips, David Graham
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Pohl, Frederik
- Poole, Ernest
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Porter, William Sydney
- Pound, Ezra Loomis
- Powell, Dawn
- Powers, Richard
- Price, Reynolds
- Proulx, E. Annie
- Provensen, Alice
- Provensen, Martin
- Purdy, James Otis
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rabe, David
- Rand, Ayn
- Ransom, John Crowe
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Reed, Ishmael Scott
- Reese, Lizette Woodworth
- Repplier, Agnes
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Rey, H. A.
- Rey, Margret
- Rice, Elmer
- Rich, Adrienne
- Richter, Conrad
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Ripley, George
- Roberts, Elizabeth Madox
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
- Robinson, Edwin Arlington
- Roethke, Theodore
- Roth, Philip
- Rowson, Susanna Haswell
- Rukeyser, Muriel
- Runyon, Damon
- Russell, Charles Edward
- Ryan, Kay
- Rølvaag, Ole Edvart
- Salinger, J. D.
- Sandburg, Carl
- Saroyan, William
- Sarton, May
- Say, Allen
- Schulberg, Budd
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Seeger, Alan
- Sendak, Maurice Bernard
- Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Seuss, Dr.
- Sexton, Anne
- Shapiro, Karl
- Shaw, Henry Wheeler
- Shepard, Sam
- Sherman, Stuart Pratt
- Sherwood, Robert Emmet
- Simic, Charles
- Simms, William Gilmore
- Simon, Neil
- Simpson, Louis
- Sinclair, Upton
- Smith, Dave
- Smith, Lillian
- Snodgrass, W. D.
- Snyder, Gary
- Sontag, Susan
- Spillane, Mickey
- Spingarn, Joel Elias
- Stafford, Jean
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence
- Steele, Wilbur Daniel
- Steffens, Lincoln
- Stegner, Wallace
- Stein, Gertrude
- Steinbeck, John
- Steiner, George
- Stephens, John Lloyd
- Stevens, Wallace
- Stevenson, Burton Egbert
- Stockton, Francis Richard
- Stone, Melville Elijah
- Stone, Robert
- Stoppard, Tom
- Stout, Rex
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Strand, Mark
- Styron, William
- Tabb, John Banister
- Taggard, Genevieve
- Tan, Amy
- Tarbell, Ida Minerva
- Tarkington, Booth
- Tate, Allen
- Taylor, Edward
- Teasdale, Sara
- Thompson, Daniel Pierce
- Thompson, Ernest Seton
- Thompson, William T.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Thurber, James
- Ticknor, George
- Timrod, Henry
- Todd, Mabel Loomis
- Toomer, Jean
- Tourgée, Albion Winegar
- Traven, B.
- Trilling, Diana
- Trilling, Lionel
- Trumbull, John , American Poet
- Twain, Mark
- Tyler, Anne
- Tyler, Royall
- Untermeyer, Louis
- Updike, John
- Uris, Leon
- Van Dine, S. S.
- Van Doren, Carl (Clinton)
- Van Doren, Mark
- Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Van Vechten, Carl
- Very, Jones
- Vidal, Gore
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
- Walker, A'delia
- Walker, Alice
- Wallace, David Foster
- Wallace, Lew
- Warner, Anna Bartlett
- Warner, Charles Dudley
- Warner, Susan Bogert
- Warren, Mercy Otis
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Wasserstein, Wendy
- Weems, Mason Locke
- Welty, Eudora
- West, Jessamyn
- West, Nathanael
- West, Paul Noden
- Westcott, Edward Noyes
- Wetherall, Elizabeth
- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones
- Wheatley, Phillis
- White, E. B.
- White, Edmund
- White, Stewart Edward
- White, William Allen
- Whitlock, Brand
- Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power)
- Whitman, Walt
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith)
- Wigglesworth, Michael
- Wilbur, Richard
- Wilder, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Williams, C. K.
- Williams, Tennessee
- Williams, William Carlos
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker
- Wilson, August
- Wilson, Edmund
- Wilson, James Grant
- Winter, William
- Winters, Yvor
- Wister, Owen
- Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
- Wolfe, Tom
- Wood, Clement
- Woodberry, George Edward
- Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin)
- Woodworth, Samuel
- Woollcott, Alexander
- Woolson, Constance Fenimore
- Wouk, Herman
- Wright, Charles
- Wright, James
- Wright, Richard
- Wright, Willard Huntington
- Wylie, Elinor (Hoyt)
- Yates, Richard, American Fiction Writer
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