Complete List of Contents
Volume 1
Edward Abbey...... 1 Marie-Claire Blais...... 280 Henry Adams ...... 7 Edward Bloor...... 286 James Agee...... 16 Judy Blume...... 291 Ai...... 22 Robert Bly...... 298 Edward Albee...... 29 Paul Bowles...... 308 Louisa May Alcott...... 40 Kay Boyle...... 316 Sherman Alexie...... 46 T. Coraghessan Boyle...... 324 Horatio Alger Jr...... 53 Ray Bradbury...... 332 Nelson Algren...... 59 Anne Bradstreet...... 343 Paula Gunn Allen...... 68 Richard Brautigan...... 349 Julia Alvarez...... 74 Harold Brodkey...... 358 Rudolfo Anaya...... 80 Gwendolyn Brooks...... 366 Sherwood Anderson...... 91 Charles Brockden Brown...... 374 Maya Angelou...... 97 Rita Mae Brown...... 379 John Ashbery...... 106 Pearl S. Buck...... 388 Isaac Asimov...... 115 Charles Bukowski...... 395 Margaret Atwood...... 125 Carlos Bulosan...... 405 Louis Auchincloss...... 136 Octavia E. Butler...... 410 Paul Auster...... 149 Robert Olen Butler...... 417 Jimmy Santiago Baca...... 156 George Washington Cable...... 425 James Baldwin...... 161 James M. Cain...... 432 Toni Cade Bambara...... 170 Erskine Caldwell...... 439 Amiri Baraka...... 176 Truman Capote...... 446 Djuna Barnes...... 184 Anne Carson...... 456 John Barth...... 190 Raymond Carver...... 462 Donald Barthelme...... 198 Ana Castillo...... 470 L. Frank Baum...... 205 Willa Cather...... 475 Ann Beattie...... 212 Michael Chabon...... 483 Louis Begley...... 219 Raymond Chandler...... 491 Saul Bellow...... 225 Roz Chast...... 500 Thomas Berger...... 237 John Cheever...... 504 Wendell Berry...... 246 Charles Waddell Chesnutt...... 517 John Berryman...... 256 Frank Chin...... 523 Ambrose Bierce...... 266 Kate Chopin...... 531 Elizabeth Bishop...... 272
Volume 2
Sandra Cisneros ...... 537 Billy Collins...... 563 Tom Clancy ...... 544 Suzanne Collins...... 575 Ta-Nehisi Coates...... 552 James Fenimore Cooper ...... 581
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Robert Coover ...... 591 Jeffrey Eugenides...... 897 Robert Cormier ...... 598 James T. Farrell ...... 903 Hart Crane ...... 606 William Faulkner ...... 910 Stephen Crane ...... 614 Edna Ferber ...... 921 Robert Creeley ...... 625 M.F.K. Fisher ...... 928 Countée Cullen ...... 637 F. Scott Fitzgerald ...... 936 E. E. Cummings ...... 642 Jonathan Safran Foer...... 948 Edwidge Danticat ...... 650 Horton Foote...... 955 Guy Davenport ...... 656 Richard Ford ...... 967 Robertson Davies ...... 662 Ben Fountain...... 976 Samuel R. Delany...... 670 Benjamin Franklin ...... 980 Don DeLillo ...... 678 Jonathan Franzen...... 987 Junot Díaz...... 691 Philip Freneau ...... 994 Philip K. Dick ...... 700 Robert Frost ...... 1001 James Dickey ...... 712 Charles Fuller ...... 1012 Emily Dickinson ...... 722 William Gaddis ...... 1019 Joan Didion ...... 736 Ernest J. Gaines ...... 1029 Annie Dillard ...... 747 Mavis Gallant ...... 1037 Franklin W. Dixon...... 757 John Gardner ...... 1043 E. L. Doctorow ...... 766 William H. Gass ...... 1055 John Dos Passos ...... 779 Kaye Gibbons ...... 1063 Frederick Douglass ...... 787 William Gibson ...... 1068 Rita Dove ...... 792 William Gibson ...... 1074 Theodore Dreiser ...... 800 Allen Ginsberg ...... 1081 Paul Laurence Dunbar ...... 809 Nikki Giovanni ...... 1093 Robert Duncan ...... 814 Ellen Glasgow ...... 1100 Jennifer Egan...... 824 Susan Glaspell ...... 1108 Dave Eggers...... 829 Mel Glenn ...... 1115 T. S. Eliot ...... 837 Louise Glück ...... 1121 Stanley Elkin ...... 849 Mary Gordon ...... 1129 Ralph Ellison ...... 856 Julien Green...... 1139 Ralph Waldo Emerson ...... 863 Lev Grossman...... 1148 Nora Ephron...... 874 John Guare ...... 1162 Louise Erdrich ...... 884
Volume 3
H. D...... 1169 Joseph Heller...... 1262 Alex Haley...... 1177 Lillian Hellman...... 1268 Dashiell Hammett...... 1182 Mark Helprin...... 1276 Lorraine Hansberry...... 1190 Ernest Hemingway...... 1284 Joy Harjo...... 1196 Beth Henley...... 1296 Michael S. Harper...... 1205 O. Henry...... 1302 Bret Harte...... 1213 Frank Herbert...... 1308 Nathaniel Hawthorne...... 1220 Juan Felipe Herrera...... 1314 Robert Hayden...... 1232 Patricia Highsmith...... 1320 Anne Hébert...... 1238 Oscar Hijuelos...... 1326 Anthony Hecht...... 1244 Tony Hillerman...... 1334 Robert A. Heinlein...... 1250 Chester Himes...... 1341
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Rolando Hinojosa...... 1348 Mary Karr...... 1542 S. E. Hinton...... 1355 Garrison Keillor...... 1548 Eva Hoffman...... 1363 Adrienne Kennedy...... 1559 Linda Hogan...... 1372 William Kennedy...... 1566 Garrett Hongo...... 1379 Jack Kerouac...... 1576 Khaled Hosseini...... 1386 M. E. Kerr...... 1583 William Dean Howells...... 1393 Ken Kesey...... 1589 Langston Hughes...... 1403 Jamaica Kincaid...... 1598 Zora Neale Hurston...... 1413 Stephen King...... 1606 Nancy Huston...... 1422 Barbara Kingsolver...... 1621 David Henry Hwang...... 1430 Maxine Hong Kingston...... 1628 John Irving...... 1440 W. P. Kinsella...... 1641 Washington Irving...... 1452 John Knowles...... 1648 Shirley Jackson...... 1459 Joy Kogawa...... 1655 Henry James...... 1465 Yusef Komunyakaa...... 1661 Randall Jarrell...... 1476 Jerzy Kosinski...... 1667 Robinson Jeffers...... 1483 Stanley Kunitz...... 1674 Gish Jen...... 1493 Tony Kushner...... 1682 Sarah Orne Jewett...... 1500 Louis L’Amour...... 1689 Ha Jin...... 1509 Jhumpa Lahiri...... 1698 Charles Johnson...... 1515 Ring Lardner...... 1708 James Weldon Johnson...... 1521 Nella Larsen...... 1714 Erica Jong...... 1528 Margaret Laurence...... 1720 Cynthia Kadohata...... 1536
Volume 4
Stephen Leacock...... 1731 Terry McMillan...... 1905 David Leavitt...... 1737 Larry McMurtry...... 1913 Chang-rae Lee...... 1744 Norman Mailer...... 1925 Harper Lee...... 1750 Bernard Malamud...... 1934 Ursula K. Le Guin...... 1755 David Mamet...... 1945 Madeleine L’Engle...... 1763 Paule Marshall...... 1956 Elmore Leonard...... 1770 Yann Martel...... 1964 Denise Levertov...... 1779 Bobbie Ann Mason...... 1974 Philip Levine...... 1789 Edgar Lee Masters...... 1980 Sinclair Lewis...... 1797 Peter Matthiessen...... 1986 Jack London...... 1806 Herman Melville...... 1995 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...... 1816 James Merrill...... 2007 Audre Lorde...... 1824 W. S. Merwin...... 2015 Robert Lowell...... 1830 James A. Michener...... 2024 Alison Lurie...... 1838 Edna St. Vincent Millay...... 2036 Cormac McCarthy...... 1848 Arthur Miller...... 2042 Mary McCarthy...... 1861 Henry Miller...... 2053 Frank McCourt...... 1869 Rohinton Mistry...... 2061 Carson McCullers...... 1875 N. Scott Momaday...... 2069 John McPhee...... 1883 Lucy Maud Montgomery...... 2080 Ross Macdonald...... 1887 Brian Moore...... 2087 Thomas McGuane...... 1897 Marianne Moore...... 2095
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Wright Morris...... 2105 Vladimir Nabokov...... 2171 Toni Morrison...... 2117 Gloria Naylor...... 2183 Walter Mosley...... 2130 Anaïs Nin...... 2190 Farley Mowat...... 2139 Frank Norris...... 2199 Bharati Mukherjee...... 2145 Joyce Carol Oates...... 2207 Alice Munro...... 2157 Tim O’Brien...... 2224 Walter Dean Myers...... 2165 Flannery O’Connor...... 2230
Volume 5
Clifford Odets ...... 2243 Edwin Arlington Robinson ...... 2562 Frank O’Hara ...... 2250 Theodore Roethke ...... 2568 John O’Hara ...... 2256 Henry Roth...... 2576 Sharon Olds ...... 2266 Philip Roth ...... 2580 Tillie Olsen ...... 2273 Veronica Roth...... 2595 Charles Olson ...... 2281 Gabrielle Roy ...... 2601 Michael Ondaatje ...... 2290 Sarah Ruhl...... 2607 Eugene O’Neill ...... 2297 Muriel Rukeyser ...... 2617 George Oppen ...... 2309 Richard Russo ...... 2623 Judith Ortiz Cofer ...... 2314 Kay Ryan...... 2634 Cynthia Ozick ...... 2322 Carl Sagan...... 2643 Grace Paley ...... 2332 J. D. Salinger ...... 2652 Dorothy Parker ...... 2342 James Salter ...... 2661 Suzan-Lori Parks ...... 2348 Carl Sandburg ...... 2668 Gary Paulsen ...... 2356 William Saroyan ...... 2674 Edith Pearlman...... 2362 May Sarton ...... 2684 Walker Percy ...... 2367 George Saunders...... 2694 Ann Petry ...... 2376 David Sedaris...... 2702 Jayne Anne Phillips ...... 2383 Robert W. Service...... 2706 Daniel Pinkwater...... 2388 Anne Sexton ...... 2711 Robert Pinsky ...... 2394 Ntozake Shange ...... 2717 Sylvia Plath ...... 2401 Sam Shepard ...... 2726 Edgar Allan Poe ...... 2411 Carol Shields ...... 2738 Katherine Anne Porter ...... 2422 Gary Shteyngart...... 2744 Charles Portis ...... 2429 Leslie Marmon Silko ...... 2750 Chaim Potok ...... 2437 Charles Simic...... 2758 Ezra Pound ...... 2447 Neil Simon ...... 2765 J. F. Powers ...... 2459 Upton Sinclair ...... 2776 Richard Powers ...... 2467 Isaac Bashevis Singer...... 2783 Reynolds Price ...... 2476 Jane Smiley ...... 2794 Thomas Pynchon ...... 2487 Patti Smith...... 2805 Ayn Rand ...... 2499 Gary Snyder ...... 2812 Claudia Rankine...... 2505 Cathy Song ...... 2822 John Crowe Ransom ...... 2515 Susan Sontag ...... 2830 Ishmael Reed ...... 2522 Gary Soto ...... 2837 Adrienne Rich ...... 2531 Jean Stafford ...... 2844 Mordecai Richler...... 2542 William Stafford ...... 2851 Conrad Richter ...... 2550 Wallace Stegner ...... 2858 Rick Riordan...... 2555 Gertrude Stein ...... 2864
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Volume 6
John Steinbeck...... 2873 Nathanael West...... 3158 Wallace Stevens...... 2884 Edith Wharton...... 3164 Robert Stone...... 2894 Phillis Wheatley...... 3173 Harriet Beecher Stowe...... 2907 E.B. White...... 3179 Cheryl Strayed...... 2912 Walt Whitman...... 3186 William Styron...... 2918 John Greenleaf Whittier...... 3198 Glendon Swarthout...... 2925 John Edgar Wideman...... 3204 Amy Tan...... 2932 Elie Wiesel...... 3217 Newton Booth Tarkington...... 2939 Richard Wilbur...... 3223 Donna Tartt...... 2946 Laura Ingalls Wilder...... 3232 Hunter S. Thompson...... 2952 Thornton Wilder...... 3238 Henry David Thoreau...... 2958 John Edward Williams...... 3247 James Thurber...... 2967 Tennessee Williams...... 3257 John Kennedy Toole...... 2973 Terry Tempest Williams...... 3270 Jean Toomer...... 2978 William Carlos Williams...... 3279 Natasha Trethewey...... 2986 August Wilson...... 3291 Scott Turow...... 2996 Lanford Wilson...... 3300 Mark Twain...... 3004 Larry Woiwode...... 3310 Anne Tyler...... 3019 Thomas Wolfe...... 3321 John Updike...... 3028 Tom Wolfe...... 3331 Luis Miguel Valdez...... 3044 Tobias Wolff...... 3340 Mona Van Duyn...... 3051 Charles Wright...... 3346 Gore Vidal...... 3057 James Wright...... 3352 Helena María Viramontes...... 3068 Jay Wright...... 3358 Gerald Vizenor...... 3074 Richard Wright...... 3364 Kurt Vonnegut...... 3083 Richard Yates...... 3372 Alice Walker...... 3099 Paul Zindel...... 3377 Margaret Walker...... 3110 David Foster Wallace...... 3117 Appendixes Robert Penn Warren...... 3124 Glossary of Literary Terms...... 3387 Wendy Wasserstein...... 3133 Category List...... 3397 James Welch...... 3140 Eudora Welty...... 3147 Title Index...... 3405
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