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 xi American_Lit_Volume_2_FM_p00i_xviii.indd 11 11/4/16 5:44 PM Critical Survey of American Literature 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