Ralph Waldo Emerson -- James T. Farrell -- William Faulkner -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Benjamin Franklin -- Harold Frederic -- Robert Frost -- Ellen Glasgow -- Caroline Gordon -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ernest Hemingway -- William Dean Howells -- Washington Irving -- Henry James -- William James -- Randall Jarrell -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ring Lardner -- Sinclair Lewis -- Jack London -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Amy Lowell -- Robert Lowell -- Mary McCarthy -- Carson McCullers
Summary
Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field