Timeline

American Novel Timeline (1740 - 2001) (*English author)
Year	Event
1740 - 1765 1740 1755	Pre-Revolutionary Period Samuel Richardson, Pamela* (1st English language novel) Samuel Johnson, Dictionary*
1765 - 1790 1775 - 1783 1776 1789	Revolutionary Period Revolutionary War Jefferson, Declaration of Independence William Hill Brown, Power of Sympathy (1st American novel) U.S. Government established
1790 - 1830 1806 1811 1819 1820 1826	Federalist Period and English Romanticism Noah Webster, Dictionary of English Language Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility* Fort Snelling established Washington Irving, Sketch Book James Fennimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
1830 - 1865 1836-7 1843 1845 1850 1851 1852 1854 1855 1858 1859 1861 - 1865 1863	Romantic Period (and early Victorian Age in England) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, The American Scholar Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol* Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter Herman Melville, Moby Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Henry David Thoreau, Walden Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Minnesota statehood Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities* Charles Darwin, Origin of Species* American Civil War Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
1865 - 1890 1865 1867 1868 1870 1876 1880 1884	Reconstruction and Age of Realism Lewis Carroll, Adventures of Alice in Wonderland* Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Mark Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Louis May Alcott, Little Women Bret Harte, "Luck of Roaring Camp" Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus Mark Twain, Huck Finn
1890 - 1930 1890 1895 1899 1903 1906 1914 - 1918 1918 1920 1922 1925 1926 1928 1929	Age of Naturalism and American Fiction Golden Age Emily Dickinson, Poems Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage Kate Chopin, The Awakening Frank Norris, McTeague Jack London, The Call of the Wild Upton Sinclair, The Jungle World War I Willa Cather, My Antonia Sinclair Lewis, Main Street James Joyce, Ulysses* Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover* William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Stock Market Crash
1930 - 1962 1930 1936 1937 1939 1940 1941 - 1945 1946 1948 1951 1952 1955 1957	Modern Era or the Age of Disillusion William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again Richard Wright, Native Son World War II Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Jack Kerouac, On the Road
1963 - 2001 1963 Books of the 1960s Books of the 1970s Books of the 1980s Books of the 1990s	Contemporary or Post Modern Era Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Truman Capote, In Cold Blood Joseph Heller, Catch-22 John Updike, Rabbit Run Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Erika Jong, Fear of Flying Alex Haley, Roots Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow Toni Morrison, Beloved Clyde Edgerton, The Floatplane Notebooks Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove Alice Walker, The Color Purple David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars Louis de Bernieres, Corelli's Mandolin* Jon Hassler, North of Hope, Dear James, Rookery Blues Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain