American Literature 1914-1945
NAAL -- Volume D -- Lists/Groups of Writers
Writers |
Genres |
Notes |
Black Elk & John G. Neihardt | Nonfiction Prose | Native American, "Translation" |
Edgar Lee Masters | Poetry | Traditional, Regional (Midwest, Chicago), Early Modernism |
Edwin Arlington Robinson | Poetry | Traditional, Regional (New England), Early Modernism |
Willa Cather | Fiction | Traditional, Regional (Midwest, Nebraska), Early Modernism |
Amy Lowell | Poetry | Modernism, Imagism |
Gertrude Stein | Prose (Nonfiction and Fiction) | Modernism, Experimental, Expatriate |
Robert Frost | Poetry | Traditional, Regional (New England), Early Modernism |
Susan Glaspell | Drama | Traditional, Regional (Midwest, Iowa), Early Modernism |
Sherwood Anderson | Fiction | Traditional, Regional (Midwest, Ohio), Early Modernism |
Carl Sanburg | Poetry | Regional (Midwest, Chicago), Early Modernism |
Wallace Stevens | Poetry | Modernism, New England and Florida |
Anzia Yezierska | Fiction | Polish-American Immigrant, NYC and California |
William Carlos Williams | Poetry | Modernism, Imagism, New England and New Jersey |
Ezra Pound | Poetry | High Modernism, Imagism, Intellectual, Expatriate |
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) | Poetry | High Modernism, Imagism, Expatriate |
Robinson Jeffers | Poetry | Modernism, California |
Marianne Moore | Poetry | Modernism, NYC |
Eugene O’Neill | Drama | Modernism, New England and NYC |
T.S. Eliot | Poetry, Prose | High Modernism, Intellectual, Expatriate, Became a British Citizen |
John Crowe Ransom | Poetry | Modernism, South, New Criticism |
Claude McKay | Poetry | Harlem Renaissance |
Katherine Anne Porter | Fiction | Southern, Mexico |
Zora Neale Hurston | Fiction, Nonfiction | Regional (South, Florida), Harlem Renaissance, NYC |
Nella Larsen | Novel | Harlem Renaissance, Overseas, Chicago, NYC |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry | Modernism, New England and NYC |
Dorothy Parker | Prose, Poetry | Intellectual Humor, NYC and California |
Genevieve Taggard | Poetry | Political, Feminism, New England, NYC, West Coast |
E.E. Cummings | Poetry | Modernism, Experimental, New England, NYC, Overseas |
Jean Toomer | Poetry, Fiction | Harlem Renaissance, South, Georgia, Washington D.C., Chicago |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Fiction | Traditional, Modernism, Regional (Midwest, Minnesota), Expatriate |
John Dos Passos | Prose, Fiction | Modernism, Multiple-Genre Writing, Portuguese-American |
William Faulkner | Fiction, Novel | Modernism, Regional (South) |
Louise Bogan | Poetry | Modernism, Boston, NYC |
Hart Crane | Poetry | Modernism, Ohio, NYC |
Ernest Hemingway | Fiction | Modernism, Expatriate, Paris, Spain, Africa, Midwest |
Thomas Wolfe | Prose, Fiction | Modernism, South, North Carolina, NYC |
Sterling A. Brown | Poetry | Harlem Renaissance, Washington D.C. |
Langston Hughes | Poetry | Harlem Renaissance, NYC |
John Steinbeck | Fiction | Regional (West, California), Social Reform |
Countee Cullen | Poetry | Harlem Renaissance, NYC |
D'Arcy McNickle | Fiction | Native American, Regional (West, Montana), NYC |
Richard Wright | Fiction | Harlem Renaissance, NYC, South, Chicago, Expatriate |
Carlos Bulosan | Fiction | Filipino-American (Asian-American) Immigrant, Regional (West, California) |
Muriel Rukeyser | Poet | Jewish, Political, Feminism, NYC |
Male Prose Writers |
Male Poets |
Female Prose Writers |
Female Poets |
Black Elk (J.G. Neihardt) Sherwood Anderson Eugene O'Neill (drama) T.S. Eliot F. Scott Fitzgerald John Dos Passos William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway Thomas Wolfe John Steinbeck D'Arcy McNickle Richard Wright Carlos Bulosan |
Edgar Lee Masters Edwin Arlington Robinson Robert Frost Carl Sandburg Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound Robinson Jeffers T.S. Eliot John Crowe Ransom Claude McKay E.E. Cummings Jean Toomer Hart Crane Sterling A. Brown Langston Hughes Countee Cullen |
Willa Cather Gertrude Stein Susan Glaspell (drama) Anzia Yezierska Katherine Anne Porter Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Dorothy Parker |
Amy Lowell H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Marianne Moore Edna St. Vincent Millay Dorothy Parker Genevieve Taggard Louise Bogan Muriel Rukeyser |
White Americans |
African (Black) Americans |
Native Americans |
Immigrant Americans |
Edgar
Lee Masters Edwin Arlington Robinson Willa Cather Amy Lowell Gertrude Stein Robert Frost Susan Glaspell Sherwood Anderson Carl Sandburg Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Robinson Jeffers Marianne Moore Eugene O'Neill T.S. Eliot John Crowe Ransom Katherine Anne Porter Edna St. Vincent Millay Dorothy Parker Genevieve Taggard E.E. Cummings F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Louise Bogan Hart Crane Ernest Hemingway Thomas Wolfe John Steinbeck Muriel Rukeyser |
Claude McKay Zora Neale Hurston Nella Larsen Jean Toomer Sterling A. Brown Langston Hughes Countee Cullen Richard Wright |
Black Elk D'Arcy McNickle |
Anzia Yezierska (Polish-Am.) John Dos Passos (Portuguese-Am.) Carlos Bulosan (Filiopino-Am.) |
More "Traditional" Poets:
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
"Imagist" Poets:
Amy Lowell
William Carlos Williams
Ezra Pound
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
e.e. cummings
Very "Experimental" Writers:
Gertrude Stein
Marianne Moore
e.e. cummings
John Dos Passos
"High" Modernism / Intellectuals:
Wallace Stevens (?)
William Carlos Williams (?)
Ezra Pound
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Robinson Jeffers (?)
Marianne Moore (?)
T.S. Eliot
Harlem Renaissance Writers:
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Richard Wright
Claude McKay
Jean Toomer
Sterling A. Brown
Langston Hughes
Countee Cullen
Female "Political" Poets:
Genevieve Taggard
Muriel Rukeyser
Artists, Writers, and Writing:
Willa Cather -- "The Sculptor's Funeral" (artist); "Neighbor Rosicky" (storyteller)
Robert Frost -- an essay on "The Figure a Poem Makes"
Ernest Hemingway -- a short story about a writer, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Ezra Pound -- a poem on Whitman
T. S. Eliot -- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and an essay on "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Marianne Moore -- a poem about poetry, "Poetry"
Wallace Stevens -- a poem about poetry