American Literature 1945-Present
NAAL -- Volume E -- Lists/Groups of Writers
Prose Writers:
|
Writers |
Notes |
| Eudora Welty | Southern |
| Tennessee Williams | Southern, Drama |
| John Cheever | New York, Suburbia |
| Bernard Malamud | Jewish, New York |
| Ralph Ellison | African American, New York |
| Saul Bellow | Jewish, Chicago |
| Arthur Miller | Jewish, Drama |
| Grace Paley | Jewish, Experimental |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Nonfiction, Experimental |
| James Baldwin | African American |
| Flannery O’Connor | Southern, Catholic |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Experimental, Fantasy, Science Fiction |
| Paule Marshall | African American |
| Donald Barthelme | Experimental |
| Toni Morrison | African American. Nobel Prize Winner |
| John Updike | New York, Suburbia |
| Philip Roth | Jewish |
| Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) | African American, Drama |
| N. Scott Momaday | Native American |
| Gerald Vizenor | Native American, MN Connection |
| Stephen Dixon | Experimental, Minimalism |
| Rudolfo A. Anaya | Latino |
| Thomas Pynchon | Experimental, Fantasy, Science Fiction |
| Raymond Carver | Experimental, Minimalism, Suburbia, Blue-Collar Workers |
| Ishmael Reed | African American |
| Toni Cade Bambara | African American, Experimental |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Asian American |
| Diane Glancy | Native American, MN Connection |
| Gloria Anzaldua | Latina |
| Barry Hannah | Southern, Experimental |
| Alice Walker | African American, Southern |
| Annie Dillard | Nonfiction |
| Ann Beattie | New York, Suburbia, Experimental |
| David Mamet | Drama |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Native American |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | Latina, Nonfiction |
| Sandra Cisneros | Latina |
| Louise Erdrich | Native American, MN Connection |
| Richard Powers | Experimental |
| Suzan-Lori Parks | African American, Drama |
Poets:
| Writers | Notes |
| Stanley Kunitz | Jewish, Nature, Poet Laureate |
| Lorine Niedecker | Nature, Landscape |
| Robert Penn Warren | Southern, Nature, Landscape, Poet Laureate |
| George Oppen | Experimental |
| Theodore Roethke | Autobiographical, Confessional, Nature, Landscape |
| Charles Olson | Black Mountain School, “Projective Verse” |
| Elizabeth Bishop | Autobiographical, Confessional, Feminism, Nature, Landscape |
| Robert Hayden | African American |
| Randall Jarrell | World War II |
| John Berryman | Autobiographical, Confessional, MN Connection |
| Robert Lowell | Autobiographical, Confessional, Protest, Political |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | African American, Chicago, Protest, Political |
| Robert Duncan | Black Mountain School, Experimental |
| Richard Wilbur | Nature, Landscape, Poet Laureate |
| James Dickey | Southern, World War II, Experimental |
| Denise Levertov | Autobiographical, Confessional, “Projective Verse,” Protest, Political, Black Mountain School |
| A. R. Ammons | Nature, Landscape |
| James Merrill | Autobiographical, Confessional, Nature, Landscape |
| Robert Creeley | Black Mountain School, Experimental |
| Allen Ginsburg | Jewish, Beat Generation, Autobiographical, Confessional, Protest, Political |
| Frank O’Hara | New York School |
| Galway Kinnell | Nature, Political |
| John Ashbery | New York School |
| W. S. Merwin | Autobiographical |
| James Wright | MN Connection, Nature, Landscape, Deep Image |
| Philip Levine | Jewish |
| Anne Sexton | Autobiographical, Confessional |
| Adrienne Rich | Jewish, Feminism, Autobiographical, Confessional, Protest, Political |
| Gary Snyder | Beat Generation, San Francisco Renaissance, Nature, Landscape |
| Sylvia Plath | Autobiographical, Confessional, Feminism |
| Audre Lorde | African American, Feminism |
| Charles Wright | Autobiographical, Landscape, Music |
| Mary Oliver | Nature, Landscape |
| Charles Simic | Autobiographical, Confessional |
| Michael S. Harper | African American, Jazz Poetry |
| Robert Pinsky | Jewish, Poet Laureate |
| Simon J. Ortiz | Native American |
| Billy Collins | New York, Poet Laureate |
| Louise Gluck | Autobiography, Experimental |
| Jorie Graham | Feminism |
| Joy Harjo | Native American, Feminism |
| Rita Dove | African American, Feminism, Poet Laureate |
| Alberto Rios | Latino |
| Lorna Dee Cervantes | Latina |
| Cathy Song | Asian American |
| Li-Young Lee | Asian American |
Drama (Prose):
Multi-Genre Writing:
Science Fiction / Fantasy (Prose):
"Something Very Unusual is Going On Here":
Literary Friendships:
Paying Homage:
New Yorkers (Prose):
Southerners (Prose):
Jewish (Prose):
Autobiographical/Confessional Poetry:
Beat Generation Poetry:
Black Mountain School Poetry:
New York School Poetry:
WWII Poets:
U.S. Poet Laureates:
Minnesota Connections:
African Americans:
Native Americans:
Chicanos/as and Latinos/as:
Asian Americans: