Great American Authors Since 1650

Featuring such greats as Poe ... Dickinson ... Twain ... Alcott ... Hemingway ... Wolfe ... Steinbeck ... Vonnegut and Morrison, this eight part series presents the lives and literary output of over 60 of America's most read authors.

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1650 - 1845 1650 - Anne Bradstreet, America's First Poet 1702 - Cotton Mather Publishes The Ecclesiastical History of New England 1773 - Phillis Wheatley becomes America's First Black Woman Poet 1819 - Washington Irving Publishes Rip Van Winkle 1826 - James Fenimore Cooper Publishes Last of the Mohicans 1836 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Initiates American Transcendentalism with Nature 1845 - Edgar Allan Poe Publishes The Raven	GAA-001	$27.50/yr
1846 - 1855 1849 - Henry David Thoreau originates America's Proud History of Civil Disobedience 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Writes The Scarlet Letter 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is Published 1852 - Emily Dickinson Publishes First Poem 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe Writes Uncle Tom's Cabin 1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom 1855 - Walt Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 1855 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Writes The Song of Hiawatha	GAA-002	$27.50/yr
1856 - 1906 1868 - Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women 1878 - Henry James Writes Daisy Miller 1885 - Mark Twain Publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1906 - Upton Sinclair's Novel The Jungle is Published 1906 - The Whole Country Speaks - Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London	GAA-003	$27.50/yr
1907 - 1925 1913 - Poet William Carlos Williams Publishes His First Book of Poems, The Tempers 1914 - Carl Sandburg Publishes his Poem Chicago 1920 - Edith Wharton Wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence 1922 - The Innovators; e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller 1923 - Robert Frost Publishes Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald Writes The Great Gatsby	GAA-004	$27.50/yr
1926 - 1939 1929 - Thomas Wolfe Writes Look Homeward Angel 1929 - William Faulkner Showcases the South with The Sound and the Fury 1930 - Sinclair Lewis Becomes the First American to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature 1931 - Pearl Buck Writes The Good Earth 1936 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1939 - Steinbeck Writes The Grapes of Wrath	GAA-005	$27.50/yr
1940- 1949 1940 - Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is Published 1941 - James Thurber Writes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 1947 - 1953 - Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov Usher in the Era of Popular Science Ficti 1948 - Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire 1949 - Arthur Miller Produced Death of a Salesman	GAA-006	$27.50/yr
1950 -1957 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks Wins the Pulitzer Prize 1951 - Salinger and Plath Set the Stage for the Baby Boomer Generation 1952 - Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin Speak for the American Black Male 1957 - Jack Kerouac Begins the Beat Generation in American Literature 1957 - Dr Seuss Writes The Cat in the Hat	GAA-007	$27.50/yr
1958 - Present 1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced 1961 - Joseph Heller Writes Catch - 22 1966 - Truman Capote Writes In Cold Blood 1969 - Kurt Vonnegut Writes Slaughterhouse Five 1982 - John Updike's Rabbit is Rich Wins Pulitzer Prize for Literature 1989 - Asian American Amy Tan Publishes The Joy Luck Club 1993 - Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and August Wilson Redefine the Black Experience 2007 - Cormac McCarthy Wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Road	GAA-008	$27.50/yr

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Great American Authors Since 1650