Sherwood Anderson | 1876 | 1941 | Winesburg, Ohio |
Djuna Barnes | 1892 | 1982 | Ladies Almanack, Nightwood |
John Peale Bishop | 1892 | 1944 | “The Hours” |
James Boyd | 1888 | 1944 | Drums |
Thomas Boyd | 1898 | 1935 | Through the Wheat |
Kay Boyle | 1902 | 1992 | Being Geniuses Together, Process |
Louis Bromfield | 1896 | 1956 | Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady, The Rains Came |
Rupert Brooke | 1887 | 1915 | “The Soldier” |
Van Wyck Brooks | 1886 | 1963 | “Finders and Makers” series |
William Slater Brown | 1896 | 1997 | The Burning Wheel, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys |
Kenneth Burke | 1897 | 1993 | A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives |
Morley Callaghan | 1903 | 1990 | Strange Fugitive, That Summer in Paris |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894 | 1961 | Journey to the End of the Night |
Robert Coates | 1897 | 1973 | The Eater of Darkness, The Outlaw Years |
Malcolm Cowley | 1898 | 1989 | Blue Juniata, Exile’s Return |
Hart Crane | 1899 | 1932 | The Bridge |
E. E. Cummings | 1894 | 1962 | The Enormous Room, Tulips and Chimneys |
John Dos Passos | 1896 | 1970 | Manhattan Transfer, U.S.A trilogy |
T. S. Eliot | 1888 | 1965 | “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land” |
William Faulkner | 1897 | 1962 | The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying |
Edna Ferber | 1885 | 1968 | Show Boat, So Big |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896 | 1940 | The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night |
Zelda Fitzgerald | 1900 | 1948 | Save Me the Waltz |
Janet Flanner | 1892 | 1978 | An American in Paris: Profile of an Interlude Between Two Wars |
Ford Madox Ford | 1873 | 1939 | The Good Soldier, Parade’s End |
Virgil Geddes | 1897 | 1989 | The Earth Between, Native Ground |
Ramon Guthrie | 1896 | 1973 | Maximum Security Ward |
Dashiell Hammett | 1894 | 1961 | The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man |
Ernest Hemingway | 1899 | 1961 | The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Josephine Herbst | 1892 | 1969 | Pity Is Not Enough |
Aldous Huxley | 1894 | 1963 | Brave New World, Island, The Doors of Perception |
Eugene Jolas | 1894 | 1952 | transition |
Matthew Josephson | 1899 | 1978 | The Robber Barons, Life Among the Surrealists |
James Joyce | 1882 | 1941 | Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses |
Ring Lardner | 1885 | 1933 | You Know Me Al |
Sinclair Lewis | 1885 | 1951 | Main Street, Babbitt |
Archibald MacLeish | 1892 | 1982 | Elpenor, Panic, The Fall of the City |
H.L. Mencken | 1880 | 1956 | The American Language, Prejudices |
Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1892 | 1950 | “Renascense,” “First Fig,” “Dirge without Music” |
Henry Miller | 1891 | 1980 | Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring |
George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | Animal Farm, 1984 |
Wilfred Owen | 1893 | 1918 | “Dulce et Decorum est,” “Anthem for Doomed Youth” |
Dorothy Parker | 1893 | 1967 | A Star Is Born, Big Blonde |
Ezra Pound | 1885 | 1972 | Ripostes, “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” “The Cantos” |
Erich Maria Remarque | 1898 | 1970 | All Quiet on the Western Front |
Isaac Rosenberg | 1890 | 1918 | Poems from the Trenches |
Alan Seeger | 1888 | 1916 | “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” |
Gilbert Seldes | 1893 | 1970 | The Stammering Century |
Olaf Stapledon | 1886 | 1950 | Star Maker, Last and First Men, Odd John |
Gertrude Stein | 1874 | 1946 | The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
John Steinbeck | 1902 | 1968 | Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden |
Harold Edmund Stearns | 1891 | 1943 | Confessions of a Harvard Man |
Donald Ogden Stewart | 1894 | 1980 | Perfect Behavior, A Parody Outline of History |
Edward Thomas | 1878 | 1917 | “The Sign-Post” |
Carl Van Vechten | 1880 | 1964 | Peter Whiffle, Nigger Heaven |
Glenway Wescott | 1901 | 1987 | The Pilgrim Hawk, Apartment in Athens |
Thornton Wilder | 1897 | 1975 | The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town |
Edmund Wilson | 1895 | 1972 | Axel’s Castle, To the Finland Station, Patriotic Gore |
Thomas Wolfe | 1900 | 1938 | Look Homeward, Angel |
Virginia Woolf | 1882 | 1941 | To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own |
John Allan Wyeth | 1894 | 1981 | On To Paris |