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Student Resources
Chronological Listing of Authors
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I. Section One (1820–1890)—Romanticism and Realism.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (1783-1859).
Young Goodman Brown, The Birth Mark, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1809-1864).
The Black Cat, The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville (1819-1891).
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910).
The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Bret Harte (1835-1902).
Europe, Henry James (1843-1916).
A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909).
The Passing of Grandison, Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932).
II. Section Two (1890#150;1920)—Maturation and Seasoning.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914).
The Storm, At the 'Cadian Ball, Kate Chopin (1851-1904).
The Revolt of 'Mother', Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930).
The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).
The Caballero's Way, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910).
The Other Two, Edith Wharton (1862-1937).
The Blue Hotel, Stephen Crane (1871-1900).
Paul's Case, Willa Cather (1873-1947).
To Build a Fire, Jack London (1876-1916).
Paper Pills, Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941).
A Jury of Her Peers, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948).
III. Section Three (1920#150;1940)—Modernist Voices.
The Use of Force, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963).
The Grave, Katherine Anne Porter (1896-1986).
The Gilded Six-Bits, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960).
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, James Thurber (1894-1961).
Babylon Revisited, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).
Barn Burning, William Faulkner (1897-1962).
Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).
The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck (1902-1968).
Thank You, Ma'm, Langston Hughes (1902-1967).
Big Boy Leaves Home, Richard Wright (1908-1960).
IV. Section Four (1940#150;1980)—Tradition and Innovation.
The Hitch-Hikers, Eudora Welty (1909-).
The Swimmer, John Cheever (1912-1982).
The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud (1914-1986).
Samuel, Grace Paley (1922-).
Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin (1924-1987).
Revelation, Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964).
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-).
The School, Donald Barthelme (1931-1989).
Cartoon, Robert Coover (1932-).
A & P, John Updike (1932-).
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates (1938-).
A Girl's Story, Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995).
V. Section Five (1980#150;present)—Contemporary Diversity.
Boxes, Raymond Carver (1938-1988).
Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason (1940-).
Nineteen Fifty-Five, Alice Walker (1944-).
Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolff (1945-).
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1946-).
Gryphon, Charles Baxter (1947-).
The Reach, Stephen King (1947-).
The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists, Lydia Davis (1947-).
De Rerum Natura, T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948).
Cheers, Jayne Anne Phillips (1952-).
Pet Fly, Walter Mosley (1952-).
Fleur, Louise Erdrich (1954-).
Cariboo Café, Helena María Viramontes (1954-).
Cíudad Juárez, Elizabeth Tallent (1954-).
Birthmates, Gish Jen (1956-).
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, Sherman Alexie (1966-).
This Blessed House, Jhumpa Lahiri (1967-).
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