Author Index

Author		Born	Died	Title	Pub.	Seq.
Adams	Henry	1838	1918	The Education of Henry Adams	1918	50
Adams	Samuel Hopkins	1871	1958	Grandfather Stories	1959	6
Agee	James	1909	1955	A Death in the Family	1957	165
Agee	James	1909	1955	"Rapid Transit"		199
Aiken	Conrad	1889	1973	"Cloister"	1931	114
Albee	Edward	1928	-	The Death of Bessie Smith	1960	218
Albee	Edward	1928	-	Seascape	1975	277
Alcott	Louisa May	1832	1888	Little Women	1869	47
Alger	Horatio	1834	1899	Ragged Dick	1867	38
Alger	Horatio	1834	1899	Mark, the Match Boy	1897	39
Anderson	Sherwood	1876	1941	Winesburg, Ohio	1919	78
Apple	Max			The Oranging of America and Other Stories	1976	264
Baldwin	James	1924	1987	"Sonny's Blues"	1941	191
Baldwin	James	1924	1987	"This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"	1961	226
Baldwin	James	1924	1987	"Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"	1968	190
Bambara	Toni Cade	1939	-	"The Lesson"	1972	244
Barth	John	1930	-	"Lost in the Funhouse"	1967	177
Bellamy	Edward	1850	1898	Looking Backward: 2000-1887	1887	63
Bellow	Saul	1915	-	"A Father-to-Be"	1955	234
Bellow	Saul	1915	-	"Leaving the Yellow House"	1957	211
Bishop	Elizabeth	1911	-	"The Man-Moth"	1948	193
Bissell	Richard	1913	1977	A Stretch on the River	1950	173
Bissell	Richard	1913	1977	High Water	1954	225
Blume	Judy	1938	-	Blubber	1974	279
Booth	Philip	1925	-	"Maine"	1960	217
Brautigan	Richard	1937	1986	"Greyhound Tragedy"	1971	160
Brautigan	Richard	1937	1986	"The World War I Los Angeles Airplane"	1971	258
Brock	Darryl			If I Never Get Back	1990	44
Brown	Sterling	1901	1989	Southern Road	1922	127
Brown	Sterling	1901	1989	"Southern Road"	1932	74
Brown	Larry	1951	-	"Boy and Dog"	1984	290
Bryant	William Cullen	1794	1878	Poems	1849	13
Butler	Octavia E.	1947	-	Clay's Ark	1984	287
Capote	Truman	1924	1984	Other Voices, Other Rooms	1948	182
Capote	Truman	1924	1984	"Children on Their Birthdays"	1948	183
Carver	Raymond	1939	1988	"Tell the Women We're Going"	1982	269
Carver	Raymond	1939	1988	"The Train"	1983	233
Carver	Raymond	1939	1988	"Errand"	1988	94
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	"Paul's Case"	1905	92
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	O Pioneers!	1913	79
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	My Mortal Enemy	1926	62
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	Death Comes for the Archbishop	1927	35
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	"Neighbor Rosicky"	1932	123
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	"The Old Beauty"	1936	133
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	"The Best Years"	1948	83
Cather	Willa	1876	1947	Collected Short Fiction	1892-	93
Cervantes	Lorna Dee	1954	-	Emplumada	1981	267
Chase	James Hadley	1906	1985	No Orchids for Miss Blandish	1961	214
Cheever	John	1912	1982	"The Country Husband"	1954	222
Cheever	John	1912	1982	"The Five-Forty-Eight"	1954	232
Cheever	John	1912	1982	"The Swimmer"	1964	253
Chesnutt	Charles	1858	1932	"The Passing of Grandison"	1899	31
Chopin	Kate	1851	1904	Short stories	1890-	75
Cisneros	Sandra			The House on Mango Street	1984	245
Clark	Mary Higgins	1931	-	A Cry in the Night	1982	295
Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	1835	1910	Life on the Mississippi	1883	33
Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	1835	1910	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	1885	10
Clemens	Samuel Langhorn	1835	1910	Short stories	1865-1916	45
Clemens &	Warner, C.D.			The Gilded Age	1874	43
Cólon	Jesús	1901	-	"Stowaway"	1961	106
Cooper	James Fenimore	1789	1831	The Prairie	1827	1
Cooper	Anna Julia	1858	1964	"Woman vs the Indian"	1892	72
Cooper	Susan Rogers			The Man in the Green Chevy	1988	296
Crane	Hart	1899	1932	"The Bridge"	1933	112
Crane	Stephen	1871	1900	Short works	1893-1900	77
Crews	Harry	1935	-	Car	1972	247
cummings	e. e.	1894	1962	100 Selected Poems	1959	118
Cushman	Dan			Stay Away, Joe	1953	220
Davis	Rebecca Harding	1831	1910	"Life in the Iron Mills"	1861	34
DeLillo	Don	1936	-	White Noise	1985	292
Dickey	James	1923	-	"Cherrylog Road"	1963	246
Dickinson	Emily	1830	1886	Complete Poems	1863-	36
Doctorow	E. L.	1931	-	Ragtime	1975	87
Doctorow	E. L.	1931	-	World's Fair	1985	168
Doctorow	E.L.	1931	-	Billy Bathgate	1989	152
Dorris, M. &	Erdrich, L.			The Crown of Columbus	1991	297
DosPassos	John	1896	1970	Manhattan Transfer	1925	108
Douglass	Frederick	1818	1895	Narrative of the Life…	1845	8
Dove	Rita	1952	-	Thomas and Beulah	1986	143
Dreiser	Theodore	1871	1945	Sister Carrie	1900	70
Dreiser	Theodore	1871	1945	An American Tragedy	1925	122
DuBois	W. E. B.	1868	1963	The Souls of Black Folk	1903	73
Dunbar-Nelson	Alice	1875	1935	"Mr. Baptiste"	1899	76
Dylan	Bob	1941	-	"Highway 61 Revisited"	1965	235
El-Shabazz	El-Hajj Malik	1925	1965	The Autobiography of Malcolm X	1965	172
Ellison	Ralph	1914	-	"King of the Bingo Game"	1944	192
Ellison	Ralph	1914	-	Invisible Man	1952	155
Erdrich	Louise	1954	-	Love Medicine	1984	238
Erdrich	Louise	1954	-	The Beet Queen	1986	186
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	"Red Leaves"	1930	16
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	As I Lay Dying	1930	125
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	Absalom! Absalom!	1936	7
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	"An Odor of Verbena"	1938	51
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	The Hamlet	1940	97
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	Go Down, Moses	1942	67
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	Two Soldiers	1942	174
Faulkner	William	1897	1962	The Reivers	1962	98
Ferlinghetti	Lawrence	1919	-	"In Goya's Greatest Scenes"	1958	227
Ferré	Rosario	1942	-	The Youngest Doll	1976	185
Fitzgerald	F. Scott	1896	1940	"The Ice Palace"	1920	100
Fitzgerald	F. Scott	1896	1940	The Great Gatsby	1925	119
Fitzgerald	F. Scott	1896	1940	The Last Tycoon	1941	167
Forché	Carolyn	1950	-	The Country Between Us	1981	268
Freeman	Mary E. Wilkins	1852	1930	"On the Walpole Road"	1884	64
Frost	Robert	1874	1963	Selected poems	1955	104
Fuller	Margaret	1810	1850	American Literature	1846	23
Gardner	Erle Stanley	1889	1970	The Case of the Curious Bride	1934	154
Garland	Hamlin	1860	1940	Main-Travelled Roads	1930	66
Glancy	Diane	1941	-	"Without Title"		285
Gregory	Horace	1898	-	"This is the Place to Wait"		188
Grey	Zane	1872	1939	The U. P. Trail	1918	42
Grey	Zane	1872	1939	The Desert of Wheat	1919	103
Griffith	Beatrice			"In the Flow of Time"	1948	175
Guthrie	Woody	1912	1967	Bound for Glory	1943	163
Hawkes	John	1925	-	Second Skin	1964	206
Hawthorne	Nathaniel	1804	1864	The House of the Seven Gables	1851	22
Hawthorne	Nathaniel	1804	1864	The Blithedale Romance	1852	24
Hawthorne	Nathaniel	1804	1864	Short stories	1837-50	17
Hayden	Robert	1913	-	"Middle Passage"	1966	3
Hemingway	Ernest	1899	1961	The Sun Also Rises	1926	132
Hemingway	Ernest	1899	1961	Short stories	1938	134
Hoban	Russell	1925	-	Riddley Walker	1980	278
Hogan	Linda	1947	-	"Making Do"	1986	284
Hollander	John	1929	-	"Helicon"	1962	242
Hopkins	Pauline	1859	1930	Contending Forces	1900	2
Howells	William Dean	1837	1920	The Rise of Silas Lapham	1885	58
Howells	William Dean	1837	1920	A Hazard of New Fortunes	1890	61
Hughes	Langston	1902	1967	"On the Road"	1952	139
Hughes	Langston	1902	1967	Selected Poems	1959	130
Hurston	Zora Neale	1891	1960	"Sweat"	1926	129
Hurston	Zora Neale	1891	1960	"The Way of a Man with a Train"	1927	128
Hurston	Zora Neale	1891	1960	"The Gilded Six-Bits"	1933	142
Hurston	Zora Neale	1891	1960	"John Henry" in Mules and Men	1935	68
Irving	Washington	1783	1859	Tales of the Alhambra	1832	11
Irving	John	1942	-	The World According to Garp	1978	271
Jackson	Shirley	1919	1965	Come Along with Me	1965	197
Jacobs	Harriet	1813	1897	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	1861	14
James	Henry	1843	1916	The American	1876	46
James	Henry	1843	1916	The Bostonians	1886	59
Jarrell	Randall	1914	1965	"Next Day"	1960	250
Jeffers	Robinson	1887	1962	"Roan Stallion"	1925	124
Jewett	Sarah Orne	1849	1909	"The Courting of Sister Wisby"	1894	71
Jones	LeRoy	1934	-	Black Magic: Collected Poetry	1961-67	243
Jong	Erica	1942	-	Fear of Flying	1974	239
Kennedy	William	1928	-	Ironweed	1983	158
Kerouac	Jack	1922	1969	On the Road	1957	203
King	Stephen	1947	-	Cujo	1981	276
King	Stephen	1947	-	Christine	1983	272
Kingston	Maxine Hong	1940	-	China Men	1980	41
Lardner	Ring	1885	1933	"Gullible's Travels"	1916	105
Larison	C. W.	1837	1910	Silvia Dubois, The Biografy of the Slav…	1883	4
Lensky	Lois			We Live by the River	1956	224
Lewis	Sinclair	1885	1951	Main Street	1920	101
Lewis	Sinclair	1885	1951	Babbitt	1922	120
Lewis	Sinclair	1885	1951	"Travel is So Broadening"	1928	121
London	Jack	1876	1916	Martin Eden	1909	88
London	Jack	1876	1916	"South of the Slot"	1909	91
Lowell	Robert	1917	1977	"For the Union Dead"	1960	228
Lowell	Amy	1874	1925	"The Taxi"		115
MacLeish	Archibald	1892	-	"Empire Builders"	1933	141
Maltz	Albert	1908	-	"Man on a Road"	1936	148
Marquand	John	1893	1960	The Late George Apley	1936	84
Marshall	Paule	1929	-	Praisesong for the Widow	1984	288
Mason	Bobbie Ann	1940	-	"Shiloh"	1982	275
Mason	Bobbie Ann	1940	-	Spence + Lila	1988	294
McCullers	Carson	1917	1967	The Member of the Wedding	1946	184
McCullers	Carson	1917	1967	Short stories	1954	150
McMurtry	Larry	1936	-	The Last Picture Show	1966	215
Melville	Herman	1819	1891	Moby-Dick	1850	28
Melville	Herman	1819	1891	The Confidence Man	1857	32
Melville	Herman	1819	1891	Short stories	1850s	29
Miller	Arthur	1915	-	Death of a Salesman	1949	202
Mooney	Ted	1951	-	Easy Travel to Other Planets	1980	291
Moore	Merrill	1903	1957	"Old Men and Old Women Going Home …"		181
Morrison	Toni	1931	-	"1920.htm"	1973	131
Morrison	Toni	1931	-	Jazz	1992	95
Mukherjee	Bharati	1940	-	"Orbiting"	1988	283
Munro	Alice	1931	-	"Miles City, Montana"	1986	236
Nabokov	Vladimir	1899	1977	"Signs and Symbols"	1948	198
Nabokov	Vladimir	1899	1977	Lolita	1955	204
Nabokov	Vladimir	1899	1977	Pnin	1964	221
Nemerov	Howard	1920	-	"Boom!"	1960	223
Norris	Frank	1870	1902	McTeague	1899	81
Norris	Frank	1870	1902	The Octopus	1901	82
Norris	Charles	1881	1945	Bread	1923	107
O'Connor	Flannery	1925	1964	Wise Blood	1952	207
O'Connor	Flannery	1925	1964	"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"	1955	212
O'Connor	Flannery	1925	1964	"A Good Man is Hard to Find"	1955	213
O'Connor	Flannery	1925	1964	"The Artificial Nigger"	1955	229
O'Connor	Flannery	1925	1964	"Everything that Rises Must Converge"	1965	254
Oates	Joyce Carol	1938	-	"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been"	1970	251
Oates	Joyce Carol	1938	-	"Stalking"	1972	265
Paley	Grace	1922	-	"Samuel"	1974	280
Payne	Emmy	1919	-	Katy No-Pocket	1944	195
Phillips	Jayne Anne	1952	-	Machine Dreams	1984	179
Phillips	Jayne Anne	1952	-	"Fast Lanes"	1987	274
Piper	Watty			The Little Engine That Could	1938	170
Pirsig	Robert M.	1928	-	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	1974	261
Plath	Sylvia	1932	1963	"Getting There"	1965	257
Poe	Edgar Allan	1809	1849	Short fiction	1832-49	19
Porter	Katherine Anne	1890	1980	"Old Mortality"	1936	102
Porter	Katherine Anne	1890	1980	Ship of Fools	1962	135
Pound	Ezra	1885	1972	"In a Station of the Metro"	1916	110
Prince	Mary			The History of Mary Prince…	1831	5
Reed	Ishmael	1938	-	"The Conjure Man"	1973	69
Reed	Ishmael	1938	-	The Last Days of Louisiana Red	1974	281
Reed	Ishmael	1938	-	Flight to Canada	1976	37
Rey	H. A.	1898	-	Curious George	1941	136
Ridge	John Rollin	1827	1867	"Atlantic Cable"	1868	48
Robbins	Tom			Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	1976	262
Robinson	Marilynne	1944	-	Housekeeping	1980	164
Roethke	Theodore	1908	1963	"Journey to the Interior"	1961	208
Roethke	Theodore	1908	1963	"All Morning"	1964	240
Roethke	Thoedore	1908	1963	"The Far Field"	1964	241
Rölvaag	O. E.	1876	1931	Giants in the Earth	1925	54
Rukeyser	Muriel	1913	1980	"Ceiling Unlimited"		189
Salinger	J. D.	1919	-	Catcher in the Rye	1951	200
Salinger	J. D.	1919	-	Nine Stories	1953	201
Sandburg	Carl	1878	1967	"Chicago" and other poems	1916	109
Saroyan	William	1908	1981	"Harry"	1941	159
Saroyan	William	1908	1981	Short Drive, Sweet Chariot	1966	237
Schwartz	Delmore	1913	1966	"In the Naked Bed, in Plato's Cave"	1938	153
Schwartz	Delmore	1913	1966	"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"	1948	90
Segal	Erich	1937	-	Love Story	1970	249
Selby	Hubert	1928	-	Last Exit to Brooklyn	1965	205
Serling	Robert			Stewardess	1982	255
Shapiro	Karl	1913	-	"Auto Wreck"	1942	176
Silko	Leslie Marmon	1948	-	Ceremony	1977	178
Sinclair	Upton	1878	1968	The Jungle	1906	86
Springsteen	Bruce	1949	-	Songs	1975-80s	282
Stafford	William	1914	-	"Traveling through the Dark"	1960	209
Stafford	William	1914	-	"West of the City"	1960	230
Stafford	William	1914	-	"The Trip"	1961	216
Steinbeck	John	1902	1968	"The Chrysanthemums"	1938	161
Steinbeck	John	1902	1968	The Grapes of Wrath	1939	162
Steinbeck	John	1902	1968	East of Eden	1952	85
Stewart	George R.	1895	-	Storm: A Novel	1941	169
Stowe	Harriet Beecher	1811	1896	Uncle Tom's Cabin	1852	15
Stratemeyer	Edward	1862	1930	Boys' and girls' books	1910-	111
Tate	Allen	1899	-	"The Subway"	1928	113
Taylor	Peter	1917	-	"What Do You Hear from 'em?"	1951	145
Thompson	Hunter	1939	-	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	1971	266
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	1849	12
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	"Resistance to Civil Government"	1849	18
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	Cape Cod	1852	25
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	Walden	1854	20
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	"Walking"	1862	26
Thoreau	Henry David	1817	1862	"Life Without Principle"	1863	27
Thorpe	Thomas Bangs	1815	1878	"The Big Bear of Arkansas"	1841	9
Thurber	James	1894	1961	"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"	1942	171
Thurber	James	1894	1961	The Thurber Carnival	1931-45	117
Tillman	Lynne			Motion Sickness	1991	286
Toomer	Jean	1894	1967	Cane	1923	116
Tyler	Anne	1941	-	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	1982	263
Updike	John	1932	-	Rabbit Redux	1971	252
Vonnegut	Kurt	1922	-	Hocus Pocus	1990	293
Warner	Gertrude Chandler			Caboose Mystery	1966	259
Warren	Robert Penn	1905	1989	All the King's Men	1946	149
Warren	Robert Penn	1905	1989	"Dragon Country: To Jacob Boehme"	1957	210
Washington	Booker T.	1856	1915	Up from Slavery	1901	52
Welty	Eudora	1909	-	"Death of a Traveling Salesman"	1941	146
Welty	Eudora	1909	-	"The Hitch-Hikers"	1941	147
Welty	Eudora	1909	-	Losing Battles	1970	144
West	Nathaniel	1903	1940	Miss Lonelyhearts	1933	151
West	Nathaniel	1903	1940	The Day of the Locust	1939	166
Wharton	Edith	1862	1937	"The Other Two"	1904	89
Wharton	Edith	1862	1937	Ethan Frome	1911	96
Wharton	Edith	1862	1937	Summer	1917	80
Wharton	Edith	1862	1937	The Age of Innocence	1920	60
White	E. B.	1899	1985	Stuart Little	1945	196
Whitman	Walt	1819	1892	Leaves of Grass	1856-	30
Wilbur	Richard	1921	-	"Grace"	1947	187
Wilder	Laura Ingalls	1867	1957	Little House in the Big Woods	1932	55
Wilder	Laura Ingalls	1867	1957	These Happy Golden Years	1932	56
Wilder	Laura Ingalls	1867	1957	The Long Winter	1940	57
Williams	William Carlos	1883	1963	"The Last Turn"	1944	194
Williams	Tennessee	1911	1983	A Streetcar Named Desire	1947	180
Williams	Joy	1944	-	"The Yard Boy"	1982	273
Wilson	August	1945	-	Fences	1986	219
Wilson	August	1945	-	Two Trains Running	1990	256
Wister	Owen	1860	1938	The Virginian	1902	53
Wolfe	Thomas	1900	1938	Look Homeward, Angel	1929	99
Wolfe	Thomas	1900	1938	"The Far and the Near"	1935	140
Wolfe	Thomas	1900	1938	"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn"	1935	156
Wolfe	Thomas	1900	1938	"The Return of the Prodigal…"	1941	126
Wolfe	Tom	1931	-	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Baby	1965	248
Wolfe	Tom	1931	-	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	1968	260
Wolfe	Tom	1931	-	The Bonfire of the Vanities	1988	289
Wolff	Tobias	1945	-	"Hunters in the Snow"	1981	270
Wong	Shawn Hsu	1949	-	"Each Year Grain"	1974	40
Wright	Richard	1908	1960	Native Son	1940	157
Wright	Richard	1908	1960	"The Man Who Was Almost a Man"	1941	137
Wright	Richard	1908	1960	The Long Dream	1958	231
Zitkala-Sa		1876	1938	The School Days of an Indian Girl	1900	65
Unknown				"Pat Works on the Railroad"	1844	21
Various				Ballads		49
Various				Blues songs		138

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