American Authors and Literary Movements

American Authors and Literary Movements

Research and Presentation Project

So far, this is what I have for sign-ups. Don’t worry if some of our lit movements or authors repeat in the same period, we will be fine:

v  Col 1: Encounters and Foundations to 1800

o  Native American Voices:

Austin S. (p6), Grace (p7), Tiffany G. (p7), Tiffany N. (p7), Nicole V. (p3)

·  Joseph Bruchac

·  Huron Traditional

·  Teton Sioux Traditional

·  Nez Perce Traditional

·  Dekanawida

o  Puritans Voices:

·  Anne Bradstreet

·  Mary Rowlandson

·  Jonathan Edwards

·  Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

o  Revolutionary Voices

Chris D. (p6), Jacky (p6), Pedro (p6)

Jonathan A. (p3), Andrew P. (p6), Kenneth (p6)

·  Olaudah Equaino

·  Phillis Wheatley

·  Benjamin Franklin

·  Robert Fulghum--contemporary

·  Patrick Henry

·  Thomas Paine

·  Thomas Jefferson

·  Abigail Adams

·  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

·  Halimah Abdullah—Contemporary

v  Col 2: American Romanticism 1800-1860

Benita (p7), Annie C. (p7), Gaby (p3), Kevin T. (p4), Nicole Su (p3)

·  William Cullen Bryant

·  Washington Irving

·  James Fenimore Cooper

o  Fireside Poets:

Vivian (p4), Candice C. (p3), Yvonne (p6), Sabrina F. (p7)

·  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

·  John Greenleaf Whittier

·  Oliver Wendell Holmes

·  James Russell Lowell

o  Transcendentalists:

Simon (p6), Jonathan (p6), Yvonne Lin (p3), Shannon (p6), Katie (p7)

·  Ralph Waldo Emerson

·  Henry David Thoreau

o  Anti-Transcendentalists, Gothic or Dark Romantics

Shamieh (p6), Kendyll (p6), Austin (p6)

Paulina (p4), Sophie (p4), Brian (p4), Marshall (p4), Kenny (p4), Edison (p4) Cloe (p3)—Emily Dickinson

·  Nathaniel Hawthorne

·  Herman Melville

·  Edgar Allen Poe

·  Don Henly--contemporary

·  J. D. McClatchy--contemporary

v  Col 3: American Masters—Between Romanticism and Realism:

Charles Li (P3), Ty Morris (P3)

·  Walt Whitman

·  Louisa May Alcott

·  Emily Dickinson

·  Teresa Palomo Acosta--contemporary

·  Linda Pastan--contemporary

·  Gary Smith--contemporary

·  Pablo Neruda--contemporary

v  Col 4: The Rise of Realism 1860-1914:

o  Slave Narratives:

Matthew (p6), Aaron Y. (p3), Vincent (p3)

·  Frederick Douglass

·  Harriet A. Jacobs

·  Spirituals

·  Commonwealth and Freeman’s Record

o  Civil War Voices:

Vincent Tsang (p3), Aaron huang (p6)

William Liu (p4)--Lincoln

§  Ambrose Bierce

·  Stephen Crane

·  Robert E. Lee

·  Maj. Sullivan Ballou

·  Abraham Lincoln

·  Mary Chesnut

·  Ken Burns

·  Chief Joseph

o  Regionalism/Naturalism/Realism:

Bryce H. (p4)—Mark Twain

Areil C. (p6), Sabrina c (p3), Layla (p7), Sarah (p7)

Linda (p4)—Charles Chestnut, Jacqueline (7)—Kate Chopin, Jalen (p7)—Willa Cather

Jason au (p6)—Henry James, Tony (p4)—Jack London, Adrian (p7)—Edwin Arlington Robinson

·  Mark Twain

·  William Dean Howells

·  Frank Norris

·  Henry James

·  Stephen Jay Gould--contemporary

·  Jack London

·  Harriet Beecher Stowe

·  Brett Harte

·  Charles W. Chestnut

·  Beck Weathers--contemporary

·  Gabriela Mistral--contemporary

·  Kate Chopin

·  Sarah Orne Jewett

·  Pat Mora--contemporary

·  Willa Cather

·  Edwin Arlington Robinson

v  Col: 5 The Moderns 1914-1939

v  Col 5 Subcategory: Make it New! Poets:

Kelly (p4), Tiffany L. (p6), Karen (p7), Becky (p7), Claire (p7)

Claire (P7)—ee cummings, Kelly (P4), Tiffany L. (P6), Karen (P7)—T.S. Elliot, Beck (P7)--Archibald

Peggy (p4)—T.S. Elliot

·  Erza Pound --

·  T. S. Elliot—

·  William Carlos Williams

·  Marianne Moore

·  Archibald MacLeish

·  E. E. Cummings—

v  Col 5 Subcategory: Modern American Fiction:

Joy (p4), Rachel (p4), Kai (p4)

Demi (p6), Kate (p6), Deanna (p6), Caroline (p6), Michelle Chu (p7)

Natalie S. (p3), Frank (p3), Joey (p3) –including ee cummings, Hemingway and Fitzgerald

·  Ernest Hemingway

·  F. Scott Fitzgerald

·  William Faulkner

·  Horacio Quiroga

v  Col 5 Subcategory: Midcentury Voices:

Wilson (p4), chris (p4), Finnel (p3), Kensey (p3)

Stephanie (p6), Hana (p3), Kathleen (p3)

Annie Tu (p7), Michelle Cai (p7), Cindy (p7)

Bryant (P3)—Frost, Kelly (P3)--Thurber

·  John Steinbeck

·  Eudora Welty

·  Katherine Anne Porter

·  James Thurber

·  Robert Frost

·  Naomi Shihab Nye

·  Penelope Bryant Turk

·  Jeffrey Meyers

v  Col 5 Subcategory: The Harlem Renaissance:

Carolyn (p7), Leial (p3), Kathy (p3), Janel (p7)

Celene ((p4), Casey (p4), Winona (p6)

·  Countee Cullen

·  Langston Hughes

·  Lucille Clifton

·  Zora Neale Hurston

v  Col 6: Contemporary Literature 1939-present

Natalie Jin (p4), Stephanie (p4), Angela (p4), Emily (p4), Anna Ger (p7)

·  Randall Jarrel

·  Elie Wiesel—not American

·  John Hersey

·  Robert H. Jackson

·  Anne Frank—not American

·  John Whitehead

·  Margaret Bourke-White

v  Col 6 Subcategory: Contemporary NonFiction

Angela (p6) —Sandra Cisneros

·  Richard Wright

·  Maxine Hong Kingston

·  N. Scott Momaday

·  Alice Walker

·  James Baldwin

·  Toni Morrison

·  Sandra Cisneros

v  Col 6 Subcategory: Contemporary Poetry

Ashley (p6), Irene (p6), Ivy (p6), Justin (p6), Tori (p6)

Josephine (p3), Nyssa (p7), Adrienne (p4), Jasmine (p3)—Plath, Bishop, Brooks, Sexton

Chris L. (p4), Kyle (p4), Andrew De Los Santos ((p6), Brent (p3), Andy (p7)

Lexine (p4)—Patti Smith

·  Theodore Roethke

·  Richard Wilbur

·  Elizabeth Bishop

·  Sylvia Plath

·  Anne Sexton

·  Gwendolyn Brooks

·  Derek Walcott

·  Carolyn Forche

·  Claribel Alegria

·  Judith Ortiz Cofer

·  Rita Dove

·  Mark Doty

·  Li- Young Lee

·  Agha Shahid Ali

·  Billy Collins

v  Col 6 Subcategory: Contemporary Fiction

Tustin (p4), Chris Chiang (p7), Albert (p6), Ryan (p6)

Promise (p7)—Kathy Acker

Amber (p4)—Dave Pelzer, Melody—James Patterson(p4), Jeff L.—W.H. Auden (p4), Aleck L. (p7)—Tom Clancy

Shannon (p4)—Amy Tan, Maggie (p3)

Sean (p7)—J.D. Salinger

Daniel K. (p6)--Douglas Adams

Michael C. (p6), Michael Y. (p7), Jonathan Luu (p3)

Vivian (p7), Maggie (p7), Celine (p7), Sabina (p7)

·  Tim O’Brien

·  Donald Barthelme

·  W. H. Auden

·  Raymond Varver

·  Jay McInerney

·  Julia Alvarez

·  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

·  Amy Tan

·  Jhumpa Lahiri

·  Alvin S. Toffer

·  Edwidge Danticat