A. R. Ammons Sherwood Anderson William Apess John Ashbery James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Saul Bellow John Berryman Ambrose Bierce Elizabeth Bishop Black Elk William Bradford Anne Bradstreet William Cullen Bryant Raymond Carver Willa Cather Samuel de Champlain Charlot John Cheever The Cherokee Council Charles W. Chesnutt Kate Chopin Samuel L. Clemens Cochise Christopher Columbus James Fenimore Cooper Stephen Crane Robert Creeley J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur E. E. Cummings H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Emily Dickinson Frederick Douglass Rita Dove Theodore Dreiser W. E. B. Du Bois Jonathan Edwards T. S. Eliot Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Emerson Olaudah Equiano William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Benjamin Franklin Margaret Fuller Charlotte Perkins Gilman Allen Ginsberg Diane Glancy Angelina Weld Grimké Joy Harjo Michael S. Harper Thomas Harriot Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Hayden Ernest Hemingway Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston The Iroquois Washington Irving Harriet Jacobs Henry James Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers Thomas Jefferson Sarah Orne Jewett Maxine Hong Kingston Galway Kinnell Li-Young Lee Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov Abraham Lincoln Jack London Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Amy Lowell Robert Lowell Claude McKay Herman Melville James Merrill Edna St. Vincent Millay Marianne Moore Toni Morrison Flannery O'Connor Eugene O'Neill Samson Occom Charles Olson Simon J. Ortiz Thomas Paine Grace Paley The Pima Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Katherine Anne Porter Thomas Pynchon Adrienne Rich Edwin Arlington Robinson Theodore Roethke Mary Rowlandson Susanna Rowson Muriel Rukeyser Carl Sandburg Anne Sexton Leslie Marmon Silko John Smith Gary Snyder Wallace Stevens Harriet Beecher Stowe Edward Taylor Henry David Thoreau Jean Toomer John Updike Alice Walker Robert Penn Warren Booker T. Washington Eudora Welty Edith Wharton Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier Tennessee Williams William Carlos Williams John Winthrop