Portal:American literature

American poetry

 * For a more extensive listing see Category:American poetry.


 * "Thanatopsis", by William Cullen Bryant (1811)
 * "Defence of Fort McHenry" ("Star-Spangled Banner"), by Francis Scott Key (1814)
 * "To a Waterfowl", by William Cullen Bryant (1818)
 * "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
 * The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
 * "Bury Me in a Free Land", by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1858)
 * "Paul Revere's Ride", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "O Captain! My Captain!", by Walt Whitman (1865)
 * "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl", by John Greenleaf Whittier (1866)
 * Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (1882)
 * "Because I could not stop for Death—", by Emily Dickinson (1890)
 * "We Wear the Mask", by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
 * "When de Co'n Pone's Hot", by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1896)
 * "The House of Falling Leaves", by William Stanley Braithwaite (1908)
 * "Fog", by Carl Sandburg (1916)
 * "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost (1922)
 * The Man Who Died Twice, by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1924)

American novels

 * For a more extensive listing see Category:American novels.


 * The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper (1826)
 * Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1840)
 * The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
 * The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
 * Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville (1851)
 * Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1851)
 * Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
 * The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain (1882)
 * Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884)
 * Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (1891)
 * The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane (1895)
 * The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (1903)
 * The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (1906)
 * White Fang, by Jack London (1906)
 * Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton (1911)
 * Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey (1912)
 * Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
 * Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter (1913)
 * A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1917)
 * My Ántonia, by Willa Cather (1918)
 * The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton (1920)
 * Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
 * Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (1925)
 * The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
 * The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
 * The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (1927)
 * Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather (1927)

American short stories



 * "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", by Washington Irving (1819)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "Rip Van Winkle", by Washington Irving (1819)
 * "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe (1839)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Pit and the Pendulum", by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Tell-Tale Heart", by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "Rappaccini's Daughter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844)
 * "Bartleby the Scrivener", by Herman Melville (1856)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Man without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale (1863)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain (1865)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Idyl of Red Gulch", by Bret Harte (1870)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Luck of Roaring Camp", by Bret Harte (1870)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Outcasts of Poker Flat", by Bret Harte (1870)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Yellow Wall Paper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1901)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Gift of the Magi", by O. Henry (1906)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "The Ransom of Red Chief", by O. Henry (1907)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "To build a Fire", by Jack London (1910)
 * "Beyond Lies the Wub", by Philip K. Dick (1952)

American journals and autobiographies

 * The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass (1845)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington (1901)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams (1918)

American essays

 * Common Sense, by Thomas Paine (1776)
 * Nature, collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)
 * Walden, or, Life in the Woods, by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] The Souls of Black Folk, collection of essays by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

American orations

 * See also Portal:Speeches by United States Presidents and Category:American speeches.


 * "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", by Jonathan Edwards (1741)
 * "Resistance to Civil Government", by Henry David Thoreau (1849)
 * "Ain't I a Woman?", by Sojourner Truth (1851)
 * "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", by Frederick Douglass (1852)
 * "Gettysburg Address", by Abraham Lincoln (1863)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "Atlanta Compromise", by Booker T. Washington (1895)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "Pearl Harbor speech", by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] "We choose to go to the moon", by John F. Kennedy (1962)

American dramatic works

 * The Prince of Parthia, by Thomas Godfrey (1765)
 * André, by William Dunlap (1798)
 * Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly (1867)
 * Madame Butterfly, by David Belasco and John Luther Long (1900)
 * Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O'Neill (1918)
 * A Star is Born (1937), by Dorothy Parker, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, and Alan Campbell

Other American works

 * The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan (1678)
 * The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain (1869)
 * [[Image:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] Ten Days in a Mad-House, by Nellie Bly (1887)
 * How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis (1890)
 * The Fun of It, by Amelia Earhart (1932)

Collections of American literature

 * The Poets and Poetry of America, edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1842)
 * The Female Prose Writers of America, edited by John Seely Hart (1852)
 * The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson (1922)
 * Representative American Plays, edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1922)

Individual authors

 * For a more extensive listing see Category:United States authors.

Colonial period (17th & 18th centuries)



 * William Bradford
 * Anne Bradstreet
 * Charles Brockden Brown
 * John Bunyan
 * William Dunlap
 * Jonathan Edwards
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Thomas Paine
 * William Penn
 * John Trumbull
 * Phillis Wheatley
 * John Woolman

19th century



 * Louisa May Alcott
 * William Cullen Bryant
 * Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
 * Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (Nellie Bly)
 * James Fenimore Cooper
 * Stephen Crane
 * Augustin Daly
 * Emily Dickinson
 * Frederick Douglass
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
 * Francis Bret Harte
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Julia Ward Howe
 * Washington Irving
 * Henry James
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * James Russell Lowell
 * Herman Melville
 * John Neal
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Walt Whitman
 * John Greenleaf Whittier

1900 to 1960



 * Earl Derr Biggers
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * Dorothy Canfield Fisher
 * Willa Cather
 * e. e. cummings
 * Philip K. Dick
 * John Dos Passos
 * Theodore Dreiser
 * W.E.B. Du Bois
 * William Faulkner
 * Edna Ferber
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * Robert Frost
 * Zona Gale
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 * Zane Grey
 * Dashiell Hammett
 * Ernest Hemingway
 * Langston Hughes
 * Zora Neale Hurston
 * Sinclair Lewis
 * Jack London
 * H. P. Lovecraft
 * Amy Lowell
 * Claude McKay
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay
 * Andre Norton
 * Eugene O'Neill
 * Dorothy Parker
 * William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)
 * Ezra Pound
 * Edwin Arlington Robinson
 * Carl Sandburg
 * Upton Sinclair
 * Gertrude Stein
 * Booth Tarkington
 * Sara Teasdale
 * Booker T. Washington
 * Edith Wharton
 * Thornton Wilder

Books

 * A History of the American Theatre (1832) by William Dunlap
 * The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917)
 * Our Poets of Today (1918) by Howard Willard Cook
 * The American Novel (1921/1940) by Carl Clinton Van Doren (1940 version)
 * Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920 (1922) by Carl Clinton Van Doren
 * Americans (1922) by Stuart Pratt Sherman
 * Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) by D. H. Lawrence

Articles and Chapters

 * "American Literature" in America To-Day, Observations and Reflections (1900) by William Archer
 * "Supernatural Horror in Literature", by H. P. Lovecraft (1927)

Encyclopedic articles

 * "Literature of the United States" in The American Cyclopædia (1879) by C. S. Weyman and Robert Carter

Literary magazines

 * The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science (1845-1849)
 * Publishers Weekly (1872-)

Child portals

 * United States Poets Laureate
 * Pulitzers
 * Harlem Renaissance
 * The Charles Henry Gauss Family Papers

Parent portals

 * Portal:English language
 * Portal:English literature

Related portals

 * Portal:United States - for works created by or written about the United States government or its agencies.