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  Agee, James
Arnow, Harriet
Ashbery, John
Baldwin, James
Barnes, Djuna
Barth, John
Bogan, Louise
Bowles, Jane
Bowles, Paul
Brautigan, Richard
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Bukowski, Charles
Cabell, James Branch
Cahan, Abraham
Cahill, Tim
Cain, James M.
Camp, Wadsworth
Capote, Truman
Cather, Willa
Chabon, Michael
Chandler, Raymond
Coover, Robert
Corso, Gregory
Cunningham, Michael
Dickey, James
Dillard, Annie
Di Prima, Diane
Dorn, Edward
Dos Passos, John
Douglas, Lloyd C.
Dreiser, Theodore
Eggers, Dave
Eliot, T. S.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Ellison, Ralph
Faulkner, William
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
  Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Forrest, Katherine V.
Ginsberg, Allen
Guest, Barbara
H. D.
Hall, Donald
Hammett, Dashiell
Harrison, Jim
Hawkes, John
Hellman, Lillian
Hemingway, Ernest
Hurston, Zora Neale
Inge, William
Irving, John
Jackson, Shirley
Johnson, James Weldon
Jones, James
Kaufman, Bob
Kerouac, Jack
Kesey, Ken
Koch, Kenneth
Lee, Harper
Lethem, Jonathan
Lewis, Sinclair
London, Jack
Lowell, Robert
Mailer, Norman
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mathews, Harry
McCarthy, Cormac
McCullers, Carson
Mencken, H. L.
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Moore, Christopher
Moore, Marianne
Morris, Willie
  Morrison, Toni
Nin, Anais
O'Connor, Flannery
O'Hara, Frank
O'Neill, Eugene
Oates, Joyce Carol
Parker, Dorothy
Parks, Gordon
Patchen, Kenneth
Percy, Walker
Plath, Sylvia
Pound, Ezra
Pynchon, Thomas
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Roth, Philip
Salinger, J. D.
Saroyan, William
Schuyler, James
Sinclair, Upton
Snyder, Gary
Southern, Terry
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stevens, Wallace
Thompson, Hunter S.
Updike, John
Vonnegut, Kurt
Walker, Alice
Welty, Eudora
Wharton, Edith
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William Carlos
Wister, Owen
Wolfe, Thomas
Wright, Richard


O. Henry Awards
Annual collection of the year's best stories published in American and Canadian magazines and written by American or Canadian authors.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Affiliated with PEN, the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers to honor their peers.

Outline of American Literature
By Kathryn VanSpanckeren, a historical account of American literature, including 20th Century prose and poetry. Published by the United States Information Agency.

National Book Awards
The awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature.

Elise Ehrhard
Feminist author. Brief information on her writings online and in print.

Lee Smith
Journalist and novelist. Includes sections on her childhood, career and awards.

American Fiction Prizes
Lists winners of the major American fiction prizes and, where available, the nominees.

A Princess in Berlin
Online text of Arthur R.G. Solmssen's 1982 novel plays in Berlin at the time of the murder of Walther Rathenau.

Davis, Alan
Editor of the New Rivers Press, co-editor of American Fiction, and coordinator of the MSUM MFA program. Includes biography, sample stories, links.


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