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The Heath Anthology of American Literature
, Fifth Edition
Paul Lauter, General Editor
Authors Listed by Year
Don Diego de Vargas
(? - 1704)
Thomas Tillam
(? - 1676?)
Christopher Columbus
(1451 - 1506)
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
(1490? - 1556?)
Fray Marcos de Niza
(1495? - 1542)
Pedro de Casteñeda
(1510? - 1570?)
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
(1519 - 1574)
Native American Oral Poetry
(1555 - 1620)
Thomas Harriot
(1560 - 1621)
Edward Maria Wingfield
(1560? - 1613?)
René Goulaine de Laudonnière
(1582)
Samuel de Champlain
(1570? - 1635)
Thomas Morton
(1579? - 1647?)
John Smith
(1580 - 1631)
John Wilson
(1588? - 1667)
John Winthrop
(1588 - 1649)
William Bradford
(1590 - 1657)
Native American Oral Narrative
(c.1600 - c.1700)
Roger Williams
(1603? - 1683)
Thomas Shepard
(1605 - 1649)
John Josselyn
(1610? - 1692?)
Anne Bradstreet
(1612? - 1672)
Richard Frethorne
(1626 - 1710)
Michael Wigglesworth
(1631 - 1705)
The Jesuit Relations
(1673)
George Alsop
(1636? - 1673?)
Mary White Rowlandson
(1637? - 1711)
James Revel
(1641 - 1681)
Edward Taylor
(1642? - 1729)
Benjamin Tompson
(1642 - 1714)
Richard Steere
(1643? - 1721)
Nathaniel Bacon
(1647 - 1676)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
(1648 - 1695)
Anna Tompson Hayden
(1648 - 1720)
History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531
(1652 - 1730)
Elizabeth Sowle Bradford
(1663? - 1731)
Cotton Mather
(1663 - 1728)
John Williams
(1664 - 1729)
Roger Wolcott
(1679 - 1767)
Don Antonio de Otermín
(1687? - )
The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi)
(1666 - 1715)
Sarah Kemble Knight
(1666 - 1727)
Ebenezer Cook
(1667 - 1733)
William Byrd II
(1674 - 1744)
Susanna Wright
(1697 - 1784)
Richard Lewis
(1700? - 1734)
Jonathan Edwards
(1703 - 1758)
William Dawson
(1704 - 1752)
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
Jane Colman Turell
(1708 - 1735)
Jupiter Hammon
(1711 - 1806?)
Elizabeth Ashbridge
(1713 - 1755)
John Woolman
(1720 - 1772)
James Grainger
(1721? - 1766)
Samson Occom (Mohegan)
(1723 - 1792)
Francisco Palou
(1723 - 1789)
Mercy Otis Warren
(1728 - 1814)
Lucy Terry
(1730 - 1821)
John Adams
(1735 - 1826)
Prince Hall
(1735? - 1807)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
(1735 - 1813)
Thomas Godfrey
(1736 - 1763)
Poems Published Anonymously
(1736 - 1801)
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
(1737 - 1801)
Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809)
Milcah Martha Moore
(1740 - 1829)
Nathaniel Evans
(1742 - 1767)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
Abigail Adams
(1744 - 1818)
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Contentions
(1744? - 1803)
Olaudah Equiano
(1745? - 1797)
Judith Sargent Murray
(1751 - 1820)
Ann Eliza Bleecker
(1752 - 1783)
Timothy Dwight
(1752 - 1817)
Philip Freneau
(1752 - 1832)
Lemuel Haynes
(1753 - 1833)
Phillis Wheatley
(1753 - 1784)
Joel Barlow
(1754 - 1812)
Anna Young Smith
(1756 - 1780)
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican)
(1757 - 1830)
Royall Tyler
(1757 - 1826)
Hannah Webster Foster
(1758 - 1840)
Sarah Wentworth Morton
(1759 - 1846)
Briton Hammon
(1762 - 1824)
"Patriot" Voices
(1771 - 1810)
Margaretta Bleecker Faugères
(1771 - 1801)
"Loyalist" Voices
(1770? - 1823?)
Songs of the Slaves
(1783 - 1859)
David Walker
(1785 - 1830)
Davy Crockett
(1786 - 1836)
Seattle (Duwamish)
(1789 - 1851)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
(1789 - 1867)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
(1790 - 1870)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
(1791 - 1865)
Sarah Moore Grimké
(1792 - 1873)
William Cullen Bryant
(1794 - 1878)
John Wannuaucon Quinney (Mahican)
(1797 - 1855)
Sojourner Truth
(1797? - 1883)
William Apess (Pequot)
(1798 - )
Caroline Lee Hentz
(1800 - 1856)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa)
(1800 - 1841)
Caroline Kirkland
(1801 - 1864)
Pio Pico
(1801 - 1894)
Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)
(1802? - 1839)
Lydia Maria Child
(1802 - 1880)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
George Fitzhugh
(1804 - 1881)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804 - 1864)
William Lloyd Garrison
(1805 - 1879)
Angelina Grimké
(1805 - 1879)
Josiah Gregg
(1806 - 1850)
Alfred Robinson
(1806 - 1895)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807 - 1892)
Vallejo (1808 - 1890)
Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865)
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809 - 1849)
Sarah Margaret Fuller
(1810 - 1850)
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)
(1811 - 1872)
Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
(1811 - 1850)
Wendell Phillips
(1811 - 1884)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811 - 1896)
Harriet Ann Jacobs
(1813 - 1897)
George Washington Harris
(1814 - 1869)
William Wells Brown
(1815 - 1884)
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
(1815 - 1882)
Henry Highland Garnet
(1815 - 1882)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(1815 - 1902)
Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862)
George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh; Ojibwa)
(1818 - 1869)
Frederick Douglass
(1818 - 1895)
Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)
Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)
Alice Cary
(1820 - 1871)
Frederick Law Olmstead
(1822 - 1903)
Mary Boykin Chesnut
(1823 - 1886)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823 - 1911)
Elizabeth Stoddard
(1823 - 1902)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
(1825 - 1911)
John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee)
(1827 - 1867)
Harriet E. Wilson
(1827? - 1863?)
Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886)
Rebecca Harding Davis
(1831 - 1910)
Julia A. J. Foote
(1823 - 1900)
Standing Bear (Machunazha) (Ponca)
(1829 - 1908)
Louisa May Alcott
(1832 - 1888)
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
(1832 - 1895)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
(1835 - 1910)
Adah Menken
(1835? - 1868)
Harriet Prescott Spofford
(1835 - 1921)
Celia Thaxter
(1835 - 1894)
Marietta Holley (pseud. "Josiah Allen's Wife")
(1836 - 1926)
Sarah M. B. Piatt
(1836 - 1894)
William Dean Howells
(1837 - 1920)
Henry Adams
(1838 - 1918)
Constance Fenimore Woolson
(1840 - 1894)
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914?)
Henry James
(1843 - 1916)
George Washington Cable
(1844 - 1925)
Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony)
(1844? - 1891)
Joel Chandler Harris
(1848 - 1908)
Sarah Orne Jewett
(1849 - 1909)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1850 - 1919)
Kate Chopin
(1851 - 1904)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
(1852 - 1930)
Grace King
(1852 - 1932)
José Martí
(1853 - 1895)
Lizette Woodworth Reese
(1856 - 1935)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
(1858 - 1932)
Anna Julia Cooper
(1858? - 1964)
Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux)
(1858 - 1939)
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
(1859 - 1930)
Abraham Cahan
(1860 - 1951)
Hamlin Garland
(1860 - 1940)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860 - 1935)
Louise Imogen Guiney
(1861 - 1920)
Sophie Jewett
(1861 - 1909)
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
(1861 - 1913)
Elaine Goodale Eastman
(1863 - 1953)
African American Folktales
(1865 - 1914)
Finley Peter Dunne
(1867 - 1936)
Mary Austin
(1868 - 1934)
Stephen Crane
(1871 - 1900)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(1872 - 1906)
Alexander Lawrence Posey
(1873 - 1908)
John Milton Oskison
(1874 - 1947)
Corridos
(1875 - 1935)
Ghost Dance Songs
(1876 - 1938)
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
(1876 - 1959)
Jack London
(1876 - 1916)
Upton Sinclair
(1878 - 1968)
Mary Antin
(1881 - 1949)
Booker Taliaferro Washington
(1856 - 1915)
Edith Wharton
(1862 - 1937)
W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868 - 1963)
Edgar Lee Masters
(1869 - 1950)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
(1869 - 1935)
Theodore Dreiser
(1871 - 1945)
James Weldon Johnson
(1871 - 1938)
Lola Ridge
(1871 - 1941)
Willa Cather
(1873 - 1947)
Ellen Glasgow
(1873 - 1945)
Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)
Amy Lowell
(1874 - 1925)
Gertrude Stein
(1874 - 1946)
Sherwood Anderson
(1876 - 1941)
Susan Glaspell
(1876 - 1948)
Wallace Stevens
(1879 - 1955)
H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
(1881 - 1941)
Anzia Yezierska
(1881? - 1970)
Anne Spencer
(1882 - 1975)
William Carlos Williams
(1883 - 1963)
Alain Locke
(1885 - 1954)
Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972)
Randolph Bourne
(1886 - 1918)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
(1887 - 1962)
Marianne Moore
(1887 - 1972)
Mourning Dove (Okanogan)
(1888 - 1936)
T.S. Eliot
(1888 - 1965)
Eugene O'Neill
(1888 - 1953)
John Crowe Ransom
(1888 - 1974)
Claude McKay
(1889 - 1948)
Katherine Anne Porter
(1890 - 1980)
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891 - 1960)
Nella Larsen
(1891 - 1964)
Djuna Barnes
(1892 - 1982)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 - 1950)
Michael Gold
(1893 - 1967)
e.e. cummings
(1894 - 1962)
John Joseph Mathews (Osage)
(1894 - 1979)
Charles Reznikoff
(1894 - 1976)
Genevieve Taggard
(1894 - 1948)
Jean Toomer
(1894 - 1967)
George Samuel Schuyler
(1895 - 1977)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)
John Dos Passos
(1896 - 1970)
Louise Bogan
(1897 - 1970)
William Faulkner
(1897 - 1962)
Hart Crane
(1899 - 1932)
Ernest Hemingway
(1899 - 1961)
Allen Tate
(1899 - 1979)
Blues Lyrics
(1900 - 1996)
Sterling A. Brown
(1901 - 1989)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
(1902 - 1981)
Kenneth Fearing
(1902 - 1961)
Langston Hughes
(1902 - 1967)
John Steinbeck
(1902 - 1968)
Kay Boyle
(1903 - 1993)
Countee Cullen
(1903 - 1946)
Younghill Kang
(1903 - 1972)
D'Arcy McNickle
(1904 - 1977)
Lillian Hellman
(1905 - 1984)
Robert Penn Warren
(1905 - 1989)
Joseph Kalar
(1906 - 1972)
Clifford Odets
(1906 - 1963)
Saunders Redding
(1906 - 1988)
Albert Maltz
(1908 - 1985)
Richard Wright
(1908 - 1960)
Edwin Rolfe
(1909 - 1954)
Carved on the Walls: Poetry by Early Chinese Immigrants
(1911 - 1992)
Alfred Hayes
(1911 - 1985)
Mary McCarthy
(1912 - 1989)
Tillie Lerner Olsen
(1912 - )
Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa)
(1914 - 1972)
Margaret Walker
(1915 - )
Ann Petry
(1908 - 1997)
Theodore Roethke
(1908 - 1963)
Eudora Welty
(1909 - )
Charles Olson
(1910 - 1970)
Elizabeth Bishop
(1911 - 1979)
Tennessee Williams
(1911 - 1983)
Carlos Bulosan
(1913 - 1956)
Robert Hayden
(1913 - 1980)
Muriel Rukeyser
(1913 - 1980)
Ralph Waldo Ellison
(1914 - 1994)
Bernard Malamud
(1914 - 1986)
Saul Bellow
(1915 - )
Arthur Miller
(1915 - )
Gwendolyn Brooks
(1917 - )
Robert Lowell, Jr.
(1917 - 1977)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(1919 - )
Hisaye Yamamoto
(1921 - )
Jack Kerouac
(1922 - 1969)
Grace Paley
(1922 - )
Denise Levertov
(1923 - )
Norman Mailer
(1923 - )
John Okada
(1923 - 1971)
James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
Flannery O'Connor
(1925 - 1964)
Mario Suarez
(1925 - 1998)
Malcolm X
(1925 - 1965)
Robert Bly
(1926 - )
Robert Creeley
(1926 - )
Allen Ginsberg
(1926 - 1997)
James Merrill
(1926 - 1995)
Frank O'Hara
(1926 - 1966)
John Ashbery
(1927 - )
James Wright
(1927 - 1980)
Edward Albee
(1928 - )
Cynthia Ozick
(1928 - )
Anne Sexton
(1928 - 1974)
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
(1929 - )
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929 - 1968)
Paule Marshall
(1929 - )
Adrienne Rich
(1929 - )
John Barth
(1930 - )
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
(1930 - 1965)
Gary Snyder
(1930 - )
Donald Barthelme
(1931 - 1989)
Etheridge Knight
(1931 - 1991)
Toni Morrison
(1931 - )
Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963)
John Updike
(1932 - )
Ernest J. Gaines
(1933 - )
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
(1934 - )
Audre Lorde
(1934 - 1992)
N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
(1934 - )
Sonia Sanchez
(1934 - )
Tomás Rivera
(1935 - 1984)
Lucille Clifton
(1936 - )
June Jordan
(1936 - )
Rudolfo A. Anaya
(1937 - )
Thomas Pynchon
(1937 - )
Raymond Carver
(1938 - 1988)
Michael S. Harper
(1938 - )
Lawson Inada
(1938 - )
Nicholasa Mohr
(1938 - )
Joyce Carol Oates
(1938 - )
Ishmael Reed
(1938 - )
Toni Cade Bambara
(1939 - 1995)
Frank Chin
(1940 - )
Michael Herr
(1940 - )
Maxine Hong Kingston
(1940 - )
Bharati Mukherjee
(1940 - )
James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre)
(1940 - )
Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo)
(1941 - )
John Edgar Wideman
(1941 - )
Gloria Anzaldúa
(1942 - )
Janice Mirikitani
(1942 - )
Pat Mora
(1942 - )
James Alan McPherson
(1943 - )
Pedro Pietri
(1944 - )
Richard Rodriguez
(1944 - )
Lee Smith
(1944 - )
Alice Walker
(1944 - )
Tim O'Brien
(1946 - )
Yusef Komunyakaa
(1947 - )
Wendy Rose (Hopi)
(1948 - )
Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna)
(1948 - )
Dorothy Allison
(1949 - )
Victor Hernández Cruz
(1949 - )
Jessica Hagedorn
(1949 - )
Carolyn Forché
(1950 - )
Joy Harjo (Creek)
(1951 - )
Garrett Kaoru Hongo
(1951 - )
Tato Laviera
(1951 - )
Karen Tei Yamashita
(1951 - )
Judith Ortiz Cofer
(1952 - )
Rita Dove
(1952 - )
Gary Soto
(1952 - )
Lorna Dee Cervantes
(1954 - )
Sandra Cisneros
(1954 - )
Louise Erdrich (Chippewa)
(1954 - )
Aurora Levins Morales
(1954 - )
Helena María Viramontes
(1954 - )
Kimiko Hahn
(1955 - )
Gish Jen
(1955 - )
Li-Young Lee
(1957 - )
Sherman Alexie
(1966 - )