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Textbook Site for: 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 - )