Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Edmund Wilson
Van Doren
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Carl Van Doren
Wilson
Trilling
Lionel Trilling
Henry Louis Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Mencken
Bernard Malamud
Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor
Malamud
James Agee
McCullers
Carson McCullers
Agee
Carson Smith McCullers
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Dreiser
John Orley Allen Tate
Aiken
Allen Tate
Tate
Conrad Potter Aiken
Conrad Aiken
Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer
Stephen Crane
John Anthony Ciardi
Ciardi
Crane
John Ciardi
Frank Norris
Norris
Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.
Sylvia Plath
Plath
DuBose Heyward
DuBois Heyward
James Langston Hughes
Algren
Hughes
Langston Hughes
Heyward
Nelson Algren
Edwin DuBois Hayward
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau
Arna Bontemps
Arna Wendell Bontemps
Bontemps
Arthur M. Schlesinger
O'Hara
John O'Hara
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Edward Everett Hale
John Henry O'Hara
Hale
Arthur Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Comer Vann Woodward
Woodward
C. Vann Woodward
Werfel
Franz Werfel
Stockton
James Albert Michener
Frank R. Stockton
Owen Wister
James Michener
Francis Richard Stockton
Wister
James A. Michener
Frank Stockton
Michener
Edna Ferber
Ferber
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Wharton
Boyle
Kay Boyle
Edith Wharton
Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
Edgar Allan Poe
John Roderigo Dos Passos
Dos Passos
John Dos Passos
Poe
Sherwood Anderson
Anderson
John Bach McMaster
McMaster
Durant