American Literature: Prose

Pulitzer Prize Winners

National Book Awards

Roger Williams

Thomas Hooker

John Winthrop

Jonathan Edwards

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine

Abigail Smith Adams

Noah Webster

Washington Irving

Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Davy Crockett

Frederick Douglass

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

James Fenimore Cooper

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Edgar Allan Poe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

President Lincoln

Mark Twain

Henry James

Edith Wharton

Upton Sinclair

Theodore Dreiser

Jack London

Sinclair Lewis

Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gertrude Stein

John Roderigo Dos Passos

W. E. B. Du Bois

Jean Toomer

Zora Neale Hurston

Richard Wright

Ralph Ellison

James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time

Zane Grey

Willa Cather

John Steinbeck

Sherwood Anderson

William Faulkner

Margaret Mitchell

Flannery O’Connor

Eudora Welty

Norman Mailer

Beat Poets

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady

Vladimir Nabokov

J. D. Salinger

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Thomas Pynchon

Joseph Heller

John Updike

Joyce Carol Oates

Walker Percy

Bernard Malamud

Saul Bellow

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker

Leslie Marmon Silko

Sherman Alexie

Sandra Cisneros

Amy Tan

Mary Ritter Beard

Barbara Tuchman

Malcolm X

Alex Haley

Maya Angelou

Betty Friedan

John Burroughs

John Muir

Rachel Carson

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction