Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Ishmael Reed (b.1938)
Robert Penn Warren (b.1905)
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)