| A | B |
|---|
| Ernest Hemmingway | The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby (also coined the term "the Jazz Age" |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| Stephen Crane | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalism, Walden |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalism, Nature |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher |
| James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Washington Irving | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison | The Federalist Papers |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell | muckrakers |
| Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Eugene O' Neil | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Richard Wright | Native Son |
