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Table of Contents
A
Chapter 1: Edward Abbey
Chapter 2: Chinua Achebe
Chapter 3: Alice Adams
Chapter 4: Aesop
Chapter 5: Brian Aldiss
Chapter 6: Sherman Alexie
Chapter 7: Isabel Allende
Chapter 8: Dorothy Allison
Chapter 9: Iqbal Ahmad
Chapter 10: Sherwood Anderson
Chapter 11: Maya Angelou
Chapter 12: Anonymous
Chapter 13: Aristophanes
Chapter 14: Mary-Kim Arnold
Chapter 15: Margaret Atwood
Chapter 16: Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Chapter 17: Jack Agueros
Chapter 18: W. H. Auden
Chapter 19: Mary Hunter Austin
Chapter 20: Edward Albee
Chapter 21: Julia Alvarez
B
Chapter 1: Isaac Babel
Chapter 2: James Baldwin
Chapter 3: Sullivan Ballou
Chapter 4: Toni Cade Bambara
Chapter 5: Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Chapter 6: Julian Barnes
Chapter 7: Andrea Barrett
Chapter 8: John Barth
Chapter 9: Donald Barthelme
Chapter 10: Rick Bass
Chapter 11: Ann Beattie
Chapter 12: Saul Bellow
Chapter 13: Ambrose Bierce
Chapter 14: Elizabeth Bishop
Chapter 15: William Blake
Chapter 16: Amy Bloom
Chapter 17: Louise Bogan
Chapter 18: Arna Bontemps
Chapter 19: Jorge Luis Borges
Chapter 20: Elizabeth Bowen
Chapter 21: Kay Boyle
Chapter 22: T. Coraghessan Boyle
Chapter 23: Ray Bradbury
Chapter 24: Anne Bradstreet
Chapter 25: Elizabeth Brewster
Chapter 26: Gwendolyn Brooks
Chapter 27: Olga Broumas
Chapter 28: Robert Browning
Chapter 29: William Cullen Bryant
Chapter 30: Robert Olen Butler
Chapter 31: Octavia Butler
Chapter 32: Herbert Bieberman
C
Chapter 1: Thomas Campion
Chapter 2: Albert Camus
Chapter 3: Alice Carey
Chapter 4: Lewis Carroll
Chapter 5: Hayden Carruth
Chapter 6: Angela Carter
Chapter 7: Jimmy Carter
Chapter 8: Raymond Carver
Chapter 9: Rachel Carson
Chapter 10: Willa Cather
Chapter 11: Oscar Caesares
Chapter 12: John Cheever
Chapter 13: Anton Chekhov
Chapter 14: Charles Chesnutt
Chapter 15: Kathryn Chetkovich
Chapter 16: Frank Chin
Chapter 17: John Chioles
Chapter 18: Kate Chopin
Chapter 19: Agatha Christie
Chapter 20: Sandra Cisneros
Chapter 21: Amy Clampitt
Chapter 22: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Chapter 23: Michael Cleary
Chapter 24: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Chapter 25: Lucille Clifton
Chapter 26: Grace Stone Coates
Chapter 27: Cochise
Chapter 28: Art Coelho
Chapter 29: Anita Scott Coleman
Chapter 30: Colette
Chapter 31: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Chapter 32: Billy Collins
Chapter 33: Laurie Colwin
Chapter 34: Joseph Conrad
Chapter 35: James Fenimore Cooper
Chapter 36: Julio Cortázar
Chapter 37: William Cowper
Chapter 38: Stephen Crane
Chapter 39: Robert Creeley
Chapter 40: e.e. cummings
D
Chapter 1: Edwidge Danticat
Chapter 2: Alice Elliott Dark
Chapter 3: Peter Davison
Chapter 4: Honoré de Balzac
Chapter 5: Guy de Maupassant
Chapter 6: Matthew Derby
Chapter 7: Phillip K. Dick
Chapter 8: James Dickey
Chapter 9: Emily Dickinson
Chapter 10: Annie Dillard
Chapter 11: Isak Dinesen
Chapter 12: Stephen Dixon
Chapter 13: Stephen Dobyns
Chapter 14: John Donne
Chapter 15: H.D.
Chapter 16: Fedor Dostoevsky
Chapter 17: Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 18: Michael Drayton
Chapter 19: Tom Drury
Chapter 20: Andre Dubus
Chapter 21: Stephen Dunn
Chapter 22: Mona Van Duyn
E
Chapter 1: Richard Eberhart
Chapter 2: Bart Edelman
Chapter 3: T.S. Eliot
Chapter 4: Ralph Ellison
Chapter 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chapter 6: Alex Epstein and Yaron Brook
Chapter 7: Martin Espada
Chapter 8: Louise Erdrich
Chapter 9: Mari Evans
F
Chapter 1: John Chipman Farrar
Chapter 2: William Faulkner
Chapter 3: Mary Fell
Chapter 4: Harvey Fierstein
Chapter 5: Ida Fink
Chapter 6: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Chapter 7: Carolyn Forche
Chapter 8: Richard Ford
Chapter 9: E.M. Forster
Chapter 10: John Hope Franklin
Chapter 11: Mary Wilkins Freeman
Chapter 12: Robert Frost
Chapter 13: Carlos Fuentes
G
Chapter 1: Mary Gaitskill
Chapter 2: Ernest J. Gaines
Chapter 3: Gabriel García Márquez
Chapter 4: Isabella Gardner
Chapter 5: Dagoberto Gilb
Chapter 6: Ellen Gilchrist
Chapter 7: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chapter 8: Allen Ginsberg
Chapter 9: Nikki Giovanni
Chapter 10: Louise Glück
Chapter 11: Susan Glaspell
Chapter 12: Gail Godwin
Chapter 13: Nikolai Gogol
Chapter 14: Genaro Gonzalez
Chapter 15: Nadine Gordimer
Chapter 16: Jorie Graham
Chapter 17: Judy Grahn
Chapter 18: Robert Graves
Chapter 19: Joanne Greenberg
Chapter 20: Mary Grimm
Chapter 21: Susan Griffin
Chapter 22: Allan Gurganus
Chapter 23: Tim Gautreaux
Chapter 24: Christina Garcia
H
Chapter 1: Marilyn Hacker
Chapter 2: John Haines
Chapter 3: Daniel Halpern
Chapter 4: Donald Hall
Chapter 5: H.S. (Sam) Hamod
Chapter 6: Thomas Hardy
Chapter 7: Joy Harjo
Chapter 8: Frances E.W. Harper
Chapter 9: Bret Harte
Chapter 10: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chapter 11: Robert Hayden
Chapter 12: Bessie Head
Chapter 13: Seamus Heaney
Chapter 14: Ernest Hemingway
Chapter 15: Beth Henley
Chapter 16: William Ernest Henley
Chapter 17: Robert Herrick
Chapter 18: Edward Hirsch
Chapter 19: Jane Hirshfield
Chapter 20: Jack Hodgins
Chapter 21: Linda Hogan
Chapter 22: A.D. Hope
Chapter 23: A. E. Housman
Chapter 24: Pam Houston
Chapter 25: Langston Hughes
Chapter 26: Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 27: Aldous Huxley
Chapter 28: Carolina Hospital
Chapter 29: David Henry Hwang
Chapter 30: Lorraine Hansberry
I
Chapter 1: Henrik Ibsen
Chapter 2: John Hall Ingham
Chapter 3: John Irving
Chapter 4: Washington Irving
J
Chapter 1: Shirley Jackson
Chapter 2: Henry James
Chapter 3: Randall Jarrell
Chapter 4: Robinson Jeffers
Chapter 5: Gish Jen
Chapter 6: Sarah Orne Jewett
Chapter 7: Denis Johnson
Chapter 8: Dorothy M. Johnson
Chapter 9: Ben Jonson
Chapter 10: James Joyce
Chapter 11: Michael Joyce
Chapter 12: Ha Jin
K
Chapter 1: Franz Kafka
Chapter 2: Stanley Kauffman
Chapter 3: Bel Kaufman
Chapter 4: John Keats
Chapter 5: Garrison Keillor
Chapter 6: Betty Keller
Chapter 7: Randall Kenan
Chapter 8: Maurice Kenny
Chapter 9: Jane Kenyon
Chapter 10: Jamaica Kincaid
Chapter 11: Martin Luther King Jr.
Chapter 12: Stephen King
Chapter 13: Galway Kinnell
Chapter 14: W.P. (William Patrick) Kinsella
Chapter 15: Rudyard Kipling
Chapter 16: William Kittredge
Chapter 17: Carolyn Kizer
Chapter 18: Etheridge Knight
Chapter 19: Ted Kooser
Chapter 20: Peter D. Kramer
Chapter 21: Maxine Kumin
Chapter 22: Milan Kundera
Chapter 23: Hanif Kureishi
Chapter 24: Galway Kinnell
Chapter 25: Marc Kaminsky
Chapter 26: Ghassan Kanafani
L
Chapter 1: Ring Lardner
Chapter 2: Deena Larsen
Chapter 3: Margaret Laurence
Chapter 4: Arthur Laurents
Chapter 5: Dorianne Laux
Chapter 6: Mary Lavin
Chapter 7: D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 8: Emma Lazarus
Chapter 9: David Leavitt
Chapter 10: Ursula K. Le Guin
Chapter 11: Cherylene Lee
Chapter 12: David Lehman
Chapter 13: Aldo Leopold
Chapter 14: Nikolai Leskov
Chapter 15: Doris Lessing
Chapter 16: Denise Levertov
Chapter 17: C. Day Lewis
Chapter 18: Alan P. Lightman
Chapter 19: Abraham Lincoln
Chapter 20: Jack London
Chapter 21: Audre Lorde
Chapter 22: Amy Lowell
Chapter 23: St. Luke
M
Chapter 1: Archibald MacLeish
Chapter 2: Naguib Mahfouz
Chapter 3: Heather McHugh
Chapter 4: Claude McKay
Chapter 5: Bernard Malamud
Chapter 6: Thomas Mann
Chapter 7: Katherine Mansfield
Chapter 8: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chapter 9: Bobbie Ann Mason
Chapter 10: W. Somerset Maugham
Chapter 11: Guy de Maupassant
Chapter 12: Mary McCarthy
Chapter 13: Peter Meinke
Chapter 14: Maile Meloy
Chapter 15: Herman Melville
Chapter 16: Eve Merriam
Chapter 17: James Merrill
Chapter 18: W.S. Merwin
Chapter 19: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Chapter 20: Arthur Miller
Chapter 21: John Milton
Chapter 22: Susan Minot
Chapter 23: Judith Minty
Chapter 24: Yukio Mishima
Chapter 25: Molière
Chapter 26: N. Scott Momaday
Chapter 27: Marie Lorena Moore
Chapter 28: Bharati Mukherjee
Chapter 29: Alice Munro
Chapter 30: Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Chapter 31: Pauli Murray
Chapter 32: Lorrie Moore
Chapter 33: Lisel Mueller
N
Chapter 1: Vladimir Nabokov
Chapter 2: Antonya Nelson
Chapter 3: Jonathan Nolan
Chapter 4: Jim Northrup
Chapter 5: Fae Myenne Ng
Chapter 6: Naomi Shihab Nye
Chapter 7: Tahira Naqui
O
Chapter 1: Edna O'Brien
Chapter 2: Tim O'Brien
Chapter 3: Flannery O'Connor
Chapter 4: Frank O'Connor
Chapter 5: Eugene O'Neill
Chapter 6: Joyce Carol Oates
Chapter 7: Dwight Okita
Chapter 8: Sharon Olds
Chapter 9: Mary Oliver
Chapter 10: Tillie Olsen
Chapter 11: Wilfred Owen
Chapter 12: George Orwell
Chapter 13: Cynthia Ozick
Chapter 14: Micheal O’Siadhail
P
Chapter 1: P.K. Page
Chapter 2: Grace Paley
Chapter 3: Américo Parédes
Chapter 4: Jay Parini
Chapter 5: Dorothy Parker
Chapter 6: Linda Pastan
Chapter 7: Molly Peacock
Chapter 8: Ann Petry
Chapter 9: Robert Phillips
Chapter 10: Marge Piercy
Chapter 11: Sylvia Plath
Chapter 12: Plato
Chapter 13: Edgar Allen Poe
Chapter 14: Katha Pollitt
Chapter 15: Alexander Pope
Chapter 16: Katherine Anne Porter
Chapter 17: Ezra Pound
Chapter 18: Reynolds Price
Chapter 19: Susan Power
Chapter 20: Annie Proulx
Chapter 21: Wyatt Prunty
Chapter 22: Public Enemy
Q
Chapter 1: Ernesto Quinonez
R
Chapter 1: Sir Walter Raleigh
Chapter 2: Dudley Randall
Chapter 3: Janisse Ray
Chapter 4: Tom Regan
Chapter 5: Elwood Reid
Chapter 6: Adrienne Rich
Chapter 7: Rainer Maria Rilke
Chapter 8: Tomas Rivera
Chapter 9: E.A. Robinson
Chapter 10: Mary Robison
Chapter 11: Richard Rodriguez
Chapter 12: Theodore Roethke
Chapter 13: Pattiann Rogers
Chapter 14: Philip Roth
Chapter 15: Muriel Rukeyser
Chapter 16: Salman Rushdie
Chapter 17: George William Russell
Chapter 18: Alberto Rios
S
Chapter 1: Donatien Alphonse Francois Compte De Sade
Chapter 2: Luis Omar Salinas
Chapter 3: Jo Sapp
Chapter 4: Carl Sandburg
Chapter 5: Scott Russell Sanders
Chapter 6: Annette Sanford
Chapter 7: Jean-Paul Sartre
Chapter 8: Siegfried Sassoon
Chapter 9: Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer
Chapter 10: Virginia Scott
Chapter 11: Anne Sexton
Chapter 12: William Shakespeare
Chapter 13: Irwin Shaw
Chapter 14: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chapter 15: Leslie Marmon Silko
Chapter 16: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chapter 17: Dave Smith
Chapter 18: Gary Snyder
Chapter 19: Cathy Song
Chapter 20: Sophocles
Chapter 21: Susan Sontag
Chapter 22: Gary Soto
Chapter 23: Wole Soyinka
Chapter 24: June Spence
Chapter 25: Stephen Spender
Chapter 26: John Steinbeck
Chapter 27: Daniel Stern
Chapter 28: Harper Stevens
Chapter 29: Wallace Stevens
Chapter 30: Anne Stevenson
Chapter 31: Mark Strand
Chapter 32: May Swenson
Chapter 33: William Stafford
Chapter 34: Elizabeth Strout
Chapter 35: J. M. Synge
T
Chapter 1: Elizabeth Tallent
Chapter 2: Amy Tan
Chapter 3: James Tate
Chapter 4: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chapter 5: Studs Terkel
Chapter 6: Elaine Terranova
Chapter 7: Dylan Thomas
Chapter 8: Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 9: James Thurber
Chapter 10: Leo Tolstoy
Chapter 11: Jean Toomer
Chapter 12: Michel Tremblay
Chapter 13: Judy Troy
Chapter 14: Ivan Turgenev
Chapter 15: Mark Twain
Chapter 16: Daniel Tobin
U
Chapter 1: Brady Udall
Chapter 2: Peter Ulisse
Chapter 3: John Updike
V
Chapter 1: Luisa Valenzuela
Chapter 2: Ed Vega
Chapter 3: Alma Luz Villanueva
Chapter 4: Judith Viorst
Chapter 5: Helena Maria Viramontes
Chapter 6: Ellen Bryant Voigt
Chapter 7: Kurt Vonnegut
W
Chapter 1: The Wakefield Master
Chapter 2: Diane Wakoski
Chapter 3: Alice Walker
Chapter 4: David Foster Wallace
Chapter 5: Edmund Waller
Chapter 6: Margaret Walker
Chapter 7: Robert Penn Warren
Chapter 8: Mary Yukari Waters
Chapter 9: Phyllis Webb
Chapter 10: Bruce Weigl
Chapter 11: Orson Welles
Chapter 12: Eudora Welty
Chapter 13: Dorothy West
Chapter 14: W.D. Wetherell
Chapter 15: Edith Wharton
Chapter 16: Tom Whitecloud
Chapter 17: Walt Whitman
Chapter 18: Cornelius Whur
Chapter 19: John Edgar Wideman
Chapter 20: Liza Wieland
Chapter 21: Richard Wilbur
Chapter 22: Thorton Wilder
Chapter 23: C.K. Williams
Chapter 24: Joy Williams
Chapter 25: Tennessee Williams
Chapter 26: William Carlos Williams
Chapter 27: August Wilson
Chapter 28: Jeanette Winterson
Chapter 29: Elizabeth Winthrop
Chapter 30: David Wojahn
Chapter 31: Tobias Wolff
Chapter 32: Virginia Woolf
Chapter 33: William Wordsworth
Chapter 34: James Wright
Chapter 35: Richard Wright
Chapter 36: Sir Thomas Wyatt
X
Y
Chapter 1: Wakako Yamauchi
Chapter 2: William Butler Yeats
Chapter 3: Anzia Yezierska
Chapter 4: Banana Yoshimoto
Z
Chapter 1: Irene Zabytko
Chapter 2: Patricia Zelver
Chapter 3: Paul Zimmer
Resources
Chapter 1: Literary Theory
Chapter 2: Writing About
Chapter 3: Writers On Writing
Chapter 4: Walking Tour
Chapter 5: E-Themes
Chapter 6: Literature in the News
Chapter 7: Literature One Key
Chapter 8: Research Navigator
Chapter 9: Literature Timeline
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