 | James Agee |
| Edward Albee |
| Julia Alverez |
| Sherwood Anderson |
| Maya Angelou |
| Isaac Asimov |
| W. H. Auden |
| James Baldwin |
| Ray Bradbury |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Saul Bellow |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
| Truman Capote |
| Orson Scott Card |
| Willa Cather |
| Sandra Cisnernos |
| Countee Cullen |
| e. e. cummings |
| James Dickey |
| E. L. Doctorow |
| John Dos Passos |
| Rita Dove |
| W. E. B. Du Bois |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| T. S. Eliot |
| William Faulkner |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Robert Frost |
| Alex Haley |
| Lorraine Hansberry |
| Ernest Hemingway |
| John Hersey |
| Langston Hughes |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
| Randall Jarrell |
| Robinson Jeffers |
| James Weldon Johnson |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Barbara Kingsolver |
| Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Harper Lee |
| Vachel Lindsay |
| Amy Lowell |
| Robert Lowell |
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| Bernard Malamud |
| Edgar Lee Masters |
| Claude McKay |
| Archibald McLeish |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Arthur Miller |
| Gabriela Mistral |
| Marianne Moore |
| Toni Morrison |
| Walter Dean Myers |
| Tim O'Brien |
| Flannery O'Connor |
| Eugene O'Neill |
| Sylvia Plath |
| Katherine Ann Porter |
| Chaim Potok |
| Ezra Pound |
| John Crowe Ranson |
| Ann Rice |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Thordore Roethke |
| J. D. Salinger |
| Ann Sexton |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Betty Smith |
| Carl Sandburg |
| John Steinbeck |
| Wallace Stevens |
| Amy Tan |
| James Thurber |
| Henry Timrod |
| Anne Tyler |
| John Updike |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
| Alice Walker |
| Eudora Welty |
| Edith Wharton |
| Thornton Wilder |
| Tennessee Williams |
| William Carlos Williams |
| Thomas Wolfe |
| Richard Wright |
| Paul Zindel |
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