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Sub-Categories in 20th Century

Agee, James@ (3)
Arnow, Harriet@ (12)
Ashbery, John@ (8)
Baldwin, James (6)
Barnes, Djuna@ (7)
Barth, John@ (6)
Beat Generation@ (40)
Bogan, Louise@ (5)
Bowles, Jane@ (5)
Bowles, Paul@ (9)
Brautigan, Richard@ (5)
Brooks, Gwendolyn@ (3)
Bukowski, Charles@ (59)
Cabell, James Branch@ (20)
Cahan, Abraham@ (22)
Cahill, Tim@ (19)
Cain, James M.@ (11)
Camp, Wadsworth@ (5)
Capote, Truman (9)
Cather, Willa@ (18)
Chabon, Michael (12)
Chandler, Raymond@ (22)
Coover, Robert@ (1)
Corso, Gregory@ (8)
Cunningham, Michael@ (9)
Di Prima, Diane@ (6)
Dickey, James (6)
Dorn, Edward@ (11)
Dos Passos, John@ (2)
Douglas, Lloyd C.@ (4)
Dreiser, Theodore@ (23)
Eggers, Dave (13)
Eliot, T. S.@ (33)
Ellis, Bret Easton (6)
Ellison, Ralph@ (99)
Faulkner, William@ (23)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence@ (6)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott@ (41)
Ginsberg, Allen@ (11)
Guest, Barbara@ (17)
H. D.@ (6)
Hall, Donald@ (2)
Hammett, Dashiell@ (5)
Harlem Renaissance (14)
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Hawkes, John@ (2)
Hellman, Lillian@ (5)
Hemingway, Ernest@ (42)
Hurston, Zora Neale (13)
Inge, William@ (3)
Irving, John@ (45)
Jackson, Shirley (15)
Johnson, James Weldon@ (7)
Jones, James@ (1)
Kaufman, Bob@ (1)

Kerouac, Jack@ (53)
Kesey, Ken@ (7)
Koch, Kenneth@ (18)
Lee, Harper (15)
Lethem, Jonathan@ (66)
Lewis, Sinclair@ (15)
London, Jack@ (88)
Lost Generation@ (7)
Lowell, Robert@ (5)
Mailer, Norman@ (3)
Masters, Edgar Lee@ (9)
Mathews, Harry@ (11)
McCarthy, Cormac@ (3)
Mencken, H. L. (26)
Miller, Arthur@ (70)
Miller, Henry@ (7)
Moore, Christopher (10)
Moore, Marianne@ (7)
Morris, Willie@ (2)
Morrison, Toni@ (16)
Nin, Anais@ (7)
O'Connor, Flannery@ (18)
O'Hara, Frank@ (9)
O'Neill, Eugene@ (16)
Oates, Joyce Carol (14)
Parker, Dorothy (6)
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Patchen, Kenneth@ (9)
Percy, Walker@ (9)
Plath, Sylvia@ (50)
Pound, Ezra@ (38)
Pynchon, Thomas@ (10)
Roth, Philip@ (5)
Salinger, J.D.@ (16)
Saroyan, William (6)
Schuyler, James@ (4)
Sinclair, Upton (8)
Snyder, Gary@ (21)
Southern, Terry@ (10)
Stein, Gertrude@ (14)
Steinbeck, John (31)
Stevens, Wallace@ (72)
Thompson, Hunter S.@ (43)
Updike, John (8)
Vonnegut, Kurt (24)
Walker, Alice (8)
Welty, Eudora@ (10)
Wharton, Edith@ (50)
Wilder, Thornton@ (9)
Williams, Tennessee@ (13)
Williams, William Carlos@ (12)
Wister, Owen (7)
Wolfe, Thomas@ (9)
Wright, Richard@ (9)

Web Sites in Category 20th Century

A Princess in Berlin - Online text of Arthur R.G. Solmssen's 1982 novel plays in Berlin at the time of the murder of Walther Rathenau.

Alliance Learning Guide - Modernism and Post-Modernism in American Literature - Assembled by specialists from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale, this guide identifies key books, online texts, and Web sites to direct your studies on Modernism and Post-Modernism in American Literature.

American Fiction Prizes - Lists winners of the major American fiction prizes and, where available, the nominees.

Davis, Alan - Editor of the New Rivers Press, co-editor of American Fiction, and coordinator of the MSUM MFA program. Includes biography, sample stories, links.

Elise Ehrhard - Feminist author. Brief information on her writings online and in print.

Lee Smith - Journalist and novelist. Includes sections on her childhood, career and awards.

Major Literature Awards - Lists of winners, including Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, Pen Faulkner Award, ABBY, Young Reader's Choice Award, and prizes from the United Kingdom.

National Book Awards - The awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature.

O. Henry Awards - Annual collection of the year's best stories published in American and Canadian magazines and written by American or Canadian authors.

Outline of American Literature - By Kathryn VanSpanckeren, a historical account of American literature, including 20th Century prose and poetry. Published by the United States Information Agency.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Affiliated with PEN, the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers to honor their peers.

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