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Essays listed below by approximate publication date or author’s general period of activity.

• Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
  • The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400)
    • Who Is Geoffrey Chaucer?
    • On “Chaucer’s Dialectic: How the Establishment Theology is Subjected to Scrutiny in Five Canterbury Tales” by Barbara Tovey
    • Chaucer’s Silence: On The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
    • “Make Of Two Sorrows One Perfect Joy” A Reading of The Knight’s Tale
    • The Idea of Requital in The Miller’s Tale
    • A Defense of Justice in The Reeve’s Tale
    • Notes on the Unfinished Cook’s Tale
    • A Story of “Joy after Woe” in The Man of Law’s Tale
    • The Wife of Bath’s Tale: Autobiography and Arthurian Parody
    • Intentionality in The Friar’s Tale
    • Aristotelian Mimesis: The Conflict Between the Friar and the Summoner
    • The Scholar’s Desire for Power: A Reading of The Clerk’s Tale
    • A Qualified Defense of Marriage in The Merchant’s Tale
    • On The (Interrupted) Squire’s Tale
    • Pity and Promises in the Franklin’s Tale
    • History Contra Poetics in The Physician’s Tale
    • Disingenuous Authorial Intent in The Pardoner’s Tale
    • The Principle of Exchange in The Shipman’s Tale
    • A Hollow Story of Martyrdom In The Prioress’s Tale
    • On Chaucerian Irony in the Tale of Sir Thopas
    • Deprivation and Excess in The Tale of Sir Thopas and The Tale of Melibee
    • Seventeen Tragic Biographies in The Monk’s Tale
    • “The latter ende of joye is wo” On The Dangerous Significance of Poetry in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
    • Authorship in the Second Nun’s Tale
    • Trickery and Alchemy in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
    • On The Wisdom of Silence in The Manciple’s Tale
    • An Appeal to Common Wisdom in the Final Tale: The Parson’s Tale

• Francois Rabelias (1483-1553)
  • The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-1564)
    • The Absurd World of Pantagruel

• Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
  • Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605, 1615)
    • Who Is Miguel de Cervantes?
    • When Poetry Conquers Philosophy: Reflections on Don Quixote
    • On Authorship in Don Quixote

• John Bunyan (1628-1688)
  • Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
    • Thoughts on Pilgrim’s Progress

• Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
  • Fairy Tales
    • Notes on Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales

• Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
  • Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    • Robinson Crusoe’s Diary of Survivalism

• Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
  • “A Tale Of A Tub” and “The Battle of the Books” (1704)
    • Thoughts on “A Tale Of A Tub” and the “Battle of the Books”
  • Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
    • Who Is Jonathan Swift?
    • Jonathan Swift and the Idea of Satire
    • Whither Gulliver? Reflections on Gulliver’s Travels
    • On Allan Bloom’s “Giants and Dwarfs: An Outline of Gulliver’s Travels”
  • “A Modest Proposal” (1729)
    • Disentangling Irony in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”

• Madame de Villeneuve (1685-1755)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1740)
    • Thoughts on Beauty and the Beast

• Voltaire (1698-1778)
  • Candide (1759)
    • Who Is Voltaire?
    • On Suffering in Voltaire’s Candide

• Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
  • The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)
    • A Note on Fortune and Fate in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book I
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book II
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book III
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book IV
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book V
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book VI
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book VII
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones Book VIII
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones Book IX
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones Book X
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XI
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XII
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XIII
    • Refections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XIV
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XV
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVI
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVII
    • Reflections on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Book XVIII

• Laurence Stern (1713-1768)
  • Tristam Shandy (1759-1767)

• Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
  • Jacques The Fatalist (1792)
  • Rameau’s Nephew (1805)

• Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
  • The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

• Johann David Wyss (1743-1818)
  • The Swiss Family Robinson (1812)

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
  • Faust (1808-1831)
  • Elective Affinities (1809)

• Anne Radcliffe (1764-1823)
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

• Walter Scott (1771-1823)
  • Ivanhoe (1819)

• Jane Austen (1775-1817)
  • Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Pride and Prejudice (1813)
  • Mansfield Park (1814)
  • Emma (1815)
  • Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous)
  • Persuasion (1818, posthumous)

• E.T.A. Hoffman (1776-1822)
  • “The Nutcracker and the Mouse Kid” Short Story (1816)

• Washington Irving (1783-1859)
  • Rip Van Winkle (1819)
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)

• Stendhal (1783-1842)
  • The Red and the Black (1830)

• Brothers Grimm (~1785-1863)
  • Fairy Tales (1812)

• James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

• Mary Shelley (1789-1851)
  • Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1823)

• Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)
  • La Comedie Humaine (1830)

• Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)
  • Eugene Onegin (1825-1832)
  • The Captain’s Daughter (1836)

• Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1832)
  • Les Miserables (1862)

• Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (1844, 1846)
  • The Three Musketeers (1844)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1850)
  • The House of Seven Gables (1851)

• Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875)
  • Fairy Tales (1835-1869)

• Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
  • The Fall of the House of Usher (1840)
  • The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
  • The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
  • Poems

• Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
  • Stories

• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
  • North and South (1854-1855)

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

• William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863)
  • Vanity Fair (1848)

• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  • The Pickwick Papers (1836-1837)
  • Oliver Twist (1837-1839)
  • Nicholas Nickelby (1838-1839)
  • A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • David Copperfield (1849-1850)
  • Bleak House (1852-1853)
  • Hard Times (1854)
  • A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
  • Great Expectations (1859)

• Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
  • Chronicles of Barsetshire Series (1885-1867)

• Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
  • Jane Eyre (1847)

• Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
  • Wuthering Heights (1847)

• Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883)
  • Fathers and Sons (1862)

• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
  • Typee (1846)
  • Moby Dick (1851)
  • Bartelby, the Scrivener (1853)
  • Billy Budd (1924, posthumous)

• George Eliot (1819-1880)
  • Middlemarch (1871-1872)

• Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
  • Black Beauty (1877)

• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
  • Notes From Underground (1864)
  • Crime and Punishment (1866)
  • The Idiot (1869)
  • Demons (1872)
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
  • Madame Bovary (1856)

• Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895)
  • La Dame aux Camélias (1848)

• Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
  • The Woman In White (1859)

• Carlo Collodi (1826-1890)
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)

• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901)
  • Heidi (1881)

• Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
  • A Doll’s House (1879)

• Jules Verne (1828-1905)
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)

• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
  • War and Peace (1869)
  • Anna Karenina (1877)
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)

• Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
  • Little Women (1868-1869)

• Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
  • Through The Looking Glass (1871)

• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  • Tom Sawyer (1876)
  • Huckleberry Finn (1885)

• Bret Harte (1836-1902)
  • The Luck of the Roaring Camp (1816)

• Henry Adams (1838-1918)
  • The Education of Henry Adams (1919, posthumous)

• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
  • Far From the Madding Crowd (1874)
  • The Return of the Native (1878)
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
  • Tess of the d’Ubervilles (1891)
  • Jude the Obscure (1895)

• Emile Zola (1840-1902)
  • Germinal (1894)
  • J’accuse…! (1898)

• Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Bridge (1890)
  • Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1892)

• Henry James (1843-1916)
  • Daisy Miller (1878)
  • Portrait of a Lady (1881)
  • The Turn of the Screw (1898)

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
  • Treasure Island (1883)
  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
  • Kidnapped (1886)

• Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
  • Dracula (1897)

• Kate Chopin (1850-1904)
  • The Awakening (1899)

• Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)
  • A Little Princess (1905)
  • The Secret Garden (1911)

• Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)
  • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903)

• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) *Nobel Prize Winner (1925)
  • Pygmalion (1913)

• Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
  • King Solomon’s Mines (1885)

• L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
  • Up From Slavery (1901)

• Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
  • Heart of Darkness (1899)
  • Lord Jim (1900)
  • Nostromo (1904)
  • The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (1907)
  • Under Western Eyes (1911)

• Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
  • The Wind in the Willows (1908)

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1891-1927)
  • The Hound of Baskervilles (1902)

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
  • The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

• J.M. Barrie (1860-1937)
  • Peter Pan (1902-1911)

• Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
  • Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)
  • Three Sisters (1901)
  • The Cherry Orchard (1904)

• Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
  • The House of Mirth (1905)
    • On the Absence of Mirth in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth
  • Ethan Fromme (1911)
  • The Age of Innocence *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1921)
    • The Age of Innocence on Trial

• Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930)
  • The Hardy Boys Series
  • Nancy Drew Series

• Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)

• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) *Nobel Prize Winner (1907)
  • The Jungle Book (1894)
  • Captains Courageous (1897)

• Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)

• H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
  • The Time Machine (1895)
  • The Invisible Man (1897) *National Book Award Winner
  • The War of the Worlds (1897)

• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
  • Little House on the Prairie (1923-1943 *Newbery Award Winner

• W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
  • The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

• Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)

• Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1919)
    • Thoughts on The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Alice Adams *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1922)
    • The Forgettable Alice Adams

• Felix Salten (1869-1945)
  • Bambi, a Life in the Woods (1923)

• Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
  • In Search of Lost Time (1922-1931)

• Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

• Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
  • Sister Carrie (1900)
  • An American Tragedy (1925)

• Willa Cather (1873-1947)
  • O Pioneers! (1913)
    • The Harsh But Forgiving Prairie in O Pioneers!
  • My Ántonia (1918)
    • Modernism in My Ántonia
  • One Of Ours (1922)
    • The Pioneer Spirit in One Of Ours
  • Death Comes For The Archbishop (1927)

• Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
  • The Good Soldier (1915)
  • Parade’s End (1924-1928)

• W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
  • Of Human Bondage (1915)

• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
  • Anne of Green Gables (1908)

• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
  • The Making of Americans (1926)
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)

• Thomas Mann (1875-1955) *Nobel Prize Winner (1929)
  • Buddenbrooks (1901)
  • Death in Venice (1912)
  • The Magic Mountain (1924)

• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
  • Tarzan of the Apes (1912)

• Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
  • Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

• Jack London (1876-1916)
  • The Call of the Wild (1903)
  • To Build A Fire (1902)
  • The Sea-Wolf (1904)
  • White Fang (1906)

• Hermann Hesse (1877-1976) *Nobel Prize Winner (1946)
  • Siddhartha (1922)
  • Steppenwolf (1927)

• Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
  • The Jungle (1906)
    • On Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906)

• E.M. Forster (1879-1970)
  • A Room With A View (1908)
  • Howards End (1910)
  • A Passage to India (1924)

• Robert Musil (1880-1942)
  • The Man Without Qualities (1930-1943)

• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
  • Mrs Dalloway (1925)
  • To the Lighthouse (1927)

• James Joyce (1882-1941)
  • Ulysses (1918-1920)
  • Dubliners (1914)
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

• A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
  • Winnie the Pooh (1926-1928)

• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
  • The Trial (1914-1915)
  • Metamorphosis (1915)

• Kahlil Gebron (1883-1931)
  • The Prophet (1923)

• D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
  • Sons and Lovers (1913)
  • Women In Love (1920)
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

• Karen Blixen (1885-1962)
  • Out of Africa (1937)

• Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) *Nobel Prize Winner (1930)
  • Main Street (1920)
    • The Un-Wholesome Character of Main Street
  • Babbitt (1922)
    • Babbitt: A Satire of Middle Class Complacency
  • Arrowsmith *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1925)
    • Arrowsmith: A Pulitzer Controversy and a Satire of American Medicine
  • Elmer Gantry (1927)
    • Elmer Gantry: A Satire of American Evangelism
  • Dodsworth (1929)
    • A Collapsing Marriage In Sinclair Lewis’s Dodsworth
  • It Can’t Happen Here (1935)
    • On The Prescience of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here

• Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)
  • The Story of Dr. Dolittle Series *Newbery Award Winner

• Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
  • The Big Sleep (1939)

• T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926)

• Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) *Nobel Prize Winner (1936)
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1957)

• Boris Pasternek (1890-1960) *Nobel Prize Winner (1958)
  • Doctor Zhivago (1957)

• Jean Rhys (1890-1979)
  • Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

• Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
  • Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890-1979)
  • Boxcar Children Series

• Esther Forbes (1891-1967)
  • Johnny Tremain (1943) *Newbery Award Winner

• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

• Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
  • Passing (1929)

• Henry Miller (1891-1980)
  • Tropic of Cancer (1934)
  • Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

• Mikail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
  • The Master and Margarita (1967)

• James M. Cain (1892-1977)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)

• J.R.R. Tolkein (1892-1973)
  • The Hobbit (1937)
  • The Lord of the Rings (1954)

• Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) *Nobel Prize Winner (1938)
  • The Good Earth *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1932)
    • The Struggle for Land in The Good Earth

• Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1930)
  • The Thin Man (1934)

• Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
  • Brave New World (1932)

• Robert Graves (1895-1985)
• I, Claudius (1934)

• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1961)
  • This Side of Paradise (1920)
  • The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
  • The Great Gatsby (1925)
  • Tender Is The Night (1934)

• John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
  • U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-1936)

• Betty Smith (1896-1972)
  • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1943)

• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
  • The Yearling (1938)
    • Thoughts On The Yearling

• Dodie Smith (1896-1990)
  • The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956)

• Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1928)
    • Experiencing the Sacred in The Bridge of San Luis Rey
  • Our Town *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1938)

• William Faulkner (1897-1962) *Nobel Prize Winner (1949)
  • The Sound and the Fury (1929)
  • As I Lay Dying (1930)
  • Light In August (1932)
  • Absalom, Absalom (1936)

• Scott O’Dell (1898-1989)
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) *Newbery Award Winner
  • Sing Down The Moon (1970)

• Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

• C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
  • The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956)

• E.B. White (1899-1985)
  • Charlotte’s Web (1952)

• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
• Lolita (1955)

• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
  • Ficciones (1944)

• P.L. Travers (1899-1996)
  • Mary Poppins Series (1934-1988)

• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) *Nobel Prize Winner (1954)
• On the Epic Life of Ernest Hemingway
• Notes on Hemingway’s “Writers At Work” Paris Review Interview (1958)
  • The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1926)
    • Heroism and Tragedy in The Sun Also Rises
  • A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • To Have and Have Not (1937)
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)
    • Love and War In For Whom The Bell Tolls
  • Across The River and Into The Trees (1950)
  • The Old Man and the Sea *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1953)
    • The Writer’s Endurance: The Old Man and the Sea
  • Hemingway’s Short Stories
    • A Fall From Grace in “Up In Michigan”
    • Thoughts on “On The Quai at Smyrna”
    • A New Beginning in “Hills Like White Elephants”
    • Contemplating Nihilism in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
    • The Mask of Politeness in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
    • The Experience of Placelessness in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

• James Hilton (1900-1954)
  • Goodbye Mr. Chips (1934)

• Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
  • The Little Prince (1943)

• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
  • Gone With The Wind *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1937)
    • Gone With The Wind: An American Epic of Nostalgia and Survivalism

• Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
  • Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

• John Steinbeck (1902-1968) *Nobel Prize Winner (1962)
  • The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
  • The Red Pony (1933)
  • To A God Unknown (1933)
  • Tortilla Flat (1935)
  • Of Mice and Men (1937)
  • The Long Valley – Short Story Collection (1938)
  • The Grapes of Wrath *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1940)
    • The Grapes of Wrath: An Epic Dust Bowl Tragedy
  • Cannery Row (1945)
  • The Pearl (1947)
  • A Russian Journal (1948)
  • Log From The Sea of Cortez (1951)
  • East of Eden (1952)
    • The Troubling Concept of Timshel in East of Eden
  • Once There Was A War (1958)
  • Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

• Norman Maclean (1902-1990)
• A River Runs Through It (1976)
  • The Haunting Waters of A River Runs Through It

• Jessamyn West (1902-1984)
  • The Friendly Persuasion (1945)

• George Orwell (1903-1950)
  • Animal Farm (1945)
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

• Alan Paton (1903-1988)
  • Cry, the Beloved Country (1948)

• Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
  • Brideshead Revisited (1945)

• Irving Stone (1903-1989)
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961)

• Nathanael West (1903-1940)
  • The Day of the Locusts (1939)

• Walter D. Edmonds (1903-1998)
  • Drums Along the Mohawk (1936)

• Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)
  • Memoirs of Hadrian (1951)

• Graham Greene (1904-1991)
  • The End of the Affair (1951)
  • The Quiet American (1955)

• Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)
  • All The King’s Men *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1947)
    • The Dangers of Populism in All The King’s Men

• John O’Hara (1905-1970)
  • Appointment in Samarra (1934)

• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) *Nobel Prize Winner
  • Nausea (1938)
  • No Exit (1944)

• Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
  • Darkness at Noon (1940)

• Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
  • Anthem (1938)
  • The Fountainhead (1943)
  • Atlas Shrugged (1957)

• Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)
  • Johnny Got His Gun (1938)

• Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) *Nobel Prize Winner (1969)
  • Waiting for Godot (1953)

• T.H. White (1906-1964)
  • The Once and Future King (1958)

• Richard Llewellyn (1906-1983)
  • How Green Was My Valley (1939)

• Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989)
  • Rebecca (1938)

• Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002)
  • Pippi Longstocking Series (1945-1948)

• Ian Fleming (1908-1964)
  • Thoughts on Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale (1953)
  • Thoughts On Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die (1954)
  • Thoughts on Ian Fleming’s Moonraker (1955)

• Fred Gipson (1908-1973)
  • Old Yeller (1956)

• Richard Wright (1908-1960)
  • Native Son (1940)
  • Black Boy (1945)

• Elizabeth George Speare (1908-1994)
  • The Sign of the Beaver (1983)

• Walter van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971)
  • The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)

• Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
  • The Optimist’s Daughter (1972)

• William Golding (1911-1993) *Nobel Prize Winner (1983)
  • Lord of the Flies (1954)

• Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1948)
  • Cat on a Tin Roof *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1955)
  • The Glass Menagerie (1944)

• Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (1911-2001)
  • Cheaper by the Dozen (1948)
  • Bells on their Toes (1950)

• William H. Armstrong (1911-1999)
  • Sounder (1969) *Newbery Award Winner

• J.L. Carr (1912-1994)
  • A Month in the Country (1980)

• Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)
  • The Bridge Over the River Kwai (1957)
  • The Planet of the Apes (1963)

• Albert Camus (1913-1960) *Nobel Prize Winner (1957)
  • The Stranger (1942)
  • The Plague (1947)

• Ralph Ellison (1913-1994)
  • Invisible Man (1952)

• Wilson Rawls (1913-1984)
  • Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)

• John Hersey (1914-1993)
  • A Bell For Adano (1944)
    • Old Customs, New Traditions, and a Good Man in John Hersey’s A Bell For Adano
  • Hiroshima (1946)

• William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
  • Naked Lunch (1959)

• Herman Wouk (1915- )
  • The Caine Mutiny *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1952)
    • What Makes A Good Leader? On The Caine Mutiny

• Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
  • Death of a Salesman *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1949)
  • The Crucible (1953)

• Walter Farley (1915-1989)
  • The Black Stallion (1941)

• Saul Bellow (1915-2005) *Nobel Prize Winner (1976)
  • The Adventures of Augie March (1954) *National Book Award Winner
  • Herzog (1964) *National Book Award Winner
  • Humboldt’s Gift *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1976)

• Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
  • James and the Giant Peach (1961)
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
  • Matilda (1988)

• Beverly Cleary (1916-2021)
  • Ramona Quimby Series (1955-1999) *Newbery Award Winners
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965)

• Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)
  • The Lottery (1948)
    • On Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
  • Life Among the Savages (1952)
  • The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

• Walker Percy (1916-1990)
  • The Moviegoer (1961) *National Book Award Winner

• Carson McCullers (1917-1967)
  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1940)

• Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1962)

• Robert Bloch (1917-1994)
  • Psycho (1959)

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) *Nobel Prize Winner (1970)
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
  • The Gulag Archipelago (1973)

• Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007)
  • A Wrinkle in Time (1962) *Newbery Award Winner

• Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

• J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)
  • Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • Nine Stories (1953)
  • Franny and Zooey (1961)

• Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
  • The Sea, The Sea (1978) *Booker Prize Winner

• Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
  • The Golden Notebook (1962)

• Jean Craighead George (1919-2012)
  • My Side of the Mountain (1959)

• Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
  • The Martian Chronicles (1950)

• Frank Herbert (1920-1986)
  • Dune (1965) *Nebula Award Winner *Hugo Award Winner

• Mario Puzo (1920-1999)
  • The Godfather (1969)

• Paul Scott (1920-1978)
  • The Raj Quartet (1965-1975)

• Alex Haley (1921-1992)
  • Roots *Special Pulitzer Prize Winner (1977)

• James Clavell (1921-1994)
  • Shogun (1975)

• James Jones (1921-1977)
  • From Here To Eternity (1951) *National Book Award Winner
  • The Thin Red Line (1962)

• Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
  • Lucky Jim (1954)

• Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
  • On The Road (1957)
  • The Dharma Bums (1958)
  • Big Sur (1962)

• José Saramago (1922-2010)
  • Blindness (1995)

• William Gaddis (1922-1998)
  • The Recognitions (1955)
  • J R (1975) *National Book Award Winner

• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)
  • Cat’s Cradle (1963)
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

• Norman Mailer (1923-2007)
  • The Naked and the Dead (1948)

• Joseph Heller (1923-1999)
  • Catch-22 (1961)

• Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
  • If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979)

• Robert Bolt (1924-1995)
  • A Man For All Seasons (1960)

• Truman Capote (1924-1984)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)
  • In Cold Blood (1966)

• James Baldwin (1924-1987)
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953)
  • Notes of a Native Son (1955)

• Malcolm X (1925-1965)
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley) (1965)

• Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
  • Short Stories *National Book Award Winner

• Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
  • Burr (1973)
  • Lincoln (1984)

• Harry Mazer (1925-2016)
  • A Boy at War Series

• James Salter (1925-2015)
  • The Hunters (1957)

• William Styron (1925-2006)
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1968)
  • Sophie’s Choice (1979) *National Book Award Winner

• Richard Yates (1926-1992)
  • Revolutionary Road (1961)

• John Knowles (1926-2001)
  • A Separate Peace (1959)

• Harper Lee (1926-2016)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1961)
    • The Meaning of Innocence in To Kill A Mockingbird

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) *Nobel Prize Winner (1982)
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

• Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)
  • Flowers for Algernon (1958-1959) *Nebula Award Winner

• B. Traven (*Unknown Author*)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927)

• Michael Shaara (1928-1988) and Jeffrey Shaara (1952-Present)
  • The Killer Angels *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1975)
  • Gods and Generals (1996)
  • The Last Full Measure (1998)
  • Gone for Soldiers (2000)
  • Rise to Rebellion (2001)
  • The Glorious Cause (2002)

• Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
  • The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
  • Aura (1962)
  • Terra Nostra (1975)
  • The Old Gringo (1985)
  • Christopher Unborn (1987)

• Elie Weisel (1928-2016)
  • Night (1960)

• Louise Fitzhugh (1928-1974)
  • Harriet the Spy (1964)

• Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
  • Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

• Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
  • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969)

• Norton Juster (1929-2021)
  • The Phantom Toll Booth (1961)

• Milan Kundera (1929- )
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

• Chaim Potok (1929-2002)
  • The Chosen (1967)

• Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
  • Things Fall Apart (1958)

• John Barth (1930- )
  • The Floating Opera (1956)
  • The Sot-Weed Factor (1960)
  • Lost in the Funhouse (1968)

• Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
  • A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

• Frank McCourt (1930-2009)
  • Angela’s Ashes (1996)

• E.L. Konigsburg (1930-2013)
  • From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) *Newbery Award Winner

• Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)
  • Snow White (1967)

• John le Carre (1931)
  • The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1963)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)

• Toni Morrison (1931-2019) *Nobel Prize Winner (1993)
  • Bluest Eye (1970)
  • Beloved *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1988)
  • Sula (1973)
  • Song of Solomon (1977)

• Tom Stoppard (1931- )
  • Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1966)

• E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
  • Ragtime (1975)
  • The March (1989)

• Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
  • The Bell Jar (1963)

• V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018) *Nobel Laureate
  • In A Free State (1971) *Booker Prize Winner
  • A Bend in the River (1979)

• Umberto Eco (1932-2016)
  • The Name of the Rose (1980)
  • Foucault’s Pendulum (1988)

• John Updike (1932-2009)
  • Rabbit, Run (1960)
  • Rabbit Redux (1971)
  • Rabbit is Rich *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1982) *National Book Award Winner
  • Rabbit at Rest *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1991)

• Natalie Babbitt (1932-2016)
  • Tuck Everlasting (1975)

• Katherine Paterson (1932- )
  • Bridge to Terabithia (1977) *Newbery Award Winner

• Robert Coover (1932- )
  • The Public Burning (1977)

• Philip Roth (1933-2018)
  • American Pastoral *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)

• Arnold Lobel (1933-1987)
  • Frog and Toad Series (1970-1979)

• Cormac McCarthy (1933- )
  • The Orchard Keeper (1965)
  • Suttree (1979)
  • All The Pretty Horses (1992) *National Book Award Winner
  • Blood Meridian (1985)
  • No Country for Old Men (2005)
  • The Road *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2007)

• Joan Didion (1934-2021)
  • The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)

• Annie Proulx (1935- )
  • The Shipping News (1993) *Pulitzer Prize Winner

• Ken Kesey (1935-2001)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

• Don Delillo (1936- )
  • White Noise (1985) *National Book Award Winner

• Mario Vargas Llosa (1936- ) *Nobel Prize Winner
  • Stories

• A.S. Byatt (1936- )
  • Possession (1990) *Booker Prize Winner

• Larry McMurtry (1937-2021)
  • Lonesome Dove (1985) *Pulitzer Prize Winner

• Lois Lowry (1937- )
  • Number The Stars (1989) *Newbery Award Winner
  • The Giver (1993)

• John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969)
  • A Confederacy of Dunces *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1981)

• Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)

• Thomas Pynchon (1937- )
  • V. (1963)
  • Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) *National Book Award Winner
  • The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
  • Mason & Dixon (1997)

• Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )
  • them (1969) *National Book Award Winner

• Judy Blume (1938- )
  • Are you There God? It’s Me Margaret (1970)

• Patricia MacLachlan (1938- )
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985)

• Margaret Atwood (1939- )
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

• Gary Paulsen (1939-2001)
  • Hatchet (1986)

• J.M. Coetzee (1940- ) *Nobel Prize Winner (2003)
  • Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
  • Disgrace (1999) *Booker Prize Winner

• Michael Crighton (1942-2008)
  • Jurassic Park (1990)

• Susan Hill (1942- )
  • The Woman in Black (1983)

• John Irving (1942- )
  • The World According to Garp (1978) *National Book Award Winner
  • The Cider House Rules (1982)

• Mildred D. Taylor (1943- )
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) *Newbery Award Winner

• Michael Ondaatje (1943- )
  • The English Patient (1992) *Booker Prize Winner

• Marilynne Robinson (1943- )
  • Housekeeping (1980)
    • On The Idea of Home in Housekeeping
  • Gilead *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2005)
    • The Quiet Simplicity of Gilead
  • Home (2008)
  • Lila (2014)
  • Jack (2020)

• Alice Walker (1944- )
  • The Color Purple *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1983)
    • Reflections on The Color Purple

• W.G. Sebald (1944-2001)
  • Austerlitz (2001)

• Armistead Maupin (1944- )
  • Tales of the City (1978-2014)

• Tobias Wolff (1945- )
  • This Boy’s Life (1989)

• Annie Dillard (1945- )
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)

• Tim O’Brien (1946- )
  • The Things They Carried (1990)

• Sir Philip Pullman (1946- )
  • The Golden Compass (1995-2000)

• Salman Rushdie (1947- )
  • Midnight’s Children (1981) *Booker Prize Winner
  • The Satanic Verses (1988)

• Stephen King (1947- )
  • Salem’s Lot (1975)
  • Misery (1987)
  • The Shining (1977)

• Paulo Coelho (1947- )
  • The Alchemist (1988)

• Susan Monk Kidd (1948- )
  • The Secret Life of Bees (2001)

• William Gibson (1948- )
  • Neuromancer (1984)

• Ian McEwan (1948- )
  • Amsterdam (1998) *Booker Prize Winner
  • Atonement (2001)
  • Saturday (2005)

• S.E. Hinton (1948- )
  • The Outsiders (1967)

• Art Spiegelman (1948- )
  • Maus (1980-1991) *Special Pulitzer Award

• Ken Follett (1949- )
  • Pillars of the World (1989)

• Haruki Murakami (1949- )
  • 1Q84 (2009)

• Jane Smiley (1949-)
  • A Thousand Acres (1991)

• Edward P. Jones (1950- )
  • The Known World *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2004)

• Charles Frazier (1950- )
  • Cold Mountain (1997)
  • Thirteen Moons (2007)
  • Night Woods (2011)
  • Varina (2018)

• Orson Scott Card (1951- )
  • Ender’s Game (1985) *Nebula Award Winner

• Amy Tan (1952- )
  • The Joy Luck Club (1989)

• Michael Cunningam (1952- )
  • The Hours *Pulitzer Prize Winner (1999)

• Orham Pamuk (1952- ) *Nobel Laureate
  • My Name Is Red (1998)
  • Istanbul: Memories and the City (2005)

• Karen Hesse (1952- )
  • Out of the Dust (1997)

• Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003)
  • 2666 (2004)

• Sandra Cisneros (1954- )
  • The House on Mango Street (1983)

• Louis de Bernieres (1954-)
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)

• Stieg Larsonn (1954-2004)
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series (posthumous, 2005-2007)

• Louis Sachar (1954- )
  • Holes (1998) *Newbery Award Winner

• Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- ) *Nobel Laureate
  • The Remains of the Day (1989) *Booker Prize Winner
  • Never Let Me Go (2005)

• John Grisham (1955- )
  • The Firm (1991)
  • The Pelican Brief (1992)
  • The Client (1993)
  • The Rainmaker (1995)
  • The Runaway Jury (1996)
  • The Testament (1999)

• Arthur Golden (1956)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (1997)

• David Guterson (1956- )
  • Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

• Elizabeth Strout (1956)
  • Olive Kitteridge *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2009)

• Jonathan Franzen (1957- )
  • The Corrections (2001) *National Book Award Winner

• Jeannette Walls (1960- )
  • The Glass Castle, A Memoir (2005)

• Neil Gaiman (1960- )
  • Coraline (2002)

• Jeffrey Eugenides (1960- )
  • Middlesex (2002)

• Arundhati Roy (1961- )
  • The God of Small Things (1997) *Booker Prize Winner

• David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
  • Infinite Jest (1996)
  • The Pale King (2011)

• Yann Martel (1963- )
  • Life of Pi *Booker Prize Winner

• Donna Tartt (1963- )
  • The Secret History (1992)
  • The Goldfinch (2013) *Pulitzer Prize Winner

• Michael Chabon (1963- )
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) Pulitzer Prize Winner

• Dan Brown (1964- )
  • The Da Vinci Code (2003)

• Khaled Hosseini (1965- )
  • The Kite Runner (2003)

• J.K. Rowling (1965- )
  • The Harry Potter Series

• Jhumpa Lahiri (1967- )
  • The Interpreter of Maladies *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2000)

• Junot Diaz (1968- )
  • The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2008)

• Colson Whitehead (1969- )
  • The Underground Railroad (2016) *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2017) *National Book Award Winner

• David Mitchell (1969- )
  • Cloud Atlas (2004)

• Anthony Doerr (1973- )
  • All The Light We Cannot See *Pulitzer Prize Winner (2015)

• Zadie Smith (1975- )
  • White Teeth (2000)