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AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 1900 READING LIST
I. Poetry
Robert Frost
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Genevieve Taggard, Muriel Rukeyser, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H.D., or Louise Bogan
Ezra Pound
James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, or Margaret Walker
William Carlos Williams
T. S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens
Marianne Moore
Langston Hughes or Gwendolyn Brooks
Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, or Adrienne Rich
Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, or Frank O'Hara
II. Prose
W. E. B. Du Bois or Booker T. Washington
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, or John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, or Eudora Welty
Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald
Richard Wright or Ralph Ellison
Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Henry Roth, or Paul Auster
Toni Morrison or Ishmael Reed
Louise Erdrich, F. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Okata, Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, or Bharati Mukherjee
Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Barth, or Vladimir Nabokov
III. Drama
Eugene O'Neill
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, or Sam Shepard
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