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Boyd, Ernest Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyle, Kay Bourne, Randolph Silliman Bontemps, Arna Bowles, Paul Brackenridge, Henry Marie Brackenridge, Hugh Henry Bradbury, Ray Bradford, Gamaliel Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley) Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks, Maria Gowen Brooks, Van Wyck Brown, Charles Brockden Bryant, William Cullen Brautigan, Richard Browne, Charles Farrar Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Bulfinch, Thomas Buntline, Ned Burgess, Gelett Burke, Kenneth Duva Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Burroughs, William Seward Bukowski, Charles Bynner, Witter Cable, George Washington Cabell, Branch Cain, James Mallahan Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Taylor Calisher, Hortense Canby, Henry Seidel Capote, Truman Carleton, Will Carver, Raymond Cather, Willa Sibert Canfield, Dorothy Channing, William Ellery Chandler, Raymond Thornton Chapman, John Jay Chase, Mary Ellen Cheever, John Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Churchill, Winston Ciardi, John Clampitt, Amy Claflin, Tennessee Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury Colum, Padraic Connelly, Marc Cook, Ebenezer Cooper, James Fenimore Cowley, Malcolm Cozzens, James Gould Cook, George Cram Cullen, Countee Cummings, E. 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Dodge, Mary Mapes Dole, Nathan Haskell Donnelly, Ignatius Doolittle, Hilda Dos Passos, John Roderigo Dove, Rita Drake, Joseph Rodman Dreiser, Theodore Dunbar, Paul Laurence Duncan, Robert Dunlap, William Duyckinck, Evert Augustus Dwight, Theodore Eastman, Max Eberhart, Richard Eggleston, Edward Elkin, Stanley Ellison, Ralph Emerson, Ralph Waldo Erskine, John Evans, Augusta Jane Farrell, James Thomas Faulkner, William Fast, Howard Falkner, William Feiffer, Jules Ferber, Edna Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco Fiedler, Leslie Field, Rachel Fields, James Thomas Field, Eugene Fitch, Clyde Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fields, Annie Adams Fletcher, John Gould Flint, Timothy Ford, Richard Foster, Hannah Webster Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freneau, Philip Frost, Robert F. P. A. Gaddis, William Gale, Zona Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner, John Garland, Hamlin Gass, William Howard Geisel, Theodor Seuss Gilder, Richard Watson Ginsberg, Allen Glasgow, Ellen Glass, Montague Marsden Glaspell, Susan Godfrey, Thomas Green, Anna Katherine Green, Paul Gregory, Horace Grey, Zane Griswold, Rufus Wilmot Grayson, David Guare, John Hale, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell) Halleck, Fitz-Greene Hammett, Dashiell Hansberry, Lorraine Harland, Henry Harris, Joel Chandler Harte, Bret Harris, Frank Hart, Moss Hawkes, John Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hayden, Robert Hayne, Paul Hamilton Hardwick, Elizabeth Hearn, Lafcadio Hecht, Ben Hedge, Frederic Henry Heller, Joseph Heinlein, Robert Anson MacDonald Hellman, Lillian Hemingway, Ernest Hergesheimer, Joseph Herrick, Robert Heyward, DuBose Hersey, John Richard Henry, O. Hicks, Granville Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Highsmith, Patricia Holmes, Oliver Wendell Hopkins, Lemuel Horgan, Paul Howard, Bronson Howard, Sidney Coe Howe, Irving Howe, Julia Ward Howells, William Dean Hubbard, Elbert Hudson, Henry Norman Hughes, Langston Huneker, James Gibbons Hurst, Fannie Hurston, Zora Neale Hunter, Evan H. D. Inge, William Irving, John Irving, Washington Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson, Shirley James, Henry Jarrell, Randall Jeffers, Robinson Jewett, Sarah Orne Johnson, James Weldon Johnston, Mary Johnston, Richard Malcolm Jones, James Jong, Erica Jones, LeRoi Judson, Edward Zane Carroll Kanin, Garson Kaufman, George S. Kazin, Alfred Kesey, Ken Elton Kelly, George Kennedy, Charles Rann Kerouac, Jack Kerr, Jean Collins Key, Francis Scott Kennedy, William Kilmer, Joyce King, Stephen Kingsolver, Barbara Knight, Sarah Kemble Knowles, John Koch, Kenneth Kosinski, Jerzy Kreymborg, Alfred Krutch, Joseph Wood Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon Lanier, Sidney Lardner, Ring Lathrop, George Parsons Lazarus, Emma L'Amour, Louis Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber Leland, Charles Godfrey Leonard, William Ellery Levertov, Denise Lewisohn, Ludwig Lewis, Sinclair Leonard, Elmore Lindsay, Vachel Lin Yutang Lofting, Hugh London, Jack Long, John Luther Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Lowell, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lothrop, Amy Lovecraft, H. P. Luce, Clare Boothe Macdonald, Ross Macdonald, Dwight MacLeish, Archibald Mailer, Norman Malamud, Bernard Mamet, David Marquand, John Phillips Marquis, Don Markham, Edwin Masters, Edgar Lee Matthiessen, F. O. Maxwell, William Keepers, Jr. MacInnes, Helen Mason, Bobbie Ann McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Therese McCullers, Carson McKay, Claude McGinley, Phyllis McBain, Ed Melville, Herman Mencken, H. L. Merwin, W. S. Merrill, James Michener, James Albert Miller, Joaquin Miller, Henry Millay, Edna St. Vincent Miller, Arthur Mitchell, Margaret Millar, Kenneth Miller, Cincinnatus Heine Monroe, Harriet Moody, William Vaughn Moore, Marianne Moore, Clement Clarke Morley, Christopher Morris, Wright Morton, Sarah Wentworth Morrison, Toni Murfree, Mary Noailles Nabokov, Vladimir Nash, Ogden Nemerov, Howard Nin, Anaïs Norris, Frank Norris, Charles Gilman Oates, Joyce Carol O'Connor, Flannery Odets, Clifford O'Hara, Frank O. Henry O'Hara, John Olson, Charles O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone) Ozick, Cynthia Page, Thomas Nelson Paine, Albert Bigelow Parton, James Parker, Dorothy Patchen, Kenneth Paulding, James Kirke Perelman, S. J. Percy, Walker Peters, Samuel Phillips, David Graham Plath, Sylvia Poe, Edgar Allan Poole, Ernest Porter, Katherine Anne Pound, Ezra Loomis Porter, William Sydney Powell, Dawn Proulx, E. Annie Pynchon, Thomas Rand, Ayn Ransom, John Crowe Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan Rabe, David Reese, Lizette Woodworth Repplier, Agnes Rexroth, Kenneth Rice, Elmer Rich, Adrienne Richter, Conrad Riley, James Whitcomb Rinehart, Mary Roberts Ripley, George Roberts, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Kenneth Lewis Robinson, Edwin Arlington Roethke, Theodore Rølvaag, Ole Edvart Roth, Philip Rowson, Susanna Haswell Runyon, Damon Rukeyser, Muriel Russell, Charles Edward Salinger, J. D. Sandburg, Carl Saroyan, William Sarton, May Stafford, Jean Stedman, Edmund Clarence Steele, Wilbur Daniel Steffens, Lincoln Stein, Gertrude Steinbeck, John Stephens, John Lloyd Stevens, Wallace Stevenson, Burton Egbert Stockton, Francis Richard Stone, Melville Elijah Stoppard, Tom Stout, Rex Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stone, Robert Styron, William Strand, Mark Stegner, Wallace Schulberg, Budd Schwartz, Delmore Seeger, Alan Sendak, Maurice Bernard Seton, Ernest Thompson Seuss, Dr. Sexton, Anne Shapiro, Karl Shepard, Sam Sherman, Stuart Pratt Sherwood, Robert Emmet Shaw, Henry Wheeler Simms, William Gilmore Simon, Neil Sinclair, Upton Simpson, Louis Smith, Dave Smith, Lillian Snodgrass, W. D. Snyder, Gary Sontag, Susan Spingarn, Joel Elias Tabb, John Banister Taggard, Genevieve Tan, Amy Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarkington, Booth Taylor, Edward Tate, Allen Teasdale, Sara Thompson, Daniel Pierce Thompson, William T. Thurber, James Thoreau, Henry David Thompson, Ernest Seton Ticknor, George Timrod, Henry Todd, Mabel Loomis Toomer, Jean Tourgée, Albion Winegar Traven, B. Trilling, Lionel Trumbull, John Twain, Mark Tyler, Royall Tyler, Anne Untermeyer, Louis Updike, John Uris, Leon Van Doren, Carl (Clinton) Van Doren, Mark van Loon, Hendrik Willem Van Vechten, Carl Van Dine, S. S. Very, Jones Vidal, Gore Villard, Oswald Garrison Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Walker, Alice Wallace, Lew Warner, Charles Dudley Warren, Robert Penn Warren, Mercy Otis Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner, Susan Bogert Weems, Mason Locke Welty, Eudora West, Jessamyn West, Nathanael Westcott, Edward Noyes Wetherall, Elizabeth Wheatley, Phillis Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones White, E. B. White, Edmund White, Stewart Edward Whitlock, Brand Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman, Walt Whittier, John Greenleaf White, William Allen Wiggin, Kate Douglas (Smith) Wilbur, Richard Wilder, Thornton Niven Wigglesworth, Michael Williams, William Carlos Willis, Nathaniel Parker Wilson, August Wilson, James Grant Wilson, Edmund Williams, Tennessee Winter, William Winters, Yvor Wister, Owen Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wood, Clement Woodberry, George Edward Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin) Woodworth, Samuel Woollcott, Alexander Wouk, Herman Wright, James Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, Richard Wylie, Elinor (Hoyt)

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