Category:20th-century American literature

• 20th-century American novels‎ (101 C, 1 P)

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• Best American Poetry series‎ (25 P, 5 F)
• Harlem Renaissance‎ (168 P)
• Publishers Weekly bestselling novels series‎ (14 P)
• Southern Agrarians‎ (17 P)

A

• Novels by Oscar Zeta Acosta‎ (2 P)
• Novels by Daniel Alarcón‎ (2 P)
• Works by Lloyd Alexander‎ (2 C)
• Works by Sherman Alexie‎ (2 C, 2 P)
• Books by Samina Ali‎ (1 P)
• Works by Woody Allen‎ (5 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Julia Alvarez‎ (3 P)
• Works by Poul Anderson‎ (4 C, 7 P)
• Works by Maya Angelou‎ (5 C)
• Works by Gloria E. Anzaldúa‎ (5 P)
• Novels by Reinaldo Arenas‎ (1 C)
• Works by Isaac Asimov‎ (3 C, 6 P)

B

• Works by Richard Bach‎ (5 P)
• Plays by Jon Robin Baitz‎ (3 P)
• Works by James Baldwin‎ (4 C, 1 P)
• Short stories by Toni Cade Bambara‎ (4 P)
• Plays by Amiri Baraka‎ (2 P)
• Works by L. Frank Baum‎ (1 C, 15 P)
• Novels by Saul Bellow‎ (14 P)
• Novels by Hal Bennett‎ (4 P)
• Works by Alfred Bester‎ (3 C, 1 P)
• Black Arts Movement‎ (1 C, 6 P)
• Novels by William Peter Blatty‎ (6 P)
• Works by William Peter Blatty‎ (4 C)
• Novels by Roark Bradford‎ (1 P)
• Works by Marion Zimmer Bradley‎ (1 C, 13 P)
• Works by Richard Brautigan‎ (1 C, 14 P)
• Works by Michael Brodsky‎ (1 C)
• Works by Gwendolyn Brooks‎ (3 P)
• Works by Fredric Brown‎ (3 C, 1 P)
• Books by Norman O. Brown‎ (2 P)
• Works by Charles Bukowski‎ (3 C, 3 P)
• Works by Edgar Rice Burroughs‎ (3 C, 1 P, 1 F)
• Works by Octavia Butler‎ (1 C, 3 P)

C

• Works by Erskine Caldwell‎ (13 P)
• Novels by Lan Cao‎ (2 P)
• Works by Truman Capote‎ (8 C, 2 P)
• Works by Lin Carter‎ (6 C, 1 P, 7 F)
• Plays by Steve Carter (playwright)‎ (5 P)
• Works by Raymond Carver‎ (2 C, 1 P)
• Works by Carlos Castaneda‎ (4 P)
• Works by Michael Chabon‎ (4 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Eileen Chang‎ (6 P)
• Plays by Paddy Chayefsky‎ (7 P)
• Works by John Cheever‎ (2 C)
• Works by Charles W. Chesnutt‎ (2 C)
• Works by Ted Chiang‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Works by Frank Chin‎ (1 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Mary H.K. Choi‎ (2 P)
• Books by Sandra Cisneros‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Michelle Cliff‎ (2 P)
• Novels by Wendy Coakley-Thompson‎ (1 P)
• Works by Ta-Nehisi Coates‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Mitch Cullin‎ (1 C, 7 P)
• Works by E. E. Cummings‎ (1 C, 5 P)

D

• Novels by Kavita Daswani‎ (2 P)
• Books by Manuel DeLanda‎ (2 P)
• Works by Samuel Delany‎ (3 C)
• Novels by Anita Desai‎ (6 P)
• Novels by Kiran Desai‎ (2 P)
• Works by Philip K. Dick‎ (6 C)
• Works by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Novels by E. L. Doctorow‎ (9 P)
• Works by Hal Draper‎ (3 P)
• Works by W. E. B. Du Bois‎ (12 P)
• Novels by Tananarive Due‎ (6 P)
• Works by Paul Laurence Dunbar‎ (6 P)

E

• Books by Will Eisner‎ (10 P)
• Works by Harlan Ellison‎ (9 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Ralph Ellison‎ (3 P)
• Works by Louise Erdrich‎ (1 C, 3 P)

F

• Works by William Faulkner‎ (4 C, 3 P, 1 F)
• Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald‎ (5 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Jonathan Safran Foer‎ (4 P)
• Plays by María Irene Fornés‎ (4 P)

G

• Novels by Ernest J. Gaines‎ (3 P)
• Novels by V. V. Ganeshananthan‎ (1 P)
• Novels by Cristina García‎ (2 P)
• Books by Kahlil Gibran‎ (6 P)
• Works by Susan Glaspell‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Donald Goines‎ (7 P)
• Plays by Jacob Gordin‎ (6 P)
• Plays by Richard Greenberg‎ (10 P)

H

• Novels by Jessica Hagedorn‎ (3 P)
• Works by Alex Haley‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Books by Han Suyin‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Plays by Lorraine Hansberry‎ (3 P)
• Works by Robert A. Heinlein‎ (5 C, 5 P)
• Works by Joseph Heller‎ (3 C, 2 P)
• Works by Lillian Hellman‎ (2 C)
• Works by Ernest Hemingway‎ (4 C, 5 P)
• Works by Patricia Highsmith‎ (2 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Chester Himes‎ (6 P)
• Plays by Israel Horovitz‎ (3 P)
• Novels by Khaled Hosseini‎ (4 P)
• Works by Robert E. Howard‎ (5 C, 1 P)
• Works by Langston Hughes‎ (3 C, 7 P, 1 F)
• Works by Zora Neale Hurston‎ (3 C, 6 P)
• Plays by David Henry Hwang‎ (26 P)

J

• Books by Michael Jackson‎ (2 P)
• Works by Shirley Jackson‎ (4 C, 1 P)
• Books by Gish Jen‎ (5 P)
• Works by Ha Jin‎ (2 C, 3 P)
• Works by Clifton Johnson (author)‎ (1 P)
• Works by Georgia Douglas Johnson‎ (3 P)
• Works by James Weldon Johnson‎ (3 P)
• Novels by Mat Johnson‎ (3 P)
• Works by Edward P. Jones‎ (2 P)
• Novels by Stephen Graham Jones‎ (10 P)

K

• Novels by Cynthia Kadohata‎ (2 P)
• Works by Jack Kerouac‎ (4 C, 3 P)
• Works by Jamaica Kincaid‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Works by Martin Luther King Jr.‎ (1 C, 8 P)
• Works by Thomas King (novelist)‎ (2 C)
• Works by Maxine Hong Kingston‎ (4 P)
• Works by Damon Knight‎ (3 C, 5 P)
• Plays by Arthur Kopit‎ (4 P)
• Works by Larry Kramer‎ (2 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Nicole Krauss‎ (5 P)
• Plays by Tony Kushner‎ (7 P)

L

• Works by Jhumpa Lahiri‎ (2 C)
• Novels by Laila Lalami‎ (4 P)
• Works by Louis L'Amour‎ (4 C)
• Works by John Howard Lawson‎ (1 C)
• Books by David Leavitt‎ (1 C)
• Novels by Chang-Rae Lee‎ (3 P)
• Works by Fritz Leiber‎ (4 C, 1 P)
• Works by Murray Leinster‎ (1 C, 9 P)
• Works by Jonathan Lethem‎ (2 C)
• Works by Jack London‎ (5 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Audre Lorde‎ (1 P, 1 F)
• Works by H. P. Lovecraft‎ (3 C, 3 P)

M

• Works by Bernard Malamud‎ (3 C)
• Works by Malcolm X‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Plays by Donald Margulies‎ (5 P)
• Novels by Paule Marshall‎ (2 P)
• Works by Mary McCarthy‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Terry McMillan‎ (4 P)
• Works by Cynthia McQuillin‎ (1 P)
• Works by H. L. Mencken‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Works by James A. Michener‎ (3 C, 1 P)
• Works by Arthur Miller‎ (4 C)
• Novels by Anchee Min‎ (5 P)
• Works by N. Scott Momaday‎ (3 P)
• Plays by Cherríe Moraga‎ (3 P)
• Works by Toni Morrison‎ (2 C, 8 P)
• Works by Bharati Mukherjee‎ (2 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Pam Muñoz Ryan‎ (3 P)
• Works by Walter Dean Myers‎ (1 C)

N

• Works by Vladimir Nabokov‎ (4 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Gina B. Nahai‎ (4 P)
• Novels by Gloria Naylor‎ (4 P)
• Works by John Neihardt‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Novels by Celeste Ng‎ (3 P)
• Works by Anaïs Nin‎ (5 C)
• Works by Marsha Norman‎ (2 C)
• Plays by Lynn Nottage‎ (7 P)
• Novels by James Welch‎ (2 P)

O

• Works by Flannery O'Connor‎ (3 C)
• Plays by Clifford Odets‎ (13 P)
• Novels by Julie Otsuka‎ (2 P)
• Novels by Ruth Ozeki‎ (5 P)
• Works by Cynthia Ozick‎ (1 C)

P

• Novels by Linda Sue Park‎ (5 P)
• Works by Suzan-Lori Parks‎ (2 C)
• Plays by Tyler Perry‎ (17 P)
• Novels by Ann Petry‎ (4 P)
• Novels by Marge Piercy‎ (4 P)
• Works by H. Beam Piper‎ (2 C, 3 P)
• Novels by Salvador Plascencia‎ (1 P)
• Works by Chaim Potok‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Works by Ezra Pound‎ (2 C, 4 P)
• Works by Fletcher Pratt‎ (2 C, 11 P)

Q

• Works by Willard Van Orman Quine‎ (2 P)

R

• Works by John Rawls‎ (4 P)
• Novels by Ishmael Reed‎ (5 P)
• Works by Adrienne Rich‎ (3 P)
• Plays by José Rivera‎ (2 P)
• Books by Philip Roth‎ (1 C, 7 P)

S

• Works by Carl Sagan‎ (16 P)
• Works by Edward Said‎ (5 P)
• Works by J. D. Salinger‎ (3 C)
• Works by Bienvenido Santos‎ (4 P)
• Works by William Saroyan‎ (2 C, 4 P)
• Novels by George Schuyler‎ (2 P)
• Works by Lisa See‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Works by Ntozake Shange‎ (2 C, 3 P)
• Works by Leslie Marmon Silko‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Mona Simpson‎ (2 P)
• Works by Upton Sinclair‎ (3 C)
• Works by Isaac Bashevis Singer‎ (2 C, 2 P)
• Plays by Anna Deavere Smith‎ (3 P)
• Works by Clark Ashton Smith‎ (3 C, 2 P)
• Novels by Martin Cruz Smith‎ (16 P)

T

• Works by Amy Tan‎ (1 C, 5 P)

A

• Algonquin Round Table
• American Indian literary nationalism
• Armed Services Editions

B

• Beat Generation
• Biker poetry
• Black Arts Movement
• Black Mountain poets
• Black Renaissance in D.C.
• Blank Generation (literary)
• Book League of America
• Brat Pack (literary)

C

• Catholic literary revival
• Chicago school (literary criticism)
• Conceptual writing
• Confessional poetry

D

• Davenport Group
• Di Yunge
• Dirty realism

E

• Expansive Poetry

F

• From the Other Side of the Century
• Fugitives (poets)

H

• Harlem Renaissance

I

• Imagism

K

• Kmart realism

L

• Language poets
• Lost Generation

M

• Mahjar

N

• Native American Renaissance
• The New American Poetry 1945–1960
• New Criticism
• New Formalism
• New sincerity
• New York School (art)
• Nuyorican movement
• Nuyorican Poets Café

O

• Old Man Minick

P

• Performance poetry

S

• San Francisco Renaissance
• History of US science fiction and fantasy magazines to 1950
• South Side Writers Group
• Southern Agrarians
• Southern Renaissance
• Spoken word
• Spoken word in Ghana

W

• What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?