Louisa May Alcott
poet, novelist
Katharine Lee Bates
author of "America the Beautiful," a
poem inspired by her travels across the country
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
journalist, story writer
Charles Brockden Brown
the first American novelist to win an
international reputation
George Washington Cable
author of "Southern" stories
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
aka Mark Twain; humorist, essayist, journalist
James Fenimore Cooper
novelist
Richard Harding Davis
journalist, novelist, playwright
Paul Laurence Dunbar
the first African-American to gain national
eminence as a poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
transcendentalist writer
Joel Chandler Harris
writer of stories
Julia Ward Howe
poet
William Dean Howells
helped introduce European writers to American
readers, and challenged American writers to
choose American subjects
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Washington Irving
establisher of the short story as an important
literary form in America
Sidney Lanier
poet
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
poet
James Russell Lowell
poet and essayist
Herman Melville
his adventures became popular books
Edgar Allan Poe
poet, literary critic, author of the first
detective story
James Whitcomb Riley
the "Hoosier Poet"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
author of the first major American novel to
feature a black hero
Bayard Taylor
journalist, traveler, lecturer, poet, and
translator
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
humor columnist
Walt Whitman
poet
John Greenleaf Whittier
poet
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