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Faulkner, William
John Lowe
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
William FaulknerIntroductionWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner (b. 1897–d. 1962) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, where his great-grandfather William Clark Falk...
Fauset, Jessie
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Jessie FausetIntroductionJessie “Redmon” Fauset was born in Fredericksville, New Jersey, on 17 April 1882, the seventh child of Reverend Redmon and An...
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Todd Tietchen
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Introduction Born on March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s life began in a state of tumult and tragedy, as his father ...
Fiedler, Leslie
Steven G. Kellman
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-11-30
Leslie FiedlerIntroductionLeslie Aaron Fiedler (b. 1917–d. 2003) was a provocative American literary and cultural critic, essayist, and fiction writer...
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Jackson R. Bryer
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
F. Scott FitzgeraldIntroductionFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (b. 1896–d. 1940), named after his distant relative, the author of “The Star-Spangled Bann...
Frank, Waldo
Sarah Kingston
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Waldo FrankIntroductionWaldo David Frank (b. 1889–d. 1967) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City. H...
Franklin, Benjamin
David Curtis
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Benjamin Franklin Introduction Benjamin Franklin (b. 1706–d. 1790) was born and raised in colonial Boston, Massachusetts, in the waning years ...
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Joseph Csicsila
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Mary Wilkins Freeman Introduction Mary Wilkins Freeman was born in the small New England village of Randolph, Massachusetts, located about fif...
Frontier Humor
David Sloane
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Frontier HumorIntroductionThe idea of a special “native” American humor has flourished since the early 1800s when the divergence of American themes an...
Fuller, Margaret
David M. Robinson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Margaret FullerIntroductionMargaret Fuller (b. 1810–d. 1850), an early advocate of women’s rights, a key participant in the Transcendentalist movement...
Gaines, Ernest
Valerie Babb
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Ernest GainesIntroductionWith the publication of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in 1971, Ernest J. Gaines (b. 15 January 1933) was acknowledge...
Garland, Hamlin
Keith Newlin
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Hamlin GarlandIntroductionHamlin Garland (b. 1860–d. 1940) was born in West Salem, Wisconsin, and in his youth moved to a number of prairie farms in I...
Garrison, William Lloyd
Enrico Dal Lago
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
William Lloyd GarrisonIntroductionWilliam Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) was the most prominent white advocate of immediate abolition of slavery of his ge...
Gibson, William
Mathias Nilges
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
William GibsonIntroductionCanadian-American author William Gibson was born on March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina. In 1968, Gibson moved to Toro...
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gary Scharnhorst
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Introduction Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a.k.a. Charlotte Anna Perkins and Charlotte Perkins Stetson (b. 1860–d. 1935),...
Ginsberg, Allen
Matt Theado
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Allen GinsbergIntroductionIrwin Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926–d. 1997) was born in Newark, New Jersey, to a high school teacher father who published poetry ...
Glasgow, Ellen
Catherine Rainwater
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Ellen GlasgowIntroductionEllen Glasgow (b. 1873–d. 1945) was born in Richmond, Virginia. She enjoyed a career spanning nearly half a century as the au...
Gold, Mike
David Roessel
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Mike GoldIntroductionMike Gold (or Michael Gold; he used both names on published works) was born Itzok Granich in the Jewish East Side of New York in ...
González, Jovita
Melina Vizcaino-Aleman
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Jovita GonzálezIntroductionJovita González (b. 1904–d. 1983) was a South Texas Mexican American woman and descendant of Spanish colonizers of the Rio ...
Graphic Narratives in the U.S.
Daniel Worden
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Graphic Narratives in the United States Introduction The more common term to describe the texts that fall under the heading of “Graphic Narrat...
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