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Terry Prince, Lucy
Michael Antonucci
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Lucy Terry PrinceIntroductionLucy Terry Prince (b. c. 1725–d. 1821) was the African-born author of “Bars Fight,” the earliest known literary work in E...
Thoreau, Henry David
William Rossi
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Henry David ThoreauIntroductionHenry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) was given the name David Henry at birth, outside Concord, Massachusetts, on the f...
Time Travel
David Wittenberg
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Time TravelIntroductionTime travel is of interest in several academic research fields that overlap and communicate with one another to varying degrees...
Tourgée, Albion W.
Carolyn L. Karcher
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Albion W. TourgéeIntroductionAlbion Winegar Tourgée (b. 1838–d. 1905), born the son of a farmer of Huguenot descent in Williamsfield, Ohio, attended K...
Transcendentalism
David M. Robinson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
TranscendentalismIntroductionTranscendentalism was a religious, literary, and political movement that evolved from New England Unitarianism in the 182...
Truth, Sojourner
Nell Irvin Painter
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Sojourner TruthIntroductionSojourner Truth (b. c. 1797–d. 1883), born enslaved as Isabella Van Wagenen in the Hudson River Valley of Ulster County, Ne...
Twain, Mark
Laura Skandera Trombley, Ann M. Ryan
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Mark Twain Introduction The pseudonym “Mark Twain” does less to conceal the identity of Samuel Langhorne Clemens than to manifest—and market—i...
Tyler, Royall
Jacob Crane
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
Royall TylerIntroductionRoyall Tyler (b. 1757–d. 1826) was born to a prominent merchant family in Boston and came of age in the decades leading up to ...
Updike, John
James Schiff
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
John UpdikeIntroductionJohn Updike (b. 1932–d. 2009) was an immensely versatile and prolific writer who produced more than sixty volumes, including no...
Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe
Marissa López
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Introduction Mariano Vallejo’s (b. 1807–d. 1890) father, Ignacio, came to California from Mexico with Junipero Serra...
Viramontes, Helena María
Leigh Johnson
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Helena María ViramontesIntroductionHelena María Viramontes was born in East Los Angeles on 26 February 1954, one of nine children. Occasionally one wi...
Walker, David
Rebecca Hooker
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
David Walker Introduction David Walker (b. 1785 or 1796/1797?–d. 1830), born in Wilmington, North Carolina to an enslaved father and a free mo...
Walker, Margaret
Keith Byerman
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Margaret WalkerIntroductionMargaret Abigail Walker Alexander was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 7, 1915. Her father, Sigismund, was a Methodist ...
War Literature, Vietnam
Catherine Calloway
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Vietnam War LiteratureIntroductionConsidered America’s first “long” war, the Vietnam War, which spanned the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, has always bee...
Warren, Mercy Otis
Sandra J. Sarkela
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Mercy Otis WarrenIntroductionMercy Otis Warren (b. 1728–d. 1814), a prolific and thoughtful correspondent, savvy propagandist, playwright, and politic...
Warren, Robert Penn
Joseph Millichap
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Robert Penn WarrenIntroductionThe life of Robert Penn Warren (b. 1905–d. 1989) spanned most of the 20th century, so that his varied and voluminous wor...
Wells, Ida B.
Jacqueline Royster
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Ida B. WellsIntroductionIda Bell Wells (b. 1862–d. 1931) gained prominence in the 19th century as a journalist and social activist. She began her prof...
Welty, Eudora
Pearl Mchaney
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Eudora WeltyIntroductionDuring her lifetime, Eudora Alice Welty (b. 1909–d. 2001) published more than forty short stories, five novels, a collection o...
Wendy Rose (Miwok/Hopi)
Elizabeth Archuleta
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Wendy Rose (Miwok/Hopi)IntroductionWendy Rose, born Bronwen Elizabeth Edwards (b. 1948) in Oakland, California, is the author of several books of poet...
Westerns
Nicolas S. Witschi
Subject: American Literature »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Westerns Introduction Descriptions of the western usually begin by calling it a form of cheap entertainment that is mostly about cowboys and g...
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