NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE
PERIODS (E Modern-19th-20th) GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary History
Unit I Pre-Colonial
Indian Oral Literature Alvar Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)
Unit II Colonial to 1760
Poetry Bradstreet, Anne-Taylor, EdwardAutobiography Smith, John (1580-1631) Winthrop, John (1588-1649) Bradford, William(1590-1657) HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION(1856) Rowlandson, Mary (c. 1635-1711) Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730) Mather, Cotton(1663-1728) MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA(1702) Edwards, Jonathan(1703-1758) SINNERS IN THE HANDS OT AN ANGRY GOD(1741) Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-55)
Unit III Revolutionary and Romantic 1760-1830 Essay Franklin, Benjamin(1706-1790) POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK(1732-1757)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN(1791) Woolman, John (1720-72) Paine, Thomas(1737-1809) AGE OF REASON(1794-1795)-COMMON SENSE(1776)-RIGHTS OF MAN(1791-1792) Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Jay, John(1745-1829) FEDERALIST(1787-1788) Madison, James(1751-1836) FEDERALIST(1787-1788) Hamilton, Alexander(1757-1804) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)Autobiography Adams, Abigail and John (1744-1818, 1735-1826) LETTERS OF ABIGAIL ADAMS Occom, Samson (1723-92) Equiano, Olaudah (1745-97) Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1735-1813) Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1753-1784) Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) & Jane Johnston (1800-43) Fiction Irving, Washington(1783-1859) HISTORY OF NEW YORK, A(1809)- RIP VAN WINKLE(1819-1820) Cooper, James Fenimore(1789-1851) SPY(1821)-PILOT(1823)-PIONEERS(1823)-LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1826)-PRAIRIE(1827)-
Unit IV The American Renaissance 1830-65
Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth(1807-1882) EVANGELINE(1847)-SONG OF HIAWATHA(1855)- Whitman, Walt(1819-1892) LEAVES OF GRASS(1855)-DEMOCRATIC VISTAS(1871) Dickinson, Emily(1830-1886) COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON(1960)Autobiography Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE I GIRL(1861) Douglass, Frederick(1818-1895) NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE(1845)Essay Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803-1882) AMERICAN SCHOLAR(1837)-REPRESENTATIVE MEN(1850)-SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE(1870) Fuller, Margaret (1810-50) Thoreau, Henry David(1817-1862) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE(1849)-WALDEN(1854)Fiction Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864) Poe, Edgar Allan(1809-1849) NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM(1838)-FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER(1839)- Fern, Fanny (1811-72) Stowe, Harriet Beecher(1811-1896) UNCLE TOM’S CABIN(1851-1852)-OLDTOWN FOLKS(1869) Melville, Herman(1819-1891) TYPEE (1846)-MOBY DICK(1851)-ISRAEL POTTER(1855)-CONFIDENCE MAN (1857) Alcott, Louisa May(1832-1888) LITTLE WOMEN(1868)
Unit IV Realism and Naturalism (1865-1920) Poetry Lanier, Sidney(1842-1881) POEMS(1877-1884) Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935) TRISTRAM(1927) Fiction Twain, Mark(1835-1910) Howells, William Dean(1837- ) MODERN INSTANCE, A(1882)-RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM(1885)-INDIAN SUMMER(1886)- James, Henry (1843-1916) Chopin, Kate(1850-1904) AWAKENING (1899) Gilman, Charlotte Perkins(1860-1935) HERLAND(1915) Wharton, Edith(1862-1937) HOUSE OF MIRTH(1905)-FRUIT OF THE TREE(1907)-ETHAN FROME(1911)-OLD MAID(1924) Du Bois, W. E. B.(1868-1963) SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS (1962) Tarkington, Booth(1869-1946) TURMOIL (1915)-SEVENTEEN(1916)-MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS(1918)-GENTLE JULIA (1922) Norris, Frank(1870-1902) MCTEAGUE(1899)-OCTOPUS (1901)-PIT (1903)OL Crane, Stephen(1871-1900) MAGGIE(1893)-RED BADGE OF COURAGE(1895)-OPEN BOAT(1897) Dreiser, Theodore(1871-1945) Dunbar, Paul Laurence(1872-1906) SPORT OF THE GODS (1901) Cather, Willa(1873-1947) London, Jack(1876-1916) CAN OF THE WILD (1903)- SEA-WOLF (1904) Life Writing Adams, Henry(1838-1918) MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES(1904)-EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS(1907) Black Elk(1863-1950) BLACK ELK SPEAKS(1932)Essay James, William(1842-1910) WILL TO BELIEVE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POPULAR PHILOSOPHY(1897)
Unit V: 1920-1965 – American Modernism
Poetry Frost, Robert(1874-1963) NORTH OF BOSTON(1914) Sandburg, Carl(1878-1967) CHICAGO POEMS(1916)-ABRAHAM LINCOLN(1926-1939)-PEOPLE, YES (1936) Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) Stevens, Wallace(1879-1955) HARMONIUM(1923)-IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST(1934) Williams, William Carlos(1883-1963) USE OF FORCE (1938)-PATERSON(1946-1958) Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) CANTOS(1917-1969)-HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY(1920)-PERSONAE(1926) H.D.(1886-1961) SEA GARDEN(1916) Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) Cummings, E. E.(1894-1962) ENORMOUS ROOM(1922) Hughes, Langston(1902-1967) WEARY BLUES (1926)Drama O’Neill, Eugene(1888-1953) EMPEROR JONES (1920)-ANNA CHRISTIE(1921)-HAIRY APE (1922) Williams, Tennessee(1911-1938) GLASS MENAGERIE (1944)-STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A(1947) Miller, Arthur(1915-2005) ALL MY SONS(1947)-DEATH OF A SALESMAN(1949)-CRUCIBLE (1953)Fiction Stein, Gertrude(1874-1946) THREE LIVES(1909)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (1933) Anderson, Sherwood(1876-1941) WINESBURG, OHIO(1919)-POOR WHITE(1920)-DARK LAUGHTER(1925) Sinclair, Upton(1878-1968) JUNGLE (1906) Lewis, Sinclair(1885-1951) MAIN STREET(1920)-BABBITT(1922)-ARROWSMITH(1925)-ELMER GANTRY(1927)- Porter, Katherine Anne(1890-1980) PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER(1939)-SHIP OF FOOLS(1962) Hurston, Zora Neale(1891-1960) THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD(1937)-DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD(1942) Buck, Pearl S.(1892-1973) GOOD EARTH (1931)-DRAGON SEED(1942) Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) Faulkner, William(1897-1962) Hemingway, Ernest Wolfe, Thomas(1900-1938) OF TIME AND THE RIVER(1935)-YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN(1940) Steinbeck, John(1902-1968) TO A GOD UNKNOWN (1933)-TORTILLA FLAT(1935)-IN DUBIOUS BATTLE(1936)- OF MICE AND MEN(1937)-GRAPES OF WRATH (1939)-CANNERY ROW (1945) Caldwell, Erskine(1903-1987) TOBACCO ROAD(1932)-GOD'S LITTLE ACRE(1933) Saroyan, William(1908-1981) TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1939)-HUMAN COMEDY (1943) Wright, Richard (1908-1960) Welty, Eudora(1909-2001) DELTA WEDDING(1946)-GOLDEN APPLES (1949)-PONDER HEART (1954)
Unit VI Late 20th Century
Poetry Bishop, Elizabeth(1911-1979) NORTH AND SOUTH(1946) Lowell, Robert(1917-1977) FOR THE UNION DEAD(1960) Brooks, Gwendolyn(1917-2000) ANNIC ALLEN(1949)-MAUD MARTHA(1953) Wilbur, Richard (1921- ) Rich, Adrienne(1929-2012) DIVING INTO THE WRECK(1973) Snyder, Gary (1930- ) Plath, Sylvia(1932-963) COLOSSUS, AND OTHER POEMS (1960)-BELL JAR(1963)-ARIEL(1965) Robinson, Marilynne (1943—)Autobiography Malcolm X(1925-1965) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (1965) Ginsberg, Allen(1926-1997) HOWL(1956) Angelou, Maya(1928-2014) I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS(1970) Momaday, N. Scott(1934- ) HOUSE MADE OF DAWN(1968) Rodriguez, Richard(1944- ) HUNGER OF MEMORY(1982) Dillard, Annie(1945- ) PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK(1974)Drama Albee , Edward (1928— Fiction Ellison, Ralph(1914-1994) INVISIBLE MAN(1952)-JUNETEENTH(1999) Jackson, Shirley(1916-1965) LOTTERY(1948)-HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE(1959) McCullers, Carson(1917-1967) HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER(1940)-REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE(1941) Salinger, J. D.(1919-2010) CATCHER IN THE RYE(1951)-FRANNY AND ZOOEY(1955-1957) Vonnegut, Kurt(1922-2007) SIRENS OF TITAN(1959)-CAT’S CRADLE(1963)-SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE(1969)- Heller, Joseph(1923-1999) CATCH-22(1961) Mailer, Norman(1923-2007) NAKED AND THE DEAD (1948)-ARMIES OF THE NIGHT(1968) Baldwin, James(1924-1987) GO TEIL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN(1953)-NOTES OF A NATIVE SON(1955)-ANOTHER COUNTRY(1962) O’Connor, Flannery(1925-1964) WISE BLOOD(1952)-GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, AND OTHER STORIES, A(1955) Styron, William(1925-2006) LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS(1951)-CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER(1967)-SOPHIE’S CHOICE(1979) Lee, Harper(1926-2016) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD(1960) Morrison, Toni(1931-2019) BLUEST EYE(1970)-SULA(1973)-SONG OF SOLOMON(1977)-BELOVED(1987)-JAZZ(1992)-PARADISE(1998) Oates, Joyce Carol(1938- ) THEM(1969)-WONDERLAND(1971)-BELLEFLEUR(1980)-BLONDE(2000)-GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER(2007) Kingston, Maxine Hong(1940- ) WOMAN WARRIOR(1976) Tyler, Anne(1941- ) DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT(1982)-ACCIDENTAL TOURIST(1985) Walker, Alice(1944- ) MERIDIAN(1976)-COLOR PURPLE(1982) Silko, Leslie Marmon(1948- ) CEREMONY(1977)-STORYTELLER(1981)-ALMANAC OF THE DEAD(1991) Tan, Amy(1952- ) JOY LUCK CLUB(1989)-KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE(1991) Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)Essay Friedan, Betty(1921-2006) FEMININE MYSTIQUE(1963) King, Martin Luther, Jr.(1929-1968) LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL(1963)
PERIODS (E Modern-19th-20th) GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary History
Unit I Pre-Colonial
Indian Oral Literature Alvar Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)
Unit II Colonial to 1760
Poetry Bradstreet, Anne-Taylor, EdwardAutobiography Smith, John (1580-1631) Winthrop, John (1588-1649) Bradford, William(1590-1657) HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION(1856) Rowlandson, Mary (c. 1635-1711) Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730) Mather, Cotton(1663-1728) MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA(1702) Edwards, Jonathan(1703-1758) SINNERS IN THE HANDS OT AN ANGRY GOD(1741) Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-55)
Unit III Revolutionary and Romantic 1760-1830 Essay Franklin, Benjamin(1706-1790) POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK(1732-1757)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN(1791) Woolman, John (1720-72) Paine, Thomas(1737-1809) AGE OF REASON(1794-1795)-COMMON SENSE(1776)-RIGHTS OF MAN(1791-1792) Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Jay, John(1745-1829) FEDERALIST(1787-1788) Madison, James(1751-1836) FEDERALIST(1787-1788) Hamilton, Alexander(1757-1804) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)Autobiography Adams, Abigail and John (1744-1818, 1735-1826) LETTERS OF ABIGAIL ADAMS Occom, Samson (1723-92) Equiano, Olaudah (1745-97) Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1735-1813) Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1753-1784) Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) & Jane Johnston (1800-43) Fiction Irving, Washington(1783-1859) HISTORY OF NEW YORK, A(1809)- RIP VAN WINKLE(1819-1820) Cooper, James Fenimore(1789-1851) SPY(1821)-PILOT(1823)-PIONEERS(1823)-LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1826)-PRAIRIE(1827)-
Unit IV The American Renaissance 1830-65
Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth(1807-1882) EVANGELINE(1847)-SONG OF HIAWATHA(1855)- Whitman, Walt(1819-1892) LEAVES OF GRASS(1855)-DEMOCRATIC VISTAS(1871) Dickinson, Emily(1830-1886) COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON(1960)Autobiography Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE I GIRL(1861) Douglass, Frederick(1818-1895) NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE(1845)Essay Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803-1882) AMERICAN SCHOLAR(1837)-REPRESENTATIVE MEN(1850)-SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE(1870) Fuller, Margaret (1810-50) Thoreau, Henry David(1817-1862) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE(1849)-WALDEN(1854)Fiction Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864) Poe, Edgar Allan(1809-1849) NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM(1838)-FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER(1839)- Fern, Fanny (1811-72) Stowe, Harriet Beecher(1811-1896) UNCLE TOM’S CABIN(1851-1852)-OLDTOWN FOLKS(1869) Melville, Herman(1819-1891) TYPEE (1846)-MOBY DICK(1851)-ISRAEL POTTER(1855)-CONFIDENCE MAN (1857) Alcott, Louisa May(1832-1888) LITTLE WOMEN(1868)
Unit IV Realism and Naturalism (1865-1920) Poetry Lanier, Sidney(1842-1881) POEMS(1877-1884) Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935) TRISTRAM(1927) Fiction Twain, Mark(1835-1910) Howells, William Dean(1837- ) MODERN INSTANCE, A(1882)-RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM(1885)-INDIAN SUMMER(1886)- James, Henry (1843-1916) Chopin, Kate(1850-1904) AWAKENING (1899) Gilman, Charlotte Perkins(1860-1935) HERLAND(1915) Wharton, Edith(1862-1937) HOUSE OF MIRTH(1905)-FRUIT OF THE TREE(1907)-ETHAN FROME(1911)-OLD MAID(1924) Du Bois, W. E. B.(1868-1963) SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS (1962) Tarkington, Booth(1869-1946) TURMOIL (1915)-SEVENTEEN(1916)-MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS(1918)-GENTLE JULIA (1922) Norris, Frank(1870-1902) MCTEAGUE(1899)-OCTOPUS (1901)-PIT (1903)OL Crane, Stephen(1871-1900) MAGGIE(1893)-RED BADGE OF COURAGE(1895)-OPEN BOAT(1897) Dreiser, Theodore(1871-1945) Dunbar, Paul Laurence(1872-1906) SPORT OF THE GODS (1901) Cather, Willa(1873-1947) London, Jack(1876-1916) CAN OF THE WILD (1903)- SEA-WOLF (1904) Life Writing Adams, Henry(1838-1918) MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES(1904)-EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS(1907) Black Elk(1863-1950) BLACK ELK SPEAKS(1932)Essay James, William(1842-1910) WILL TO BELIEVE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POPULAR PHILOSOPHY(1897)
Unit V: 1920-1965 – American Modernism
Poetry Frost, Robert(1874-1963) NORTH OF BOSTON(1914) Sandburg, Carl(1878-1967) CHICAGO POEMS(1916)-ABRAHAM LINCOLN(1926-1939)-PEOPLE, YES (1936) Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931) Stevens, Wallace(1879-1955) HARMONIUM(1923)-IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST(1934) Williams, William Carlos(1883-1963) USE OF FORCE (1938)-PATERSON(1946-1958) Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) CANTOS(1917-1969)-HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY(1920)-PERSONAE(1926) H.D.(1886-1961) SEA GARDEN(1916) Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) Cummings, E. E.(1894-1962) ENORMOUS ROOM(1922) Hughes, Langston(1902-1967) WEARY BLUES (1926)Drama O’Neill, Eugene(1888-1953) EMPEROR JONES (1920)-ANNA CHRISTIE(1921)-HAIRY APE (1922) Williams, Tennessee(1911-1938) GLASS MENAGERIE (1944)-STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A(1947) Miller, Arthur(1915-2005) ALL MY SONS(1947)-DEATH OF A SALESMAN(1949)-CRUCIBLE (1953)Fiction Stein, Gertrude(1874-1946) THREE LIVES(1909)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (1933) Anderson, Sherwood(1876-1941) WINESBURG, OHIO(1919)-POOR WHITE(1920)-DARK LAUGHTER(1925) Sinclair, Upton(1878-1968) JUNGLE (1906) Lewis, Sinclair(1885-1951) MAIN STREET(1920)-BABBITT(1922)-ARROWSMITH(1925)-ELMER GANTRY(1927)- Porter, Katherine Anne(1890-1980) PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER(1939)-SHIP OF FOOLS(1962) Hurston, Zora Neale(1891-1960) THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD(1937)-DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD(1942) Buck, Pearl S.(1892-1973) GOOD EARTH (1931)-DRAGON SEED(1942) Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) Faulkner, William(1897-1962) Hemingway, Ernest Wolfe, Thomas(1900-1938) OF TIME AND THE RIVER(1935)-YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN(1940) Steinbeck, John(1902-1968) TO A GOD UNKNOWN (1933)-TORTILLA FLAT(1935)-IN DUBIOUS BATTLE(1936)- OF MICE AND MEN(1937)-GRAPES OF WRATH (1939)-CANNERY ROW (1945) Caldwell, Erskine(1903-1987) TOBACCO ROAD(1932)-GOD'S LITTLE ACRE(1933) Saroyan, William(1908-1981) TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1939)-HUMAN COMEDY (1943) Wright, Richard (1908-1960) Welty, Eudora(1909-2001) DELTA WEDDING(1946)-GOLDEN APPLES (1949)-PONDER HEART (1954)
Unit VI Late 20th Century
Poetry Bishop, Elizabeth(1911-1979) NORTH AND SOUTH(1946) Lowell, Robert(1917-1977) FOR THE UNION DEAD(1960) Brooks, Gwendolyn(1917-2000) ANNIC ALLEN(1949)-MAUD MARTHA(1953) Wilbur, Richard (1921- ) Rich, Adrienne(1929-2012) DIVING INTO THE WRECK(1973) Snyder, Gary (1930- ) Plath, Sylvia(1932-963) COLOSSUS, AND OTHER POEMS (1960)-BELL JAR(1963)-ARIEL(1965) Robinson, Marilynne (1943—)Autobiography Malcolm X(1925-1965) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (1965) Ginsberg, Allen(1926-1997) HOWL(1956) Angelou, Maya(1928-2014) I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS(1970) Momaday, N. Scott(1934- ) HOUSE MADE OF DAWN(1968) Rodriguez, Richard(1944- ) HUNGER OF MEMORY(1982) Dillard, Annie(1945- ) PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK(1974)Drama Albee , Edward (1928— Fiction Ellison, Ralph(1914-1994) INVISIBLE MAN(1952)-JUNETEENTH(1999) Jackson, Shirley(1916-1965) LOTTERY(1948)-HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE(1959) McCullers, Carson(1917-1967) HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER(1940)-REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE(1941) Salinger, J. D.(1919-2010) CATCHER IN THE RYE(1951)-FRANNY AND ZOOEY(1955-1957) Vonnegut, Kurt(1922-2007) SIRENS OF TITAN(1959)-CAT’S CRADLE(1963)-SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE(1969)- Heller, Joseph(1923-1999) CATCH-22(1961) Mailer, Norman(1923-2007) NAKED AND THE DEAD (1948)-ARMIES OF THE NIGHT(1968) Baldwin, James(1924-1987) GO TEIL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN(1953)-NOTES OF A NATIVE SON(1955)-ANOTHER COUNTRY(1962) O’Connor, Flannery(1925-1964) WISE BLOOD(1952)-GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, AND OTHER STORIES, A(1955) Styron, William(1925-2006) LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS(1951)-CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER(1967)-SOPHIE’S CHOICE(1979) Lee, Harper(1926-2016) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD(1960) Morrison, Toni(1931-2019) BLUEST EYE(1970)-SULA(1973)-SONG OF SOLOMON(1977)-BELOVED(1987)-JAZZ(1992)-PARADISE(1998) Oates, Joyce Carol(1938- ) THEM(1969)-WONDERLAND(1971)-BELLEFLEUR(1980)-BLONDE(2000)-GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER(2007) Kingston, Maxine Hong(1940- ) WOMAN WARRIOR(1976) Tyler, Anne(1941- ) DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT(1982)-ACCIDENTAL TOURIST(1985) Walker, Alice(1944- ) MERIDIAN(1976)-COLOR PURPLE(1982) Silko, Leslie Marmon(1948- ) CEREMONY(1977)-STORYTELLER(1981)-ALMANAC OF THE DEAD(1991) Tan, Amy(1952- ) JOY LUCK CLUB(1989)-KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE(1991) Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)Essay Friedan, Betty(1921-2006) FEMININE MYSTIQUE(1963) King, Martin Luther, Jr.(1929-1968) LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL(1963)