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Personal Essay Classroom of English Instruction
A Suggested Reading List
for English AP* Language and Composition With Essay Prompts
The works on this School House Books "Library of Suggested Reading" are the latest recommended authors for the English (AP*) Language and Composition classes by The College Board as located in the Acorn Book, 2000-2001. Works are linked in red to an online version of the text or to amazon.com. Agree or Disagree Essay prompts are typed in blue.NOTE: Use the Agree or Disagree Checklist linked here to guide the reflective thinking, writing, and grading of these timed writing assignments.
Autobiographers and Diarists of Literary Merit
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Maya Angelou (1928- ), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Life Doesn't Frighten Me; All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes; Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now.
Meena Alexander, Fault Lines : A Memoir; Manhattan Music : A Novel; Night-Scene The Garden (Short Works Series);
The Shock of Arrival : Reflections on Postcolonial Experience; Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India.
James Baldwin (1924-1987), Agree or Disagree Question: The paragraph below comes from the 1979 essay by expatriate African American writer James Baldwin. Read the paragraph carefully and then write an essay which defends, challenges, or qualifies Baldwin's ideas about the importance of language as "a key to identity" and to social acceptance. Use specific evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position.
"It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity: It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity. There have been, and are, times, and places, when to speak a certain language could be dangerous, even fatal. Or, one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one's antecedents are revealed, or (one hopes) hidden. This is true in France, and absolutely true in England: The range (and reign) of accents on that damp little island make England coherent for the English and totally incomprehensible for everyone else. To open your mouth in England is (if I may use Black English) to 'put your business in the street': You have confessed your parents, your school, your salary, your self-esteem, and alas, your future." Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work ; Notes of a Native Son; Go Tell It on the Mountain; Nobody Knows My Name : More Notes of a Native Son
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), The General Correspondence of James Boswell : 1766-1769, 1768-1769 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Vol 7).
Jill Ker Conway, The Road from Coorain.
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952- ), The Year of Our Revolution : New and Selected Stories and Poems; Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer; Silent Dancing : A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood; The Latin Deli : Prose and Poetry; An Island Like You : Stories of the Barrio.
Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895),Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave; Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life My Bondage and My Freedom Life and Times by Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor); Escape from Slavery : The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words.
Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.
George Eliot,
Ben Franklin (1706-1790), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), An Unfinished Woman : A Memoir; Pentimento : A Book of Portraits.
Zora Neal Hurston (1891-1960), Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (1942)
Helen Keller (1880-1968), Story of My Life.
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ), The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts; Tripmaster Monkey : His Fake Book; China Men; Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston.
Charles Lamb (1775-1834), The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb,1809-1817
T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935), Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph.
Frank McCourt, Tis : A Memoir; Angela's Ashes (AUDIO CASSETTE) [UNABRIDGED]; Angela's Ashes/'Tis; Angela's Ashes: A Memoir.
Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming : A Memoir
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
John Henry Newman (1801?-1890), The Heart of Newman : A Synthesis.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), A Pepys Anthology : Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys.
Sidney Poitier Measure of a Man : A Spiritual Autobiography [UNABRIDGED]
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez; Days of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father.
Mary Lee Settle, Addie : A Memoir.
Gary Soto, A Summer Life; Buried Onions.
Brent Staples, Parallel Time : Growing Up in Black and White.
Richard Wright (1908- ), Black Boy; Native Son.
Malcolm X (1925-1965), The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970), Red Ribbon on a White Horse.Biographers and History Writers of Literary Merit
James Boswell (1740 - 1795) , Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881),History of Friedrich II of Prussia; History of Friedrich II Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great Part 2; History of Friedrich II Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great Part 3; History of Friedrich II Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great Part 4; History of Friedrich II Of Prussia Called Frederick The Great Part 5; The Life of Friedrich Schiller; On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History; Past and Present (1909); Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) , Second World War; Closing the Ring (The Second World War, Vol 5); The Gathering Storm (The Second World War, Vol 1) ; The Great Republic : A History of America ; Heroes Of History; The Hinge of Fate (The Second World War, Vol 4); His Father's Son: The Life Of Randolph Churchill; A History Of The English Speaking Peoples-Part Iv: The Great Democracies; A History Of The English Speaking Peoples-Vol I The Birth Of Britain;A History Of The English Speaking Peoples-Vol II The New World; A History Of The English Speaking Peoples-Vol III The Age Of Revolution; London To Ladysmith; The Malakand Field Force; Marlborough: His Life And Times Part 1 Of 3; Marlborough: His Life And Times Part 2 Of 3; Marlborough: His Life And Times Part 3 Of 3; Memoirs of the Second World War : An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War With an Epilogue by the Author on the Postwar Years Writt;Mr. Brodrick's Army; My African Journey; My Early Life: A Roving Commission.
Vine Deloria, Jr. (1933- ), Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties : An Indian Declaration of Independence;
Leon Edel (1907-1997) , A Bibliography of Henry James.
John Hope Franklin (1915- ) , African Americans and the Living Constitution.
Antonia Fraser (1932? ), The Wives of Henry VIII; Mary Queen of Scots; Faith and Treason : The Story of the Gunpowder Plot;
The Cavalier Case; Cool Repentance; Cromwell;Faith and Treason : The Story of the Gunpowder Plot; Henry VIII.
Edward Gibbon (1734-1794), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire/Volumes 1, 2, & 3; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : Volumes 4-6; The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : An Abridged Version.
Gerda Lerner (1920- ), The Creation of Feminist Consciousness : From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy;The Creation of Patriarchy;
Black Women in White America : A Documentary History.
Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800-1859), History of England; Lays of Ancient Rome.
Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) , The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860; The Oxford History of the American People : 1789 Through Reconstruction;Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus; The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943: History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II; Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier : History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two; Christopher Columbus, Mariner ; Founding of Harvard College.
Francis Parkman (1823-93), The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War
Sir George Savile, from the biography of England's King Charles II
Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965) , A Life in the Twentieth Century : Innocent Beginnings, 1917 - 1950; The Disuniting of America : Reflections on a Multicultural Society; Imperial Presidency.
Lytton Strachey, Biographical Essays
Ronald Takaki, Double Victory : A Multicultural History of America in World War II; A Larger Memory : A History of Our Diversity, With Voices; Strangers from a Different Shore : A History of Asian Americans; A Different Mirror : A History of Multicultural America; From Different Shores : Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America ; Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb; In the Heart of Filipino America : Immigrants from the Pacific Isles; Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America; A Larger Memory : A History of Our Diversity, With Voices; Strangers from a Different Shore : A History of Asian Americans; Breaking Silences.
George Trevelyan (1876-1962), The English Revolution 1688-1689; Shortened History of England; American Revolution; Autobiography and Other Essays; Early History of Charles James Fox; England in the Age of Wycliffe ; England Under Queen Anne; English Social History : A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer to Queen Victoria; Exploration into God; Garibaldi and the Thousand; The Life of John Bright; Lord Grey of the Reform Bill; The Poetry & Philosophy of George Meredith; Select Documents for Queen Anne's Reign Down to the Union With Scotland, 1702-07; The Use Of Poetry In The Expanding Of Consciousness ; Vision Of The Aquarian Age; The Emerging Spiritual World View New Age.
Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August; March of Folly : From Troy to Vietnam Agree or Disagree Question: In March of Folly, historian Brabara Tuchman writes: "Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts." Some people would claim that what Tuchman calls woodenheadedness plays a remarkably large role in all organizations and, indeed all human affairs. Write a carefully reasoned persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies this idea about the prevalence of woodenheadedness in human actions and decisions. Use evidence from your reading and/or observation to develop your position. A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century.Critics of Literary Merit
Agree or Disagree Question: The following announcement from a church bulletin was reprinted without comment in a magazine under the heading "The Religious Life." By using that heading, the magazine implied a criticism of American values. read the announcement carefully. Then write an essay arguing for or against the validity of the implied criticism.
FLASH . . . . FLASH . . . . FLASH . . . . FLASH Due to the scheduling conflict with the Superbowl, the Board of Trustees of the church has changed the time for the installation of our new minister from 4:45 to 3:30 p.m.
Television consoles will be set up in the education wing of the church. Kick-off is at 4:30.
We invite you to join us for an afternoon of celebrationóthe service of installation, reception following, the Superbowl, and dancing into the evening. Child care will be available.
Clergy: You are invited to robe and process. Please meet in the Board Room at 3:15.
Paula Gunn Allen (1939- ), Off the Reservation : Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons; The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface by Paula Gunn Allen; As Long As the Rivers Flow : The Stories of Nine Native Americans; Hozho: Walking in Beauty Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life.
Gloria Anzaldua (1942- ), La frontera / Borderlands; Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras : Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color.
Michael Arlen, Living Room War (Television Series); Passage to Ararat (Hungry Mind Find); Story of Christianity: A Celebration of 2,000 Years of Faith; The View from Highway 1 : Essays on Television.
Matthew Arnold (1822?1888), Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings; The Apostles Creed.
Kenneth Clark (1903-83), The Nude; Leonardo Da Vinci.
Samuel Taylor Colerdige (1772-1834), Biographia Literaria.
Arlene Croce, Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950- ), The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830), Offspring of Thought in Solitude; The Plain Speaker : The Key Essays; Selected Writings; The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt; William Hazlitt : The Plain Speaker : The Key Essays.
bell hooks (1952- ), Feminism Is for Everybody : Passionate Politics; Where We Stand : Class Matters; Teaching to Transgress : Education As the Practice of Freedom; Ain't I A Woman : Black Women and Feminism; All About Love : New Visions; Art on My Mind : Visual Politics.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),Samuel Johnson : The Major Works.
Pauline Kael (1919- ), 5001 Nights at the Movies : Expanded for the 90s; Conversations With Pauline Kael; Going Steady : Film Writings 1968-1969.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ), Above the Line: Conversations about the Movies; The Best American Essays of the Century.
Walter Pater (1839-1894), The Renaissance; The Child in the House: An Imaginary Portrait; Gaston De Latour : The Revised Text (1880-1920).
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Agree or Disagree Question: In the following passage, the contemporary social critic Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell's vision of the future, as expressed in the novel 1984 (written in 1948), with that of Aldous Huxley in the novel Brave New World (1936). Then, using your own critical understanding of contemporary society as evidence, write a carefully argued essay that agrees or disagrees with Postman's assertion.
Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk : How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do About It; Language in America; Linguistics : A Revolution in Teaching; School Book.
John Ruskin (1819-1900),
George Santayana (1863-1952), The Birth of Reason & Other Essays.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Bernard Shaw on Cinema.
Susan Sontag (1933- ), On Photography; Against Interpretation, and Other Essays.
Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Cornel West (1953- ), The African-American Century : How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country; The Cornel West Reader; Race Matters.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde; Complete Works of Oscar Wilde : Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays; Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde.
Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore : Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War; The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest; The American Earthquake; Apologies to the Iroquois; Axel's Castle : A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930; The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965; Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties; The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest; The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters; The Duke of Palermo: And Other Plays, with an Open Letter to Mike Nichols; The Edmund Wilson Reader; Europe Without Baedeker: Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece and England, Together with Notes from a European Diary: 1963-1964; The Fifties : From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period; The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period; From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson; The Higher Jazz; Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls.Drama of Literary Merit
Sophocles, Agree or Disagree Question: in the following excerpt from Antigone, by the classical Greek playwright Sophocles, the wise Teiresias observes
Think: all men make mistakes, Take some time to think about the implications of the quotation. Then write a carefully reasoned essay that explores the validity of the assertion, using examples from your reading, observation, or experience to develop your position.
But a good man yields when he
Knows his course is wrong,
And repairs the evil: The only
Crime is pride.Essayists and Fiction Writers of Literary Merit
Joseph Addison (1672-1719), Papers from the Spectator 1711-12; Agree or Disagree Question: In The Spectator for December 15, 1711, Joseph Addison wrote: "If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything that is solemn and serious, decent and praiseworthy in human life." Write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Addison's assertion. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position.
James Agee (1909-55), A Death in the Family.
Margaret Atwood (1939- ), The Blind Assassin; The Handmaid's Tale; Alias Grace; Annas Pet.
Jane Austen, Emma; Mansfield Park, 1814; Northanger Abbey, 1803; Persuasion, 1818; Sense and Sensibility, 1811.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Essays.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), The Man Who Was Thursday; The Penguin Complete Father Brown.
John Cheever, "Reunion."
Albert Camus, The Stranger.
Charles Dickens, American Notes; Barnaby Rudge; Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; A Christmas Carol; Dombey and Son; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; The Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; The Old Curiosity Shop; Our Mutual Friend; Oliver Twist; The Uncommercial Traveller.
Joan Didion , Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Play It As It Lays; After Henry; A Book of Common Prayer; The Last Thing He Wanted; Miami; Salvador; Democracy; Run River.
George Eliot, Adam Bede
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Self-Reliance and Other Essays; The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures.
E. M. Forster, Agree or Disagree Question: In the following passage, E. M. Forster argues that personal relations are more important than causes or patriotism. Read the passage carefully. Then write an essay agreeing or disagreeing with Forster's view. Here is the passage: "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Such a choice may scandilse the modern reader, and he may stretch out his patriotic hand to the telephone at once and ring up the police. It would not have shocked Dante*, though. Dante places Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesur rather than their country Rome." *Dante: Italian Poet, 1265, 1321.
Paul Fussell, Class : A Guide Through the American Status System; Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War; Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic; Abroad; The Anti-Egotist : Kingsley Amis Man of Letters; Class : A Guide Through the American Status System; The Great War and Modern Memory; Norton Book of Modern War; The Norton Book of Travel; Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War; Bad : Or the Dumbing of America; Poetic Meter and Poetic Form; Thank God for the Atom Bomb; The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations; Caste marks : style and status in the U.S.A; The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism; Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke.
Mavis Gallant (1922- ), The Moslem Wife and Other Stories; Across the Bridge; The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant.
Nadine Gordimer (1923- ), The Lying Days; The Conservationist; My Son's Story; Burger's Daughter; Crimes of Conscience; The House Gun; Jump and Other Stories.
Edward Hoagland (1932- ), Tigers & Ice : Reflections on Nature and Life; African Calliope : A Journey to the Sudan; Balancing Acts : Essays.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Agree or Disagree Question: In the following passage, the contemporary social critic Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell's vision of the future, as expressed in the novel 1984 (written in 1948), with that of Aldous Huxley in the novel Brave New World (1936). Then, using your own critical understanding of contemporary society as evidence, write a carefully argued essay that agrees or disagrees with Postman's assertion.
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady Agree or Disagree Question: The following passage is a conversation between Madame Merle and Isabel Archer, two characters in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady, Chapter XIX. Read the passage attentively, noting the conflicting views about self. Then write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that demonstrates which of these two concepts of self has more validity. Use specific evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position. Here is the excerpt:
"When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take the shell into account. By the shell I mean the whole envelope of circumstances. There is no such thing as an isolated man or woman; we are each of us made up of a cluster of appurtenances. What do you call oneís self? Where does it begin? where does it end? It overflows into everything that belongs to usóand then it flows back again. I know that a large part of myself is in the dresses I choose to wear. I have a great respect for things! Oneís selfófor other peopleóis oneís expression of oneís self; and oneís house, oneís clothes, the book one reads, the company one keepsóthese things are all expressive."
This was very metaphysical; not more so, however, than several observations Madame Merle had already made. Isabel was found of metaphysics, but she was unable to accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality.
"I donít agree with you," she said. "I think just the other way. I donít know whether I succeed in expressing myself, but I know that nothing else expresses me. Nothing that belongs to me is any measure of me; on the contrary, itís a limit, a barrier, and a perfectly arbitrary one. Certainly, the clothes which, as you say, I choose to wear, donít express me; and heaven forbid they should!"
"You dress very well," interposed Madame Merle, skilfully.
"Possibly; but I donít care to be judged by that. My clothes may express the dressmaker, but they donít express me. To begin with, itís not my own choice that I wear them; they are imposed upon me by society."
"Should you prefer to go without them?" Madame Merle inquired, in a tone which virtually terminated the discussion.
Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ), One Student Essay A Second Students Essay My Brother; The Autobiography of My Mother; Lucy; Annie John; At the Bottom of the River; Generations of Women : In Their Own Words.
Norman Mailer (1923- ),The Executioner's Song; The Naked and the Dead; The Fight; Advertisements for Myself; An American Dream; The Armies of the Night : History As a Novel/the Novel As History; Barbary Shore.
Nancy Mairs, Waist-High in the World : A Life Among the Nondisabled Voice Lessons : On Becoming a (Woman) Writer; Carnal Acts : Essays; Ordinary Time : Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal; Plain Text : Essays; In All the Rooms of the Yellow House.
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), The Group; Memories of a Catholic Girlhood; Birds of America; Cannibals and Missionaries; Cape May for All Seasons; Cast a Cold Eye; A Charmed Life; Company She Keeps; The Groves of Academe; How I Grew.
Herman Melville, Typee
N. Scott Momaday (1934- ), Ancestral Voice : Conversations With N. Scott Momaday; The Ancient Child; Approaches to Teaching Momaday's the Way to Rainy Mountain; Circle of Wonder : A Native American Christmas Story; Conversations With N. Scott Momaday; Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father : Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting; Enduring Culture : A Century of Photography of the Southwest Indians; House Made of Dawn; House Made of Dawn Notes (Cliffs Notes); In the Bear's House; In the Presence of the Sun : Stories and Poems; Audible.com: An Interview with N. Scott Momaday; The Man Made of Words : Essays, Stories, Passages; The Names : A Memoir; Sacred Legacy : Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian.
Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592), The Complete Essays; The Autobiography of Michel De Montaigne : Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times: His Childhood, Youth, and Prime; His Adventures in Love; An Apology for Raymond Sebond; Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's Essays by Patrick Henry.
V. S. Naipaul (1932- ), A Bend in the River ; A House for Mr. Biswas; Among the Believers : An Islamic Journey; Between Father and Son : Family Letters; Beyond Belief : Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples; Conversations With V. S. Naipaul; The Enigma of Arrival : A Novel; Guerrillas; In a Free State; Reading & Writing : A Personal Account ; Way in the World : A Novel; Area of Darkness.
Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde; Solstice: A Novel; American Gothic Tales; American Appetites; The Assignation : Stories; Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart; Bellefleur; Black Water; Bloodsmoor Romance; Broke Heart Blues : A Novel; The Collector of Hearts : New Tales of the Grotesque; Come Meet Muffin!
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried : A Work of Fiction; If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home; In the Lake of the Woods; American Fiction, Volume Seven: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers by Tim O'Brien(Editor); The Amusement Park Guide : Coast to Coast Thrills; FUN WITH THE FAMILY IN TENNESSEE; Going After Cacciato; Northern Lights; The Nuclear Age; Special Needs and the Beginning Teacher, Tim O'Brien (Editor); Tennessee : Off the Beaten Path; Tomcat in Love; The Amusement Park Guide.
Tillie Olsen (1912- ), Tell Me a Riddle; Yonnondio from the Thirties.
George Orwell (1903-1950) , Politics and the English Language; A Letter on the Death of his Mother.
George Orwell. 1984Agree or Disagree Question: In the following passage, the contemporary social critic Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell's vision of the future, as expressed in the novel 1984 (written in 1948), with that of Aldous Huxley in the novel Brave New World (1936). Then, using your own critical understanding of contemporary society as evidence, write a carefully argued essay that agrees or disagrees with Postman's assertion.
Cynthia Ozick (1928- ), Quarrel & Quandary : Essays; The Shawl; A Cynthia Ozick Reader; The Cannibal Galaxy; Fame & Folly : Essays; Levitation : Five Fictions; The Messiah of Stockholm : A Novel; Metaphor & Memory; The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories; The Puttermesser Papers.
Anna Quindlen's "Living Out Loud"
Ishmael Reed (1938- ),
Adrienne Rich (1929- ), Of Woman Born : Motherhood As Experience and Institution; Blood, Bread, and Poetry : Selected Prose 1979 -1985.
Mordecai Richler (1931- ),
Sharman Apt Russell , The Last Matriarch : A Novel; Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers; The Humpbacked Fluteplayer; Kill the Cowboy : A Battle of Mythology in the New West; Songs of the Fluteplayer : Seasons of Life in the Southwest; When the Land Was Young : Reflections on American Archaeology.
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Scott Russell Sanders (1945- ), The Force of Spirit; Aurora Means Dawn; The Country of Language; Crawdad Creek; The Floating House; Hunting for Hope : A Father's Journeys; In Limestone Country; Meeting Trees; The Paradise of Bombs; A Place Called Freedom; Staying Put : Making a Home in a Restless World; Terrarium; Warm As Wool; Writing from the Center; Secrets of the Universe : Scenes from the Journey; Warm As Wool; Wilderness Plots : Tales About the Settlement of the American Land.
Robert Scholes (Editor), Nancy R. Comley (Editor), Michael Silverman (Editor), Elements of Literature : Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film
Richard Selzer (1928- ), The Doctor Stories; Imagine a Woman and Other Tales; Letters to a Young Doctor; Mortal Lessons : Notes on the Art of Surgery; Taking the World in for Repairs; Confessions Of A Knife; The Exact Location of the Soul; Raising the Dead; A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality; ; Down from Troy : A Doctor Comes of Age; How to make money with mortgage notes; Names and Faces of Heroes; Raising the dead.
Gary Soto, Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker; Taking Sides; Buried Onions; Baseball in April and Other Stories; A Summer Life; Beisbol en abril y otras historias; Big Bushy Mustache ; Canto Familiar; Cat's Meow ; Chato and the Party Animals ; Chato y su cena ; Chato's Kitchen ; Cruzando El Pacifico/Pacific Crossing ; The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays ; El Viejo Y Su Puerta ; A Fire in My Hands ; Jesse.
Richard Steele (1672-1729), Selections from "The Tatler" & "The Spectator."
Shelby Steele (1946- ), The Content of Our Character : A New Vision of Race in America; A Dream Deferred : The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden; Autumnal Tints; Backwoods and Along the Seashore : Selections from the Maine Woods and Cap Cod; Cape Cod; Cape Cod: Henry David Thoreau; Civil Disobedience; Audible.com: Civil Disobedience; Civil Disobedience and Other Essays; Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle (Literary Classics; Faith in a Seed : The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings; H. D. Thoreau : A Writer's Journal.
Alice Walker (1944- ), The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart; By the Light of My Father's Smile : A Novel; Anything We Love Can Be Saved : A Writer's Activism; Alice Walker : Critical Perspectives Past and Present; Alice Walker Interview With Kay Bonetti/Audio Cassette; Audible.com: Alice Walker Reads: "Nineteen Fifty-Five;" Audible.com: Alice Walker's Celie: The Untold Story; Archbishop Desmond Tutu : An African Prayer Book; Banned; The Color Purple.
Eudora Welty (1909- ), Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
E. B. White (1899-1985), Charlotte's Web/ Stuart Little/ Trumpet of the Swan; Essays of E. B. White; Here Is New York; Las telarañas de Carlota; One Man's Meat.
Terry Tempest Williams (1955- ), Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger : Stories from the Field; Coyote's Canyon; Leap; The Naturalists; Pieces of White Shell : A Journey to Navajoland.
Virginia Woolf (1882?1941), Mrs Dalloway; A Room of One's Own; The Artist As Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf by Lisa Williams; Between the Acts; Captains Death Bed and Other Essays; The Common Reader; The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf; Congenial Spirits; Contemporary Writers; The Death of the Moth and Other Essays; The Diary of Virginia Woolf.Journalists of Literary Merit
Some of the magazines that have published the following journalists include: The New York Times, New Yorker, The Nation, Esquire, Time, Atlantic Monthly, Harperís, and Forbes. Articles by these journalists can be foundby searching in your Library on programs like SIRS, PROQUEST, or NewsBank. Many newspapers publish these journalists daily.
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Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park : A Baseball Reader; Nothing but You : Love Stories from the New Yorker; Summer Game; A Pitcher's Story : Innings with David Cone; The Stone Arbor, and Other Stories : And Other Stories; A Baseball Century : The History of the National.
Maureen Dowd,
Elizabeth Drew (1935- ), Whatever It Takes : The Real Struggle for Political Power in America; The Corruption of American Politics : What Went Wron and Why.
Nora Ephron (1941- ), Crazy Salad : Some Things About Women.
M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher, Among Friends; As They Were; From the Journals of M.F.K. Fisher; The Gastronomical Me; How to Cook a Wolf.
Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue : Reagan and Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; Fire in the Lake : The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.
Janet Flanner (Genet) 1892-1978,
Ellen Goodman, A Month of Ellen Goodman at The Boston Globe; Ellen Goodman Archives at The Washington Post Writers Group
David Halberstam, The Fifties; The Amateurs; The Best American Sports Writing of the Century by David Halberstam (Editor); The Best and the Brightest/20th Anniversary Edition; The Children; Ho; October 1964; Playing for Keeps : Michael Jordan and the World He Made; The Powers That Be; The Reckoning Part 1 Of 2; The Reckoning Part 2 Of 2; Sports on New York Radio : A Play-By-Play History; Summer of '49.
Andy Logan, Against the evidence; the Becker-Rosenthal affair.
John McPhee, Alaska: Images of the Country; Assembling California;Basin and Range; Coming into the Country;The Control of Nature; Crofter and the Laird;The Curve of Binding Energy; The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed;Giving Good Weight; Heirs of General Practice;In Suspect Terrain;Irons in the Fire; John McPhee Reader; The Second John McPhee Reader; La Place De LA Concorde Suisse; Looking for a Ship; Pieces of the Frame;Pine Barrens; The Ransom of Russian Art;Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles; The Second John McPhee Reader; A Sense of Where You Are; Stalking the Wild Asparagus; The Survival of the Bark Canoe.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Online E-Text Essays by Mencken Agree or Disagree Question: Read the following excerpt by H. L. Mencken carefully. Then write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Mencken's views. Support your argument with references to particular writers, composers, and other artists. Here is the excerpt: "It is almost safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is safe to assume that his country is against the artist. The special quality which makes an artist of him might almost be defined, indeed, as an extraordinary capacity for irritation, a pathological sensitiveness to environmental pricks and stings. He differs from the rest of us mainly because he reacts sharply and in an uncommon manner to phenomena which leave the rest of us unmoved, or at most, merely annoy us vaguely. He is, in brief, a more delicate fellow than we are, and hence less fitted to prosper and enjoy himself under the conditions of life which he and we must face alike. Therefore, he takes to artistic endeavor, which is at once a criticism of life and an attempt to escape life. / So much for the theory of it. The more the facts are studied, the more they bear it out. In those fields of art, at all events, which concern themselves with ideas as well as with sensations it is almost impossible to find any trace of an artist who was not actively hostile to his environment, and thus an indifferent patriot.
Jan Morris, Hong Kong : Epilogue to an Empire; Oxford; Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest; Coronation Everest; Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone; Farewell The Trumpets Part 1 Of 2; Farewell The Trumpets Part 2 Of 2; Fifty Years of Europe : An Album; Heaven's Command; Manhattan '45; Pax Britannica; The World of Venice; Among the Cities; Architecture of the British Empire; BUILDING HONG KONG; Conundrum.
David Remnick, King of the World : Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero; The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence; The Devil Problem : And Other True Stories; Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire; Life Stories : Profiles from the New Yorker; Resurrection : The Struggle for a New Russia; ; Wonderful Town : New York City Stories from the New Yorker.
Red Smith, Red Smith on Baseball.
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), The Shame of the Cities.
Paul Theroux (1941- ), Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings; The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia; Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents; The Black House; The Collected Stories;The Family Arsenal; The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia; The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific; The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain; Kowloon Tong; My Other Life; The Old Patagonian Express; On the Edge of the Great Rift: Three Novels of Africa; Picture Palace The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean;Riding the Iron Rooster.
Calvin Trillin (1935- ), Family Man; The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried/Alice, Let's Eat/Third Helpings; Messages from My Father.
Tom Wolfe,Political and Religious Writers of Literary Merit
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil; The Origins of Totalitarianism; The Portable Hannah Arendt.
Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal; All Said and Done; America Day by Day; The Second Sex; The Mandarins.
William F. Buckley, Jr., Amo, Amas, Amat and More : How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others; The Blackford Oakes Reader;Brothers No More.
Jean de Crevecoeur,
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk; Biography of a Race, 1868-1919.
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) , The Wit & Wisdom of Margaret Fuller Ossoli; Domesticity With a Difference : The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern and Margaret Fuller; Gender Roles, Literary Authority, and Three American Women Writers : Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren, Margaret Fuller Ossoli; The Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1817-1838; The Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1839-1841; Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1842-1844; The Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1845-47; The Letters of Margaret Fuller : 1850 and Undated; Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1848-49; Margaret Fuller's New York Journalism : A Biographical Essay and Key Writings by Margaret Fuller; The Portable Margaret Fuller.
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Cuomo Commission Report; Economics Peace and Laughter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland; The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings; Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Benigna Machiavelli; Charlotte Perkins Gilman : A Nonfiction Reader.
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; Behemoth : Or the Long Parliament; ; A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England; The Elements of Law Natural and Politic : Human Nature/De Corpore Politico With Three Lives; Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity : On Liberty and Necessity; Leviathan : Or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
The Holy Bible, Ecclesiastes Agree or Disagree Essay Promp: The first chapter of Ecclesiastes, a book in the Bible, concludes with these words: "For in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow." Write a carefully reasoned, persuasive essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies this position. Use evidence from your observation, experience, or reading to develop your position.
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters; The Jefferson Bible : The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
George Kennan, American Diplomacy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr; Why We Can't Wait (1989 Essay Prompt: This book describes the social conditions and the attitudes of mant Black Americans in the 1960's. The excerpt for this test came from the introduction. Read the passage carefully. Thenw write a cohesive essay that describes the rhetorical purpose of the passage and analyze its stylistic, narrative, and persuasive devices. A Call to Conscience : The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion.Agree or Disagree Question: In his book Money and Class in America, Lewis Lapham makes the following observations about attitudes toward wealth in the United States. Drawing on your own knowledge and experience, write a carefully reasoned essay defending, challenging, or qualifying Lapham's view of "the American faith in money."
John Locke, The Second Treatise on Civil Government.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography; Considerations on Representative Government.
John Milton, Areopagitica.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762),Letters; Romance Writings; Selected Letters; Essays and Poems and Simplicity, a Comedy.
Sir Saint Thomas More, The Complete Works of St. Thomas More; The Last Letters of Thomas More; Utopia.
Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters; Common Sense; Age of Reason; The Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paine : Includes Common Sense, the American Crisis Rights of Man, the Age of Reason and Agrarian Justice.
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Essay Prompt: In 1588 Queen Elizabeth I made a speech to her troops. They were assembled at Tilbury, a town on the Thames River, to repel an expected invasion of England by troops serving the King of Spain. Read the "Speech to her Troops." carefully. Then write an essay identifying the purpose of the Queen's remarks and analyze how she uses the languageósuch as diction, imagery, and sentence structureóto achieve her purpose. The Works of Elizabeth I.
Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labor; The Story of an African Farm.
Adlai Stevenson, "The Cat Bill."
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works; Gulliver's Travels; Abolishing Christianity : And Other Short Pieces; Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America : Translated, Edited, and With an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.
Gore Vidal, Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series).
George Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric, 1994-1997.
Garry Wills, Values Americans Live By.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ahead of Her Time : A Sampler of the Life and Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft.Science and Nature Writers of Literary Merit
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire; The Monkey Wrench Gang; The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West; Abbey's Road : Take the Other; The Best of Edward Abbey; The Best of Outside : The First 20 Years; Beyond The Wall: Essays from the Outside; Black Sun; The Brave Cowboy : An Old Tale in a New Time; Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989; Down the River; Earth Apples : Collected Poems; Fire on the Mountain.
Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth ; Jayber Crow; Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition; Another Turn of the Crank : Essays; The Collected Poems, 1957-1982; Entries; Farming : A Handbook; Fidelity : Five Stories; Gift of Good Land : Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural; Harlan Hubbard : Life and Work; The Hidden Wound; Home Economics : Fourteen Essays; The Memory of Old Jack; Nathan Coulter; A Place on Earth; Remembering; Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look; Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing : Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez; The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry; Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community : Eight Essays.
Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man; Common Sense of Science;Origins of Knowledge and Imagination; Science and Human Values; The Identity of Man; Magic Science and Civilization; Sense of the Future: Essays on Natural Philosophy.
Lewis Thomas, Elementary Turkish; The Fragile Species; A General Theory of Love; Hill of Fire;Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony; The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher; The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher.
Rachel Carson, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson; The Sea Around Us; The Sense of Wonder;Silent Spring; Under the Sea Wind;The Edge of the Sea.
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle : Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; For the Time Being; The Writing Life; An American Childhood; The Annie Dillard Reader.
Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces; Islands, the Universe, Home; Cowboy Island : Farewell to a Ranching Legacy; A Blizzard Year : Timmy's Almanac of Seasons.
Loren C. Eiseley, The Immense Journey; The Night Country;The Unexpected Universe; The Firmament of Time; The Immense Journey; The Invisible Pyramid;The Night Country; The Star Thrower; All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life; Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma; How Flowers Changed the World; Loren Eiseley: A Modern Ishmael; The Man Who Saw Through Time;ll the Night Wings; All the Strange Hours;Another Kind of Autumn; Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists; Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It; The Innocent Assassins;The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley; Notes of an alchemist.
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures; Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology; Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics; After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist; Fate of 'Culture': Geertz and Beyond; The Interpretation of Cultures; Islam Observed Religious Development in Morocco; Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns; Religion of Java; Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author;Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom and Ethics; The Social History of an Indonesian Town; Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia; Meaning and Order in Moroccan Society: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis; Myth, Symbol and Culture.
Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life; The Mismeasure of Man; Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin.
Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology; Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science; Reflections on Gender and Science.
Barry Lopez,
Peter Matthiessen,
Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years; Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies; And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America; The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe; Continuities in Cultural Evolution; Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia; Kinship in the Admiralty Islands; Male and Female: The Classic Study of the Sexes; Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority; The Study of Culture at a Distance.
John Muir,
Mary Oliver,The Leaf and the Cloud; Dream Work; House of Light; American Primitive; Blue Pastures; Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems; White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems.
David Quammen,
Carl Sagen,
Lewis Thomas,
Jonathan Weiner,The Nobel Prize for Literature: In the will he drafted in 1895, Alfred Nobel instructed that most of his fortune be set aside as a fund for the awarding of five annual prizes "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. Short Fiction of Literary Merit
With the following awards noted here:
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: These highly esteemed, annual prizes are awarded by Columbia University, New York City, on the recommendation of The Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university, for outstanding achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes have been awarded each May since 1917. The prizes have varied in number and category over the years but currently number 14 prizes in the field of journalism, 6 prizes in letters, 1 prize in music, and 4 fellowships. The award for fiction falls under the category of awards in letters for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.
Margaret Atwood, Dancing Girls: And Other Stories; The Handmaidís Tale; Alias Grace; Catís Eye.
Robert Olen Butler, Good Scent from a Strange Mountain : Stories (1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories; What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; Short Cuts: Selected Stories; Cathedral; A New Path to the Waterfall; No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings; Old Dogs Remembered; Short Cuts: Selected Stories; The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study; Ultramarine; Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories; Where Water Comes Together With Other Water; Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories; Blackbird Pie and Other Stories.
John Cheever, Falconer; The Stories of John Cheever; Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever; Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever Vs. Academy; The Enormous Radio; John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction; The Stories of John Cheever (1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction); World of Apple.
Anton Chekov, Anton Chekhov's Short Stories; Uncle Vanya.
Kate Chopin, The Awakening.
Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories; Mapmaker.
Colette, Collected Stories of Colette.
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Play It As It Lays; The White Album.
Rita Dove, Fifth Sunday: Stories.
Nadine Gordimer, (1995 Nobel Prize for Literature) The House Gun; Judyís People; The Conservationist.
Seamus Heaney, (1995 Nobel Prize for Literature) Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978.
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men.
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (Pulitzer Prize for 2000).
D. H. Lawrence, The Complete Short Stories.
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead; The Executionerís Song; An American Dream.
Bernard Malamud, The Short Stories of Bernard Malamud: In Search of JewishPost-Immigrant Identity Begona Sio-Castineira, Begona Sio-Casteneira.
Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories; Stories;Bliss & Other Stories; In a German Pension: 13 Stories.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, (1982 Nobel Prize for Literature) One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Autumn of the Patriarch; Aventura de Miguel Littin Clandestino En Chile; Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Cien Anos De Soledad;Clave Diccionario De Uso Del Espanol Actual; Collected Novellas: Leaf Storm, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Collected Stories; Cubano 100%; Del Amor Y Otros Demonios; El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera; For the Sake of a Country Within Reach of the Children; Love in the Time of Cholera; News of a Kidnapping;No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories; Noticia De UN Secuestro (Notice of a Kidnapping - Spanish Language Edition);Of Love and Other Demons.
Bobbie Ann Mason, Love Life: Stories; Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason; Midnight Magic: Selected Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason.
Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories.
Carson McCullers,
James Alan McPherson, Elbow Room (1978 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn; In the Bear's House; The Ancient Child.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Ada or Ardor a Family Chronicle; King, Queen, Knav; Bend Sinister; The Defense; Despair; The Enchanter; The Eye; The Gift; Glory; Grand Street 54: Space; Invitation to a Beheading;Laughter in the Dark; Lolita; Look at the Harlequins; The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction by Michael Wood.
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas; Miguel Street.
Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories; Everything That Rises Must Converge.
Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle; Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: Mothers on Mothering: A Daybook and Reader.
George Orwell, Coming Up for Air; Burmese Days.
Cynthia Ozick, Bloodshed and Three Novellas; The Cannibal Galaxy; A Cynthia Ozick Reader; Levitation: Five Fictions; Metaphor & Memory; The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories; The Puttermesser Papers; Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick (Introduction); The Shawl; The Puttermesser Papers; The Messiah of Stockholm.
Katherine Ann Porter, Collected Stories (1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie; The Collected Short Stories; Good Morning, Midnight; Quartet;Voyage in the Dark; Wide Sargasso Sea;A Plausible Story and a Plausible Way of Telling It: A Structuralist Analysis of Jean Rhys's Novels by Kristien Hemmerechts; Sleep It Off Lady: Stories; Tigers Are Better-Looking; The Unspeakable Mother: Forbidden Discourse in Jean Rhys and H.D.
Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories; Imagine a Woman and Other Tales.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1978 Nobel Prize for Literature), The Certificate; The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer; A Day of Pleasure : Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw; The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories; Elijah the Slave; Enemies : A Love Story; The Family Moskat; The Fools of Chelm and Their History; Gimpel the Fool : And Other Stories; The Golem; Image and Other Stories; In My Father's Court; Isaac Bashevis Singer : Conversations; King of the Fields; Love and Exile : An Autobiographical Trilogy; Mazel and Shlimazel : Or the Milk of a Lioness; Meshugah; The Power of Light; Scum; Shosha; The Slave; Stories for Children; The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China; When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories; Zlateh the Goat.
Jean Stafford, Collected Stories (1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction).
Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces.
John Updike, Gertrude and Claudius; A Prayer for Owen Meany;The Best American Short Stories of the Century -- John Updike (Editor);The Afterlife and Other stories.
Luisa Valenzuela, Bedside Manners; The Censors; Cuentos Completos y uno más; Lizard's Tail; Symmetries: Stories (High Risk); Aqui pasan cosas raras; Cambio De Armas; Clara (Discoveries); Donde Viven Las Aguilas/Where Eagles Live; El Silencio Que Habla: Aproximacion A La Obra De:luisa Valenzuela; He Who Searches; Novela Negra Con Argentinos; Poetica De Transgression En LA Novelistica De Luisa Valenuela; Clara : Thirteen Short Stories and a Novel; Strange Things Happen Here: Twenty-Six Short Stories and a Novel.
Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women; In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens; You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down; Alice Walker: The World Is Made of Stories.
Evelyn Waugh, Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Other Stories; The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh.
Eudora Welty, Collected Stories of Eudora Welty; One Writer's Beginnings; Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories; The Capers Papers; A Curtain of Green: And Other Stories; Eudora Welty: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers); Eudora Welty Reads: Why I Live at the P.O. Powerhouse, Petrified Man and Other of Her Stories; The First Story; The Golden Apples; Losing Battles; Morgana: Two Stories from 'the Golden Apples; Norton Book of Friendship ~ Eudora Welty(Editor), Ronald A. Sharp (Editor); One Time One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album; The Road to West 43rd Street; The Robber Bridegroom; Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories; Stories, Essays & Memoir; Thirteen Stories; To the Lighthouse; The Wide Net and Other Stories; Best Short Stories: Advanced Level ~ Katherine Mansfield, Eudora Welty.
E. B. White, Charlotte's Web/ Stuart Little/ Trumpet of the Swan.
Edith Wharton, The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway; A Room of One's Own; To the Lighthouse.
