Nation of Letters

Stephen Cushman, professor of English at the University of Virginia, earned his doctorate at Yale University. His publications include several books, including Fictions of Form in American Poetry (1993) and William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of Measure (1985). He is currently working on a book about verbal and visual representations of the American Civil War.Paul Newlin, who earned his doctorate at UCLA, has published studies on the writings of Poe, Bryant, Cooper, Hawthorne, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Ricard Wright. A recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY at Stony Brook President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Newlin currently lives on Deer Isle, Maine.

• 1. Samuel L. Clemens. 2. William Dean Howells.3. Ambrose Bierce.4. Henry James.5. Joel Chandler Harris.6. Sarah Orne Jewett.7. Kate Chopin.8. Charles Waddell Chesnutt.9. Booker T. Washington.10.Charlotte Perkins Gilman.11.Hamlin Garland.12.Edith Wharton.13.Edgar Lee Masters.14.W. E. B. Du Bois.15.Edwin Arlington Robinson.16.Frank Norris.17.Stephen Crane.18.Theodore Dreiser.19.Willa Cather.20.Robert Frost.21.Sherwood Anderson.22.Jack London.23.Carl Sandburg.24.Wallace Stevens.25.William Carlos Williams.26.Sinclair Lewis.27.Ezra Pound.28.H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).29.Marianne Moore.30.T.S. Eliot.31.John Crowe Ransom.32.Claude Mckay.33.Zora Neale Hurston.34.Edna St. Vincent Millay.35.ee cummings.36.Jean Toomer.37.F. Scott Fitzgerald.38.William Faulkner.39.Hart Crane.40.Ernest Hemingway.41.Langston Hughes.42.Theodore Roethke.43.Richard Wright.44.Elizabeth Bishop.45.John Berryman.46.Ralph Ellison.47.Robert Lowell.48.James Baldwin.49.Flannery O'Conner.50.Allen Ginsberg.51.Sylvia Plath.Bibliography.