Great American Authors Since 1650

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Featuring such greats as Poe... Dickinson... Twain... Alcott... Hemingway... Wolfe... Steinbeck... Vonnegut and Morrison, this eight part series presents the lives and literary output of over 60 of America's most read authors.

Presented by Jane Kaczmarek, Great American Authors: 1650 to Present presents the rich, literary tradition of American storytelling...No country has produced a more impressive group of writers in a shorter period of time than America. It has been an incredible journey of finding the nation's voice, beginning with the first colonists in the 17th century to a small cadre of brilliant, 19th century, New England writers who defined the unique American experience and soul, to the whole country speaking out in the 20th Century against war, poverty, racism and alienation.

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1650 - 184528 minutes$6.00
1650 - Anne Bradstreet, America's First Poet4 minutes$2.00
1702 - Cotton Mather Publishes The Ecclesiastical History of New England3 minutes$2.00
1773 - Phillis Wheatley becomes America's First Black Woman Poet4 minutes$2.00
1819 - Washington Irving Publishes Rip Van Winkle3 minutes$2.00
1826 - James Fenimore Cooper Publishes Last of the Mohicans3 minutes$2.00
1836 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Initiates American Transcendentalism with Nature5 minutes$2.00
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe Publishes The Raven3 minutes$2.00
1846 - 185530 minutes$6.00
1849 - Henry David Thoreau originates America's Proud History of Civil Disobedience3 minutes$2.00
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Writes The Scarlet Letter3 minutes$2.00
1851 - Herman Melville's Moby Dick is Published4 minutes$2.00
1852 - Emily Dickinson Publishes First Poem3 minutes$2.00
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe Writes Uncle Tom's Cabin3 minutes$2.00
1855 - Frederick Douglass Publishes My Bondage and My Freedom3 minutes$2.00
1855 - Walt Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass4 minutes$2.00
1855 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Writes The Song of Hiawatha3 minutes$2.00
1856 - 190626 minutes$6.00
1868 - Louisa May Alcott writes Little Women4 minutes$2.00
1878 - Henry James Writes Daisy Miller3 minutes$2.00
1885 - Mark Twain Publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn3 minutes$2.00
1906 - Upton Sinclair's Novel The Jungle is Published2 minutes$2.00
1906 - The Whole Country Speaks-Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London11 minutes$2.00
1907 - 192528 minutes$6.00
1913 - Poet William Carlos Williams Publishes His First Book of Poems, The Tempers3 minutes$2.00
1914 - Carl Sandburg Publishes his Poem Chicago4 minutes$2.00
1920 - Edith Wharton Wins a Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence4 minutes$2.00
1922 - The Innovators; e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller6 minutes$2.00
1923 - Robert Frost Publishes Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening5 minutes$2.00
1925 - F. Scott Fitzgerald Writes The Great Gatsby4 minutes$2.00
1926 - 193929 minutes$6.00
1929 - Thomas Wolfe Writes Look Homeward Angel4 minutes$2.00
1929 - William Faulkner Showcases the South with The Sound and the Fury4 minutes$2.00
1930 - Sinclair Lewis Becomes the First American to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature3 minutes$2.00
1931 - Pearl Buck Writes The Good Earth4 minutes$2.00
1936 - Playwright Eugene O'Neill Wins Nobel Prize for Literature3 minutes$2.00
1939 - Steinbeck Writes The Grapes of Wrath7 minutes$2.00
1940- 194929 minutes$6.00
1940 - Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls is Published7 minutes$2.00
1941 - James Thurber Writes The Secret Life of Walter Mitty3 minutes$2.00
1947-1953 - Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov Usher in the Era of Popular Science Ficti5 minutes$2.00
1948 - Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire6 minutes$2.00
1949 - Arthur Miller Produced Death of a Salesman4 minutes$2.00
1950 -195728 minutes$6.00
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks Wins the Pulitzer Prize4 minutes$2.00
1951 - Salinger and Plath Set the Stage for the Baby Boomer Generation8 minutes$2.00
1952 - Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin Speak for the American Black Male4 minutes$2.00
1957 - Jack Kerouac Begins the Beat Generation in American Literature5 minutes$2.00
1957 - Dr Seuss Writes The Cat in the Hat4 minutes$2.00
1958 - Present29 minutes$6.00
1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's Play A Raisin in the Sun is Produced4 minutes$2.00
1961 - Joseph Heller Writes Catch-223 minutes$2.00
1966 - Truman Capote Writes In Cold Blood3 minutes$2.00
1969 - Kurt Vonnegut Writes Slaughterhouse Five3 minutes$2.00
1982 - John Updike's Rabbit is Rich Wins Pulitzer Prize for Literature3 minutes$2.00
1989 - Asian American Amy Tan Publishes The Joy Luck Club4 minutes$2.00
1993 - Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and August Wilson Redefine the Black Experience4 minutes$2.00
2007- Cormac McCarthy Wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Road2 minutes$2.00
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