American literature 2-CD set

<b>American Literature 2--CD set</b> <i>updated 4/19/2008</i>
American Literature 2--CD set updated 4/19/2008
Item# ISBN 0915232944
$49.00

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What do Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and Zane Grey have in common? Their works are all on the same 2-CD set, with 2429 books by 680 authors.

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Table of Contents of this American Literature CD


About American Literature

  • Aboriginal American Authors and Their Productions by Daniel Brinton
  • American Eloquence, studies in Americna Political History, edited by Alexander Johnston
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
    • volume 3
    • volume 4
  • American Indian Stories by Zikala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
  • Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
  • Brief History of English and American Litgerature by Henry Beers
  • Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
  • Choice Specimens of American Literature edited by Benjamin Martin, 1874
  • Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920 by Carl Van Doren
  • An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Thomas Hill Green
  • History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
  • Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry Beers, 1891
  • Outlines of English and American Literature by William J. Long
  • Representative Plays by American Dramatists 1856-1911, Introduction and Bibliography by Montrose Moses
  • A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin

About American Poetry and Poetry Collections

  • The Best Nonsense Verses, chosen by Josephine Dodge Daskam
  • The Book of American Negro Poetry, 1922
  • The Book of Ballads edited by Bon Gaultier
  • Broadway Anthology by Edward Bernays et al., 1917
  • Cap and Gown: A Treasury of College Verse selected by Frederic Knowles
  • Poets of the South by F.W. Painter
  • A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
  • Poems of American Patriotism edited by Brander Matthews
  • Poems Teachers Ask For
    • volume 1
    • volume 2
  • Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp
  • War Poetry of the South edited by William Simms

Prose Collections and Multiple Authors

  • American Indian Stories by Zikala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories edited by Alexander Jessup
  • Best Ghost Stories (Modern Library)
  • Best Short Stories of 1915
  • Best Short Stories of 1917
  • Best Short Stories of 1920 edited by Edward J. O'Brien
  • Best Short Stories of 1921 edited by Edward J. O'Brien
  • The California Birthday Book (slections form the writings of California writers, with a biographical sketch of each) edited by George Wharton James
  • Different Girls, novelettes edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
  • Essays English and American, from the Harvard Classics collection
  • Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, and Bayard Taylor by Sherwin Cody, 1899
  • Gifts of Genius, a Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors
  • Golden Stories
  • Good Stories [jokes] Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal
  • Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, volume 1
  • The Lock and Key Library, volume 4, edited by Julian Hawthorne
  • Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor edited by Thomas Masson, volume 4. Includes:
      • A Plea for Humor by Agnes Repplier
      • An Unmarried Female by Marietta Holley
      • Selections from a Brace of Boys by Fitzhugh Ludlow
      • Rheumatism Movement Cure by Robert Jones Burdette
      • An Aphorism and a Lecture by Oliver Wendell Holmes
      • The Harp of a Thousand Strings by Joshua Morris
      • My First Visit to Portland by Seba Smith
      • The Mosquito by William Cullen Bryant
      • Country Burial-places by John Carver
      • The Hoosier and the Salt-pile by Danforth Marble
      • The Quilting by Anne Bache
      • A Fragment and Domestic Happiness by Fitz-Greene Halleck
      • One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters and On "Forts" by Charles F. Browne ("Artemus Ward")
      • Without and Within by James Russell Lowell
      • Street Scenes in Washington by Louisa Mae Alcott
      • Mis' Smith by Albert Bigelow Paine
      • A Boston Lullaby by James Jeffrey Roohe
      • Irish Astronomy by Charles Graham Halpine
      • Bessie Brown, M. D. by Samuel Minturn Peok
      • A Monody by Robert  C. Sands
      • The Poster Girl by Carolyn Wells
      • The Conundrum of the Golf Links by James Gardner Sanderson
      • The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
      • Mrs. Johnson by William Dean Howells
      • The Trout, the Cat and the Fox The British Matron by Anonymous
    • Modern American Prose Selections edited by Byron Johnson Rees
    • The New Pun Book
    • O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories
      • 1919
      • 1920
      • 1921
    • Prefaces and Prologues of Famous Books (from the Harvard Classics)
    • Short Story Classics (American), volume 2, edited by William Patten
    • Standard Selections edited by Robert Fulton
    • The Sturdy Oak, a composite novel by 14 American authors
    • The Whole Family Includes:
      • The Father by William Dean Howells
      • The Old-Maid Aunt by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
      • The Grandmother by Mary Heaton Vorse
      • The Daughter-in-Law by Mary Stewart Cutting
      • The School-Girl by Elizabeth Jordan
      • The Son-in-Law by John Kendrick Bangs
      • The Married Son by Henry James
      • The Married Daughter by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
      • The Mother by Edith Wyatt
      • The School-Boy by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
      • Peggy by Alice Brown
      • The Friend of the Family by Henry Van Dyke
    • The World's Greatest Books by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
      • Volume 4
      • Volume 5
      • volume 6
      • Volume 7
    • Southern Lights and Shadows: Harper's Novelettes (1907) edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
      • The Capture of Andy Proudfoot by Grace MacGowan Cooke
      • The Level of Fortune by Abby Meguire Roach
      • Pap Overholt by Alice MacGowan
      • In the Piny Woods by Mrs. B.F. Mayhew
      • My Fifth in Mammy by William L. Sheppard
      • An Incident by Sarah Barnwell Elliott
      • A Snipe Hunt by M.E.M. Davis
      • The Courtship of Colonel Bill by J.J. Eakins
      • The Balance of Power by Maurice Thompson
    • Quaint Courtships: Harper's Novelettes (1906) edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
      • An Encore by Margaret Deland
      • A Romance of Whooping Harbor by Norman Duncan
      • Hyacinthus by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
      • Jane's Gray Eyes by Sewell Ford
      • A Stiff Condition by Herman Whitaker
      • In the Interests of Christopher by May Harris
      • The Wrong Door by Francis Willing Wharton
      • Braybridge's Offer by William Dean Howells
      • The Rubaiyat and the Liner by Ellia W. Peattie
      • The Minister by Annie Hamilton Donnell
    • Great English Short Story Writers, volume 1
    • Short Stories of Various Types, edited by Laura Freck
    • Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the US from Interviews with Former Slaves, 1941
      • Volume 2 Arkansas
        • part 1
        • part 2
        • part 3
        • part 5
        • part 6
        • part 7
      • Volume 3 Florida
      • Volume 4 Georgia
        • part 1
        • part 3
        • part 4
      • Volume 5 Indiana
      • Volume 6 Kansas
      • Volume 7 Kentucky
      • Volume 8 Maryland
      • Volume 9 Mississippi
      • Volume 12 Ohio
      • Volume 13 Oklahoma
      • Volume 14 South Carolina
        • part 1
        • part 2
      • Volume 15 Tennesse
    • The Spinners' Book of Fiction
    • Stories by American Authors
      • Volume 5
      • Volume 6
    • Twentieth Century Negro Literature edited by D.W. Culp
    • Williams College Anthology, 1798-1910
    • The Wit and Humor in America edited by Marshall P. Wild
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
      • volume 8
      • volume 9
      • volume 10
    • Young Americans Abroad on Vacation in Europe edited by J.O. Choules

    Literary Periodicals

    • Arena
      • June 1891
      • July 1891
      • August 1891
    • Atlantic Monthly
      • Nov. 1857
      • Dec. 1857
      • Jan. 1858
      • Feb. 1858
      • March 1858
      • April 1858
      • May 1858
      • June 1858
      • July 1858
      • Aug. 1858
      • Sept. 1858
      • Oct. 1858
      • Nov. 1858
      • Dec. 1858
      • Jan 1859
      • Feb. 1859
      • March 1859
      • April 1859
      • June 1859
      • July 1859
      • Aug. 1859
      • Oct. 1859
      • Dec. 1859
      • Jan. 1860
      • March 1860
      • April 1860
      • June 1860
      • July 1860
      • Aug. 1860
      • Sept. 1860
      • Oct. 1860
      • Nov. 1860
      • Dec. 1860
      • Jan. 1861
      • Feb. 1861
      • March 1861
      • April 1861
      • May 1861
      • June 1861
      • July 1861
      • Aug. 1861
      • Oct. 1861
      • Nov. 1861
      • Dec. 1861
      • Feb. 1862
      • March 1862
      • April 1862
      • May 1862
      • June 1862
      • July 1862
      • Aug. 1862
      • Sept. 1862
      • Oct. 1862
      • Nov. 1862
      • Dec. 1862
      • Jan. 1863
      • Feb. 1863
      • March 1863
      • April 1863
      • May 1863
      • July 1863
      • Aug. 1863
      • Sept. 1863
      • Oct. 1863
      • Nov. 1863
      • Dec. 1863
      • Jan. 1864
      • Feb. 1864
      • March 1864
      • April 1864
      • May 1864
      • June 1864
      • Aug. 1864
      • Sept. 1864
      • Oct. 1864
      • Nov. 1864
      • Oct. 1865
      • Nov. 1865
      • Feb. 1866
      • March 1866
      • April 1866
      • May 1866
      • June 1866
      • July 1866
      • August 1866
      • Dec. 1866
      • July 1867
      • August 1867
    • Bay State Monthly and New England Magazine
      • Feb. 1884
      • March 1884
      • April 1884
      • May 1884
      • June 1884
      • Nov. 1884
      • Dec. 1884
      • Jan. 1885
      • Feb. 1885
      • volume 2, 1885
      • March 1885
      • volume 3
      • May 1885
      • Aug. 1885
      • Sept. 1885
      • Oct. 1885
      • Nov. 1885
      • Jan. 1886
      • Feb. 1886
      • March 1886
    • Cape Code and all the Pilgrim Land
      • June 1922
    • Chatterbox
      • 1905
    • The Continental Monthly
      • Jan. 1862
      • Feb. 1862
      • March 1862
      • April 1862
      • May 1862
      • June 1862
      • July 1862
      • August 1862
      • September 1862
      • November 1862
      • May 1863
      • June 1863
      • July 1863
      • Oct. 1863
      • Dec. 1863
      • March 1864
      • April 1864
      • June 1864
      • July 1864
      • August 1864
    • Dew Drops
      • Feb. 15, 1914
      • Feb. 22, 1914
      • March 8, 1914
      • April 12, 1914
      • April 19, 1914
      • April 26, 1914
      • May 3, 1914
      • Aug. 23, 1914
    • Donahoe's Magazine
      • January to July 1886
    • International Monthly Magazine
      • Aug. 1850
      • Jan. 1851
      • March 1, 1851
      • January to April 1852
      • Feb. 1, 1852
    • International Weekly Miscellany
      • July 22, 1850
      • July 29, 1850
      • Aug. 5, 1850
      • Aug. 12, 1850
      • Aug. 26, 1850
      • Oct. 1, 1850
    • The Knickerbocker
      • Jan. 1844
      • Feb. 1844
      • March 1844
      • April 1844
      • May 1844
    • Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
      • Jan. 1873
      • Feb. 1873
      • March 1873
      • April 1873
      • May 1873
      • June 1873
      • July 1873
      • Aug. 1873
      • Sept. 1873
      • Oct. 1873
      • Nov. 1873
      • Dec. 1873
      • Jan. 1875
      • Feb. 1875
      • March 1875
      • April 1875
      • June 1875
      • Feb. 1876
      • March 1876
      • April 1876
      • May 1876
      • June 1876
      • Oct. 1877
      • July 1878
      • Aug. 1878
      • Sept. 1878
      • Oct. 1878
      • Aug. 1880
      • Sept. 1880
      • Dec. 1880
      • Jan. 1885
      • July 1885
      • Aug. 1885
      • Oct. 1885
      • Dec. 1885
    • McClure's Magazine
      • Dec. 1895 -- Abe Lincoln
      • Jan. 1896
      • Feb. 1896
      • March 1896
      • April 1896
      • May 1896
      • May 1908
    • New York Evening Journal
      • What's in the Newe York Evening Journal
    • Olden-Times Series
      • Curiosities of the Old Lottery
      • New England Sunday
      • Literary Curiosities
      • Some Strange and Curious Punishments
    • The Onlooker
      • May 28, 1902
    • Punchinello
      • April 2, 1870
      • April 9, 1870
      • April 16, 1870
      • April 23, 1870
      • April 30, 1870
      • May 7, 1870
      • May 14, 1870
      • May 21, 1870
      • May 28, 1870
      • June 4, 1870
      • June 11, 1870
      • June 18, 1870
      • June 25, 1870
      • July 2, 1870
      • July 9, 1870
      • July 16, 1870
      • July 23, 1870
      • July 30, 1870
      • August 6, 1870
      • August 13, 1870
      • August 20, 1870
      • August 27, 1870
      • September 3, 1870
      • September 10, 1870
      • September 17, 1870
      • September 24, 1870
      • October 1, 1870
      • October 8, 1870
      • October 15, 1870
      • October 22, 1870
      • October 29, 1870
      • November 8, 1870
      • November 12, 1870
      • November 19, 1870
      • November 26, 1870
      • December 3, 1870
      • December 10, 1870
      • December 17, 1870
      • December 24, 1870
    • The Unpopular Review
      • July-September 1914

    Anonymous

    • From the Darkness Cometh Light
    • A Jolly by Josh
    • Log-Cabin Lady
    • Young Wild West at Forbidden Pass


    Henry Abbey

    • Stories in Verse


    Jacob Abbott

    • Forests of Maine
    • Rollo's Experiments


    Keene Abbott (1876-1941)

    • A Melody in Silver


    Alex St. Clair Abrams (1844-1931), bio in Wikipedia

    • Trials of the Soldier's Wife


    Andy Adams (1859-1935), bio in Wikipedia

    • Cattle Brands
    • The Log of a Cowboy, 1903
    • Reed Anthony, Cowman, 1907
    • A Texas Matchmaker, 1904
    • The Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings, 1911


    Francis Colburn Adams

    • An Outcast
    • The Von Toodelburgs


    Henry Adams (1838-1918), bio in Wikipedia

    • Democracy: an American Novel
    • The Education of Henry Adams
    • Esther, 1884
    • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartes

    John Turville Adams

    • The Knight of the Golden Melice, 1857
    • The Lost Hunter


    Samuel Adams (1722-1803), bio at Wikipedia

    • Original Writings of Samuel Adams
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4


    Jane Addams (1860-1935), bio at Wikipedia

    • Democracy adn Social Ethics
    • A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, 1912
    • The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
    • Twenty Years at Hull House


    Alvin Addison

    • Ellen Walton


    George Ade (1866-1944), bio at Wikipedia

    • Ade's Fables
    • Knocking the Neighbors


    Effie Afton

    • Eventide, a series of tales and poems


    John Albee (1933-1915)

    • Confessiosn of Boyhood


    Louisa Mae Alcott (1832-1888), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Abbot's Ghost (under the name of A.M. Barnard)
    • Behind a Mask (under the name of A.M. Barnard)
    • Eight Cousins
    • Flower Fables
    • A Garland for Girls
    • Hospital Sketches
    • Jack and Jill
    • Jo's Boys
    • Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
    • Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
    • Little Women
    • Louisa Alcott Reader
    • Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
    • A Modern Cinderella
    • The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
    • An Old-Fashioned Girl
    • On Picket Duty and Other Tales
    • Pauline's Passion and Punishment
    • Rose in Bloom(sequel to Eight Cousins)
    • Shawl-Straps
    • Under the Lilacs
    • Work
    • about Louisa May Alcott
      • Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns


    Isabella M. Alden (AKA "Pansy") (1841-1930)

    • Ester Ried
    • Sunshine Factory
    • Three People


    Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Hilltop on the Marne
    • On the Edge of the War Zone
    • Told in a French Garden


    Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-1899), bio at Wikipedia

    • Adrift in New York
    • Andy Grant's Pluck
    • Ballads
    • Bound to Rise
    • Brave and Bold
    • The Cash Boy
    • Cast Upon the Breakers
    • Do and Dare
    • Driven from Home, or Carl Crawford's Experience
    • The Errand Boy, or How Phil Brent Won Success
    • Facing the World
    • Fame and Fortune
    • Five Hundred Dollars
    • Frank and Fearless
    • Frank's Campaign, or the Farm and the Camp
    • From Canal Boy to President or the Boyhood and manhood of James Garfield, 1881
    • From Farm to Fortune
    • Hector's Inheritance
    • Helping Himself
    • Herbert Carter's Son
    • Jack's Ward
    • Joe the Hotel Boy, or Winning by Pluck
    • Joe's Luck
    • Making His Way
    • Nothing to Eat
    • Only an Irish Boy
    • Paul Prescott's Charge
    • Paul the Peddlar, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
    • Phil the Fiddler
    • Ragged Dick
    • Randy of the River
    • The Story Boy
    • Timothy Crump's Ward
    • The Young Acrobat
    • Young Captain Jack
    • The Young Explorer
    • The Young Miner
    • The Young Musician


    Anne Crosby Emery Allinson (1871-1932)

    • Roads from Rome


    Young Ewing Allison (1853-1932), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Dead Men's Song
    • The Delicious Vice


    Sophie M. Almon-Hensley (1866-1913)

    • A Woman's Love Letters


    Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919), bio at Wikipedia

    • Before the Dawn, a story fo the  fall of Richmond
    • The Eyes of the Woods
    • The Forest of Swords
    • The Forest Runners
    • Free Rangers
    • Guns of Bull Run
    • The Guns of Shiloh
    • Hosts of the Air
    • Hunters of the Hills, 1916
    • The Last of the Chiefs
    • The Lords of the Wild, a story of the Old New York Border, 1919
    • The Masters of the Peaks, a Story of the Great North Woods, 1918
    • The Rock of Chickamauga
    • The Rulers of the Lakes
    • Scouts of Stonewall
    • Scouts of the Valley
    • Shades of the Wilderness
    • The Shadow of the North, a Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign, 1917
    • Star of Gettysburg
    • The Sun of Quebec
    • The Sword of Antietam
    • The Texan Scouts, a story fo the Alamo and goliad, 1913
    • The Texan Star, a story of a great fight for liberty, 1912
    • The Tree of Appomattox, a Story of the Civil War's Close, 1916
    • The Young Trailers


    Nephi Anderson (1865-1923)

    • Added Upon, a Story


    Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), bio at Wikipedia

    • Marching Men
    • Poor White
    • The Triumph of the Egg
    • Windy McPherson's Son
    • Winesburg, Ohio


    Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936)

    • August First


    Wilder Anthony

    • Hidden Gold


    Mary Antin

    • From Plotzk to Boston
    • The Promised Land


    Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Hand but not the Heart or the Life Trials of Jessie Loring, 1856
    • After a Shadow and Other Stories, 1868
    • After the Storm, 1868
    • The Allen House for 20 Years Ago and Now, 1860
    • All's for the Best, 1869
    • Grappling with the Monster or the Curse and Cure of Strong Drink
    • Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing, 1856
    • Words for the Wise, 1851
    • Woman's Trials or Tales and Sketchs from the Life Around Us, 1851
    • The Wedding Guest, 1856
    • The Two Wives or Lost and Won, 1851
    • Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper, 1859
    • Ten Nights in Bar Room
    • The Son of My Friend: New Temperance Tales
    • Off-Hand Sketches, 1851
    • Married Life: Its Shadows and Sunshine, 1852
    • The Last Penny and other Stories
    • Lizzy Glen or the Trials of a Seamstress
    • The Lights and Shadows of Real Life, 1851
    • Lessons in Life, for all who will read them, 1851
    • The Iron Rule or Tyranny in the Household, 1853
    • Home Scenes and Home INfluence, a series of tales and sketches, 1854
    • The Home Mission, 1853
    • Home Lights and Shadows, 1853
    • Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures, 1853
    • The Good Time Coming, 1855
    • Friends and Neighbors, 1856
    • Finger Posts on the Way of Life, 1853
    • Danger or Wounded in the House of Friend, 1875
    • Cast Adrift, 1873
    • True Riches, 1852
    • Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories


    Warren Ashton

    • Hatchie the Guardian Slave or the Heiress of Bellevue, 1853


    Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948), bio at Wikipedia

    • Avalanche
    • Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
    • The Californians by Gertrude Atherton
    • The Conqueror (story of Alexander Hamilton)
    • The Doomswoman
    • The Living Present
    • Rezanov
    • Senator North
    • Sisters-in-Law
    • Sleeping Fires
    • The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
    • Valiant Runaways
    • What Dreams May Come
    • The White Morning: a novel of the power of German women in wartime


    Anne Austin (1895-?)

    • Murder at Bridge


    Jane Austin

    • Standish of Standish: a Story of the Pilgrims


    Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

    • The Land of Little Rain
    • The Lovely Lady
    • The Trail Book


    Bernie Babcock

    • The Coming of the King


    Irving Bacheller (1859-1950), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Man for the Ages


    Josephine Daskam Bacon

    • In the Border Country


    Temple Bailey (1885-1953), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Trumpeter Swan, 1920


    George Bain

    • Wit, Humor, Prose, Ppoetry, and Story Woven into Eighth Popular Lectures

    Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960)

    • The Garden of the Plynck


    Edith Bancroft

    • Jane Allen: Right Guard


    John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), bio at Wikipedia

    • Andiron Tales
    • Autobiography of Methuselah
    • The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces
    • The Booming of Acre Hill
    • Coffee and Repartee
    • The Enchanted Tyypewriter
    • Ghosts I have Met and Some Others
    • House Boat on the Styx
    • The Idiot
    • Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
    • Olympian Nights
    • The Pursuit of the House-Boat
    • R. Holmes and Company
    • A Rebellious Heroine
    • The Water Ghost and Others


    Anna Maynard Barbour

    • At the Time Appointed


    Ralph Henry Barbour

    • Left End Edwards


    Florence Louisa Barclay (1862-1921)

    • The Upas Tree, a Christmas Story
    • The White Ladies of Worcester, a Romance of hte 12th Century


    Jared Barhite

    • Our Profession and Other Peoms


    Benjamin Barker

    • Blackbeard


    Nettie Garmer Barker

    • Kansas Women in Literature


    Joel Barlow

    • The Columbiad


    Richard Barnum

    • Nero, the Circus Lion


    Amelia Barr (1831-1919), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Bow of Orange Ribbon, 1886
    • A Daugher of Fife
    • The Hallam Succession
    • A Knight of the Nets
    • The Maid of Maiden Lane
    • The Man Between: an International Romance
    • The Measure of a Man
    • Remember the Alamo
    • Scottish Sketches, 1883


    Rev. Michael Barrett

    • Up in Admuirland


    Frederick Orin Bartlett

    • The Seventh Moon
    • The Triflers


    James Avis Bartley

    • Lays of Ancient Virginia and Other Poems


    Sara Ware Bassett

    • The Story of Glass


    Rex Beach (1877-1949)

    • Pardners, 1904


    Ross Beeckman

    • The Last Woman
    • Princess Zara


    David Belasco (1853-1931), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Girl of the Golden West
    • The Return of Peter Grimm


    David W. Belisle

    • The American Family Robinson


    Edward Bellamy (1850-1896), bio at Wikipedia

    • At Pinney's Ranch
    • The Blindman's World
    • The Cold Snap
    • Deserted
    • Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
    • The Duke of Stockbridge: a Romance of Shay's Rebellion
    • An Echo of Antietam
    • Equality
    • Hooking Watermelons
    • Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887
    • A Love Story Reversed
    • Miss Ludington's Sister
    • The Old Folks' Party
    • A Positive Romance
    • Potts's Painlss Cure
    • A Summer Evening's Dream
    • Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment
    • With the Eyes Shut


    Martha Bellinger (1870-1960)

    • The Stolen Singer


    Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943), bio at Wikipedia

    • Young Adventure
    • Young People's Pride

    Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954)

    • Bloom of Cactus


    Virginia Bennett

    • The Pigeon Tale


    Ambrose Bierce (AKA Dod Grile) (1842-1914), bio at Wikipedia

    • Black Beetles in Amber
    • Can Such Things Be?
    • Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (writing as "Dod Grile")
    • Collected Works
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 8
    • A Cynic Looks at Life
    • The Devil's Dictionary
    • Fantastic Fables
    • Fiend's Delight (writing as "Dod Grile")
    • Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short story)
    • The Parenticide Club (short story)
    • Present at a Hanging and Other Stories
    • Write It Right
    • Shapes of Clay
    • A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky (short story)


    Harold Bindloss (1866-1945)

    • Gold Trail
    • Winston of the Prairie


    Ottwell Binns

    • A Mating in the Wilds


    Robert Bird

    • Nick of the Woods


    Emily Calvin Blake (1882-?)

    • Suzanna Stirs the Fire


    Amy Blanchard

    • Little Maid Marian


    Edward William Bok (1863-1930), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After


    George Henry Boker (1823-1890), bio at Wikipedia

    • Francesca da Rimini (play)


    Charles E. Bolton (1841-1901)

    • The Harris-Ingram Experiment


    Geraldine Bonner (1870-1839), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Emigrant Trail


    Kate Langley Bosher (1865-1932)

    • Kitty Canary


    Sue Petigru Bowen (1824-1975)

    • The Actress in High Life


    B.M. Bower (= Bertha M. Sinclair = husband of Bertrand Sinclair) (1871-1849)

    • Cabin Fever
    • Casey Ryan
    • Chip of the Flying U
    • Cow-Country
    • The Flying U's Last Stand
    • The Flying U Ranch
    • Good Indian
    • The Gringos
    • The Heritage of the Sioux
    • Her Prairie Knight
    • Jean of the Lazy A
    • Lonesome Land
    • The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
    • The Long Shadow
    • The Look-Out Man
    • The Lure of Dim Trails
    • The Phantom Herd
    • The Quirt
    • The Range Dwellers
    • Rowdy of the Cross L
    • Skyrider
    • Starr, of the Desert
    • The Thunder Bird, 1917
    • Trail of the White Mule
    • The Uphill Climb


    Earl Wayland Bowman

    • The Ramblin' Kid


    Paul Boyton (1848-1914), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Story of Paul Boyton


    Charles Wesley Bradshaw, 1837-1927

    • Angel Agnes, a Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport


    Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

    • Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell


    Cyrus Townsend Brady

    • The Eagle of the Empire
    • For Love of Country
    • A Little Traitor to the South


    Max Brand (pseudonym of  Frederick Schiller Faust) (1892 - 1944), bio at Wikipedia

    • Alcatraz, 1922
    • Bull Hunter
    • The Rangeland Avenger, 1922
    • Trailin, 1919


    Edith Gilman Brewster

    • Some Three Hundred Years Ago


    Olive Briggs

    • The Black Cross


    Charles Brooks

    • Wappin' Wharf


    The Reverend Phillips Brooks (bishop of Massachusetts) (1835-1893), bio at Wikipedia

    • Addresses


    Alice Brown (1857-1948), bio at Wikipedia

    • Country Neighbors
    • Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life
    • Tiverton Tales

    Charles Brockton Brown (1771-1810), bio at Wikipedia

    • Arthur Mervyn
    • Edgar Huntly
    • Jane Talbot
    • Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
    • Wieland, or the Transformation: an American Tale


    William Wells Brown (1816?-1884), bio at Wikipedia

    • Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States


    William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), bio at Wikipedia

    • In His Image (lectures)


    William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Discourse on the Life, Character, and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1870)
    • Letters of a Traveller, 1850
    • Poems


    Charles Neville Buck (1879-1930)

    • Destiny
    • A Pagan of the Hills
    • The Tyranny of Weakness


    Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-1890)

    • Love in '76, an Incident of the Revolution (play)


    H.C. Bumner

    • Jersey Street and Jersey lane, Urban and Suburban Sketches


    Ned Buntline

    • Wild Bill's Last Trail


    Martha Cannary Burk (AKA Calamity Jane) (1852-1903), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself (article)


    Alice Hale Burnett

    • A Day at the County Fair


    Clara Louise Burnham

    • In Apple-Blossom Time


    Aaron Burr (1756-1836), bio at Wikipedia

    • Memoirs
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3


    John Burroughs (1832-1921), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Breath of Life
    • In the Catskills, selections from his writings, 1910
    • The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers


    Hezikiah Butterworth (1839-1905)

    • The Log School-House on the Columbia, 1890


    James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Certain Hour
    • Chivalry, 1921
    • The Cords of Shirking
    • Domnei, 1920
    • The Eagle's Shadow, 1904
    • Figures of Earth, 1921
    • Gallantry
    • The Jewel Merchants, 1921
    • Jurgen
    • The Line of Love, 1921
    • The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, 1915
    • Taboo


    George Cable (1844-1925), bio at Wikipedia

    • Gideon's Band, a Tale of the Mississippi
    • Madame Delphine
    • Old Creole Days


    Dorothy Canfield (Fisher) (1879-1958), bio at Wikipedia

    • Hillsboro People


    Rosa Nouchette Carey

    • Doctor Luttrell's First Patient


    Margaret Sprague Carhart (1877-?)

    • Selections from American Poetry


    Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920)

    • The Admiral' Caravan


    Captain James Carson (=pseudonum used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Saddle Boys series)

    • The Saddle Boys of the Rockies


    Charles Franklin Carter

    • Stories of the Old Missions of California


    Nicholas Carter

    • The Crime of the French Cafe, Nick Carter's Ghost Story, The Mystery of St. Agnes Hospital
    • With Links of Steel


    Gordon Casserly

    • The Elephant God


    Arnold Castle

    • The Perfectinoists


    Virginia Carter Castleman

    • Pocohantas


    Willa Cather (1873-1947), bio at Wikipedia

    • Alexander's Bridge
    • My Antonia
    • O Pioneers!
    • One of Ours
    • The Song of the Lark
    • Youth and the Bright Medusa, 1920


    Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902)

    • The Lady of Fort St. John
    • Old Kaskaskia


    Esther and Lucia Chamberlain

    • The Coast of Chance


    Robert Chambers (1865-1933), bio at Wikipedia

    • Blue-Bird Weather
    • The Danger Mark
    • In Search of the Unknown
    • Iole
    • Lorraine
    • Police!


    Heman White Chaplin (1847-1924)

    • By the Sea (short story)
    • Eli
    • Five Hundred Dollars
    • In Medeira Place
    • The New Minister's Great Opportunity
    • The Village Convict


    Thomas S. Chard

    • Across the Sea and Other Poems


    Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Colonel's Dream
    • The Conjure Woman
    • The House Behind the Cedars
    • The Marrow of Tradition, 1901
    • The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line and Selected Essays, 1899


    George Randolph Chester (1869-1924)

    • The Early Bird


    Richard Washburn Child (1881-1935)

    • The Blue Wall


    Kate Chopin (1850-1904), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Awakening and Selected Short Stories


    Winston Churchill (American, not Sir Winston Churchill) (1871-1947), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Celebrity
    • Coniston
    • The Crisis
    • The Crossing
    • Dr. Jonathan
    • The Dwelling Place of Light
    • An Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea
    • A Far Country
    • Inside the Cup
    • A Modern Chronicle
    • Mr. Crewe's Career
    • Richard Carvel
    • A Traveller in War-Time

    Cecilia Cleveland (1850-?)

    • The Story of a Summer or Journal Leaves from Chappaqua


    Irvin S. Cobb

    • Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
    • The Escape of Mr. Trimm
    • From Place to Place
    • Speaking of Operations
    • The Thunders of Silence


    Hiram Alfred Cody (1872-1948)

    • Glen of the High North
    • Road of the Lone Patrol
    • Under Sealed Orders


    William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) (1846-1917), bio at Wikipedia

    • An Autobiography


    Charles Carleton Coffin

    • Winning His Way


    Will Levinton Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

    • Son of Power


    Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-?)

    • Joyce of the North Woods
    • Then Marched the Brave
    • The Shield of Silence
    • A Son of the Hills


    James Connolly

    • Sonnie-Boy's People
    • The Trawler


    Ebenezer Cook (c. 1661- c. 1732)

    • The Sotweed Factor (cf. the novel The Sotweed Factor by John Barth)
    • The Sot-weed Factor (another edition)


    John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Last of the Foresters or Humors on the Border -- a Story of the Old Virginia Frontier


    Dane Coolidge

    • Rimrock Jones


    Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Cross-Cut
    • The White Desert


    James A. Cooper

    • Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper, a story of Cape Cod, 1917


    James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), bio at Wikipedia

    • Afloat and Ashore (1844)
    • Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (1843)
    • The Bravo (1831)
    • The Crater or Vulcan's Peak, a tale of the Pacific (1863)
    • The Deerslayer (1841)
    • The Headsman or The Abbaye de Vignerons (1860)
    • Homeward Bound: a Tale of the Sea (1838)
    • Home as Found (sequel to Homeward Bound) (1838)
    • Jack Tier or the Florida Reef (1848)
    • The Lake Gun (story)
    • The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
    • Miles Wallingford, sequel to Afloat and Ashore (1863)
    • The Monikins (1835)
    • Ned Myers or a Life Before the Mast (1843)
    • New York (story)
    • Oak Openings (1848)
    • The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1840)
    • The Pilot (1823)
    • The Pioneers (1823)
    • The Prairie (1826)
    • Precaution, with an introduction by William Cullen Bryant (1819)
    • Recollections of Europe
    • The Red Rover
    • A Residence in France
    • Satanstoe (1845)
    • The Sea Lions or the Lost Sealers (1849)
    • The Spy (1821)
    • Tales for Fifteen (Imagination and Heart) (writing under the pseudonym "Jane Morgan")
    • The Two Admirals
    • The Water-Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas
    • The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish (1827)
    • Wyandotte (1843)
    about Cooper
    • James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences by Mark Twain
    • James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Phillips, 1912
    • James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas Lounsberry


    Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette Duncan) (1862?-1922)

    • Voyage of Consolation


    O.W. Coursey

    • The Woman with a Stone Heart


    Kenyon Cox (1856-1919), bio at Wikipedia

    • Artist and Public and Other Essays on Art Subjects


    Charles Egbert Craddock

    • The Young Mountaineers


    Stephen Crane (1871-1900), bio at Wikipedia

    • Active Service
    • A Little Regiment
    • Maggie: a Girl of the Streets
    • Men, Women, and Boats
    • The Red Badge of Courage
    • The Third Violet
    • War is Kind (poem)


    F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909), bio at Wikipedia

    • Adam Johnsotone's Son
    • An American Politician, 1884
    • A Cigarette-Maker's Romance
    • Doctor Claudius
    • Don Orsino
    • Greifenstein
    • The Heart of Rome
    • In the Palace of the King
    • Little City of Hope (story)
    • Man Overboard!
    • Marietta, a Maid of Venice, 1901
    • Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
    • Mr. Isaacs: a Tale of Modern India
    • Paul Patoff
    • Primadonna (sequel to Fair Margaret), 1908
    • A Roman Singer
    • Sant' Ilario
    • Saracinesca, 1887
    • A Tale of a Lonely Parsh, 1886
    • Taquisara, 1895
    • The Upper Berth
    • Via Crucis, a romance of the Second Crusade
    • The White Sister
    • Whosoever Shall Offend
    • The Witch of Prague, a fantastic tale


    Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)

    • Old Spookses' Pass and Other Poems


    Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1731-1813), bio at Wikipedia

    • Letters from an American Farmer


    Victoria Cross (1868-1952), bio at Wikipedia

    • Six Women


    Samuel McChord Crothers

    • By the Christmas Fire


    Ridgwell Cullum (AKA Sidney Grove Bughard) (1867-1943)

    • The Forfeit
    • The Story of the Foss River Ranch: a Tale of the Northwest, 1903
    • The Triumph of John Kars


    Edward Curnick

    • The Kentucky Ranger


    Captain Charles Albert Curtis (1835-1907)

    • Captured by the Navajos


    James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Alaskan
    • Back to God's Country
    • Baree, Son of Kazan
    • The Country Beyond
    • The Courage of Captain Plum
    • The Courage of Marge O'Doone
    • The Danger Trail
    • The Flaming Forest
    • Flower of the North
    • God's Country and the Woman
    • The Gold Hunters
    • The Golden Snare
    • The Grizzly King
    • Honor of the Big Snows
    • The Hunted Woman
    • Isobel
    • Kazan
    • Nomads of the North
    • Philip Steele
    • River's End
    • Valley of Silent Men
    • Wolf Hunters


    Leona Dalrymple

    • When the Yule Log Burns


    Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), bio at Wikipedia

    • Two Years Before the Mast


    Olive Tilford Dargan

    • The Flutter of the Goldlead and Other Plays


    Rebecca Harding Davis

    • Frances Waldeaux


    Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916), bio at Wikipedia

    • Adventures and Letters
    • The Amateur
    • Billy and the Big Stick (story)
    • The Boy Scout
    • Captain Macklin
    • A Charmed Life (story)
    • Cinderella and Other Stories
    • The Congo and Coasts of Africa
    • The Consul (story)
    • Cuba in War Time
    • The Deserter
    • Episodes in Van Bibber's Life (story)
    • The Exiles and Other Stories
    • The Frame Up (story)
    • Gallegher
    • In the Fog
    • The King's Jackal
    • The Lion and the Unicorn
    • The Log of the Jolly Polly (story)
    • The Lost House
    • The Lost Road and Other Stories
      • The Lost Road
      • The Miracle of Las Palmas
      • Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks
      • The Men of Zanzibar
      • The Long Arm
      • The God of Coincidence
      • The Buried Treasure of Cobre
      • The Boy Scout
      • Somewhere in France
    • The Make-Believe Man (story)
    • The Man Who Could Not Lose (story)
    • The Messengers (story)
    • Miss Civilization (story)
    • My Buried Treasure (story)
    • The Nature Faker (story)
    • Notes of a War Correspondent
    • Once Upon a Time
    • Peace Maneuvers (story)
    • The Princess Aline
    • A Question of Latitude (story)
    • Ranson's Folly
    • Real Soldiers of Fortune
    • The Red Cross Girl and Other Stories
      • The Red Cross Girl
      • The Grand Cross of the Crescent
      • The Invasion of England
      • Blood Will Tell
      • The Sailorman
      • The Mind Reader
      • The Naked Man
      • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
      • The Card-Sharp
    • The Reporter Who Made Himself King
    • The Scarlet Car
    • Soldiers of Fortune
    • Somewhere in France, 1915
    • The Spy (story)
    • Van Bibber and Others, 1892
    • Vera the Medium
    • A Wasted Day (story)
    • With the Allies
    • about Richard Harding Davis
      • Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis by Gouverneur Morris, Booth Tarkington, Charles Dana Gibson, E. L. Burlingame, Augustus Thomas, Theodore Roosevelt, Irvin S. Cobb, John Fox, Jr, Finley Peter Dunne, Winston Churchill, Leonard Wood, and John T. McCutcheon


    William Stearns Davis (1877-1930)

    • A Day in Old Athens
    • A Friend of Caesar


    Coningsby William Dawson (1883-1959)

    • Christmas Outside of Eden, 1922


    Sarah Morgan Dawson

    • A Confederate Girl's Diary


    Clarence Day, Jr. (1874-1935), bio at Wikipedia

    • This Simian World


    Holman Day (1896-1935)

    • Blow the Man Down
    • Joan of Arc of the North Woods
    • The Skipper and the Skipped


    John William De Forest (826-1906), bio at Wikipedia

    • Overland


    Frederick Dellenbaugh (1853-1935)

    • The Romance of the Colorado River


    James de Mille

    • The Lady of the Ice


    Gaston Devreaux

    • The Sun King


    John Dewey (1859-1952), bio at Wikipedia

    • Democracy and Education


    Orville Dewey (1794-1882), bio at Wikipedia

    • Autobiographby and Letters of Orville Dewey, edited by Mary Dewey


    Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard

    • The Ghost Breaker (play)


    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), bio at Wikipedia

    • Series One
    • Series Two
    • Series Three


    Mary Dillon

    • The Rose of Old St. Louis


    Thomas Dixon (1864-1946), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Root of Evil
    • The Southerner, a Romance of the Real Lincoln
    • The Victim, a Romance ofthe Real Jefferson Davis


    Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905), bio at Wikipedia

    • Po-no-kah, an Indian tale of long ago


    Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), bio at Wikipedia

    • Atlantis: the Antediluvian World
    • Caesar's Column
    • Ragnarok: the Age of Fire and Gravel


    John Dos Passos (1896-1970), bio at Wikipedia

    • One Man's Initiation -- 1917
    • Three Soldiers


    L. Dougall

    • The Mermaid


    Amanda M. Douglas

    • Floyd Grandon's Honor


    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), bio at Wikipedia

    • My Bondage and My Freedom
    • My Escape from Slavery (article)
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    • Reconstruction (article)


    Edward Doyle

    • Freedom, Truth, and Beauty, sonnets


    Captain William F. Drannan (1832-1913)

    • Captain W.F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts, 1910
    • Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains


    Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Financier
    • Sister Carrie
    • The Titan
    • Twelve Men


    Hamilton Drummond

    • The Justice of the King


    W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868-1963), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Conservation of Races (short)
    • Darkwater
    • The Negro
    • The Quest of the Silver Fleece (novel)
    • The Souls of Black Folk
    • Suppression of the African Slave Trade


    J.W. Duffield

    • Bert Wilson in the Rockies


    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
    • The Heart of Happy Hollow
    • The Sport of the Gods
    • The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories


    Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

    • Mr. Dooley in Peace and War


    Francis Durivage (1814-1881)

    • The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales


    Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939), bio at Wikipedia

    • Indian Boyhood
    • Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
    • Old Indian Days
    • Soul of the Indian

    Mrs. Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1887)

    • Aunt Phillis's Cabin or Southern Life As It Is


    H.M. Egbert (AKA Victor Rousseau Emanuel) (1879-1960)

    • Jacqueline of Golden River


    Edward Eggleston (1837-1902), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Big Brother
    • The Hoosier Schoolmaster
    • Queer Stories for Boys and Girls


    Edward Sylvester Ellis (AKA R.H. Jayne) (1840-1916)

    • Adrift in the Wilds
    • The Cave in the Mountain, a sequel to In the Pecos County
    • Cowmen and Rustlers, a story of the Wyoming cattle range, 1904
    • The Daughter of the Chieftain: The Story of an Indian Girl
    • The Hunters of the Ozark
    • The Jungle Fugitives
    • In the Pecos Country
    • The Land of Mystery
    • The Lost Trail, 1911
    • Oonomoo the Huron
    • The Phantom of the River
    • The Story of Red Feather
    • Through Forest and Fire
    • Two Boys in Wyoming

    Alice Emerson

    • Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest
    • Ruth Fielding at the War Front


    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Essays
    • Essays, First Series
    • Essays, Second Series
    • May-Day and other Pieces
    • Poems
    • Representative Men
    • about Emerson
      • Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
      • Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
      • Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
      • Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
      • Critical Miscellanies, volume 1, essay 5: Emerson by John Morley


    Augusta Evans (1835-1909)

    • Inez, a tale of the Alamo


    Hal G. Evarts (1887-1934)

    • The Settling of the Sage


    Evelyn Everett-Green (1856-1932)

    • French and English


    Martha Leewis Beckwith Ewell (1841-1902)

    • The Harvest of Years


    Mary McNeil Fenollosa

    • The Dragon Painter


    Edna Ferber (1885-1968), bio at Wikipedia

    • Buttered Side Down
    • Cheerful by Request
    • Dawn O'Hara
    • Emma McChesney and Company
    • Fanny Herself
    • Gigolo
    • Half Portions
    • One Basket
    • Personality Plus
    • Roast Beef, Medium


    Harvey Ferguson

    • The Blood of the Conquerors


    Al G. Field

    • Watch Youself Go By


    Eugene Field (1850-1895), bio at Wikipedia

    • Echoes from the Sabine Farm (with Roswell Field)
    • The Holy Cross and Other Tales (= Writings of Eugene Field volume 5)
    • The House (= Writings of Eugene Field volume 8)
    • A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)
    • Second Book of Tales (= Works of Eugene Field volume 10)
    • John Smith, USA


    James Fields (1817-1881), bio at Wikipedia

    • Yesterdays with Authors


    Martha Finley (1828-1909)

    • Elsie Dinsmore
    • Elsie's Girlhood
    • Grandmother Elsie
    • Elsie at the World's Fair
    • Elsie's Children
    • Elsie's New Relations
    • Elsie's Womanhood


    Arthur Davidson Ficke

    • Mr. Faust


    James Fiske

    • Shelled by an Unseen Foe


    Clark Fitch

    • A Prisoner of Morro


    Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Girl with the Green Eyes (play)


    George Fitch (1877-1915)

    • Homeburg Memories


    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Beautiful and Damned
    • Flappers and Philosophers
    • Tales of the Jazz Age
    • This Side of Paradise


    O. P. Fitzgerald

    • California Sketches


    Robert Fitzgerald

    • The Statesman Snowbound


    Brandon Fleming

    • The Crooked House


    Oliver Fleming

    • Ambrotox and Limping Duck


    J.S. Fletcher

    • The Borough Treasurer


    Jesse Graham Flower (AKA Josephine Chase) (?-1931)

    • Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert


    Sewell Ford

    • Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Stable
    • Shorty McCabe
    • Shorty McCabe on the Job


    Jean Forsythe (AKA Jean Newton McIlwraith) (1859-1938)

    • The Making of Mary


    John Fox, Jr. (1863-1919)

    • Crittenden, a Kentucky Story of Love and War
    • A Cumberland Vendetta
    • Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories
      • On Hell-Fer-Sartain Creek
      • Through the Gap
      • A Trick o' Trade
      • Grayson's Baby
      • Courtin' on Cutshin
      • The Message in the Sand
      • The Senator's Last Trade
      • Preachin' on Kingdom-Come
      • The Passing of Abraham Shivers
      • A Purple Rhodadendron
    • In Happy Valley
    • A Knight of the Cumberland
    • The Last Stetson (story)
    • The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
    • A Mountain Europa
    • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine


    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), bio at Wikipedia

    • Autobiography


    Chelsea Curtis Fraser

    • Around the World in Ten Days


    William Alexander Fraser (1859-1933)

    • The Outcasts


    Harold Frederic (1856-1898)

    • The Damnation of Theron Ware


    John Frederick

    • Riders of the Silences


    Mary Belle Freeley

    • Fair to Look Upon


    Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), bio at Wikipedia

    • Adventures of Anne: Stories of Colonial Times, 1886
    • The Butterfly House
    • By the Light of the Soul
    • Comfort Pease and the Gold Ring
    • The Debtor
    • Evelina's Garden
    • Giles Corey: Yeoman (play)
    • The Green Door
    • The Jamesons
    • Jane Field
    • Jerome
    • Madelon
    • Pembroke, 1900
    • Portion of Labor
    • The Shoulders of Atlas
    • Young Lucretia and other Stories


    Frank Froest

    • The Grell Mystery


    Robert Frost (1874-1963), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Boy's Will
    • North of Boston


    Anna Fuller

    • Peak and Prairie


    Henry Fuller

    • On the Stairs


    Geore Stuart Fullerton

    • A Handbook of Ethical Theory
    • Introduction to Philosophy


    Miriam Gaines

    • Grandfather's Love Pie


    Zona Gale (1874-1938), bio at Wikipedia

    • Christmas, a Story


    Hamlin Garland (1860-1940), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Daughter of the Middle Border
    • The Eagle's Heart
    • A Little Norsk
    • Moccasin Ranch, a Story of Dakota
    • Other Main-Travelled Roads
    • Prairie Folks
    • The Shadow World
    • The Spirit of Sweetwater
    • The Tyranny of the Dark
    • Wayside Courtships


    Theodosia Garrison

    • Dreamers and Other Poems


    Charles Garvice

    • Nell of Shorne Mills


    Glance Gaylord

    • Culm Rock


    William Hamlton Gibson

    • My Studio Neighbors


    Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Forerunner, a Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, 1909-1910
    • Herland
    • Our Androcentric Culture
    • What Diantha Did
    • The Yellow Wallpaper


    Ellen Glasgow

    • The Miller of Old Chuch


    Susan Glaspell (1876-1948), bio at Wikipedia

    • Plays
      • Trifles
      • The Outside
      • The Verge
      • Inheritors


    Montague Glass

    • Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things


    Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Man and the Moment


    Charles Goddard (1879-1951), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Perils of Pauline


    George Paul Goff

    • Nick Baba's Last Drink


    Maud Wilder Goodwin

    • Flint


    Robert Grant (1852-1940), bio at Wikipedia

    • The King's Men
    • The Opinions of a Philosopher


    L.P. Gratacap

    • The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars, 1903


    William Murray Graydon (1864-1946)

    • The Camp in the Snow
    • The River of Darkness


    Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Bronze Hand (short story)
    • The Chief Legatee
    • The Circular Study
    • A Difficult Problem
    • The Golden Slipper
    • The Gray Madam
    • The Hermit of ________Street
    • The House in the Mist
    • The Leavenworth Case
    • Midnight in Beauchamp Row
    • The Millionaire Baby
    • The Mill Mystery
    • The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
    • The Old Stone House and Other Stories
    • The Staircase at the Hearts Delight
    • That Affair Next Door


    Sarah P. McLean Greene (1856-1935)

    • Cape Cod Folks
    • Vesty of the Basins


    Jackson Gregory (1882-1943)

    • Daughter of the Sun
    • The Short Cut
    • Under Handicap
    • Wolf Breed


    Zane Grey (1872-1939), bio at Wikipedia

    • Betty Zane
    • The Border Legion
    • The Call of the Canyon
    • Desert Gold, a Romance of the Border
    • The Desert of Wheat (1919)
    • Heritage of the Desert
    • The Last of the Plainsmen
    • The Last Trail
    • The Light of Western Stars
    • The Lone Star Ranger
    • The Man of the Forest
    • The Mysterious Rider
    • The Rainbow Trail
    • The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories
      • The Redheaded Outfield
      • The Rube
      • The Rube's Pennant
      • The Rube's Honeymoon
      • The Rube's Waterloo
      • Breaking into Fast Company
      • The Knocker
      • The Winning Ball
      • False Colors
      • The Manager of Madden's Hill
      • Old Well-Well
    • Riders of the Purple Sage
    • Tales of Lonely Trails
    • The Spirit of the Border, a Romance of Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
    • Day of the Beast
    • To the Last Man
    • The U.P. Trail
    • Wildfire
    • The Young Forester
    • The Young Pitcher


    Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)

    • The Passenger from Calais


    Sutton Griggs

    • The Hindered Hand


    R. Norman Grisewood

    • Zarlah the Martian


    Joseph Grismer (1849-1922)

    • Way Down East


    Frederick Philip Grove (1879?-1948), bio at Wikipedia

    • Over Prairie Trails


    Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Heap o' Livin'
    • Just Folks
    • Over There (poems)
    • The Path to Home


    Charles Gunnison (1861-1897)

    • The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria
    • In Macao

    John Habberton (1842-1921), bio at Wikipedia

    • Helen's Babies
    • Romance of California Life, 1880


    Hermann Hagedorn (1882-1964)

    • Makers of Madness


    Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), bio at Wikipedia

    • How to Do It
    • The Man Without a Country and Other Tales, 1891


    Angelo Hall (1868-?)

    • Forty-One Thieves, a Tale of California


    Charles Hall

    • Adrift in the Ice-Fields


    James Norman Hall (1887-1951), bio at Wikipedia

    • High Adventure
    • Kitchener's Mob. The Adventures of an American in the British Army


    Sarah Hallowell

    • On the Church Steps


    Francis Halsey (1851-1919), bio at Wikipedia

    • Seeing Europe with Famous Authors
      • volume 1
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 6
      • volume 8


    Harlan Page Halsey (1839?-1898)

    • Cad Metti
    • Oscar the Detective (by the "Old Sleuth")


    Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

    • Molly Bawn


    H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Young Engineers in Arizona


    Arthur Preston Hankins (1880-1932)

    • She Boss


    Will N. Harben (1858-1919)

    • Dixie Hart


    Walter Ben Hare

    • The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays


    Henry Harland

    • The Lady Paramount


    Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911), bio at Wikipedia

    • Iola Leroy
    • Minnie's Sacrifice
    • Poems
    • Trial and Triumph


    Frank Harris (1856-1931), bio at Wikipedia

    • Elder Conklin and Other Stories
    • Gulmore, the Boss
    • A Modern Idyll
    • The Sheriff and His Partner

    Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), bio at Wikipedia

    • Mingo
    • Nights With Uncle Remus
    • Stories of Georgia
    • Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
    • Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings


    Bret Harte (1836-1902), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Argonauts of North Liberty
    • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
      • The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
      • Johnnyboy
      • Young Robin Gray
      • The Sheriff of Sisk You
      • A Rose of Glenbogie
      • The Mystery of the Hacienda
      • Chu Chu
      • My First Book
    • By Shore and Sedge
    • Clarence
    • Colonel Starbottle's Client
      • Colonel Starbottle's Client
      • The Postmistress of Laurel Run
      • A Night at "Hays"
      • Johnson's "Old Woman"
      • The New Assistant at Pine Clearing School
      • In a Pioneer Restaurant
      • A Treasure of the Galleon
      • Out of a Pioneer's Trunk
    • Condensed Novels
      • Handsome is as Handsome Does
      • Lothow, or the Adventures of a Young Gentelman in Search of a Religion
      • Muck-a-Muck, a Modern Indian Novel, after James Fennimore Cooper
      • Terence Denville
      • Selina Sedilia
      • The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen, after Dumas
      • Mis Mix, after Charlotte Bronte
      • Guy Heavystone, or "Entire"
      • Mr. Midshipman Breezy
      • John Jenkins, or the Smoker Reformed
      • No Title, after Wilke Collins
        • Mary Jones's Narrative
        • The Slim Young Man's Story
        • No. 27 Limehouse Road
        • Count Moscow's Narrative
        • Dr. Diggs's Statement
      • Mary McGillup, a Southern Novel, after Belle Boyd
    • Complete Poetical Works
    • Cressy
    • The Crusade of the Excelsior
    • Devil's Ford
    • Dickens in Camp
    • A Drift from Redwood Camp (story)
    • Drift from Two Shores
      • The Man on the Beach
      • Two Saints of the Foot-Hills
      • "Jinny"
      • Roger Catron's Friend
      • "Who Was My Quiet Friend?"
      • A Ghost of the Sierras
      • The Hoodlum Band
      • The Man Whose Yoke Was Not Easy
      • My Friend, the Tramp
      • The Man from Solano
      • The Office Seeker
      • A Sleeping-Car Experience
      • Morning on the Avenue
      • With the Entrees
    • Flip: a California Romance (story)
    • Found at Blazing Star (story)
    • From Sand Hill to Pine
      • A Niece of Snapshot Harry's
      • A Treasure of the Redwoods
      • A Belle of Canada City
      • What Happened at the Fonda
      • A Jack and Jill of the Sierras
      • Mr. Bilson's Housekeeper
    • Frontier Stories
    • The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Stories
      • The Heritage of Dedlow March
      • A Knight-Errant of the Foot-Hills
      • A Secret of Telegraph Hill
      • Captain Jim's Friend
    • In the Carquinez Woods
    • In a Hollow of the Hills
    • Jeff Briggs's Love Story
    • Legends and Tales
      • The Legend of Monte Del Diablo
      • The Adventure of Padre Vicentio
      • The Legend of Devil's Point
      • The Devil and the Broker
      • The Ogress of Silver Land
      • The Ruins of San Francisco
      • At Night at Wingdam
    • The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales
    • Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
    • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
      • Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands
      • How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar
      • The Princess Bob and Her Friends
      • The Iliad of Sandy Bar
      • Mr. Thompson's Prodigal
      • The Romance of Madrono Hollow
      • The Poet of Sierra Flat
      • The Christmas Gift that Came to Rupert
    • A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready
    • New Burlesques
      • Rupert the Resembler, after Rupert of Hentzau and Prisoner of Zenda
      • The Stolen Cigar Case by A. Co__n D__le [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
      • Golly and the Christian, or the Minx and the Manxman by H__ll C__ne
      • The Adventures of John Longbowe, Yeoman, Being a Modern-Antique Realistic Romance
      • Dan'l Borem by E. N__s W__t__t
      • Stories Three by R_dy__d K_pl__g [Rudyard Kipling]
      • "Zut-ski" the Problem of a Wicked Feme Sole by M__r__e C__r__lli
    • On the Frontier
    • Openings in the Old Trail
      • A Mercury of the Foot-Hills
      • Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
      • The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel
      • A Buckeye Hoollow Inheritance
      • The Reincarnation of Smith
      • Lanty Foster's Mistake
      • An Ali Baba of the Sierras
      • Miss Peggy's Proteges
      • The Goddess of Excelsior
    • A Phyllis of the Sierras
    • The Queen of the Pirate Isle (story)
    • Sally Dows
      • Sally Dows
      • The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker
      • The Transformation of Buckeye Camp
      • Their Uncle from California
    • Salome Jane, 1910
    • A Sappho of Green Springs
    • Snow-Bound at Eagle's
    • Stories in Light and Shadow
      • "Unser Karl"
      • Uncle Jim and Uncle Billy
      • See Yup
      • The Desborough Connections
      • Salomy Jane's Kiss

      • The Man and the Mountain
        The Passing of Enriquez
    • The Story of a Mine
    • Susy, a Story of the Plains
    • Tales of the Argonauts
    • Tales of Trail and Town
      • The ancestors of Peter Atherly
      • Two Americans
      • The Judgment of Bolinas Plain
      • The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick
      • A Night on the Divide
      • The Youngest Prospector in Calaveras
      • A Tale of Three Truants
    • Thankful Blossom
    • The Three Partners
    • Trent's Trust and Other Stories
      • Trent's Trust
      • Mr. MacGlowrie's Widow
      • A Ward of Colonel Starbottle
      • Prosper's "Old Mother"
      • The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin
      • A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge
      • Dick Boy'es Business Car
    • Two Men of Sandy Bar
    • Urban Sketches
      • A Venerable Impostor
      • From a Balcony
      • Melons
      • Surprising Adventures of Master Charles Summerton
      • Sidewalkings
      • A Boy's Dog
      • Charitable Reminiscences
      • "Seeing the Steamer Off"
      • Neighborhoods I Have Moved From
      • My Suburban Residence
      • On a Vulgar Little Boy
    • Waiting for the Ship
    • A Waif of the Plains
    • A Ward of the Golden Gate
    works about Bret Harte
    • A Belated Guest [Bret Harte] by William Dean Howells(essay)
    • Literary Friends and Acquaintances: a Belated Guest by William Dean Howells


    Milo Hastings (1884-1957)

    • In the Clutch of the War-God, from Physical Culture Magazine, July -Sept. 1911

    Charles Boardman Hawes (1889-1923)

    • The Mutineers


    Clarence Hawkes

    • Black Bruin, the Story of a Bear


    Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934)

    • Archibald Malmaison
    • Confessions and Criticisms
    • David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales
    • Hawthorne and His Circle
    • The Lock and Key Library, volume 4 (editor)
    • The Subterranean Brotherhood


    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), bio at Wikipedia

    • American Notebooks
      • Volume 1
      • Volume 2
    • The Ancestral Footstep
    • Biographical Studies
      • Mrs. Hutchinson
      • Sir William Phips
      • Thomas Green Fessenden
      • Jonathan Cilly
    • The Blithedale Romance
    • The Book of Autographs (story)
    • Browne's Folly (story)
    • The Dolliver Romance
    • Dr. Bullivant (story)
    • Fanshawe
    • From Mosses from an Old Manse
      • The Birthmark
      • Young Goodman Brown
      • Rappaccini's Daughter
      • Mrs. Bullfrog
      • The Celestial Railroad
      • The Procession of Life
      • Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
      • Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
      • Drowne's Wooden Image
      • Roger Malvin's Burial
      • The Artist of the Beautiful
    • The Gorgon's Head (story)
    • The Great Stone Face
      • The Great Stone Face
      • The Ambitious Guest
      • The Great Carbuncle
      • Sketches from Memory
    • Grimshawe's Secret
    • The House of the Seven Gables
    • Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge, edted by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • The Marble Faun, volume 1
    • The Marble Faun, volume 2
    • The Miraculous Pitcher (story)
    • Old Woman's Tale (story)
    • Our Old Home (English Sketches)
    • The Paradise of Children (story)
    • Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
    • Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
    • The Scarlet Letter
    • Septimus Felton
    • Sketches and Studies
    • Sketches from Memory
    • The Snow Image
      • The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
      • The Great Stone Face
      • Ethan Brand
      • The Canterbury Pilgrims
      • The Devil in Manuscript
      • My Kinsman, Major Molineux
    • Tales and Sketches (story)
    • Tanglewood Tales
    • Time's Portraiture (story)
    • The Three Golden Apples (story)
    • True Stories of History and Biography
      • Benjamin West
      • Sir Isaac Newton
      • Samuel Johnson
      • Oliver Cromwell
      • Benjamin Franklin
      • Queen Chistina
    • Twice-Told Tales
      • The Gray Champion
      • The Wedding Knell
      • The Minister's Black Veil
      • The May-Pole of Merry Mount
      • The Gentle Boy
      • Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
      • Wakefield
      • The Great Carbuncle
      • David Swan
      • The Hollow of the Three Hills
      • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
      • Legends of the Province House
      •   I. Howe's Masquerade
      •   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
      •   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
      •   IV. Old Esther Dudley
      • The Ambitious Guest
      • Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
      • The Shaker Bridal
      • Endicott and the Red Cross
    • Twice-Told Tales, 1889 edition
    • The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
      • Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
      • The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
      • A Rainy Day
      • Troublous Times
      • The Government of New England
      • The Pine-Tree Shillings
      • The Quakers and the Indians
      • The Indian Bible
      • England and New England
      • The Sunken Treasure
      • What the Chair Had Known
      • Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
      • The Chair in the Firelight
      • The Salem Witches
      • The Old-Fashioned School
      • Cotton Mather
      • The Rejected Blessing
      • Pomps and Vanities
      • The Provincial Muster
      • The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
      • The End of the War
      • Thomas Hutchinson
      • Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
      • A New Year's Day
      • The Stamp Act
      • The Hutchinson Mob
      • The British Troops in Boston
      • The Boston Massacre
      • A Collection of Portrait
      • The Tea Party and Lexington
      • The Siege of Boston
      • The Tory's Farewell
      • The War for Independence.
      • Grandfather's Dream
      • A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
    • about Nathaniel Hawthorne
      • Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thams Codman
      • Hawthorne by Henry James
      • Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
      • Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
      • Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
      • My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
      • Nathaniel Hawtorne by George E. Woodbury
      • Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Stearns
      • A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop


    Helen Hay (AKA Helen Hay Whitney) (1875-1944)

    • The Rose of Dawn, a Tale of the South Sea


    James Hay, Jr.

    • The Winning Clue


    John Hay (1835-1905), bio at Wikipedia

    • Castilian Days

    Rachel Hayward

    • Hippodrome


    Ben Hecht

    • Erik Dorn


    Annie French Hector (1825-1902) (AKA Mrs. Alexander)

    • A Crooked Path


    L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone (1844-1928), bio at Wikipedia

    • In the Courts of Memory


    Hetty Hemenway

    • Four Days, the Story of a War Marriage


    James Hendryx (1880-1963)

    • The Challenge of the North
    • The Gun-Brand
    • The Texan


    Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949)

    • Life and Letters of Walter Page
      • volume 1
      • volume 2


    O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) (1862-1910), bio at Wikipedia

    • Cabbages and Kings
    • The Four Million
    • The Gentle Grafter
    • Heart of the West
    • Options
    • Roads of Destiny
    • Rolling Stones
    • Sixes and Sevens
    • Strictly Business
    • The Trimmed Lamp
    • The Voice of the City
    • Waifs and Strays
    • Whirligigs


    Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz

    • Ernest Linwood


    Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954), bio at Wikipedia

    • Cytherea
    • The Happy End
    • Java Head, 1918
    • Linda Condon, 1919


    Robert Herrick (1868-1938), bio at Wikipedia

    • One Woman's Life


    Maurice Hewlett

    • The Ruinous Face


    Grace Livingston Hill (Lutz) (1865-1947)

    • The City of Fire
    • Lo, Michael!
    • The Man of the Desert
    • War Romance of the Salvation Army, with Evangeline Booth
    • The Witness


    Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895)

    • Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories


    George Hobart

    • You Should Worry Says John Henry


    Marietta Holley (AKA Josiah Allen's wife) (1836-1926), bio at Wikipedia

    • Samantha at the World Fair


    Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907)

    • Bad Hugh
    • The English Orphans, 1877
    • Homestead on the Hillside
    • The Rector of St. Mark's
    • Tempest and Sunshine


    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
    • Elsie Venner
    • Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
    • The Guardian Angel
    • John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir
    • Medical Essays
    • A Mortal Antipathy
    • One Hundred Days in Europe
    • Over the Teacups
    • Pages from an Old Volume of Life
    • The Poet at the Breakfast Table
    • Poetical Works
    • The Professor at the Breakfast Table
    • works about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
      • Literary Friends and Acquaintances: Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay) by William Dean Howells
      • Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)


    Arthur Hornblow

    • The Mask


    Isabel Hornibrook

    • Camp and Tail, a tale of the Maine Woods


    Mary Gardiner Horsford (1824-1855)

    • Indian Legends and Other Poems


    Emerson Hough (1857-1923), bio at Wikipedia

    • 54-40 or Fight
    • The Covered Wagon
    • Girl at the Halfway House, 1900
    • Heart's Desire
    • The Lady and Pirate
    • The Law of the Land
    • Maw's Vacation
    • The Mississippi Bubble
    • The Purchase Price, 1910
    • The Sagebrusher
    • The Singing Mouse Stories
    • The Story of the Outlaw
    • The Way of a Man, 1907


    Clemence Housman

    • The Were-Wolf, 1896


    Bronson Howard (1842-1908), bio at Wikipedia

    • Shenandoah, play


    Hattie Howard

    • Poems, volume 4


    Andrew J. Howell, Jr.

    • Money Island


    William Dean Howells (1837-1920), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Albany Depot (play)
    • Annie Kilburn
    • April Hopes
    • Between the Dark and the Daylight
    • Buying a Horse (short story)
    • A Chance Acquaintance
    • The Coast of Bohemia
    • Confessions of a Summer Colonist (essay)
    • Dr. Breen's Practice
    • The Elevator(play)
    • Emile Zola (essay)
    • The Eye of the Needle
    • Familiar Spanish Travel
    • A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories
    • Fennel and Rue
    • The Flight of Pony Baker
    • A Foregone Conclusion
    • The Garotters (play)
    • Indian Summer
    • Italian Journeys
    • Henry James, Jr. (essay)
    • The Kentons
    • A Lady of Aroostook
    • The Landlord at the Lion's Head, volume 1
    • The Landlord at the Lion's Head volume 2
    • Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
    • The Leatherwood God
    • Literary Boston(essay)
    • Literary Friends and Acquaintances:
      • A Belated Guest [Bret Harte](essay)
      • Cambridge Neighbors(essay)
      • My Mark Twain (essay)
      • Oliver Wendell Holmes (essay)
      • Studies of Lowell (essay)
      • The White Mr. Longfellow (essay)
      • The Young Contributor (essay)
    • Literature and Life:
      • American Literary Centers (essay)
      • The Man of Letters as a Man of Business (essay)
    • A Little Swiss Sojourn
    • London Films
    • The March Family Trilogy
      • Their Wedding Journey
      • A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 1
      • A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 2
      • A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 3
      • A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 4
      • A Hazard of New Fortunes, volume 5
      • Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 1
      • Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 2
      • Their Silver Wedding Journey, volume 3
    • The Minister's Charge
    • Modern Italian Poets
    • A Modern Instance
    • Notes of a Vanished Summer (essay)
    • Of Literature (four related books)
      • Literary Friends and Acquaintances (complete)
      • Literature and Life (complete)
      • My Literary Passions (complete)
      • Criticism and Fiction (complete)
    • An Open-Eyed Conspiracy -- an Idyl of Saratoga
    • A Pair of Patient Lovers
    • The Parlor Car (play)
    • A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction (essay)
    • Questionable Shapes
    • Ragged Lady, volume 1
    • Ragged Lady, volume 2
    • The Register (play)
    • The Rise of Silas Lapham
    • Roman Holidays and Others
    • Roundabout to Boston
    • Seven English Cities
    • Short Stories and Essays
      • Worries of a Winter Walk
      • Summer Isles of Eden
      • Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
      • A Circus in the Suburbs
      • A She Hamlet
      • The Midnight Platoon
      • The Beach at Rockaway
      • Sawdust in the Arena
      • At a Dime Museum
      • American Literature in Exile
      • The Horse Show
      • The Problem of the Summer
      • Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
      • From New York into New England
      • The Art of the Adsmith
      • The Psychology of Plagiarism
      • Puritanism in American Fiction
      • The What and How in Art
      • Politics in American Authors
      • Storage
      • "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
    • The Sleeping-Car -- a Farce(play)
    • Some Anomalies of the Short Story (essay)
    • Spanish Prisoners of War (essay)
    • The Standard Household-Effect Company (essay)
    • Stories of Ohio
    • The Story of a Play
    • Suburban Sketches
    • A Traveller from Altruria
    • Venetian Life
    • The Whole Family (with other authors)


    Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), bio at Wikipedia

    • Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 9
    • The Mintage, Stories


    Walter Hubbell (1851-1932)

    • The Haunted House, a true ghost story


    Ethel Hueston (1887-?)

    • Sunny Slope


    Langston Hughes (1902-1967), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Mule-Bone (play), with Zora Hurston


    Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)

    • Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas


    James Huneker (1860-1921)

    • Visionaries


    Colonel William C. Hunter

    • Evening Roundup


    Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960), bio at Wikipedia

    • De Turkey and De Law
    • The Mule-Bone (play), with Langston Hughes
    • Three Plays (Lawing and Jawing, Forty Yards, Woofing)


    Colonel Henry Inman (1837-1899)

    • The Old Santa Fe Trail


    Washington Irving (1783-1859), bio at Wikipedia

    • Abbotsford and Newstead Abby
    • The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
    • Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
    • Bracebridge Hall
    • Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
    • The Crayon Papers
    • Knickerbocker's History of New York, 1809
    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (story)
    • The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Volume 2
    • The Life of George Washington, Volume 1
    • Little Britain (story)
    • Old Christmas
    • Oliver Goldsmith (biography)
    • The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
      • The Author's Account of Himself
      • The Voyage
      • Roscoe
      • The Wife
      • Rip Van Winkle
      • English Writers on America
      • Rural Life in England
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Art of Book-making
      • A Royal Poet
      • The Country Church
      • The Widow and her Son
      • A Sunday in London
      • The Boar's Head Tavern
      • The Mutability of Literature
      • Rural Funerals
      • The Inn Kitchen
      • The Spectre Bridegroom
      • Westminster Abbey
      • Christmas
      • The Stage-Coach
      • Christmas Eve
      • Christmas Day
      • The Christmas Dinner
      • London Antiques
      • Little Britain
      • Statford-on-Avon
      • Traits of Indian Character
      • Philip of Pokanoket
    • Tales of a Traveller
    • Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
    • about Washington Irving
      • Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner (book)


    Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) (1830-1885), bio at Wikipedia

    • Between Whiles
    • Bits About Home Matters, 1873
    • Calendar of Sonnets (1876)
    • Ramona
    • Saxe Holm's Stories


    Caroline E. Jacobs

    • Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party [with Edyth Ellenbeck Read]


    Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897), (AKA Linda Brent) bio at Wikipedia

    • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself


    Henry James (1843-1916), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Altar of the Dead (story)
    • The Ambassadors
    • The American
    • The Aspern Papers
    • The Author of Beltraffio (story)_
    • The Awkward Age
    • The Beast in the Jungle(story)
    • The Beldonald Holbein (story)
    • The Bostonians
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • A Bundle of Letters (story)_
    • The Chaperone (story)
    • Confidence
    • The Coxon Fund (story)
    • Daisy Miller (story)
    • The Death of the Lion (story)
    • Embarrassments
    • Eugene Pickering (story)
    • The Europeans
    • The Figure in the Carpet (story)
    • The Finer Grain
    • Four Meetings
    • Georgina's Reasons
    • Glasses (story)
    • The Golden Bowl
    • Greville Fane (story)
    • Hawthorne
    • In the Cage
    • An International Episode
    • Italian Hours
    • The Jolly Corner (story)
    • The Lesson of the Master
    • A Little Tour in France
    • Louisa Pallant
    • Madame de Mauves
    • The Madonna of the Future (story)
    • The Marriages (story)
    • Nona Vincent (story)_
    • The Outcry
    • Pandora (story)
    • The Patagonia (story)
    • The Path of Duty
    • The Pension Beaurepas (story)
    • The Point of View (story)
    • Portrait of a Lady, volume 1
    • Portrait of a Lady, volume 2
    • The Pupil (story)
    • The Real Thing (story)
    • The Reverberator
    • Roderick Hudson
    • Sir Dominick Ferrand (story)
    • Some Short Stories
      • Brooksmith
      • The Real Thing
      • The Story of It
      • Flickerbridge
      • Mrs. Medwin
    • The Tragic Muse
    • The Turn of the Screw
    • Washington Square
    • What Daisy Knew
    • The Whole Family (with other authors)
    • works about Henry James
      • Henry James, Jr. by William Dean Howells (essay)


    William James (1842-1910), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Meaning of Truth
    • Memories and Studies
    • A Pluralistic Universe
    • Pragmatism
    • Varieties of Religious Experience


    Thomas Allibone Janvier

    • The Aztec Treasure-House


    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), bio at Wikipedia

    • Papers of the Presidents -- Jefferson
    • State of the Union Speeches
    • Autobiography
    • Inaugural Addresses
    • Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
    • The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, volume 6
    • works about Jefferson
      • Jeferson and His Colleagues by Allen Johnson
      • Thomas Jeferson by Edward Ellis
      • The Jefferson-Lemen Compact by Willard MacNaul


    Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Country of Pointed Firs
    • Deephaven and Selected Stories


    James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
    • The Book of American Negro Poetry, 1922
    • Fifty Years and Other Poems


    Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931)

    • The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
    • Ole Mammy's Torment


    Mary Johnston (1870-1936), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Long Roll [about the Civil War]
    • Prisoners of Hope
    • Sir Mortimer


    John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866)

    • Wild Western Scenes


    David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Story of the Innumerable Company and Other Sketches


    Ross Kay

    • Fighting in France


    Henry Keenan

    • The Iron Game: a Tale of the War (1898)


    Clarence Budington Kelland

    • Scattergood Baines


    Helen Keller (1880-1968), bio at Wikipedia

    • Song of the Stone Wall (poem)
    • The Story of My Life


    Florence Finch Kelly

    • Emerson's Wife and other Western Stories


    Frances Ann Kemble (1809-1893), bio at Wikipedia

    • Records of a Girlhood


    Sidney Kennedy and Alden Noble

    • White Ashes


    Francis Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Old Gray Homestead (1919)


    Hervey Keyes

    • The Forest King


    Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918), bio at Wikipedia

    • Main Street and Other Poems
    • Trees and Other Poems


    Basil King

    • The Letter of the Contract


    Charles King (1844-1933), bio at Wikipedia

    • An Apache Princess
    • A Daughter of the Sioux
    • The Deserter
    • Foes in Ambush
    • From the Ranks
    • Lanier of the Cavalry
    • Marion's Faith
    • Ray's Daughter, a Story of Manila
    • Sunset Pass
    • To the Front
    • Under Fire
    • Waring's Peril
    • Warrior Gap
    • A War-Time Wooing
    • A Wounded Name


    Henry Herbert Knibbs

    • Jim Waring of Sonora-Town
    • Overland Red, a Romance of the Moonstone Canon Trail
    • The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
    • Sundown Slim


    Edith Eudora Kohl

    • Land of the Burnt Thigh


    Archibald Lampman

    • Lyrics of Earth

    Franklin Lane (1864-1921), bio at Wikipedia

    • Letters of Franklin Lane


    Sidney Lanier

    • Poems


    David Lannark

    • Midget


    Ring Lardner (1885-1933), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Real Dope
    • Treat 'Em Rough


    Clara E. Laughlin

    • Everybody's Lonesome


    Agnes Laut (1871-1936)

    • The Freebooters of the Wilderness


    Alfred Lawson (1869-1954), bio at Wikipedia

    • Born Again


    Frederick John Lazell (1870-1940)

    • Some Spring Days in Iowa
    • Some Summer Days in Iowa
    • Some Winter Days in Iowa


    Carson Jay Lee

    • Oswald Langdon


    Minnie Mary Lee

    • Hubert's Wife


    Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Breitmann Ballads (in Pennsylvania Dutch)
    • The Gypsies


    Emma Leslie

    • Hayslope Grange, a Tale of the Civil War


    Lawrence Leslie

    • Afloat on the Flood


    Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914)

    • The President
    • Wolfville Nights


    Merriwether Lewis (1744-1809), bio at Wikipedia and William Clark (1770-1838), bio at Wikipedia

    • Journals of Lewis and Clark


    Wilmarth Lewis

    • Tutors' Lane


    Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), bio at Wikipedia

    • Babbitt
    • Main Street
    • Our Mr. Wrenn


    Will Lillibridge (1878-1909)

    • Ben Blair
    • Where the Trail Divides


    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Emancipation Proclamation
    • Inaugural Addresses
    • Letters
    • Gettysburg Address
    • Lincoln's Yarns and Stories by Colonel Alexander McClure
    • Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses, and Letters edited by Daniel Dodge
    • Papers of the Presidents
    • State of the Union Speches
    • Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln edited by Merwin Roe
    • The Wriitings of Abraham Lincoln
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
      • volume 3
      • volume 4
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 7
    • about Lincoln
      • Abraham Lincoln, a History by John Nicolay and John Hay, volume 2
      • Abraham Lincoln by james Russell Lowell
      • Abraham Lincoln by John Morse, Jr.
        • volume 1
        • volume 2
      • Abraham Lincoln by George Haven Putnam
      • Abraham Lincoln (play) by John Drinkwater
      • The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Heln Nicolay
      • Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis Fiske Browne
      • Four Great Americans (Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln) by James Baldwin
      • The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
      • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner
      • Lincoln, an Account of His Personal Life by Nathaniel Wright Stepenson
      • The Lincoln Story Book by Henry Williams
      • McClure's Magzine December 1895 (entire issue devoted to Lincoln
      • Stephen A. Douglas, a Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson
      • A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln by John Nicolay
      • Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood
      • Abraham Lincoln by Rev. T.M. Eddy
      • Abraham Lincoln by Richard Henry Stoddard
      • Benefits Forgot, a Story of Lincoln and Mother Love by Honore Willsie
      • Life of Abraham Lincoln by John Hugh Bowers
      • Our American Holidays -- Lincoln's Birthday
      • The Southerner, a Romance of the REal Lincoln by Thomas Dixon


    Jeannie Gould Lincoln

    • An Unwilling Maid, being a history of certain episodes during the American Revolution


    Joseph Lincoln (1870-1944), bio at Wikipedia

    • Cape Code Ballads and Other Verses
    • Cape Cod Stories
    • Cap'n Dan's Daughter
    • Fair Harbor
    • Kent Knowles: Quahaug

    Natalie Lincoln (1885-1937)

    • The Lost Dispatch
    • I Spy

    Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Art of the Moving Picture
    • The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
    • The Congo and Other Poems
    • General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems


    Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Preface to Politics


    Frances Little (AKA Frannie Caldwell Macaulay) (1863-1941)

    • The House of the Misty Star, a romance of youth and hope and love in Old Japan


    Nelson Lloyd (1873-1933)

    • The Soldier of the Valley


    Caroline Lockhart

    • The Man from the Bitter Root


    Jack London (1876-1916), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Acorn Painter
    • Adventure
    • Before Adam
    • Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
    • Call of the Wild
    • Children of the Frost, 1909
    • The Cruise of the Dazzeler, 1902
    • The Cruise of the Snark
    • A Daughter of the Snows
    • Dutch Courage and Other Stories
    • The Faith of Men
      • A Relic of the Pliocene
      • A Hyperborean Brew
      • The Faith of Men
      • Too Much Gold
      • The One Thousand Dozen
      • The Marriage of Lit-lit
      • Batard
      • The Story of Jees Uck
    • The Game (story)
    • The House of Pride and Other Tales from Hawaii
      • The House of Pride
      • Koolau the Leper
      • Good-bye, Jack
      • Aloha Oe
      • Chun Ah Chun
      • The Sheriff of Kona
      • Jack London
    • The Human Drift
      • The Human Drift
      • Small-Boat Sailing
      • Four Horses and a Sailor
      • Nothing that Ever Came to Anything
      • That Dead Men Rise up Never
      • A Classic of the Sea
        • A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser)
        • The Birth Mark (Sketch)
    • The Iron Heel
    • The Jacket
    • Jerry of the Islands
    • John Barleycorn
    • The Little Lady of the Big House
    • Lost Face
      • Lost Face
      • Trust
      • To Build a Fire
      • That Spot
      • Flush of Gold
      • The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
      • The Wit of Porportuk
    • Martin Eden
    • Michael, Brother of Jerry
    • Moon-Face and Other Stories
      • Moon-Face
      • The Leopard Man's Story
      • Local Color
      • Amateur Night
      • The Minions of Midas
      • The Shadow and the Flash
      • All Gold Canyon
      • Planchette
    • The Mutiny of the Elsinore
    • The Night-Born
      • The Night-Born
      • The Madness of John Harned
      • When the World Was Young
      • The Benefit of the Doubt
      • Winged Blackmail
      • Bunches of Knuckles
      • War
      • Under the Deck Awnings
      • To Kill a Man
      • The Mexican
    • On the Makaloa Mat: Island Tales
      • On the Makaloa Mat
      • The Bones of Kahekili
      • When Alice Told her Soul
      • Shin-Bones
      • The Water Baby
      • The Tears of Ah Kim
      • The Kanaka Surf
    • Revolution and Other Essays
    • The Road
    • The Scarlet Plague
    • The Sea Wolf
    • Smoke Bellew
    • A Son of the Sun
    • Son of the Wolf
      • The White Silence
      • The Son of the Wolf
      • The Men of Forty Mile
      • In a Far Country
      • To the Man on the Trail
      • The Priestly Prerogative
      • The Wisdom of the Trail
      • The Wife of a King
      • An Odyssey of the North
    • South Sea Tales
      • The House of Mapuhi
      • The Whale Tooth
      • Mauki
      • "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
      • The Heathen
      • The Terrible Solomons
      • The Inevitable White Man
      • The Seed of McCoy
    • Stories of Ships and the Sea
    • The Strength of the Strong
      • The Strength of the Strong
      • South of the Slot
      • The Unparalleled Invasion
      • The Enemy of All the World
      • The Dream of Debs
      • The Sea-Farmer
      • Samuel
    • Tales of the Fish Patrol
    • Tales of the Klondyke
      • The God of His Fathers
      • The Great Interrogation
      • Which Make Men Remember
      • Siwash
      • The Man with the Gash
      • Jan, the Unrepentant
      • Grit of Women
      • Where the Trail Forks
      • A Daughter of the Aurora
      • At the Rainbow's End
      • The Scorn of Women
    • Theft (play)
    • The Turtles of Tasman
    • The Valley of the Moon
    • War of the Classes
    • When God Laughs and Other Stories
      • When God Laughs
      • The Apostate
      • A Wicked Woman
      • Just Meat
      • Created He Them
      • The Chinago
      • Make Westing
      • Semper Idem
      • A Nose for the King
      • The "Francis Spaight"
      • A Curious Fragment
      • A Piece of Steak
    • White Fang


    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Children's Own Longfellow (selections from his poems)
    • Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow
    • Evangeline
    • The Golden Legend
    • Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
    • Song of Hiawatha
    • The Wreck of the Hesperus
    • essay about Longfellow
      • The White Mr. Longfellow, from Literary Friends and Acquaintances by William Dean Howells
      • Authors and Friends by Anne Fields (including Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Stowe, Whittier, and Tennyson)
      • The Myth of Hiawatha by Henry Schoolcraft


    Thomas Lounsberry (1838-1915), bio at Wikipedia

    • James Fenimore Cooper


    Nat Love (AKA Deadwood Dick)

    • The Life and Adventures of Nat Love


    Amy Lowell (1874-1925), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
    • Men, Women, and Ghosts
    • Sword Blades and Poppy Seed


    James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia

    • Among My Books
      • First Series
      • Second Series
    • The Biglow Papers
    • The Complete Poetical Works
    • The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
    • Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems
    • Writings, volume 5, Political Essays


    Mark Lee Luther (1872-?)

    • The Henchman


    Francis Lynde (1856-1930)

    • Branded
    • Empire Builders
    • The Master of Appleby, 1902
    • The Price
    • The Taming of Red Butte Western


    Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), bio at Wikipedia

    • Under the Trees and Elsewhere


    Harold MacGrath (1871-1932), bio at Wikipedia

    • Hearts and Masks
    • The Lure of the Mask
    • Parrott and Co.
    • The Princess Elopes
    • The Voice in the Fog


    Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783
    • The Interest of America in Sea Power
    • The Life of Nelson
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • The Major Operations of the Navies int he War of American Independence
    • The Navy in the Civil War: The Gulf and Inalnd Waters
    • Story of the War in South Africa
    • Types of Naval Officers


    Charles Major (1856-1913), bio at Wikipedia

    • When Knighthood Was in Flower


    Steele MacKaye (1844?-1894)

    • Paul Kauvas or Anarchy, play

    Victor Mapes (1870-1943)

    • Heart and Soul by Maveric Post


    Max Marcin (1879-1948)

    • The Substitute Prisoner


    Edison Marshall

    • The Snowshoe Trail


    Edward Marshall (1870-1933)

    • The Old Flute-Player


    Edward Lee Masters (1869-1950), bio at Wikipedia

    • Children of the Marketplace, 1922
    • Spoon River Anthology
    • Toward the Gulf


    Brander Matthews (1852-1929), bio at Wikipedia

    • Inquiries and Opinions


    Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1873-1946)

    • Fifth Avenue


    Rutherford Mayne

    • The Drone (play)


    Margaret Hill McCarter (1860-1938)

    • Vanguards of the Plains: a Romance of the Old Santa Fe Trail


    Geroge McCarthy

    • The Greater Love


    Mary Greenway McClelland (1853-1895)

    • Princess


    James McClintock

    • Mormon Settlement in Arizona: a Record of Peaceful Conquest in the Desert (1921)


    George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928), bio at Wikipedia

    • From the Housetops


    Donald McGibeny

    • 32 Caliber


    John McGovern

    • The Golden Censer


    John T. McIntyre

    • Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

    Anna Benneson McMahan

    • Shakespeaere's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess int eh Year 1596


    Everett McNeil

    • The Cave of Gold


    Herman Melville (1819-1891), bio at Wikipedia

    • Bartleby, the Scrivener (story)
    • Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
    • Billy Budd
    • The Confidence-Man
    • I and My Chimney (story)
    • Israel Potter
    • Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • John Marr and Other Poems
    • Moby Dick
    • Omoo
    • Piazza Tales
    • Redburn
    • Typee: a Romance of the South Seas
    • The White Jacket


    H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), bio at Wikipedia

    • A Book of Burlesques
    • A Book of Prefaces
    • Damn!
    • In Defense of Women
    • Europe After 8:15


    Ellis Meredith

    • The Master-Knot of Human Fate


    Nicholson Meredith

    • Blacksheep! Blacksheep!


    Zoe Meyer

    • Followers of the Trail


    Philip Verrill Mighels

    • The Furnace of Gold


    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), bio at Wikipedia

    • Aria da Capo (one act play)
    • A Few Figs from Thistles (short)
    • The Lamp and the Bell
    • Renascence
    • Second April


    Elizabeth Miller

    • The Yoke: a romance of the days when the Lord redeemed the children of Israel from the bondage of Egypt


    Joaquin Miller

    • The Little Gold-Miners of the Sierras


    John Ames Mitchell (1845-1918)

    • The Last American


    Ruth Comfort Mitchell

    • Jane Journeys On


    S. Weir Mitchell, (AKA Silas Weir) (1829-1914), bio at Wikipedia

    • Mr. Kris Kringle, a Christmas Tale
    • Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, sometime brevet lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Washington (historical novel)


    Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926)

    • The Conquest of America, a romance of disaster and victory in 1921, (1916)
    • Possessed


    Christopher Morley (1890-1957), bio at Wikipedia

    • Kathleen
    • Mince Pie
    • Parnassus on Wheels
    • Pipefuls
    • Plum Pudding
    • Shandygaff, 1918


    Charles Morris (1833-1922)

    • Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality
      • volume 5
      • volume 6
      • volume 9


    Gouverneur Morris

    • If You Touch Them They Vanish
    • We Three


    William Morrison

    • The Hunters


    W.C. Morrow

    • The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People


    Walter Fenton Mott

    • Young Glory


    John Muir (1838-1914), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
    • The Mountains of California
    • Steep Trails: California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
    • Stickeen
    • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    • Travels in Alaska
    • Yosemite


    Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

    • Stories of Birds


    Joseph Munk (1847-1927)

    • Arizona Sketches


    Charles Clark Munn

    • Pocket Island


    Neil Munro

    • Doom Castle


    Kirk Munroe (1850-1930)

    • At War with Pontiac
    • Derrick Sterling
    • Forward March, a story of the Spanish-American War, 1899
    • Under the Great Bear


    John Roy Musick (1849-1901)

    • A Century Too Soon
    • Sustained Honor


    Anna Balmer Myers

    • Patchwork


    Robert Nathan (1894-1985)

    • Autumn


    John Neihardt (1881-1973), bio at Wikipedia

    • The River and I


    Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947)

    • Lady Larkspur


    Frank Norris (1870-1902), bio at Wikipedia

    • Blix
    • A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories
    • A Man's Woman, 1904
    • McTeague, a Story of San Francisco
    • Moran of the Lady Letty
    • The Octopus, a Story of California
    • The Pit
    • Vandover and the Brute


    Zoe Andersen Norris

    • The Way of the Wind


    Bill Nye (1850-1896), bio at Wikipedia

    • [Comic] History of the United States


    Pat O'Cotter

    • Rhymes of a Roughneck


    G.W. Ogden

    • Trail's End


    Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), bio at Wikipedia

    • Anna Christie
    • The First Man
    • The Hairy Ape
    • The Straw


    Duffield Osborne

    • The Lion's Brood


    Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), bio at Wikipedia

    • At Home and Abroad
    • Memoirs
      • volume 1
      • volume 2
    • Woman in the 19th Century


    James Otis (= pseudonym of James Otis Kaler) (1848-1912)

    • A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party
    • The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley
    • Richard of Jamestown
    • The Search for the Silver City


    Henry Oyen (1883-1921)

    • The Plunderer


    Thomas Nelson Page

    • P'laski's Tunament


    Dorothy C. Paine

    • A Little Florida Lady


    Thomas Paine (1737-1809), bio at Wikipedia

    • The Age of Reason
    • The American Crisis
    • Common Sense
    • The Rights of Man


    Frederick Palmer (1873-1958)