Authors, American
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Authors, American -- 19th century
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- Autographs
- Authors, American -- Biography
- Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
- Authors, American -- North Carolina
- Authors, American -- Periodicals
- Authors, American -- Southern States
- African American authors
- Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
- Asian American authors
- Italian American authors
- Mexican American authors
- Women authors, American
- Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
- Arp, Bill, 1826-1903
- Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
- Bevington, Helen, 1906-2001
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
- Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974
- Farrar, John, Mrs., 1791-1870
- Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872
- Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
- Grayson, David, 1870-1946
- Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
- Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920
- Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880
- Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898
- Lewisohn, Ludwig, 1882-1955
- London, Jack, 1876-1916
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
- Macdonald, Betty Bard
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
- Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
- Nock, Albert Jay, 1870-1945
- Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
- Sawyer, Lemuel, 1777-1852
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867
- Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Whiteley, Opal Stanley
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919
- American authors
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Outline of American Literature (revised edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Kathryn VanSpanckeren (PDF with commentary at america.gov)- My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (1899), by Sherwin Cody (Gutenberg text)
- Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor (New York et al.: Werner School Book Co., c1899), by Sherwin Cody
- Famous Authors (Men) (fourth impression; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins
- Famous Authors (Women) (fourth impression; Johnston not credited in this edition; Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1906), by E. F. Harkins, contrib. by Charles H. L. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins
- Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books: Second Series (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1903), by E. F. Harkins
- Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1902), by E. F. Harkins and Charles H. L. Johnston
- The Prose Writers of America; With a Survey of the History, Condition, and Prospects of American Literature (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1847), ed. by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)
- The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
- Latest Contemporary Portraits (New York: Macaulay, c1927), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Glimpses of Authors, by Caroline Ticknor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Contemporary Portraits (Third Series) (New York: The author, c1920), by Frank Harris
- Fanny Fern: A Memorial Volume, Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1873), by Fanny Fern and James Parton, illust. by Arthur Lumley (page images at HathiTrust)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literature in the Albemarle (Baltimore: City Printing and Binding, 1915), by Bettie Freshwater Pool (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- The Author, ed. by William H. Hills (full serial archives)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen, by Malinda Russell, An Experienced Cook, Paw Paw, Michigan, 1866: A Facsimile of the First Known Cookbook by an African American (Ann Arbor: W. L. Clements Library, c2007), by Malinda Russell, ed. by Janice Bluestein Longone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Domestic Cook Book, Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen (Paw Paw, MI: Printed by T. O. Ward, 1866), by Malinda Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (first series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1885), by William Cushing
- Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises (second series; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1888), by William Cushing (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dime Novel Authors, 1860-1900 (Grafton, MA: R. F. Cummings, 1933), by William Cleveland Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)
- Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889), by Louisa May Alcott, ed. by Ednah Dow Cheney (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Recollections of Louisa May Alcott, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Robert Browning, Together With Several Memorial Poems (Boston: Pub. for the author by the New England magazine Corp., 1893), by Maria S. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies (reprint of the 1905 edition; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1967), by Seth Curtis Beach (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1905), by Seth Curtis Beach
- Sketches From Concord and Appledore, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
- A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through The World of Facts, With Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1924), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Year 2000: A Critical Biography of Edward Bellamy (New York: Bookman Associates, c1958), by Sylvia E. Bowman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Edward Bellamy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), by Arthur E. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Third and Only Way: Reflections On Staying Alive (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The World and the Bo Tree (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)
- The One I Knew the Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- John Burroughs, Boy and Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1920), by Clara Barrus (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
- Our Friend John Burroughs, by Clara Barrus (Gutenberg text)
- Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Recollections of Seventy Years by Mrs. John Farrar (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Fanny Fern: A Memorial Volume, Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1873), by Fanny Fern and James Parton, illust. by Arthur Lumley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W. H. Channing
- Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Katharine Susan Anthony (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies (reprint of the 1905 edition; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1967), by Seth Curtis Beach (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1905), by Seth Curtis Beach
- Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Constance Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Son of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Hamlin Garland, illust. by Alice Barber Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Daughter of the Middle Border (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Hamlin Garland (multiple formats at archive.org)
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