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Birthplace and childhood home of legendary American novelist and journalist who was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The house is also a museum open to the public. [21] Vachel Lindsay: Vachel Lindsay House: 1879–1931 Springfield
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is an American novelist and short story author, and writer of a series of novels featuring the character Frank Bascombe. [1]Ford's first collection of short stories, Rock Springs, was published in 1987.
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.. Brown is regarded by some scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) by John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee, 1827–67) was the first novel by a Native American, and O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-I-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods) (1899) by Simon Pokagon (Potawatomi, 1830–99) was "the first Native American novel devoted to the subject of Indian life".
Scholars have called American Writers the first history of US literature [133] and the first substantial criticism of American literature. [134] Some contend it is the work for which Neal is best known, [ 135 ] at least among his British publications, [ 136 ] or for that period of his life. [ 137 ]