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Subject Father / mother Reason African-American history: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg [54]: For his "[research and raising] awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society,...[being] an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance [and, over] the years, [collecting] literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of ...
Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929) [1] was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. His three-volume history of American letters, Main Currents in American Thought, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was one of the most influential books for American historians of its time.
Though born in Canada, Chicago raised Saul Bellow became one of the most influential American writers. Works like The Adventures of Augie March (1953) and Herzog (1964), Bellow painted vivid portraits of Jewish life in America that opened the way for further work. He was honored by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
F. O. Matthiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance" Perry Miller: Puritan studies; Henry Nash Smith: founder of the "Myth and Symbol School" of American criticism; Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden (study of technology and culture) Leslie Fiedler: Love and Death in the American Novel; Stanley Fish: Pragmatism
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
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Devoted to reviewing American works, it soon became one of America's most influential literary magazines. By 1850, the movement had generally succeeded. The authors involved in developing an American literature would continue to shape it for "the next 100 years". [1] [9]
The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.