American Literature

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
 An American Tragedy  by Theodore

Dresier (1925)
 For whom the bell tolls  by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
 The Sound and the Fury  by William Faulkner (1929)
 The Tropic of Cancer  by Henry Miller (1934)
 Gone with the Wind  by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
 The Pearl  by John Steinbeck (1939)
 All the King’s Men  by Robert Penn Warren (1946)
 The Naked and the Dead  by Norman Mailer (1948)
 The Catcher in the Rye  by J.D. Salinger (1951)
 Herzog  by Saul Bellow (1953)
 Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury (1953)
 To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee (1960)
  Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (1958)

criticism. John Steinbeck (1902–1968). His style was simple and evocative, winning him

the favor of the readers but not of the critics. Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life. 
Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels, written and published in Paris, were banned from the US. His major work is Tropic of Cancer .

World War II up until the late 1960s and

early 1970s saw the publication of some of the most popular works in American history such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
 
Though born in Canada, Chicago-raised Saul Bellow would become one of the most influential novelists in America in the decades directly following World War II. In  Herzog Bellow painted vivid portraits of the American city and the distinctive characters.
 

the state of affairs in America was brought to the

forefront of the nation's literary expression.
 
Immigrant authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, with Lolita, forged on with the theme and  took a concerted step away from their Lost Generation predecessors, developing a style and tone of their own.
 

and novelist)
1948: T. S. Eliot (poet and playwright)
1949: William Faulkner (novelist)
1954: Ernest Hemingway (novelist)
1962: John Steinbeck (novelist)
1976: Saul Bellow (novelist)
1978: Isaac

Bashevis Singer (novelist, wrote in Yiddish)
1980: Czesław Miłosz (poet and essayist, wrote in Polish)
1987: Joseph Brodsky (poet and essayist, wrote in English and Russian)
1993: Toni Morrison (novelist)