Authors

Edward Albee

Who's Afraid of Virginian Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, Tiny Alice, Three Tall Women, The Zoo Story

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Isaac Asimov

I, Robot, Pebble in the Sky - Three Laws of Robotics

John James Audubon

The Birds of America

James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native, If Beale Street Could Talk, Nobody Knows My Name

L Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Peter Benchley

Jaws

Stephen Vincent Benet

"The Devil and Daniel Webster", John Brown's Body, The Western Star

Ambrose Bierce

The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

Judy Blume

Deenie, Forever, Blubber, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Paul Bowles

The Sheltering Sky

Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, Medicine for Melancholy, Fahrenheit 451

Anne Bradstreet

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

William Cullen Bryant

"Thanatopsis"(means a view of death), "To a Waterfowl", "Embargo"

Pearl S Buck

The Good Earth, "The Fighting Angel", "Death in the Castle"

William Burroughs

Naked Lunch, Junkie, Queer

James Cain

Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice

Truman Capote

In Cold Blood, "A Christmas Memory", Breakfast at Tiffany's, OtherVoices, Other Rooms

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, My Antonia, Song of the Lark.

Tom Clancy

The Patriot, The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising

James Fenimore Cooper

The Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer, The Pioneer, The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna

Stephen Crane

The red badge of courage, The open boat, Maggie: a girl of the streets.

ee cummings

"the enormous room", poet who used no capital letters

Phillip K Dick

Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in High Castle, A Scanner Darkly

Emily Dickinson

"Because I Could not Stop for Death"

Mary Mapes Dodge

Hans Brinkler, The Silver Skates

Dr. Seuss (Theodore Giesel)

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas", The Lorax, and a million others

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance, The American Scholar.

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury, Intruder in the Dust, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom, "The Bear", A Fable: The Rievers, "A Rose for Emily"

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon

CS Forester

Horatio Hornblower, The African Queen

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard's Almanac

Robert Frost

"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Mending Wall", "The Road Not Taken", "Fire and Ice", "The Death of a Hired Man", "A Boy's Will", "North of Boston", "The Gift Outright", "Home Burial", A Witness Tree,

Dave Gibbons (with Alan Moore)

Watchmen

William Gibson

Neuromancer

John Grisham

The Firm, The Client, The Pelican Brief

Alex Haley

Roots.

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raison in the Sun

Nathaniel Hawthorne

House of Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter, "The Minister's Black Veil", "Young Goodman Brown", "Dr. Heidegger's Experiement", The Blythedale Romance, Twice Told Tales, "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux", "Rappacini's Daughter", "The Maypole of Merrymount"

Joseph Heller

Catch 22, Something Happened, Good as Gold

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Islands in the Sea, A Clean, Well Lighted Place, Green Hills of Africa, "Hills Like White Elephants"

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

"The Gift of the Magi", "The Ransom of Red Chief"

S.E. Hinton

Taming the Star Runner, The Outsiders

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus, Old Ironsides

Langston Hughes

The Weary Blues, The Dream Keeper, The Panther and the Lash

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

John Winslow Irving

The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany

Washington Irving

Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "The Devil and Tom Walker", The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Knickerbocker's History of New York, Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

Shirley Jackson

The Lottery

Henry James

Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove

Jack Kerouac

On the Road, Lonesome Traveler, Mexico City Blues, and Big Sur

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion.

Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

Stephen King

Christine, The Stand, Cujo, Different Seasons, The Dead Zone

John Knowles

A Separate Peace

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman

Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith.

Jack London

The Call of the Wild, The Valley of the Moon, The Sea Wolf

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Song of Hiawatha", "The Arsenal at Springfield", The Village Blacksmith, The Wreck of Hesperus, "Tales of Wayside Inn", "The Courtship of Miles Standish", "Paul Revere's Ride", "Evangeline"
123. Lois Lowry - The Giver, Anastasia Krupnik

Norman Mailer

The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, "The Village Voice"

Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Abraham Maslow

Motivation and Personality, Toward a Psychological Being.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, The Road, All The Pretty Horses, No Country For Old Men

Herman Melville

Moby Dick, Typee, Billy Budd, "Bartleby the Scrivener", Omoo, Mardi and a Voyage Thither, Redburn

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn

Arthur Miller

All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible.

AA Milne

Winnie the Pooh

Toni Morrison

Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon

Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Alice (series), Shiloh

Eugene O'Neill

Long Day's Journey Into Night, Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, Strange Interlude, The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms

Scott O'Dell

Island of the Blue Dolphin

Thomas Paine

Common Sense pamphlets, Age of Reason

Katherine Paterson

Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins

Robert Newton Peck

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Dav Pilkey

Captain Underpants

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar, The Collected Poems, Lady Lazarus

Edgar Allen Poe

"To Helen", "The Raven", Murders in the Rue Morgue", "Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Gold Bug", Ten Great Mysteries, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter, "The Mask of the Red Death", "MS Found in a Bottle"

Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49

Edwin Arlington Robinson

"Miniver Cheevy", Richard Cory, "Mr. Flood's Party"

Katherine Anne Porter

Ship of Fools, Pale Horse, Pale Rider.

Philip Roth

American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint

Louis Sachar

The Boy Who Lost His Face, Holes, Wayside School

Carl Sagan

Contact, Original Cosmos TV Show

JD Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zoë

Carl Sandburg

Chicago", "Cornhuskers", Chicago School. biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Anna Sewel

Black Beauty

Maurice Sendak

In the Night Kitchen, Where the Wild Things Are

Shel Silverstein

A Light in the Attic

Neil Simon

Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost in Yonkers, Murder by Death

BF Skinner

Walden Two, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, He was a behaviorist psychologist

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Nicholas Sparks

A Walk to Remember, Message in a Bottle, The Notebook

Gertrude Stein

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose"

John Steinbeck

The Pearl, The Grapes of Wrath (name derived from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, The Red Pony, Sweet Thursday, Viva Zapata, Travels With Charley, "The Leader of the People"

RL Stine

Goosebumps (series), Fear Street, Superstitions, Beach House