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Distinguished Literary Tradition
In the nineteenth century, American authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain, the most beloved of all American writers) established American literature on the world scene. The twentieth century has seen such giants as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, and Thornton Wilder. Current writers like Anne Tyler, Toni Morrison, William Kennedy, Alice Walker, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and John Updike are all highly regarded in world literary circles. Their work can be classified as "quality" literature. Next Section: A Philosophy of Cheerfulness: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” American Culture: Chapter Home
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