american literature

Anthology of writings by the women and teenage girls who participate in the WriteGirl program.

Twenty-three Southern authors tell of their approaches to writing, their habits, and their opinions.

A guide to living the bohemian lifestyle of the Beat generation, featuring exercises and activities based upon the writings and examples of Beat gurus such as William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lew Welch, Lenny Bruce, and others.

Selections in prose and verse by the following: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, Booker T. Washington, John Crowe Ransom, Thomas Wolfe, Margaret Mitchell, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, James Still, Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker, Jesse Stuart, Flannery O'Connor, James Dickey, Wendell Berry, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker and John Holman.

Presents a collection of writing about America from journals, diaries, political documents, religious sermons, and poetry and includes Native American mythology, European settlement writings, and literature from the time when the United States was found.

Presents a collection of previously unpublished stories and poems.