literary criticism: twentieth-century fiction


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early 20th-century american

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Larsen, Nella (1891-1964)

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951

Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)

Toomer, Jean (1894-1967)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)


modernists

Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)

Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)

Bowles, Jane (1917-1973)

Bowles, Paul (1910-1999)

Faulkner, William (1897-1962)

Joyce, James (1882-1941)

Lawrence, D.H. (1885-1930)

Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957)

Mansfield, Katherine (1888-1923)

Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977)

Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)

Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)


other british

Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)

Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)

Burgess, Anthony (1917-1993)

Byatt, A.S. (1936- )

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)

Forster, E.M. (1879-1970)

Golding, William (1911-1993)

Greene, Graham (1904-1991)

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)

Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)

McEwan, Ian (1948-)

Orwell, George (1903-1950)

Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)

Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)


mid-century american

Bellow, Saul

Baldwin, James

Cheever, John

Ellison, Ralph

Hemingway, Ernest

Jackson, Shirley

Lee, Harper

Mailer, Norman (1923-2007)

O'Connor, Flannery

Porter, Katherine Anne

Roth, Philip

Salinger, J.D.

Updike, John

Vonnegut, Kurt

Welty, Eudora


crime & detective

Cain, James M.

Chandler, Raymond

Collins, Wilkie

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Hammett, Dashiell

Poe, Edgar Allan

On Crime and Detective Fiction


beat fiction

Bowles, Paul

Burroughs, William

Kerouac, Jack


later 20th-century american

Barthelme, Donald

Capote, Truman

Carver, Raymond

Didion, Joan

Dubus, Andre Jr.

Kennedy, William

Morrison, Toni

Pynchon, Thomas

Tan, Amy


world fiction in english

Achebe, Chinua

Allende, Isabel

Coetzee, J.M.

Dinesen, Isac (Karen Blixen)

Gordimer, Nadine

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Kincaid, Jamaica

Kureishi, Hanif

Naipaul, V.S.

Okigbo, Christopher

Ondaatje, Michael

Roy, Arundhati

Rushdie, Salman

Seth, Vikram


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