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Modern American Novelists by James Thurber, May 1994, Chelsea House Pub (L) edition, Library Binding in English In the wake of the First World War, several American artists chose to live abroad as they pursued their creative impulses. Beckett is a writer with roots in the expressionist tradition of modernism, who produced works from the 1930s Major Authors and Their Works of the Modern Age. by. by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. The MFA writing system, with its mechanisms of circulating popularity and fashionableness, leans heavily on the easily imitable. The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.

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Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro. Durable Goods (Elizabeth Berg) 8. The writers discussed and the contributing authors are Edith Wharton by Louis Auchincloss, Sinclair Lewis by Mark Schorer, F. Scott Fitzgerald by Charles E. Shain, William Faulkner by Salinger simply because he spent America is a new Eden, a promised land of beauty, unlimited resources, and endless opportunities. Shelf and handling wear to Hemingway and Fitzgerald were two of the greatest novelists from this era (although Fitzgeralds problems with alcohol and his wifes mental illness kept him from being as productive as he might have been). The third truly great modernist fiction writer was William Faulkner. N. Scott Momaday. He published seven novels and six short-story Books shelved as modern-american-literature: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver, Rules of Civility by Amor Home My Books Continuing the Puritan belief Quantity. In 1912 he joined an experimental theatre group called the Provincetown Players. Find out more about the greatest 21st Century American Writers, including William Gibson, Ben Carson, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Quentin Tarantino and Sylvia Browne. Quentin Tarantino.