Colonial Period
1620 – 1770John SmithAnne BradstreetJonathan Edwards
Revolutionary Period
1770 – 1801Benjamin Franklin”American Romanticism”-Washington Irving-Thomas Cole-Edgar Allen Poe
Transcendentalism
1836 – 1855Ralf Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauMargeret FullerNathaniel Hawthrone
Realism
1855 – 1900Luisa May AlcottWalt WhitmanHerman MelvilleTheodore DrieserEmily DickinsonMarkTwainFrederick DouglassBret HarteStephan CraneKate Chopin
Modernism
1901 – 1939Langston HughesEzra PoundSherwood AndersonSinclair Lewis
Early 20th Century
1900 – 1950L.
Frank BaumZora Neil HurstonJohn SteinbeckWilliam FaulknerWilla CatherF. Scott FitzgeraldErnest HemingwayRobert FrostKatherine Anne PorterEudora Welty
Late 20th Century
1940 – 2000Ray BradburyJ.D SalingerSharon G. Flake
Contemporary
2001 – PresentSandra CisnerosOrson Scott Card