The literature of the 1920s expressed the outburst of African American culture as well as the works of many other American authors analyzing, questioning, critizing elements of American.

Literature in the 1920s included 2 important streams:One associated with the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Nora Neale HurstonA second stream tried to capture the radical culture changes associated with Prohibition and the Roaring Twenties. They included William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.

L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann, Eugene O’ Neill, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest HemingwayAnother significant development associated with literature in the 1920s was the emergence of mass circulation magazines including Saturday Evening Post, Look, Life, Reader’s Digest, and Lady’s Home Journal

The 1950s saw important works that challenged the postwar United States. Some works were beginning to challenge the pressures toward consensus, such as Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, David Reisman’s, ” The Lonely Crowd”, Vance Packard’s ” The Hidden Persuaders”, and William Whyte’s ” The Organization Man”.Other works such as those by Norman Mailer, portrayed World War 2 experiences. James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison expressed much of African American experiences. Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud depicted Jewish American life, and Alan Ginsberg portrayed the emergence of counterculture.

Other works such as those by Norman Mailer, portrayed World War 2 experiences. James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison expressed much of African American experiences. Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud depicted Jewish American life, and Alan Ginsberg portrayed the emergence of counterculture.

A new era of literature would soon flourish in the 1960s especially in reaction to the 1950s, the movies, television, and magazine mass media captured the emphasis on religion and family, symbolized by the massive sales of Benjamin Spock’s, “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care”