CLASSIC AMERICAN AUTHORS

In stories, poetry, and historical accounts, these authors have captured the American experience.

All titles will be in the Milford Public Library Adult Fiction section under the author's last name, unless otherwise noted.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-88)
Little Women  		 HARPER LEE (1926- )
To Kill A Mockingbird
ISAAC ASIMOV (1920-92)
Foundation Series (SCIENCE FICTION ASI)
I, Robot (SCIENCE FICTION ASI)

 JACK LONDON (1876-1916)
The Call of the Wild
The Sea-Wolf

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-87)
Go Tell It On The Mountain

 NORMAN MAILER (1923- )
The Naked and the Dead

RAY BRADBURY (1920- )
Farenheit 451 (SCIENCE FICTION BRA)
The Martian Chronicles (SCIENCE FICTION BRA)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (SCIENCE FICTION BRA)

 HERMAN MELVILLE (1819-91)
Moby Dick
Billy Budd

TRUMAN CAPOTE (1924-84)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (also DVD BRE)
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (364.1
CAP)

 JAMES MICHENER (1907-97)
Hawaii
Texas
Alaska

 

KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
The Awakening

HENRY MILLER (1891-1980)
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
The Red Badge of Courage

MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-49)
Gone With the Wind

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER (1789-1851)
The Last of the Mohicans

TONI MORRISON (1931- )
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon

E.L. DOCTOROW (1931- )
Ragtime
Billy Bathgate
The Book of Daniel

THOMAS PAINE (1737-1809)
Selected Works of Tom Paine (810.9 F)

T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot (821.912 E)
The Waste Land and Other Poems 821.912

DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
The Portable Dorothy Parker (818.5 P)

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-82)
Essays and Lectures (814.3 E)
Self Reliance (814.3 E)

SYLVIA PLATH (1932-63)
The Bell Jar
The Collected Poems (811.54 PLA)

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury

EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-49)
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in One Volume: Tales and Poems (813.4 POE)

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby
Tender Is The Night

AYN RAND (1905-82)
Atlas Shrugged

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-90)
Autobiography (BIOGRAPHY FRANKLIN)
Writings (973.2 F)

J.D. SALINGER (1919- )
The Catcher in the Rye

ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems (811.2 FRO)

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (BIOGRAPHY LINCOLN Vol. 1-4)
Complete Poems (811.2 S)

JOHN GARDNER (1933-82)
Grendel
Mickelsson's Ghosts

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-68)
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-97)
Howl and Other Poems (811.54 GIN)

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-96)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-64)
The Scarlet Letter

 HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-62)
Walden (818 T)

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88)
Stranger In a Strange Land (SCIENCE
FICTION H)

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)
The Innocents Abroad
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Diaries of Adam and Eve (818.4 C)

O. HENRY (1862-1910)
The Gift of the Magi and Five Other Stories
Tales of O. Henry

 KURT VONNEGUT, JR. (1922- )
Slaughterhouse Five

JOHN HERSEY (1914-93)
Hiroshima (940.544 H)
A Bell For Adano		 ALICE WALKER (1944- )
The Color Purple

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-67)
The Book of Negro Humor (817 H)
A Pictorial History Of Blackamericans (973.049)
 EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
The Age of Innocence
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
Complete Tales of Washington Irving
History, Tales and Sketches (818.209 I)
Bracebridge Hall; Tales of a Traveller;
The Alhambra

WALT WHITMAN (1819-92)
Leaves of Grass (811.3 W)

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-38)
You Can’t Go Home Again