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Subject Guide: Literature

American Authors

Louisa May Alcott - Fiction

Video

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.41 Z263
Publication Date: 2008
Biography of Louisa May Alcott, the author best known for writing Little women, that is based on primary sources shot in original locations.

 

Book

L. Frank Baum - Fiction & Poetry

Willa Cather - Fiction

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction

Videos

Call Number: online
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971

Explores three wars and leaves the century as an industrial power of 45 states and 76 million people when America entered the 19th century as an agricultural nation of 16 states and 5.3 million people.

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES  813.24 L33
PUBLICATION DATE: 1971
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.
 
Books

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Non-Fiction & Poetry

William Faulkner - Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fiction

Ernest Hemingway - Fiction

Ezra Jack Keats - Children

Nelle Harper Lee - Fiction

Video

Call Number: MEDIA RESOURCES 813.69 L295T3 
Publication Date: 2011
Explores the "To Kill a Mockingbird" phenomenon, unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, and brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes it inspired after publication.
 
Books

Herman Melville - Fiction & Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe - Poetry

Dr. Seuss - Children

Ezra Pound - Poet

Video

Call Number: online
Publication Date: 2004

Follows Ezra Pound’s extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital.

Books

Ayn Rand - Drama, Fiction, & Non-Fiction

Leslie Marmon Silko - Fiction & Poetry

Video
Call Number: online
Production Date: 1995

Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Native American world and the larger, brutal surrounding world.

Books

John Steinbeck - Fiction

Henry David Thoreau - Non-Fiction & Poetry

Mark Twain - Fiction

Edith Wharton - Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

Walt Whitman - Poetry

Emily Dickinson - Poetry

Madeleine L'Engle - Fiction

Flannery O'Connor - Fiction & Non-Fiction

Authors - Books