The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2 (3rd Edition)

Covers American Literature, 1865 to the present. Includes works of the following authors:
American literature (1865-1914). Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ; Emily Dickinson (1830-1911) ; Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910) ; Bret Harte (1836-1902) ; William Dean Howells (1837-1920) ; Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) ; Henry James (1843-1916) ; Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) ; Kate Chopin (1850-1904) ; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) ; Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) ; Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) ; Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) ; Edith Wharton (1862-1937) ; Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914) ; W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) ; Realism and naturalism ; Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) ; Stephen Crane (1871-1900) ; Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) ; Jack London (1876-1916) ; Zitkala S̆a (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938)
American literature 1914-1945. Introduction ; Timeline ; Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) ; Willa Cather (1873-1947) ; Amy Lowell (1874-1925) ; Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) ; Robert Frost (1874-1963) ; Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) ; Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) ; Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) ; Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) ; William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) ; Ezra Pound (1885-1972) ; Modernist manifestos ; H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) ; Marianne Moore (1887-1972) ; T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) ; Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) ; Claude McKay (1889-1948) ; Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) ; Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) ; E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) ; Jean Toomer (1894-1967) ; F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ; William Faulkner (1897-1962) ; Hart Crane (1899-1932) ; Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) ; Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ; John Steinbeck (1902-1968) ; Countee Cullen (1903-1946) ; Richard Wright (1908-1960)
American literature since 1945. Introduction ; Timeline ; Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) ; Eudora Welty (1909-2001) ; Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) ; Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) ; John Cheever (1912-1982) ; Robert Hayden (1913-1980) ; Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) ; John Berryman (1914-1972) ; Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) ; Saul Bellow (1915-2005) ; Arthur Miller (1915-2005) ; Robert Lowell (1917-1977) ; Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) ; Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) ; Denise Levertov (1923-1997) ; James Baldwin (1924-1987) ; Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) ; Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) ; John Ashbery (b. 1927) ; James Wright (1927-1980) ; Anne Sexton (1928-1974) ; Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) ; Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) ; Gary Snyder (b. 1930) ; Toni Morrison (b. 1931) ; Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) ; John Updike (b. 1932-2009) ; Philip Roth (b. 1933) ; Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) ; N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934) ; Audre Lorde (1934-1992) ; Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) ; Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937) ; Raymond Carver (1938-1988) ; Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) ; Billy Collins (b. 1941) ; Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) ; Alice Walker (b. 1944) ; Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) ; Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) ; Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) ; Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) ; Joy Harjo (b. 1951) ; Rita Dove (b. 1952) ; Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) ; Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) ; Cathy Song (b. 1955) ; Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) ; Creative nonfiction ; Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) ; Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) ; Junot Díaz (b. 1968).