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The following is a list of writers from which you may choose for your independent reading project. Your teacher/library media specialist may also suggest others for your consideration. Be aware that the work of some contemporary writers may contain some mature themes.
- James Agee
- Sherwood Anderson
- Isaac Asimov
- James Baldwin
- John Barth
- Saul Bellow
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arna Bontemps
- Ray Bradbury
- Pearl Buck
- Octavia Butler
- Truman Capote
- Willa Cather
- John Cheever
- Kate Chopin
- Sandra Cisneros
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Stephen Crane
- Joan Didion
- John Dos Passos
- Theodore Dreiser
- Ralph Ellison
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Gaines
- John Gardner
- Henry Louis Gates
- Virginia Hamilton
- Bret Harte
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Heinlein
- Joseph Heller
- Ernest Hemingway
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John Irving
- Washington Irving
- Shirley Jackson
- Henry James
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Ring Lardner
- Ursula LeGuin
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jack London
- Bernard Malamud
- Norman Mailer
- Carson McCullers
- Herman Melville
- James Michener
- Toni Morrison
- Gloria Naylor
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor
- Dorothy Parker
- Walker Percy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Chaim Potok
- Adrienne Rich
- Philip Roth
- J. D. Salinger
- William Saroyan
- Upton Sinclair
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- John Steinbeck
- William Styron
- Amy Tan
- James Thurber
- Mark Twain
- Anne Tyler
- John Updike
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Robert Penn Warren
- Eudora Welty
- Dorothy West
- Thomas Wolfe
- Tobias Wolfe
- Herman Wouk
- Richard Wright
- Edward Albee
- Maxwell Anderson
- Alice Childress
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Lillian Hellman
- William Inge
- Adrienne Kennedy
- Arthur Miller
- Eugene O'Neill
- Thornton Wilder
- Tennessee Williams
- August Wilson
- W. H. Auden
- Amiri Baraka
- John Berryman
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Arna Bontemps
- Anne Bradstreet
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sterling A. Brown
- William Cullen Bryant
- Stephen Crane
- e e cummings
- James Dickey
- Emily Dickinson
- Birago Diop
- Rita Dove
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- Richard Eberhart
- T. S. Eliot
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mari Evans
- Julia Fields
- Robert Frost
- Rodolfo Gonzales
- Robert Hayden
- Safiya Henderson
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Langston Hughes
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers
- James Weldon Johnson
- Sidney Lanier
- Denise Levertov
- Henry Wadsworth Lonfgellow
- James Russell Lowell
- Robert Lowell
- Archibald Macleish
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Claude McKay
- James Merrill
- Edna St. Vincent Milay
- Marianne Moore
- Ogden Nash
- Americo Paredes
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Dudley Randall
- John Crowe Ransom
- Ishmael Reed
- Adrienne Rich
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Theodore Roethke
- Sonia Sanchez
- Carl Sandburg
- Leopold Sedar Senghor
- Anne Sexton
- Ntozake Shange
- Karl Shapiro
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- William Stafford
- Wallace Stevens
- Edward Taylor
- Henry Timrod
- Jean Toomer
- Sojourner Truth
- Jose Garcia Villa
- Derek Walcott
- Alice Walker
- Margaret Walker
- Robert Penn Warren
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Richard Wilbur
- William Carlos Williams
- Al Young