Literary Timeline Americans | British | Other Americans Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 1850 : The Scarlet Letter 1851 : The House of Seven Gables 1837 : Twice-Told Tales Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 1838 : The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym 1840 : The Grotesque and the Arabesque 1843 : The Tell-Tale Heart 1842 : The Pit and the Pendulum Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 1852 : Uncle Tom's Cabin Herman Melville 1819-1891 1849 : Redburn 1851 : Moby Dick 1853 : Bartleby the Scrivener 1856 : Benito Cereno Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888 1868-69 : Little Women 1871 : Little Men Mark Twain 1835-1910 1876 : Tom Sawyer 1881 : The Prince and the Pauper 1884 : Huckleberry Finn 1889 : A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Bret Harte 1836-1902 1868 : The Luck of Roaring Camp 1869 : The Outcasts of Poker Flat 1870 : Plain Language from Truthful James WD Howells 1837-1920 1881 : A Modern Instance 1885 : The Rise of Silas Lapham Henry James 1843-1916 1877 : The American 1878 : Daisy Miller 1878 : The Europeans 1880/81 : Washington Square 1880/81 : Portrait of a Lady 1886 : The Bostonians 1896 : The Spoils of Poynton 1898 : The Turn of the Screw 1902 : The Wings of the Dove 1904 : The Golden Bowl Edith Wharton 1862-1937 1905 : The House of Mirth 1911 : Ethan Frome 1913 : The Custom of the Country 1920 : Age of Innocence 1938 : The Buccaneers O. Henry 1862-1910 1906 : The Four Million 1907 : The Last Leaf 1910 : The Ransom of Red Chief Stephen Crane 1871-1900 1893 : Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 1895 : The Red Badge of Courage 1899 : The Monster and Other Stories Theodore Dreiser 1871-1945 1900 : Sister Carrie 1911 : Jennie Gerhardt 1912 : The Financier 1925 : An American Tragedy Willa Cather 1873-1947 1913 : O Pioneers! 1915 : The Song of the Lark 1918 : My Antonia 1925 : The Professor's House 1926 : My Mortal Enemy 1927 : Death Comes for the Archbishop 1931 : Shadows on the Rock 1931 : Lucy Gayheart Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 1909 : Three Lives 1914 : Tender Buttons 1925 : The Making of Americans 1933 : The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 1947 : The Mother of Us All Jack London 1876-1916 1903 : The Call of the Wild 1904 : The Sea-Wolf 1906 : White Fang Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 1906 : The Jungle 1917 : King Coal 1927 : Oil! 1940 : World's End Damon Runyon 1884-1946 1932 : Guys and Dolls 1934 : Blue Plate Special Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 1920 : Main Street 1922 : Babbitt 1925 : Arrowsmith 1927 : Elmer Gantry 1929 : Dodsworth F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 1920 : This Side of Paradise 1925 : The Great Gatsby 1941 : The Last Tycoon Thorton Wilder 1897-1975 1927 : The Bridge of San Luis Rey 1938 : Our Town 1942 : The Skin of Our Teeth 1967 : The Eighth Day William Faulkner 1897-1962 1929 : The Sound and the Fury 1930 : As I Lay Dying 1936 : Absalom, Absalom! Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961 1926 : The Sun Also Rises 1929 : A Farewell to Arms 1940 : For Whom the Bell Tolls 1952 : The Old Man and the Sea Thomas Wolfe 1900-1938 1929 : Look Homeward, Angel 1935 : Of Time and the River 1940 : You Can't Go Home Again Langston Hughes 1902-1967 1921 : "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 1926 : "Dream Variation" 1930 : Not Without Laughter 1931 : Mule Bone 1934 : The Ways of White Folks 1950 : Simple Speaks His Mind 1951 : Harlem John Steinbeck 1902-1968 1935 : Tortilla Flat 1937 : Of Mice and Men 1937 : The Red Pony 1939 : The Grapes of Wrath 1945 : Cannery Row 1952 : East of Eden Ayn Rand 1905-1982 1936 : We the Living 1943 : The Fountainhead 1957 : Atlas Shrugged Robert Penn Warren 1905-1989 1946 : All the King's Men 1950 : World Enough and Time Richard Wright 1908-1960 1938 : Uncle Tom's Children 1940 : Native Son 1945 : Black Boy James Agee 1909-1955 1941 : Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 1951 : The African Queen (screenplay) 1957 : A Death in the Family John Cheever 1912-1982 1964 : "The Swimmer" 1957 : The Wapshot Chronicle 1977 : Falconer Tennessee Williams 1914-1983 1945 : The Glass Menagerie 1947 : A Streetcar Named Desire 1955 : Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1959 : Sweet Bird of Youth 1961 : The Night of the Iguana Saul Bellow 1915- 1953 : The Adventures of Augie March 1956 : Seize the Day 1964 : Herzog 1975 : Humboldt's Gift Arthur Miller 1915- 1949 : Death of a Salesman 1953 : The Crucible 1964 : After the Fall J.D. Salinger 1919- 1951 : Catcher in the Rye 1961 : Franny and Zooey 1963 : Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters Kurt Vonnegut 1922- 1963 : Cat's Cradle 1969 : Slaughterhouse Five Jack Kerouac 1922-1969 1957 : On the Road 1958 : The Dharma Bums 1972 : Visions of Cody Joseph Heller 1923- 1961 : Catch-22 1974 : Something Happened 1984 : Something Happened 1994 : Closing Time Norman Mailer 1923- 1948 : The Naked and the Dead 1955 : The Deer Park 1979 : The Executioner's Song James Baldwin 1924-1987 1953 : Go Tell It on the Mountain 1955 : Giovanni's Room 1968 : Tell Me How Long This Train's Been Gone William Styron 1925- 1951 : Lie Down in Darkness 1967 : The Confessions of Nat Turner 1979 : Sophie's Choice Maya Angelou 1928- 1970 : I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1990 : I Shall Not Be Moved 1993 : Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Toni Morrison 1931- 1970 : The Bluest Eye 1973 : Sula 1977 : Song of Solomon 1981 : Tar Baby 1987 : Beloved 1992 : Jazz 1998 : Paradise John Updike 1932- 1960 : Rabbit, Run 1962 : Pigeon Feathers 1968 : Couples 1971 : Rabbit Redux 1981 : Rabbit Is Rich 1985 : The Witches of Eastwick 1990 : Rabbit at Rest Philip Roth 1933- 1959 : Goodbye, Columbus 1969 : Portnoy's Complaint 1981 : Zuckerman Unbound Ken Kesey 1935- 1962 : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1964 : Sometimes a Great Notion Esmeralda Santiago 1940- , Puerto Rican-American 1994 : When I Was Puerto Rican 1998 : Almost a Woman John Irving 1942- 1978 : The World According to Garp 1985 : The Cider House Rules 1989 : A Prayer for Owen Meany Alice Walker 1944- 1976 : Meridian 1982 : The Color Purple Stephen King 1947- 1974 : Carrie 1977 : The Shining 1987 : Misery Amy Tan 1952- 1989 : The Joy Luck Club 1991 : The Kitchen God's Wife Louise Erdrich 1954- 1984 : Love Medicine 1986 : The Beet Queen 1996 : Tales of Burning Love back to top British Jane Austen 1775-1817 1811 : Sense and Sensibility 1813 : Pride and Prejudice 1815 : Emma Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 1848 : Mary Barton 1853 : Cranford 1864-66 : Wives and Daughters William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863 1844 : Memoirs of Barry Lyndon 1847 : Vanity Fair 1852 : Henry Esmond Charles Dickens 1812-1870 Anthony Trollope 1815-1882 1855-67 : Chronicles of Barsetshire 1869-80 : Parliamentary Novels Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 1847 : Jane Eyre 1853 : Villette Emily Bronte 1818-1848 1847 : Wuthering Heights George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-1880 1859 : Adam Bede 1860 : The Mill on the Floss 1861 : Silas Marner 1871-72 : Middlemarch George Meredith 1828-1909 1859 : The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 1879 : The Egoist 1885 : Diana of the Crossways Lewis Carroll 1832-1898 1865 : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1872 : Through the Looking Glass Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 1874 : Far from the Madding Crowd 1878 : The Return of the Native 1886 : The Mayor of Casterbridge 1891 : Tess of the D'Urbevilles Bram Stoker 1847-1912 1897 : Dracula Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 1883 : Treasure Island 1886 : Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886 : Kidnapped George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 1898 : Arms and the Man 1903 : Man and Superman 1914 : Pygmalion 1919 : Heartbreak House Oscar Wilde 1856-1900 1891 : The Picture of Dorian Gray 1899 : The Importance of Being Earnest Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 1892 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1902 : The Hound of the Baskervilles 1912 : The Lost World Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 1889 : The Man Who Would Be King 1894 : The Jungle Book 1897 : Captains Courageous 1902 : Just So Stories H.G. Wells 1866-1946 1895 : The Time Machine 1897 : The Invisible Man 1898 : The War of the Worlds E.M. Forster 1879-1970 1908 : A Room With a View 1910 : Howards End 1924 : A Passage to India P.G. Wodehouse 1881-1975 1925 : Jeeves 1938 : The Code of the Woosters 1973 : The Plot That Thickened Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 1925 : Mrs. Dalloway 1927 : To the Lighthouse 1929 : A Room of One's Own 1931 : The Waves James Joyce 1882-1941 1914 : Dubliners 1916 : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1921 : Ulysses 1939 : Finnegans Wake D.H. Lawrence 1885-1930 1913 : Sons and Lovers 1921 : Women in Love 1928 : Lady Chatterley's Lover Agatha Christie 1890-1976 1926 : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1933 : Murder on the Orient Express 1952 : Mousetrap Aldous Huxley 1894-1963 1928 : Point Counter Point 1932 : Brave New World 1945 : Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1903-1966 1928 : Decline and Fall 1945 : Brideshead Revisited 1948 : The Loved One George Orwell 1903-1950 1939 : Coming Up for Air 1945 : Animal Farm 1949 : 1984 Graham Greene 1904-1991 1940 : The Power and the Glory 1951 : The End of the Affair 1958 : Our Man in Havana 1966 : The Comedians William Golding 1911- 1955 : Lord of the Flies 1979 : Darkness Visible 1989 : Fire Down Below Mervyn Peake 1911-1968 1941 : Shapes and Sounds (poetry) 1946 : Titus Groan 1943 : Gormenghast 1950 : The Glassblowers (poetry) 1959 : Titus Alone Barbara Pym 1913-1980 1952 : Excellent Women 1978 : Quartet in Autumn 1980 : A Few Green Leaves Anthony Burgess 1917-1994 1962 : A Clockwork Orange 1976 : Abba Abba 1980 : Earthly Powers Muriel Spark 1918- 1958 : Memento Mori 1961 : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1981 : Loitering with Intent Doris Lessing 1919- 1962 : The Golden Notebook 1980 : The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five 1986 : The Good Terrorist Kingsley Amis 1922-1995 1954 : Lucky Jim 1986 : The Old Devils A.S. Byatt 1936- 1990 : Possession: A Romance 1992 : Angels and Insects: Two Novellas Martin Amis 1949- 1973 : The Rachel Papers 1984 : Money 1991 : Time's Arrow back to top Other Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870, French 1844 : The Count of Monte Cristo 1844 : The Three Musketeers Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French 1827 : Cromwell 1831 : The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1862 : Les Miserables George Sand 1804-1876, French 1832 : Valentine 1833 : Lelia Hans Christian Andersen 1804-1875, Danish 1835 : Tales Told for Children 1858-72 : New Fairy Tales and Stories 1863 : In Spain Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 1821-1881, Russian 1866 : Crime and Punishment 1872 : The Possessed 1879-80 : The Brothers Karamazov Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880, French 1857 : Madame Bovary 1869 : A Sentimental Education 1874 : The Temptation of Saint Anthony Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906, Norwegian 1867 : Peer Gynt 1879 : A Doll's House 1881 : Ghosts 1890 : Hedda Gabler Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian 1865-69 : War and Peace 1875-77 : Anna Karenina 1886 : The Death of Ivan Ilyich Jules Verne 1828-1905, French 1869-70 : 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1873 : Around the World in Eighty Days Emile Zola 1840-1902, French 1867 : Therese Raquin 1871-93 : Les Rougon-Macquart Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893, French 1883 : Une Vie 1885 : Bel-Ami 1888 : Pierre et Jean Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish/English 1900 : Lord Jim 1902 : Heart of Darkness 1904 : Nostromo Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936, Italian 1921 : Six Characters in Search of an Author Maxim Gorky 1868-1936, Russian 1902 : The Lower Depths 1913-1914 : Childhood Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French 1912 : A Remembrance of Things Past Thomas Mann 1875-1965, German 1901 : Buddenbrooks 1912 : Death in Venice 1924 : The Magic Mountain 1947 : Doctor Faustus Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German 1922 : Siddhartha 1927 : Steppenwolf 1943 : Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game Franz Kafka 1883-1924, Czech 1915 : The Metamorphosis 1925 : The Trial 1926 : The Castle 1927 : Amerika Boris Pasternak 1890-1960, Russian 1922 : My Sister, Life 1941 : Childhood 1944 : On Early Trains Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, Argentinian 1967 : The Book of Imaginary Beings 1970 : Dr. Brodie's Report 1975 : The Book of Sand Alan Paton 1903-1988, South African 1948 : Cry, The Beloved Country 1953 : Too Late the Phalarope 1981 : Ah, But Your Country is Beautiful Anais Nin 1903-1977, French/American 1931-66 : The Diary of Anais Nin 1936 : House of Incest 1954 : A Spy in the House of Love Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish 1938: Murphy 1952: Waiting for Godor 1951 : Molloy 1951 : Malone Dies 1957 : Endgame Simone deBeauvoir 1908-1986, French 1943 : L'Invitee 1954 : Les Mandarins Albert Camus 1913-1960, Algerian-French 1942 : The Stranger 1947 : The Plague 1956 : The Fall Nadine Gordimer 1923, South African 1953 : The Lying Days 1979 : Burger's Daughter 1991 : Crimes of Conscience Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928- , Colombian 1967 : One Hundred Years of Solitude 1985 : Love in the Time of Cholera 1989 : The General in His Labyrinth Chinua Achebe 1930- , Nigerian 1958 : Things Fall Apart 1960 : No Longer at Ease 1987 : Anthills of the Savannah V.S. Naipaul 1932- , Trinidadian 1961 : A House for Mr. Biswas 1971 : In a Free State Kenzaburo Oe 1935 - , Japanese 1958 : The Catch 1964 : A Personal Matter 1977 : Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness Anita Desai 1937- ,Indian 1963 : Cry, the Peacock 1977 : Fire on the Mountain 1984 : In Custody Margaret Atwood 1939- , Canadian 1966 : The Circle Game 1972 : Surfacing 1984 : The Handmaid's Tale Salman Rushdie 1947- , Anglo-Indian 1981 : Midnight's Children 1983 : Shame 1988 : The Satanic Verses Jamaica Kincaid 1949- , Antiguan 1983 : At the Bottom of the River 1985 : Annie John 1990 : Lucy Vikram Seth 1952- ,Indian 1986 : The Golden Gate 1993 : A Suitable Boy back to top Guides | Book Club | Timelines | Learning Links Broadcast Schedule | Feature Library Home | About The Series | The American Collection | The Archive Schedule & Season | Feature Library | eNewsletter | Book Club Learning Resources | Forum | Search | Shop | Feedback ©