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Select a writer 1600-1800: William Bradford Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson James Madison 1800-1850: Lewis & Clark James Fenimore Cooper  Sojourner Truth Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Elizabeth Cady Stanton Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850-1865: Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe Mary Chesnut Abraham Lincoln 1865-1901: Mark Twain Willa Cather Black Elk Booker T. Washington W.E.B Du Bois Henry Adams Edith Wharton 1901-1929: Upton Sinclair Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Dreiser Will Rogers Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston H.L. Mencken F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway 1929-1945: John Steinbeck William Faulkner Ayn Rand Ernie Pyle 1945-1961: Whittaker Chambers Walter Lippmann Jack Kerouac 1961-1975: James Baldwin Betty Friedan Russell Kirk William F. Buckley David Halberstam Neil Sheehan ______________________ Select a work 1600-1800: Mayflower Compact Autobiography of    Benjamin Franklin Common Sense Declaration of   Independence U.S. Constitution 1800-1850: Journals of   the Expedition Last of the Mohicans Narrative of   Sojourner Truth Nature Walden Declaration of   Sentiments The Scarlet Letter 1850-1865: Narrative of the Life of   Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom's Cabin A Diary from Dixie Gettysburg Address 1865-1901: The Adventures of   Huckleberry Finn O Pioneers! Black Elk Speaks Up From Slavery The Souls of Black Folk The Education of   Henry Adams Age of Innocence 1901-1929: The Jungle The Winning of   the West Sister Carrie The Cowboy Philosopher   on Prohibition Their Eyes   Were Watching God Montage of a Dream The American Language   Deferred The Great Gatsby The Sun Also Rises 1929-1945: The Grapes of Wrath The Sound and   the Fury The Fountainhead Here is Your War 1945-1961: Witness Public Opinion On the Road 1961-1975: The Fire Next Time The Feminine Mystique The Conservative Mind God and Man at Yale The Best and   the Brightest A Bright Shining Lie ______________________ Select a place 1600-1800: Plymouth, MA Philadelphia, PA: New Rochelle, NY Montpelier Station, VA: 1800-1850: Astoria, OR Cooperstown, NY Battle Creek, MI Concord, MA Seneca Falls, NY Salem, MA 1850-1865: Washington, DC Cincinnati, OH Camden, SC Gettysburg, PA 1865-1901: Hannibal, MO Red Cloud, NE Little Bighorn Battlefield Ntnl Mnt, MT Tuskegee, AL Amherst, MA Quincy, MA Lenox, MA 1901-1929: Chicago, IL Medora, ND Chicago, IL Claremore, OK Harlem, NY Baltimore, MD St. Paul, MN Key West, FL 1929-1945: Salinas, CA Oxford, MS Hollywood, CA Dana, IN 1945-1961: Washington, DC Washington, DC Lowell, MA 1961-1975: Bronx, NY Northampton, MA Mecosta, MI Washington, DC ______________________ About this web site American Writers: a journey through history is a permanent archive for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the  C‑SPAN series.

irst novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1900 but suppressed until 1912. It tells of a small-town girl who comes to the big city filled with vague ambitions. She is used by men and uses them in turn to become a successful Broadway actress. George Hurstwood, the married man who has run away with her, loses his grip on life and descends into beggary and suicide; his emotional disintegration is a much-praised triumph of psychological analysis. The first masterpiece of the American naturalistic movement and a model for subsequent realist writers, Sister Carrie presents the vagaries of urban life with gritty bluntness; it was remarkable in its time in that its ingenuous heroine went unpunished for her transgressions against conventional sexual morality. Its strengths Read the Work Sister Carrie Read the First Chapter include a brooding but compassionate view of humanity, a memorable cast of characters, and a compelling plot. Websites about the work The Salon Classics Book Group, Why Did They Ban a Book This Bad? by Garrison Keillor University of Pennsylvania Library, Dreiser Web Source

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