American Literature timeline
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The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is Published
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a... Read more
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The Ambassadors by Henry James is Published
The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, one of the... Read more
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'The Jungle' is Published
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel with the intention of portraying the life of the... Read more
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Tarzan of the Apes is Published
Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first... Read more
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The Negro by W.E.B. Du Bois is Published
The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. The book is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the... Read more
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Carson McCullers Is Born
Novelist Carson McCullers, noted for her exploration of the dilemmas of modern American life in the context of the twentieth-century South, was... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Joins The Red Cross
Hemingway first went to Paris upon reaching Europe, then traveled to Milan in early June after receiving his orders. The day he arrived, a... Read more
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William Faulkner Attends the University of Mississippi
Faulkner was raised in and heavily influenced by the state of Mississippi, as well as by the history and culture of the South as a whole. When he... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Marries Hadley Richardson
She was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and married Ernest Hemingway on September 3, 1921. Together they moved to Paris, France, and in the fall of... Read more
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William Faulkner Works as Postmaster of the University of Mississippi
Faulkner’s most notorious stint as a working man was his role of postmaster at the University of Mississippi post office, which incredibly he held... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets Ezra Pound
At the end of 1921, Ezra Pound rented a ground-floor apartment at 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs (southwest of the Luxembourg Gardens). Hemingway... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway is Introduced to Gertrude Stein
In the 1920s, her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus, with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great writers of the time,... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets James Joyce
Hemingway was quick to see the merit in the work of James Joyce, not always a limpid writer. In a letter to Sherwood Anderson dated March 9, 1922,... Read more
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James Baldwin Is Born
Novelist, essayist, and playwright James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in New York City. The eldest of nine children, Baldwin grew up in... Read more
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'An American Tragedy' is Published
Clyde Griffiths is a young man with ambitions. He's in love with a rich girl, but it's a poor girl he has gotten pregnant, Roberta Alden, who works... Read more
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'In Our Time' Is Published
In Our Time is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. Each chapter consists of a vignette that in some way relates to the following... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, he describes the first time he met F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Dingo Bar on the rue Delambre where, as... Read more
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The Great Gatsby is Published
It seems to me, though, that no American novel comes closer than "Gatsby" to surpassing literary artistry, and none tells us more about ourselves.... Read more
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'Soldier's Pay' Is Published
The plot of Soldiers' Pay revolves around the return of a wounded aviator home to a small town in Georgia following the conclusion of the First... Read more
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'The Torrents of Spring' Is Published
Set in northern Michigan in the mid-1920s The Torrents of Spring is about two World War I veterans, Yogi Johnson and writer Scripps O'Neill, both... Read more
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'The Sun Also Rises' Is Published
The Sun Also Rises epitomized the post-war expatriate generation for future generations. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway melds Paris to Spain;... Read more
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Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway Are Divorced
Hemingway's marriage to Hadley broke down as he was writing and revising The Sun Also Rises. In the spring of 1926, Hadley became aware of his... Read more
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'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is Published
Cather at her most matter-of-fact and, as a consequence, her most powerful. She based this book on the life of Bishop Jean Baptiste L'Amy — she... Read more
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'Mosquitoes' Is Published
Mosquitoes is a comic novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1927. It is the author's second novel. The story tells of the... Read more
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Ernest Hemingway Marries Pauline Pfeiffer
Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 21, 1951) was the second wife of the writer Ernest Hemingway. She was born in Parkersburg, Iowa on... Read more