Who are some great American writers?

Question

Someone give me a good list of major American writers, please. I need to start recognizing them. My inadequate school system teaches nothing of them, but everything about Anne Frank.

Answer 1

Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., W.E.B. DuBois.

Unfortunately, I haven't studied many female American writers. I think Maya Angelou would be considered a great.

Answer 2

Jackie Collins, Stuart Woods, Stephen King, any writer that is popular enough to become well known is great. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka... has a good list.

Answer 3

The ones mentioned earlier are good, but you should also add to your list names like Edgar Allen Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Baldwin, Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper, James Whitcomb Riley, and Truman Capote, just to name a few.

Answer 4

These are some of great American authors and writers:Emily Dickinsen, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck. President Kennedy,  Louisa Mary Alcoll, William Faulkner, Walter Lippman, James Baldwin, Upton Sinclair, F. Scott Fitzergerald, Booker T. Washington,Abraham Lincolln, Henry David Thorueu, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Lewis & Clark, Edith Warden, Will Rodgers, William F.Buckley.