Early- to Mid-20th Century

CLASSIC AMERICAN NOVELS


KENNETH ROBERTS (1885-1957)
Northwest Passage

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS (1886-1953)
The Yearling

RAYMOND CHANDLER (1888-1959) Detective
The Big Sleep

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)
Their Eyes Were Watching God

HENRY MILLER (1891-1980)
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn

PEARL BUCK (1892-1973)
The Good Earth

ALDOUS HUXLEY (1894 in England--1963)
Brave New World


F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby
The Last Tycoon
Tender Is the Night
This Side Of Paradise

JOHN DOS PASSOS (1896-1970)
Manhattan Transfer
One Man's Initiation
Three Soldiers
U.S.A. Trilogy:
-The 42nd Parallel-
-1919-
-The Big Money-

BETTY SMITH (1886-1972)
née Elisabeth Wehner
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
The Sound and the Fury
The Reivers
The Bear (short)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
A Farewell To Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Sun Also Rises
The Old Man and The Sea (novella)

VLADIMIR NABOKOV (1899 in Russia--1977)
Lolita
Pale Fire
Pnin
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

THOMAS WOLFE (1900-1938)
Look Homeward, Angel
You Can't Go Home Again
Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-1949)
Gone with the Wind

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
The Red Pony

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