Home›American Literature›Nationality›United StatesBrowse ByUnited StatesNationality groups authors by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Jane Austen as "an English writer known primarily for her six novels," a nationality that placed her firmly within the English gentry society she wrote about. This dimension shows which countries produced the authors behind a given tradition.FactsUnited StatesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1640 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedEnglish 1United StatesFilter Results88 entriesGenreAllAdventure Fiction (1)Autobiography (1)Black Comedy (1)Crime Fiction (8)Dark Fantasy (2)Detective Fiction (2)Drama (6)Fantasy (4)Gothic Fiction (3)Hard Science Fiction (1)Hardboiled (2)Historical Fiction (2)Horror Fiction (5)Lovecraftian Horror (1)Magic Realism (1)Memoir (2)Mystery Fiction (4)Nature Writing (1)Nonfiction Prose (10)Paranoid Fiction (1)Philosophical Fiction (1)Poetry (9)Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (1)Psychological Thriller (1)Romance Novel (1)Satire (2)Science Fiction (12)Short Fiction (8)Social Science Fiction (1)Southern Gothic (1)Speculative Fiction (1)Supernatural Fiction (1)The Novel (37)Thriller (1)Tragedy (1)Transgressive Fiction (1)Weird Fiction (1)Western Fiction (1)Young Adult Fiction (1)MovementAllConfessional Poetry (1)Imagism (1)Lost Generation (2)Postmodernism (1)The Beat Generation (3)The Harlem Renaissance (1)Transcendentalism (4)Vorticism (1)Major AwardAllNational Book Award (1953) (1)National Book Award for Poetry (1)Nobel Prize in Literature (1)Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) (1)Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1)Active EraAll1789 to 1851 (1)1799 to 1888 (1)1803 to 1882 (1)1804 to 1864 (1)1809 to 1849 (1)1810 to 1850 (1)1817 to 1862 (1)1819 to 1891 (1)1819 to 1892 (1)1827 to 1867 (1)1827 to 1905 (1)1830 to 1886 (1)1835 to 1910 (1)1843 to 1916 (1)1860 to 1935 (1)1862 to 1910 (1)1876 to 1916 (1)1885 to 1972 (1)1888 to 1959 (1)1888 to 1965 (1)1890 to 1937 (1)1891 to 1960 (1)1894 to 1961 (1)1896 to 1940 (1)1897 to 1962 (1)1899 to 1961 (1)1900 to 1949 (1)1900 to 1981 (1)1902 to 1967 (1)1902 to 1968 (1)1903 to 1991 (1)1906 to 1977 (1)1907 to 1964 (1)1909 to 1993 (1)1910 to 1971 (1)1911 to 1983 (1)1913 to 1994 (1)1914 to 1986 (1)1914 to 1994 (1)1914 to 1997 (1)1915 to 1996 (1)1915 to 2005 (1)1916 to 1965 (1)1918 to 1965 (1)1918 to 1985 (1)1918 to 2004 (1)1919 to 2010 (1)1920 to 1986 (1)1920 to 1992 (1)1920 to 1999 (1)1920 to 2012 (1)1921 to 1992 (1)1921 to 1994 (1)1921 to 1995 (1)1922 to 1969 (1)1922 to 2007 (1)1923 to 1999 (1)1924 to 1987 (1)1926 to 1997 (1)1926 to 2016 (1)1927 to 2014 (1)1928 to 1982 (1)1928 to 2014 (1)1929 to 2018 (1)1931 to 2019 (1)1932 to 1963 (1)1933 to 1991 (1)1933 to 2004 (1)1933 to 2023 (1)1937 to 1969 (1)1947 to 2006 (1)Influenced ByAllRalph Waldo Emerson (1)Original LanguageAllEnglish (27)French (3)German (1)Spanish (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 88Alex HaleyUnited StatesAlice RandallUnited StatesAllen GinsbergUnited StatesAnna Lee WaldoUnited StatesArthur MillerUnited StatesBernard MalamudUnited StatesBronson AlcottUnited StatesCharlotte Perkins GilmanUnited StatesCormac McCarthyUnited StatesDan BrownUnited StatesDaniel KeyesUnited StatesDashiell HammettUnited StatesDustin ThaoUnited StatesEdgar Allan PoeUnited StatesEmily DickinsonUnited StatesErnest HemingwayUnited StatesEugene BurdickUnited StatesEzra PoundUnited StatesF. Scott FitzgeraldUnited StatesFrank HerbertUnited StatesH. P. LovecraftUnited StatesHarper LeeUnited StatesHarry BatesUnited StatesHarvey WheelerUnited StatesHenry David ThoreauUnited StatesHenry JamesUnited StatesHerman MelvilleUnited StatesIsaac AsimovUnited StatesIsaac Bashevis SingerUnited StatesJ. D. SalingerUnited StatesJack KerouacUnited StatesJack LondonUnited StatesJames BaldwinUnited StatesJames ClavellUnited StatesJames EllroyUnited StatesJames Fenimore CooperUnited StatesJamie McGuireUnited StatesJerzy KosińskiUnited StatesJim ThompsonUnited StatesJohn Kennedy TooleUnited StatesJohn Rollin RidgeUnited StatesJohn SteinbeckUnited StatesJohn W. CampbellUnited StatesJohnston McCulleyUnited StatesJoseph HellerUnited StatesKhaled HosseiniUnited StatesKurt VonnegutUnited StatesLangston HughesUnited StatesLev GrossmanUnited StatesLew WallaceUnited StatesMargaret FullerUnited StatesMargaret MitchellUnited StatesMario PuzoUnited StatesMark TwainUnited StatesMary GaitskillUnited StatesMaya AngelouUnited StatesNathaniel HawthorneUnited StatesO. HenryUnited StatesOctavia E. ButlerUnited StatesPatricia HighsmithUnited StatesPhilip K. DickUnited StatesQiu XiaolongUnited StatesRachel CarsonUnited StatesRalph EllisonUnited StatesRalph Waldo EmersonUnited StatesRay BradburyUnited StatesRaymond ChandlerUnited StatesRichard CondonUnited StatesRoderick ThorpUnited StatesShirley JacksonUnited StatesStephen KingUnited StatesStephenie MeyerUnited StatesSusan SontagUnited StatesSuzanne CollinsUnited StatesSylvia PlathUnited StatesT. S. EliotUnited StatesTed ChiangUnited StatesTennessee WilliamsUnited StatesTheodore SturgeonUnited StatesThomas HarrisUnited StatesToni MorrisonUnited StatesUrsula K. Le GuinUnited StatesWallace StegnerUnited StatesWalt WhitmanUnited StatesWilliam FaulknerUnited StatesWilliam GibsonUnited StatesWilliam S. BurroughsUnited StatesZora Neale HurstonUnited StatesSources1. Bay Psalm Book (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaBay Psalm Book, lead section, printing date sentenceQuote, Bay Psalm Book, lead section, printing date sentencemetrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.