Home›American Literature›Original Language›EnglishBrowse ByEnglishOriginal language groups authors by the language they actually wrote in. Wikipedia identifies Jane Austen as "an English writer," and her six novels were all composed in English rather than translated into it. This dimension lets a visitor find every author who wrote in the same original language.FactsEnglishSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1640 1Primary Language or TraditionWell-attestedEnglish 1EnglishFilter Results27 entriesGenreAllDetective Fiction (1)Drama (4)Gothic Fiction (1)Memoir (1)Nonfiction Prose (6)Poetry (9)Satire (1)Short Fiction (6)The Novel (16)Tragedy (1)MovementAllConfessional Poetry (1)Imagism (1)Lost Generation (2)Postmodernism (1)The Beat Generation (3)The Harlem Renaissance (1)Transcendentalism (3)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 EraAll1803 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)1830 to 1886 (1)1835 to 1910 (1)1885 to 1972 (1)1891 to 1960 (1)1896 to 1940 (1)1897 to 1962 (1)1899 to 1961 (1)1902 to 1967 (1)1902 to 1968 (1)1913 to 1994 (1)1914 to 1994 (1)1914 to 1997 (1)1919 to 2010 (1)1922 to 1969 (1)1922 to 2007 (1)1924 to 1987 (1)1926 to 1997 (1)1926 to 2016 (1)1928 to 2014 (1)1931 to 2019 (1)1932 to 1963 (1)Influenced ByAllRalph Waldo Emerson (1)NationalityAllFrance (1)United States (27)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27Allen GinsbergEnglishEdgar Allan PoeEnglishEmily DickinsonEnglishErnest HemingwayEnglishEzra PoundEnglishF. Scott FitzgeraldEnglishHarper LeeEnglishHenry David ThoreauEnglishHerman MelvilleEnglishJ. D. SalingerEnglishJack KerouacEnglishJames BaldwinEnglishJohn SteinbeckEnglishKurt VonnegutEnglishLangston HughesEnglishMargaret FullerEnglishMark TwainEnglishMaya AngelouEnglishNathaniel HawthorneEnglishRalph EllisonEnglishRalph Waldo EmersonEnglishSylvia PlathEnglishToni MorrisonEnglishWalt WhitmanEnglishWilliam FaulknerEnglishWilliam S. BurroughsEnglishZora Neale HurstonEnglishSources1. 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.