Appendix II Chronological List of Writers Included in All Volumes of the Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers, by Birth Date Note that authors are placed in the volume that covers the period during which they published their most important works. Some authors published their works relatively early or relatively late in their lives. This explains why, for example, certain authors placed in volume 3 were actually born before certain authors placed in volume 2.
Christopher Columbus 1451–1506 Volume 1 Álvar Núñez 1490–1556 Volume 1 Cabeza de Vaca Samuel de Champlain 1570–1635 Volume 1 Thomas Morton 1579–1647 Volume 1 John Smith 1580–1631 Volume 1 John Winthrop 1588–1649 Volume 1 William Bradford 1590–1657 Volume 1 Anne Bradstreet 1612–1672 Volume 1 Edward Taylor ca. 1642–1729 Volume 1 Cotton Mather 1663–1728 Volume 1 Jonathan Edwards 1703–1758 Volume 1 Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 Volume 1 Jupiter Hammon 1711–1806 Volume 1 Samson Occom 1723–1792 Volume 1 J. Hector St. John 1735–1813 Volume 1 de Crèvecoeur Handsome Lake 1735–1815 Volume 1 John Adams 1735–1826 Volume 1 Thomas Paine 1737–1809 Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 Volume 1 Abigail Adams 1744–1818 Volume 1 Olaudah Equiano 1745–1797 Volume 1 Judith Sargent Murray 1751–1820 Volume 1 Philip Morin Freneau 1752–1832 Volume 1 Phillis Wheatley 1753–1784 Volume 1 Hannah Webster Foster 1758–1840 Volume 1 Susanna Haswell Rowson 1762–1824 Volume 1 Charles Brockden Brown 1771–1810 Volume 1 Washington Irving 1783–1859 Volume 1 James Fenimore Cooper 1789–1851 Volume 1 Catharine Maria Sedgwick 1789–1867 Volume 1
William Cullen Bryant Lydia Maria Child Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Edgar Allan Poe Margaret Fuller Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Jacobs Henry David Thoreau Frederick Douglass Herman Melville Walt Whitman Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Harriet E. Wilson Emily Dickinson Rebecca Harding Davis Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Bret Harte Sarah M. B. Piatt William Dean Howells Henry Adams Ambrose Bierce Henry James Joel Chandler Harris Sarah Orne Jewett
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