Presents 15 essays by a diverse group of contemporary American writers, poets, essayists, and intellectuals, on how being an American has affected their decision to write and what they have written during successful careers. Their meditations illuminate in an interesting way certain American values — freedom, diversity, democracy, in the context of individual development. Frequently, for this group of writers, the sense of home means an immigrant culture, with a parent or grandparent from another land; however, the central concept for many of these authors, no matter what their backgrounds, is "possibility," both in personal and creative terms.
Elmaz Abinader
Julia Alvarez
Sven Birkerts
Robert Olen Butler
Michael Chabon
Billy Collins
Robert Creeley
Richard Ford
Linda Hogan
Mark Jacobs
Charles Johnson
Bharati Mukherjee
Naomi Shihab Nye
Robert Pinsky
Here are some of the American authors whose work – in the past decades – has attracted millions of enthusiastic readers.
The Outline of American literature traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.
Este sitio ofrece información sobre la política exterior, la cultura y la vida estadounidenses. La Oficina de Programas de Información Internacional del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos produce y mantiene este sitio. Los enlaces con otras direcciones de Internet no deben interpretarse como una aprobación de las opiniones contenidas en las mismas.