American Literature books start with the call number PS. For details about specific call numbers (sub-classified by period, criticism, collections, individual authors, etc.) see the document below.
Here is a list of some American authors and their corresponding Library of Congress call numbers. You can find books about them and/or authored by them in the stacks.
| Bierce, Ambrose - PS1097 | Melville, Herman - PS2380-2388 |
| Dickinson, Emily - PS1541 | Michener, James - PS3525.I19 |
| Eliot, T.S. - PS3509 .L43 | Plath, Sylvia - PS3566 .L27 |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo - PS1600-1648 | Poe, Edgar Allen - PS2600-2648 |
| Faulkner, William - PS3511 .A86 | Steinbeck, John - PS3537 .T3234 |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott - PS3511 .I9 | Sinclair, Upton - PS3537 .I85 |
| Frost, Robert - PS3511 .R94 | Thoreau, Henry David - PS3040-3058 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel - PS1850-1898 | Twain, Mark - PS1300-1348 |
| Hemingway, Ernest - PS3515 .E37 | Updike, John - PS3571 .P4 |
| Hughes, Langston - PS3515 .U274 | Vonnegut, Kurt - PS3572 .O5 |
| James, Henry - PS2110-2128 | Wharton, Edith - PS3545.H16 |
| Lewis, Sinclair - PS3523.E94 | Whitman, Walt - PS3200-3248 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - PS2250-2298 | Williams, Tennessee - PS3545 .I5365 |
An outline of American literature by Magill's Survey of American Literature by Social Criticism and Nineteenth-Century American Fictions by American Literature since Nineteen Hundred by Warner has access to a number of electronic book databases! The following links take you to them where you can search on a topic of your choice.
