Literature of the usa. Colonial period literature

1920s	Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Eugene O'Neill, H.L. Mencken
1920s	Harlem Renaissance	Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, James Baldwin, etc.
1920s, 1930s	The "Lost Generation"	Gertrud Stein, T.S. Eliot, Erza Pound, Ernest Hemingway
1939‐ present	The Contemporary Period	Eudora Welty, Robert Penn Warren, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, E.L. Doctorow, Marianne Moore. Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell
1950s	Beat Writers	Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, African American writers: Ralph Ellison, Zora Neal Hurston, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), Toni Morrison, etc.
1960s, 1970s	Counterculture