Author: Mark W. Smith

By Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Michael J. Caduto, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Miriam Davis Colt, George Cooper, Stephen Crane, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Erdoes, Richard, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ian Frazier, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Goss, Warren Lee, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Joy Harjo, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, John Richard Hersey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Garrett Hongo, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Stonewall Jackson, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert E. Lee, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Washington Matthews, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, McKim, Randolph H., Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Molly Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Eugene O'Neill, Alfonso Ortiz, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Grace Paley, Arthur C. Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Wesley Powell, Anna Quindlen, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, William Safire, Ricardo Sanchez, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Darryl Babe Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Amy K. Duer, Richard Lederer, Christopher Columbus, Joni Mitchell, John Smith, Tom Wolfe, Steve Wulf, Abigail Adams, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bailey White, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Robert E. Lee, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, James Cloyd Bowman, Anonymous, Joel, Billy., Flannery Oconnor, Martin Espada and Garret Hongo

100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Donald Franson, Norman E. Hartman, Jack Ritchie, Charles E. Fritch, Phyllis Eisenstein, Fredric Brown, Robert Mattingly, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Zebrowski, Charles Sheffield, George H. Smith, Robert F. Decker, Harry Harrison, Richard Wilson, T. E. D. Klein, Richard K. Lyon, Arthur C. Clarke, Patricia Matthews, Alan Brennert, James Tiptree, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Bob Shaw, Walt Liebscher, Mack Reynolds, A. E. van Vogt, Paul Dellinger, Harlan Ellison, Henry Slesar, Ron Montana, Joanna Russ, Theodore Cogswell, Marcia Martin, Eric Vinicoff, Edward Bryant, Garen Drussaï, William F. Nolan, Helen M. Urban, Robert Silverberg, Alice Laurance, Robert Sheckley, Charles A. Spano Jr., Craig Strete, Rick Conley, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis R. Caro, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Payes, Fritz Leiber, Ray Russell, Roberta Ghidalia, Sherwood Springer, Joseph F. Patrouch, Roland J. Green, H. L. Gold, Jan Howard Finder, Ruth Berman, James E. Gunn, Philip José Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Arthur Tofte, F. M. Busby, Paul J. Nahin, James A. Stevens, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Juleen Brantingham, Maggie Nadler, Lester del Rey, Larry Niven and Edward Wellen

By James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James and Edith Wharton

By Ben Bova, H. G. Wells, Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, Jack Williamson, Others, Michael David Axtell, L J Ganser, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Boyett, Graham Halstead, Oliver Wyman, Kevin T. Collins, Cary Hite, Josh Hurley, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Clark, Roger and Fred Berman

By Kevin Feldman, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ama Ata Aidoo, Joan Aiken, Henry Alford, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Alan Axelrod, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, Gary Blackwood, Richard Brautigan, Rachel Carson, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Chiyojo, Wayson Choy, Sandra Cisneros, Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Guy de Maupassant, Jean de Sponde, Emily Dickinson, Lian Dolan, Arthur Conan Doyle, T. S. Eliot, Martín Espada, Felton, Harold W., Michael Frayn, Robert Frost, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamil, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, O. Henry, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, James Hurst, Janet Kay Jensen, Lady Bird Johnson, John Kilgo, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Adam Kirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Nelson Mandela, Scott McCloud, Elizabeth McCracken, John McPhee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Pat Mora, Edwin Muir, Saki, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Amy Ash Nixon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ovid, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Postman, Sally Ride, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean Smith, Gary Soto, William Stafford, May Swenson, Amy Tan, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Georges-G Toudouze, Mark Twain, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth and Kevin Feldman

By James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Esther Edwards, Taylor, Edward, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Buber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, James Wilson Pennington, Henry Timrod, Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Prudencio De Pereda, Carson McCullers, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Americo Paredes, E. B. White, George Santayana, Art Buchwald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, John Dos Passos, Edgar Lee Masters, Jesse Stuart, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, Luis Munoz Marin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Auden, Allen Tate, Kenneth Fearing, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Eberhart, Margaret Walker, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Davis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Stafford, Henry Dumas, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper and Victor Hernández Cruz

By Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Tennessee Williams, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Karl Jay Shapiro, Pearl S. Buck, Willa Cather, Robert Penn Warren, Amy Lowell, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, Jonathan Edwards, John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Morin Freneau, George Washington, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Sidney Lanier, Emily Dickinson, O. Henry, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Tom Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Stephen Vincent Benét, James Thurber, Irwin Shaw, Ray Bradbury, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Paul Engle, William Carlos Williams, John Crowe Ransom, E. E. Cummings, W. H. Auden, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Eberhart, Leonie Adams, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Countee Cullen, Archibald MacLeish, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Ernest Hemingway, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn and Brad Schulberg

By Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey, Abigail Adams, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Donald Barthelme, Ann Beattie, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Bishop, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mathew B. Brady, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro de Castenada, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Christopher Columbus, Aaron Copland, Stephen Crane, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Dos Passos, Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Bret Harte, Robert Hayden, H. D. , Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, Alfred J. Hitchcock, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, Washington Irving, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, Chief Joseph, Sidney Lanier, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Barry Lopez, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Cotton Mather, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent Millay, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, Frederick Remington, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, José García Villa, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Wolfe, James Wright, Richard Wright, Frances Earle, Truman Capote, James Fenimore Cooper, Countee Cullen, Elizabeth Enright, John Crowe Ransom, Thornton Wilder and Nathaniel Hawthorne

By James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden, Robert O'Neill, William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, Esther Edwards, Taylor, Edward, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Buber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, James Wilson Pennington, Henry Timrod, Abraham Lincoln, Sidney Lanier, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Prudencio De Pereda, Carson McCullers, Donald Barthelme, John Updike, Americo Paredes, E. B. White, George Santayana, Art Buchwald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, John Dos Passos, Edgar Lee Masters, Jesse Stuart, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, Luis Munoz Marin, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Elinor Wylie, W. H. Auden, Allen Tate, Kenneth Fearing, Robinson Jeffers, Richard Eberhart, Margaret Walker, Theodore Roethke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Howard Nemerov, James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Davis, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Stafford, Henry Dumas, Mona Van Duyn, Robert Creeley, Amiri Baraka, Michael Harper and Victor Hernández Cruz

By Kate Kinsella, Aesop, Joan Aiken, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, Bashō Matsuo, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Olivia E. Coolidge, Bill Cosby, Courlander, Harold, E. E. Cummings, Karen Cushman, Walter De la Mare, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Jacqueline Dineen, Jack Finney, Robert Frost, Ernesto Galarza, Chief Dan George, Nikki Giovanni, Reid Goldsborough, Alex Haley, Virginia Hamilton, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, James Herriot, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Jordan, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Krakauer, Maxine Kumin, William W. Lace, Don Lessem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Naomi Long Madgett, Eve Merriam, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pat Mora, Walter Dean Myers, Ogden Nash, Alfred Noyes, Charles Osgood, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Quindlen, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wendy Rose, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, Rod Serling, Robert Service, William Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Jay Smith, Gary Soto, James Stephens, Amy Tan, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Piri Thomas, James Thurber, Mark Twain, James Ramsey Ullman, Alice Walker, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Walt Whitman, Laurence Yep, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Edith Wharton, Jim Willard, Terry Willard and Jane Wilson

By W. H. Auden, Honoré de Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert, Edward Morgan Forster, Anatole France, André Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, Martin Andersen Nexø, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Ignazio Silone, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rabindranath Tagore, William Makepeace Thackeray, Лев Толстой, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Mark Twain, Miguel de Unamo, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats and Charles Neider

By Mark W. Smith

Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature

By Tiffany Farrell Larbalestier, John Smith, Robert Beverley, William Bradford, Winthrop, John, Anne Bradstreet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams - undifferentiated, Abigail Adams, Philip Morin Freneau, John Jay, Olaudah Equiano, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Washington Irving, William T. Sherman, John Dos Passos, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman, O'Sullivan, John L., Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Fitzhugh, Angelina Weld Grimké, John Greenleaf Whittier, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Louisa May Alcott, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Willa Cather, Bret Harte, Nat Love, Hamlin Garland, Black Elk, Rebecca Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, Hart Crane, Abraham Cahan, Carl Sandburg, Francis E. Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Steffens, Lincoln, Upton Sinclair, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Howard Crosby, Jose De Diego, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Clifford Odets, Meridel Le Sueur, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison, Genevieve Taggard, E. B. White, Leon Uris, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston, Countee Cullen, Martha Gellhorn, Elie Wiesel, John Hershey, Annie Dillard, Sloan Wilson, Jack Kerouac, Anne Moody, Arthur Miller, Tom Wolfe, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Judy Brady, Sandra Cisneros, Mary Crow Dog, Bob Dylan, David Halberstam, Tim O'Brien, Denise Levertov, Philip Roth and Robert Olen Butler

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Mark Twain, Arsen Darnay, Will Stanton, John Collier, Joan D. Vinge, Algis Budrys, William John Watkins, Anthony Boucher, R. A. Lafferty, Gerald Jonas, Arthur C. Clarke, Sharon Webb, Paul J. Nahin, Al Sarrantonio, Barry N. Malzberg, John Sladek, Murray Leinster, L. Sprague De Camp and John W. Campbell

By Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Jedediah Strong Smith, Harrison G. Rogers, Zenas Leonard, John C. Frémont, David Crockett, Grenville M. Dodge, Kit Carson, George Armstrong Custer, George Ward Nichols, J. W. Buel, Alfred H. Terry, Two Moons, Hamlin Garland, E. A. Carr, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, E. H. Allison, Ben C. Truman, Calamity Jane, Pat F. Garrett, Washington Irving, Richard Henry Dana, Jesse A. Applegate, Francis Parkman, Sutter, John Augustus, J. D. Borthwick, Horace Greeley, Mark Twain, J. Ross Browne, John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Emerson Hough and Charles Neider

By Mark W. Smith

By Mark W. Smith and Douglas Coker

By Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Aesop, Joan Aiken, Ai-Ling Louie, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, Bashō Matsuo, George Blecher, Alain Boubil, Ray Bradbury, Daniel Crump Buchanan, Inea Bushnaq, John Caird, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Olivia E. Coolidge, Bill Cosby, Courlander, Harold, E. E. Cummings, Karen Cushman, Jim Davis, Walter De la Mare, Charles Dickens, James Dickey, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Jacqueline Dineen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Essoyan, Jack Finney, Robert Frost, Ernesto Galarza, Chief Dan George, Nikki Giovanni, Reid Goldsborough, Alex Haley, Virginia Hamilton, Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, James Herriot, Edward D. Hoch, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Johnette Howard, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Barbara Jordan, Rudyard Kipling, Jon Krakauer, Herbert Kretzmer, Maxine Kumin, Charles Kuralt, William W. Lace, Gary Larson, Don Lessem, H. N. Levitt, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mary MacLeod, Jay Macpherson, Naomi Long Madgett, Mai Vo-Dinh, Hugh Masekela, Eve Merriam, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Minamoto No Sanetomo, Pat Mora, Walter Dean Myers, Myoe, Jean-Marc Natel, Ogden Nash, Alfred Noyes, Trevor Nunn, Naomi Shihab Nye, Mary Oliver, Mary O'Neill, Charles Osgood, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, Edgar Allan Poe, Anna Quindlen, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Paul Reiser, Wendy Rose, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, John Godfrey Saxe, Rod Serling, Robert Service, Blanche Serwer-Bernstein, Idries Shah, William Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Jay Smith, Gary Soto, James Stephens, John Strege, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Hernando Tellez, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Piri Thomas, James Thurber, Lone Thygesen-Blecher, Mark Twain, James Ramsey Ullman, Alice Walker, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, William Butler Yeats, Laurence Yep and Jane Yolen

By Pearson Education, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, Alex Haley, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Cosby, Alice Walker, Gary Soto, Anna Quindlen, William Saroyan, Joan Aiken, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mark Twain, Sandra Cisneros, James Thurber, Ray Bradbury, Alfred Noyes, Piri Thomas, Charles Osgood, James Herriot, Lucille Clifton, Zora Neale Hurston, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Cynthia Rylant, Laurence Yep, Walter Dean Myers, James Dickey, Annie Dillard, Chief Dan George, Barbara Jordan, Israel Horovitz, Robert Service, Edgar Allan Poe, Pat Mora, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Juliet Piggott, Virginia Hamilton, Anne Terry White, Josephine Peabody, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Walter De la Mare, Jack Finney, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eve Merriam, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Ramsey Ullman, Jon Krakauer, William Shakespeare, Seamus Heaney, Robert Frost, Geoffrey C. Ward, Thomas Hardy, Phillip M. Hoose, Naomi Shihab Nye, E. E. Cummings, Maxine Kumin, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Jane Yolen, Sherwood Anderson, Russell Baker, William W. Lace, Ernesto Galarza, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, James Stephens, Nikki Giovanni, William Jay Smith, Bashō Matsuo, Raymond R. Patterson, Carl Sandburg, Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett, Wendy Rose, Harold Courtlander, Aesop and Olivia E. Coolidge

By Barbara Brooks, Haruko Taya Cook, Theodore Cook, Mark Driscoll, Andrew Gordon, Janet Hunter, Ayako Kano, Sumiko Otsubo, Gregory Pflugfelder, Donald Roden, Barbara Hamill Sato, Shige Shigematsu, W. Donald Smith and Martha Tocco

By Otto Penzler, W. B. Seabrook, David A. Riley, Hugh B. Cave, Chet Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Lisa Tuttle, Karen Haber, Michael Marshall Smith, Vivian Meik, Guy de Maupassant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dale Bailey, Henry Kuttner, Edgar Allan Poe, Yvonne Navarro, Charles Birkin, Geoffrey A. Landis, Graham Masterton, Jack Darcy, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Kevin J. Anderson, Richard Laymon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Thorp McClusky, Mary A. Turzillo, Mort Castle, Henry S. Whitehead, Peter Berresford Ellis, Thomas Burke, Anthony Boucher, Gahan Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Seabury Quinn, Francis Marion Crawford, Ralston Shields, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, John H. Knox, Uel Key, Theodore Sturgeon, Day Keene, Kilworth, Garry, Edith Jacobson, Ejler Jacobson, Richard Matheson, Christian Matheson, Michael Swanwick, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert E. Howard, Scott Edelman, August Derleth, Mark Schorer, Stephen King, Arthur J Burks and Theodore Roscoe

By Mark W. Smith

By Mark W. Smith

By Mark W. Smith and Mark W. Smith