The Faber Book of America
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Malcolm X, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Faulkner, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Washington Irving, Rudyard Kipling, Damon Runyon, D.H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Herman Melville, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ogden Nash, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Alexis de Tocqueville, Matthew Arnold, Ezra Pound, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Jefferson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, Martin Luther King Jr., Christopher Ricks, Christopher Isherwood, Jack Kerouac, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Ruskin, H.L. Mencken, Booker T. Washington, Alistair Cooke, Walter Bagehot, Sojourner Truth, Jack Butler Yeats