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1870's
70- Emerson, "Society and Solitude"
73- Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age
The Delineator (1873-1937)
76-Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer
76-Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Centennial Edition) -
1880's
80-Henry Adams, Democracy, An American Novel
81- Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
82-Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
82- Death of Emerson (b. 1809)
84- Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
86- Death of Emily Dickinson -
1890's
90- Dickinson, Poems
92- Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy, the most popular work by an African-American woman writer of the 19th century.
93- Stephen Crane emerges with the pseudonym Johnston Smith
94- Howells, A Traveler from Altruria (reflected utopian philosophy)
95- Crane, The Red Badge Of Courage; Black Riders
96- Birth of F. Scott Fitzgerald (d. 1940)
97- Richard Harding Davis, Soldiers of Fortune -
1900's
00- Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Age
02-Jack London, The Call of the Wild
03- Jack London, The Sea-Wolf
06- Jack London, White Fang
06- Mark Twain, What is Man?
06- Upton Sinclair, The Jungle -
1910's
10- Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
10- death of Mark Twain
12- Zane Grey, famous American novelist, Riders of the Purple Sage
12- Founding of Poetry magazine
13- Frost, A Boy's Will, published as a teenager in a local newspaper
15- T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
16- Deaths of Henry James (b. 1843), Jack London (b. 1876), and Richard Harding Davis (b. 1864)
16- Pulitzer Prize established. -
1920's
20- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Pulitzer Prize winner) and In Morocco
20-Ezra Pound, editor and friend of T.S. Eliot, publishes first work Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
21- James Joyce's Ulysses is published in Paris; 500 copies imported to America are seized by the U. S. Post Office as obscene material and burned.
22- F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Beautiful and Damned
22- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
25- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
