Famous American Authors Author:Sarah K. Bolton This book contains thumbnail biographies of the following American authors: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Samuel L. Cl... more »emens, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, and Stephen Vincent Benet.« less