Americans 1950-99 Flashcards
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (1952)
E. B. White
Charlotte’s Web (1952)
Ray Bradbury
Farenheit 451 (1953)
Allen Ginsburg
Howl
Ayn Rand
Jack Kerouac
On The Road (1957)
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)
Joseph Heller
Catch 22 (1961)
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring (1962)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), Notes of A Native Son
Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958), In Cold Blood (1968)
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987)
Alice Walker
The Color Purple (1982)
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), American Pastoral (1997), The Human Stain (2000), The Plot Against America (2004)
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
John Updike
Rabbit, Run (1960) (3 others), The Witches of Eastwick
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian (1986), The Road (2006), All The Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men
Frank Herbert
Dune (1965)
John Kennedy Toole
Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Donna Tartt
The Secret History (1992), The Goldfinch
Saul Bellow
Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March
Don DeLillo
White Noise, Underworld