I have spent years reading Russian, French, Greek, Italian, and Roman authors. I need a break. Is there anything American that doesn't suck? I just finished In Cold Blood by Capote and am in the middle of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Anything besides the token Mark Twain reference?
I suppose at this point anything that wasn't translated will do fine.
2006-07-11 18:03:49 · 16 answers · asked by WelcomeHome 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Barbara Kingsolver, specifically Poisonwood Bible
Tim O'Brien
Ernest Hemingway
He's English, but there's always good old Shakespeare.
2006-07-11 18:11:41 · answer #1 · answered by Quiet Amusement 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would try reading some Ralph waldo emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, anything by The Beat Generation, Nathanial Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allen Poe, Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe etc...
2006-07-12 01:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Gemini23 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donna Tartt, Alexander Theroux, Lewis Gannett, Laura Argiri, John Kennedy Toole, Tabitha King.
2006-07-15 00:18:24 · answer #3 · answered by silver.graph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Steinbeck
2006-07-12 03:31:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recommend Larry McMurtry. The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment. Superb writer.
2006-07-12 01:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some of them
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
George Orwell
Jane Austen
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
2006-07-12 12:44:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Fenimore Cooper
Ernest Hemingway
Frank Herbert (Dune my favorite book)
Ray Bradbury (something wicked this way comes, the halloween tree are my favorites)
Anne Rice (the vampire lestat and interview with a vampire)
Edith Wharton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Penn Warren
2006-07-12 16:17:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cormac McCarthy
Donna Tartt
2006-07-12 01:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by G-Bear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sherwood Anderson
2006-07-12 01:07:19 · answer #9 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Janet Evanovich and John Katzenbach
2006-07-24 00:50:41 · answer #10 · answered by lucas l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋