Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963)

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1. Van Wyck Brooks

   Author of The Flowering of New England, New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915, The Times of Melville and Whitman

2. Edmund Wilson

   Author of To the Finland Station, The American Earthquake, The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965

3. Henry Adams

   Author of The Education of Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The degradation of the democratic dogma

4. F. O. Matthiessen

   Author of American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, The James family, including selections from the writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry & Alice James, Henry James, the major phase

5. Bernard DeVoto

   Author of The Year of Decision 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, The Course of Empire

6. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

7. Alfred Kazin

   Author of On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature (Harvest Book), An American Procession, Contemporaries

8. Lytton Strachey

   Author of Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria

9. Catherine Drinker Bowen

   Author of Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family, John Adams and the American Revolution

10. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The Oxford History of the American People, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography

11. Henry David Thoreau

    Author of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

12. Frederick Jackson Turner

    Author of The Frontier in American History

13. Malcolm Cowley

    Author of Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s, A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation, The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s

14. Justin Kaplan

    Author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography, Lincoln Steffens; a biography

15. Frederick Lewis Allen

    Author of Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939, The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950

16. George Santayana

    Author of The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel, Persons and Places: The Background of My Life

17. Francis Parkman

    Author of The Oregon Trail

18. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of The Age of Jackson

19. Carlos Baker

    Author of Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Hemingway, the writer as artist

20. James Boswell

    Author of Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763