James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

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1. James Fenimore Cooper

   Author of The Deerslayer, The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea, The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale

2. Henry James

   Author of The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, The Golden Bowl

3. Sir Walter Scott

   Author of Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, The Lady of the Lake: A Poem

4. Mark Twain

   Author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi

5. Charles Dickens

   Author of Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, Dombey and Son

6. Robert Louis Stevenson

   Author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae

7. Herman Melville

   Author of The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, Pierre, Or, The Ambiguities, Works of Herman Melville

8. Jack London

   Author of The Sea Wolf, South Sea Tales, Before Adam

9. Nathaniel Hawthorne

   Author of The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

10. Jules Verne

    Author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

11. Francis Parkman

    Author of The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada (Library of America), Francis Parkman : The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac (The Library of America)

12. Washington Irving

    Author of Tales of the Alhambra, History, Tales, and Sketches, Knickerbocker's History of New York

13. Rudyard Kipling

    Author of Kim, Just So Stories, The Light That Failed

14. Daniel Defoe

    Author of The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Captain Singleton

15. Alexandre Dumas

    Author of The Man in the Iron Mask, Twenty Years After, Works of Alexandre Dumas

16. William Faulkner

    Author of William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America), William Faulkner : Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (L, The sound and the fury & As I lay dying

17. Stephen Crane

    Author of The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane : Prose and Poetry : Maggie, A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journal, The Red Badge of Courage [adapted - Great Illustrated Classics]

18. Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks

19. Willa Cather

    Author of One of Ours, Willa Cather : Later Novels : A Lost Lady / The Professor's House / Death Comes for the Archbishop / Shadows on the Rock, Willa Cather: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings (Library of America)

20. Eugene O'Neill

    Author of Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1932-1943 (Library of America), Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1920-1931 (Library of America), Eugene O'Neill : Complete Plays 1913-1920 (Library of America)