Kenneth Fearing (1902–1961)

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1. Henry James

   Author of Henry James: Complete Stories 1898-1910 (Library of America), Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America), The Outcry (New York Review Books Classics)

2. Edith Wharton

   Author of Edith Wharton: Vol.2 Collected Stories 1911-1937 (Library of America), Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America), Edith Wharton: Selected Poems

3. Raymond Chandler

   Author of The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America)

4. Robert Polito

   Author of Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s

5. Vladimir Nabokov

   Author of Vladimir Nabokov : Novels and Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory (Libra, Nabokov: Novels, 1969-1974 (Library of America)

6. Georges Simenon

   Author of Dirty Snow, Monsieur Monde Vanishes, Tropic Moon

7. John Steinbeck

   Author of The Grapes of Wrath | The Harvest Gypsies | The Log from the Sea of Cortez | The Long Valley, In Dubious Battle | Of Mice and Men | The Pastures of Heaven | To a God Unknown | Tortilla Flat

8. Paul Frederic Bowles

   Author of The Sheltering Sky / Let It Come Down / The Spider's House, Collected Stories and Later Writings

9. Mark Twain

   Author of Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays: Volume 2, Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels: The Gilded Age / The American Claimant / Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detecti

10. Sinclair Lewis

    Author of Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America), Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth (Library of America #133)

11. Dashiell Hammett

    Author of The Glass Key, The Dain Curse, Crime Stories & Other Writings

12. Edgar Allan Poe

    Author of Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics

13. Charles Brockden Brown

    Author of Charles Brockden Brown : Three Gothic Novels : Wieland / Arthur Mervyn / Edgar Huntly (Library of America)

14. William Faulkner

    Author of William Faulkner: Novels, 1957-1962: The Town / The Mansion / The Reivers (Library of America)

15. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and

16. Dawn Powell

    Author of Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (Library of America)

17. Nathanael West

    Author of Nathanael West : Novels and Other Writings : The Dream Life of Balso Snell / Miss Lonelyhearts / A Cool Million / The Da

18. Charles W. Chesnutt

    Author of Charles W. Chesnutt Stories, Novels and Essays (Library of America)

19. Herman Melville

    Author of Herman Melville : Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Tales, Billy Budd (Library of America)

20. Washington Irving

    Author of Washington Irving: Three Western Narratives (Library of America)