The American Experience

Abigail Adams is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work focuses on exploring American literary themes.

Edward Abbey wrote Desert Solitaire, a powerful look at the American West. He's known for his environmental writing and fiction that often explores the wild places of the desert.

Nance Davidson is the author of The American Experience, a book that examines the history and culture of the United States. She writes non-fiction focused on the social forces and events that have shaped the country.

Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio on the 13th of September, 1876. He attended school only intermittently, while helping to support his family by working as a newsboy, housepainter, stock handler, and stable groom. At the age of 17 he moved to Chicago where he worked as a warehouse laborer and attended business classes at night. During the Spanish-American war Anderson fought in Cuba and returned after the war to Ohio, for a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College, Springfield. A...

Wystan Hugh Auden [1] who signed his works W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,[2][3] born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.[4] His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content.[5][6] The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human b...