Library of America

Library of America
Founded 1979
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location New York City
Distribution Penguin Random House Publisher Services[1]
Publication types Books
Official website www.loa.org

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published over 300 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip Roth, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, including the selected writings of several U.S. presidents.[2]

Overview and history

The Bibliothèque de la Pléiade ("La Pléiade") series published in France provided the model for the LOA, which was long a dream of critic and author Edmund Wilson.[3]

The initial organizers included American academic Daniel Aaron,[4] Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer, and Roger W. Straus, Jr.. The initial board of advisers included Robert Penn Warren, C. Vann Woodward, R. W. B. Lewis, Robert Coles, Irving Howe, and Eudora Welty. Officers included Richard Poirier, Jason Epstein, Daniel Aaron, and Cheryl Hurley.[3] As of 2017, Hurley remains president of the Library of America.[5][6]

The first volumes were published in 1982, ten years after Wilson's death.[3] Besides the works of many individual writers, the series includes anthologies like Reporting World War II and (in a different format from the above illustration) Writing Los Angeles.

The publisher aims to keep classics and notable historical and genre works in print permanently to preserve America's literary and cultural heritage. Although the LOA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually, the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet the costs of preparing, marketing, manufacturing, and maintaining its books. Some books published as additions to the series are not kept in print in perpetuity.

The Publisher of Library of America is Max Rudin; Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor-in-Chief; David Cloyce Smith is Director of Marketing.[5]

Research and scholarship

LOA volumes are prepared and edited by recognized scholars on the subject. Determined efforts are made to correct errors and omissions in previous editions and create a definitive version of the material. Notes on the text are normally included and the source texts properly identified.

For instance, the LOA text of Richard Wright's Native Son restored a number of passages that had been previously cut. The LOA commissioned a new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America by Arthur Goldhammer for their edition of the text.

Each volume also includes a chronology of the author's career or significant incidents in the case of the anthology volumes.

Build and manufacture

Each volume in the series is printed on (acid-free), thin, but durable paper (allowing books with a large number of pages to remain fairly compact). The paper meets the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute. The binding cloth is woven rayon. The books are Smyth-sewn for permanence and flexibility, and each includes a ribbon marker. Each volume has an identical trim size, based on the golden ratio, which the ancient Greeks considered to be the ideal proportion. Each volume contains 700 to 1,600 pages. The typeface used for each volume is Galliard.

The Library of America series

Main series

#AuthorTitleEditor(s)YearISBN
1Herman MelvilleTypee, Omoo, MardiG. Thomas Tanselle1982 978-0-940450-00-4
2Nathaniel HawthorneTales and SketchesRoy Harvey Pearce1982 978-0-940450-03-5
3Walt WhitmanPoetry and ProseJustin Kaplan1982 978-0-940450-02-8
4Harriet Beecher StoweThree NovelsKathryn Kish Sklar1982 978-0-940450-01-1
5Mark TwainMississippi WritingsGuy Cardwell1982 978-0-940450-07-3
6Jack LondonNovels and StoriesDonald Pizer1982 978-0-940450-05-9
7Jack LondonNovels and Social WritingsDonald Pizer1982 978-0-940450-06-6
8William Dean HowellsNovels 1875–1886Edwin M. Cady1982 978-0-940450-04-2
9Herman MelvilleRedburn, White-Jacket, Moby-DickG. Thomas Tanselle1983 978-0-940450-09-7
10Nathaniel HawthorneCollected NovelsMillicent Bell1983 978-0-940450-08-0
11Francis ParkmanFrance and England in North America, vol. 1David Levin1983 978-0-940450-10-3
12Francis ParkmanFrance and England in North America, vol. 2David Levin1983 978-0-940450-11-0
13Henry JamesNovels 1871–1880William T. Stafford1983 978-0-940450-13-4
14Henry AdamsNovels, Mont Saint Michel, The EducationErnest Samuels & & Jayne N. Samuels1983 978-0-940450-12-7
15Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays and LecturesJoel Porte1983 978-0-940450-15-8
16Washington IrvingHistory, Tales, and SketchesJames W. Tuttleton1983 978-0-940450-14-1
17Thomas JeffersonWritingsMerrill D. Peterson1984 978-0-940450-16-5
18Stephen CraneProse and PoetryJ. C. Levenson1984 978-0-940450-17-2
19Edgar Allan PoePoetry and TalesPatrick F. Quinn1984 978-0-940450-18-9
20Edgar Allan PoeEssays and ReviewsG. R. Thompson1984 978-0-940450-19-6
21Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad & Roughing ItGuy Cardwell1984 978-0-940450-25-7
22Henry JamesLiterary Criticism: Essays, American & English WritersLeon Edel & Mark Wilson1984 978-0-940450-22-6
23Henry JamesLiterary Criticism: European Writers & The PrefacesLeon Edel & Mark Wilson1984 978-0-940450-23-3
24Herman MelvillePierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales & Billy BuddHarrison Hayford1985 978-0-940450-24-0
25William FaulknerNovels 1930–1935: As I Lay Dying/Sanctuary/Light in August/PylonJoseph Blotner & Noel Polk1985 978-0-940450-26-4
26James Fenimore CooperThe Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 1Blake Nevius1985 978-0-940450-20-2
27James Fenimore CooperThe Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 2Blake Nevius1985 978-0-940450-21-9
28Henry David ThoreauA Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape CodRobert F. Sayre1985 978-0-940450-27-1
29Henry JamesNovels 1881–1886William T. Stafford1985 978-0-940450-30-1
30Edith WhartonNovelsR. W. B. Lewis1986 978-0-940450-31-8
31Henry AdamsHistory of the United States during the Administrations of JeffersonEarl N. Harbert1986 978-0-940450-34-9
32Henry AdamsHistory of the United States during the Administrations of MadisonEarl N. Harbert1986 978-0-940450-35-6
33Frank NorrisNovels and Essays: Vandover and the Brute/McTeague/The Octopus/EssaysDonald Pizer1986 978-0-940450-40-0
34W. E. B. Du BoisWritingsNathan I. Huggins1986 978-0-940450-33-2
35Willa CatherEarly Novels and StoriesSharon O'Brien1987 978-0-940450-39-4
36Theodore DreiserSister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve MenRichard Lehan1987 978-0-940450-41-7
37ABenjamin FranklinSilence Dogood, The Busy-Body, & Early WritingsJ. A. Leo Lemay1987
2005
978-1-931082-22-8
37BBenjamin FranklinAutobiography, Poor Richard, & Later WritingsJ. A. Leo Lemay1987
2005
978-1-883011-53-6
38William JamesWritings 1902–1910Bruce Kuklick1987 978-0-940450-38-7
39Flannery O'ConnorCollected WorksSally Fitzgerald1988 978-0-940450-37-0
40Eugene O'NeillComplete Plays 1913–1920Travis Bogard1988 978-0-940450-48-6
41Eugene O'NeillComplete Plays 1920–1931Travis Bogard1988 978-0-940450-49-3
42Eugene O'NeillComplete Plays 1932–1943Travis Bogard1988 978-0-940450-50-9
43Henry JamesNovels 1886–1890Daniel Mark Fogel1989 978-0-940450-56-1
44William Dean HowellsNovels 1886–1888Don L. Cook1989 978-0-940450-51-6
45Abraham LincolnSpeeches and Writings 1832–1858Don E. Fehrenbacher1989 978-0-940450-43-1
46Abraham LincolnSpeeches and Writings 1859–1865Don E. Fehrenbacher1989 978-0-940450-63-9
47Edith WhartonNovellas and Other WritingsCynthia Griffin Wolff1990 978-0-940450-53-0
48William FaulknerNovels 1936–1940: Absalom, Absalom!/The Unvanquished/If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem/The HamletJoseph Blotner & Noel Polk1990 978-0-940450-55-4
49Willa CatherLater NovelsSharon O'Brien1990 978-0-940450-52-3
50Ulysses S. GrantPersonal Memoirs and Selected LettersMary Drake McFeeley & William S. McFeeley1990 978-0-940450-58-5
51William Tecumseh ShermanMemoirsCharles Royster1990 978-0-940450-65-3
52Washington IrvingBracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The AlhambraAndrew Myers1991 978-0-940450-59-2
53Francis ParkmanThe Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of PontiacWilliam R. Taylor1991 978-0-940450-54-7
54James Fenimore CooperSea Tales, The Pilot, The Red RoverKay Seymour House & Thomas Philbrick1991 978-0-940450-70-7
55Richard WrightEarly Works: Black Boy (American Hunger) / The OutsiderArnold Rampersad1991 978-0-94045066-0
56Richard WrightLater Works: Lawd Today! / Uncle Tom's Children / Native SonArnold Rampersad1991 978-0-940450-67-7
57Willa CatherStories, Poems, and Other WritingsSharon O'Brien1991 978-0-940450-71-4
58William JamesWritings 1878–1899Gerald Myers1992 978-0-940450-72-1
59Sinclair LewisMain Street & BabbittJohn Hersey1992 978-0-940450-61-5
60Mark TwainCollected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1852–1890Louis J. Budd1992 978-0-940450-36-3
61Mark TwainCollected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891–1910Louis J. Budd1992 978-0-940450-73-8
62variousThe Debate on the Constitution: Part OneBernard Bailyn1993 978-0-940450-42-4
63variousThe Debate on the Constitution: Part TwoBernard Bailyn1993 978-0-940450-64-6
64Henry JamesCollected Travel Writings: Great Britain & AmericaRichard Howard1993 978-0-940450-76-9
65Henry JamesCollected Travel Writings: The ContinentRichard Howard1993 978-0-940450-77-6
66variousAmerican Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1John Hollander1993 978-0-940450-60-8
67variousAmerican Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2John Hollander1993 978-0-940450-78-3
68Frederick DouglassAutobiographyHenry Louis Gates, Jr.1994 978-0-940450-79-0
69Sarah Orne JewettNovels and StoriesMichael Davitt Bell1994 978-0-940450-74-5
70Ralph Waldo EmersonCollected Poems and TranslationsHarold Bloom & Paul Kane1994 978-0-940450-28-8
71Mark TwainHistorical RomancesSusan K. Harris1994 978-0-940450-82-0
72John SteinbeckNovels and Stories, 1932–1937: The Pastures of Heaven/To a God Unknown/Tortilla Flat/In Dubious Battle/Of Mice and MenRobert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck1994 978-1-883011-01-7
73William FaulknerNovels 1942–1954: Go Down, Moses/Intruder in the Dust/Requiem for a Nun/A FableJoseph Blotner & Noel Polk1994 978-0-940450-85-1
74Zora Neale HurstonNovels and StoriesCheryl A. Wall1995 978-0-940450-83-7
75Zora Neale HurstonFolklore, Memoirs, and Other WritingsCheryl A. Wall1995 978-0-940450-84-4
76Thomas PaineCollected WritingsEric Foner1995 978-1-883011-03-1
77variousReporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944Advisory Board: Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et al.1995 978-1-883011-04-8
78variousReporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946Advisory Board: Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et al.1995 978-1-883011-05-5
79Raymond ChandlerStories and Early NovelsFrank MacShane1995 978-1-883011-07-9
80Raymond ChandlerLater Novels and Other WritingsFrank MacShane1995 978-1-883011-08-6
81Robert FrostCollected Poems, Prose & PlaysRichard Poirier & Mark Richardson1995 978-1-883011-06-2
82Henry JamesComplete Stories 1892–1898John Hollander, David Bromwich, Denis Donoghue1996 978-1-883011-09-3
83Henry JamesComplete Stories 1898–1910John Hollander, David Bromwich, Denis Donoghue1996 978-1-883011-10-9
84William BartramTravels and Other WritingsThomas Slaughter1996 978-1-883011-11-6
85John Dos PassosU.S.A.Townsend Ludington & Daniel Aaron1996 978-1-883011-14-7
86John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936–1941: The Grapes of Wrath/The Harvest Gypsies/The Long Valley/The Log from the Sea of CortezRobert DeMott & Elaine A. Steinbeck1996 978-1-883011-15-4
87Vladimir NabokovNovels and Memoirs 1943–1951Brian Boyd1996 978-1-883011-18-5
88Vladimir NabokovNovels 1955–1962Brian Boyd1996 978-1-883011-19-2
89Vladimir NabokovNovels 1969–1974Brian Boyd1996 978-1-883011-20-8
90James ThurberWritings and DrawingsGarrison Keillor1996 978-1-883011-22-2
91George WashingtonWritingsJohn Rhodehamel1997 978-1-883011-23-9
92John MuirNature WritingsWilliam Cronon1997 978-1-883011-24-6
93Nathanael WestNovels and Other WritingsSacvan Bercovitch1997 978-1-883011-28-4
94variousCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40sRobert Polito1997 978-1-883011-46-8
95variousCrime Novels: American Noir of the 1950sRobert Polito1997 978-1-883011-49-9
96Wallace StevensCollected Poetry and ProseFrank Kermode & Joan Richardson1997 978-1-883011-45-1
97James BaldwinEarly Novels and StoriesToni Morrison1998 978-1-883011-51-2
98James BaldwinCollected EssaysToni Morrison1998 978-1-883011-52-9
99Gertrude SteinWritings 1903–1932Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson1998 978-1-883011-40-6
100Gertrude SteinWritings 1932–1946Harriet Chessman & Catharine R. Stimpson1998 978-1-883011-41-3
101Eudora WeltyComplete NovelsRichard Ford & Michael Kreyling1998 978-1-883011-54-3
102Eudora WeltyStories, Essays, & MemoirRichard Ford & Michael Kreyling1998 978-1-883011-55-0
103Charles Brockden BrownThree Gothic NovelsSydney J. Krause1998 978-1-883011-57-4
104variousReporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959–1969Advisory board: Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et al.1998 978-1-883011-58-1
105variousReporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975Advisory board: Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et al.1998 978-1-883011-59-8
106Henry JamesComplete Stories 1874–1884William Vance1999 978-1-883011-63-5
107Henry JamesComplete Stories 1884–1891Edward Said1999 978-1-883011-64-2
108variousAmerican Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr.Michael Warner1999 978-1-883011-65-9
109James MadisonWritingsJack N. Rakove1999 978-1-883011-66-6
110Dashiell HammettComplete NovelsSteven Marcus1999 978-1-883011-67-3
111Henry JamesComplete Stories 1864–1874Jean Strouse1999 978-1-883011-70-3
112William FaulknerNovels 1957–1962: The Town/The Mansion/The ReiversNoel Polk (notes by Joseph Blotner)1999 978-1-883011-69-7
113John James AudubonWritings & DrawingsChristoph Irmscher1999 978-1-883011-68-0
114variousSlave NarrativesWilliam L. Andrews & Henry Louis Gates, Jr.2000 978-1-883011-76-5
115variousAmerican Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 1Advisory board: Robert Hass, John Hollander, et al.2000 978-1-883011-77-2
116variousAmerican Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 2Advisory board: Robert Hass, John Hollander, et al.2000 978-1-883011-78-9
117F. Scott FitzgeraldNovels and Stories 1920–1922Jackson R. Bryer2000 978-1-883011-84-0
118Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPoems and Other WritingsJ.D. McClatchy2000 978-1-883011-85-7
119Tennessee WilliamsPlays 1937–1955Mel Gussow & Kenneth Holditch2000 978-1-883011-86-4
120Tennessee WilliamsPlays 1957–1980Mel Gussow & Kenneth Holditch2000 978-1-883011-87-1
121Edith WhartonCollected Stories 1891–1910Maureen Howard2001 978-1-883011-93-2
122Edith WhartonCollected Stories 1911–1937Maureen Howard2001 978-1-883011-94-9
123variousThe American Revolution: Writings from the War of IndependenceJohn Rhodehamel2001 978-1-883011-91-8
124Henry David ThoreauCollected Essays and PoemsElizabeth Hall Witherell2001 978-1-883011-95-6
125Dashiell HammettCrime Stories and Other WritingsSteven Marcus2001 978-1-931082-00-6
126Dawn PowellNovels 1930–1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento/ Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to Be BornTim Page2001 978-1-931082-01-3
127Dawn PowellNovels 1944–1962: My Home Is Far Away/The Locusts Have No King/The Wicked Pavilion/The Golden SpurTim Page2001 978-1-931082-02-0
128Carson McCullersComplete NovelsCarlos Dews2001 978-1-931082-03-7
129Alexander HamiltonWritingsJoanne B. Freeman2001 978-1-931082-04-4
130Mark TwainThe Gilded Age and Later NovelsHamlin L. Hill2002 978-1-931082-10-5
131Charles W. ChesnuttStories, Novels, and EssaysWerner Sollors2002 978-1-931082-06-8
132John SteinbeckNovels, 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down/Cannery Row/The Pearl/East of EdenRobert DeMott2002 978-1-931082-07-5
133Sinclair LewisArrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, DodsworthRichard Lingeman2002 978-1-931082-08-2
134Paul BowlesThe Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's HouseDaniel Halpern2002 978-1-931082-19-8
135Paul BowlesComplete Stories & Later WritingsDaniel Halpern2002 978-1-931082-20-4
136Kate ChopinComplete Novels & StoriesSandra M. Gilbert2002 978-1-931082-21-1
137variousReporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941–1963Advisory board: Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove2003 978-1-931082-28-0
138variousReporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963–1973Advisory board: Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove2003 978-1-931082-29-7
139Henry JamesNovels 1896–1899Myra Jehlen2003 978-1-931082-30-3
140Theodore DreiserAn American TragedyThomas P. Riggio2003 978-1-931082-31-0
141Saul BellowNovels 1944–1953James Wood2003 978-1-931082-38-9
142John Dos PassosNovels 1920–1925Townsend Ludington2003 978-1-931082-39-6
143John Dos PassosTravel Books and Other WritingsTownsend Ludington2003 978-1-931082-40-2
144Ezra PoundPoems and TranslationsRichard Sieburth2003 978-1-931082-41-9
145James Weldon JohnsonWritingsWilliam L. Andrews2004 978-1-931082-52-5
146Washington IrvingThree Western NarrativesJames P. Ronda2004 978-1-931082-53-2
147Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in AmericaOlivier Zunz2004 978-1-931082-54-9
148James T. FarrellStuds Lonigan: A TrilogyPete Hamill2004 978-1-931082-55-6
149Isaac Bashevis SingerStories Vol. 1Ilan Stavans2004 978-1-931082-61-7
150Isaac Bashevis SingerStories Vol. 2Ilan Stavans2004 978-1-931082-62-4
151Isaac Bashevis SingerStories Vol. 3Ilan Stavans2004 978-1-931082-63-1
152George Kaufman & Co.Broadway ComediesLaurence Maslon2004 978-1-931082-67-9
153Theodore RooseveltThe Rough Riders and an AutobiographyLouis Auchincloss2004 978-1-931082-65-5
154Theodore RooseveltLetters and SpeechesLouis Auchincloss2004 978-1-931082-66-2
155H. P. LovecraftTalesPeter Straub2005 978-1-931082-72-3
156Louisa May AlcottLittle Women, Little Men, Jo's BoysElaine Showalter2005 978-1-931082-73-0
157Philip RothNovels and Stories 1959–1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories/Letting GoRoss Miller2005 978-1-931082-79-2
158Philip RothNovels 1967–1972: When She Was Good/Portnoy's Complaint/Our Gang/The BreastRoss Miller2005 978-1-931082-80-8
159James AgeeLet Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter FictionMichael Sragow2005 978-1-931082-81-5
160James AgeeFilm Writing and Selected JournalismMichael Sragow2005 978-1-931082-82-2
161Richard Henry Dana, Jr.Two Years Before the Mast & Other VoyagesThomas Philbrick2005 978-1-931082-83-9
162Henry JamesNovels 1901–1902Leo Bersani2006 978-1-931082-88-4
163Arthur MillerCollected Plays 1944–1961Tony Kushner2006 978-1-931082-91-4
164William FaulknerNovels 1926–1929: Soldiers' Pay/Mosquitoes/Flags in the Dust/The Sound and the FuryJoseph Blotner & Noel Polk2006 978-1-931082-89-1
165Philip RothNovels 1973–1977: The Great American Novel/My Life as a Man/The Professor of DesireRoss Miller2006 978-1-931082-96-9
166variousAmerican Speeches: Revolution to Civil WarTed Widmer2006 978-1-931082-97-6
167variousAmerican Speeches: Lincoln to ClintonTed Widmer2006 978-1-931082-98-3
168Hart CraneComplete Poems and Selected LettersLangdon Hammer2006 978-1-931082-99-0
169Saul BellowNovels 1956–1964James Wood2007 978-1-59853-002-5
170John SteinbeckTravels with Charlie and Later Novels, 1947–1962: The Wayward Bus/Burning Bright/Sweet Thursday/The Winter of Our Discontent/Travels with Charlie in Search of AmericaRobert DeMott & Brian Railsback2007 978-1-59853-004-9
171Captain John SmithWritings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the English Settlement of AmericaJames Horn2007 978-1-59853-001-8
172Thornton WilderCollected Plays and Writings on TheaterJ. D. McClatchy2007 978-1-59853-003-2
173Philip K. DickFour Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle/The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Ubik Jonathan Lethem2007 978-1-59853-009-4
174Jack KerouacRoad Novels: 1957–1960Douglas Brinkley2007 978-1-59853-012-4
175Philip RothZuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue; Novels 1979–1985: The Ghost Writer/Zuckerman Unbound/The Anatomy Lesson/The Prague OrgyRoss Miller2007 978-1-59853-011-7
176Edmund WilsonLiterary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected ReviewsLewis M. Dabney2007 978-1-59853-013-1
177Edmund WilsonLiterary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected ReviewsLewis M. Dabney2007 978-1-59853-014-8
178variousAmerican Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesDavid S. Shields2007 978-1-931082-90-7
179William MaxwellEarly Novels and Stories: Bright Center of Heaven / They Came Like Swallows / The Folded Leaf / Time Will Darken It / Stories 1938–1956Christopher Carduff2008 978-1-59853-026-1
180Elizabeth BishopPoems, Prose and LettersRobert Giroux & Lloyd Schwartz2008 978-1-59853-017-9
181A. J. LieblingWorld War II Writings: The Road Back to Paris /Mollie and Other War Pieces / Uncollected War Journalism / Normandy RevisitedPete Hamill2008 978-1-59853-040-7
182variousAmerican Earth: Environmental Writing Since ThoreauBill McKibben (foreword by Al Gore)2008 978-1-59853-020-9
183Philip K. DickFive Novels of the 1960s and 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner DarklyJonathan Lethem2008 978-1-59853-025-4
184William MaxwellLater Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow / Stories and Improvisations 1957–1999Christopher Carduff2008 978-1-59853-026-1
185Philip RothNovels and Other Narratives 1986 - 1991: The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / PatrimonyRoss Miller2008 978-1-59853-030-8
186Katherine Anne PorterCollected Stories and Other WritingsDarlene Harbour Unrue2008 978-1-59853-029-2
187John AshberyCollected Poems 1956–1987Mark Ford2008 978-1-59853-028-5
188John CheeverCollected Stories and Other WritingsBlake Bailey2009 978-1-59853-034-6
189John CheeverComplete NovelsBlake Bailey2009 978-1-59853-035-3
190Lafcadio HearnAmerican Writings: Some Chinese Ghosts / Chita / Two Years in the French West Indies / Youma / Selected Journalism and LettersChristopher Benfey2009 978-1-59853-039-1
191A. J. LieblingThe Sweet Science and Other WritingsPete Hamill2009 978-1-59853-040-7
192variousThe Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to NowHarold Holzer2009 978-1-59853-033-9
193Philip K. DickVALIS and Later NovelsJonathan Lethem2009 978-1-59853-044-5
194Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other NovelsJ. D. McClatchy2009 978-1-59853-045-2
195Raymond CarverCollected StoriesWilliam L. Stull & Maureen P. Carroll2009 978-1-59853-046-9
196variousAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the PulpsPeter Straub2009 978-1-59853-047-6
197variousAmerican Fantastic Tales: 1940s to NowPeter Straub2009 978-1-59853-048-3
198John MarshallWritingsCharles F. Hobson2010 978-1-59853-064-3
199variousThe Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and WorksShelley Fisher Fishkin2010 978-1-59853-065-0
200Mark TwainA Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other TravelsRoy Blount, Jr.2010 978-1-59853-066-7
201Ralph Waldo EmersonSelected Journals 1820–1842Lawrence Rosenwald2010 978-1-59853-067-4
202Ralph Waldo EmersonSelected Journals 1841–1877Lawrence Rosenwald2010 978-1-59853-068-1
203variousThe American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony KushnerLaurence Senelick2010 978-1-59853-069-8
204Philip RothNovels 1993-1995: Operation Shylock / Sabbath's TheaterRoss Miller2010 978-1-59853-078-0
205Shirley JacksonNovels and StoriesJoyce Carol Oates2010 978-1-59853-072-8
206Henry Louis MenckenPrejudices: First, Second, and Third SeriesMarion Elizabeth Rodgers2010 978-1-59853-076-6
207Henry Louis MenckenPrejudices: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth SeriesMarion Elizabeth Rodgers2010 978-1-59853-076-6
208John Kenneth GalbraithThe Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967James K. Galbraith2010 978-1-59853-077-3
209Saul BellowNovels 1970-1982: Mr. Sammler's Planet / Humboldt's Gift / The Dean's DecemberJames Wood2010 978-1-59853-079-7
210Lynd WardGods' Man, Madman's Drum, Wild PilgrimageArt Spiegelman2010 978-1-59853-082-7
211Lynd WardPrelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, VertigoArt Spiegelman2010 978-1-59853-082-7
212variousThe Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived ItBrooks D. Simpson2011 978-1-59853-088-9
213John AdamsRevolutionary Writings 1755-1775Gordon S. Wood2011 978-1-59853-089-6
214John AdamsRevolutionary Writings 1775-1783Gordon S. Wood2011 978-1-59853-090-2
215Henry JamesNovels 1903-1911Ross Posnock2011 978-1-59853-091-9
216Kurt VonnegutNovels and Stories 1963–1973Sidney Offit2011 978-1-59853-098-8
217variousHarlem Renaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1920sRafia Zafar2011 978-1-59853-099-5
218variousHarlem Renaissance Novels: Five Novels of the 1930sRafia Zafar2011 978-1-59853-101-5
219Ambrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & MemoirsS. T. Joshi2011 978-1-59853-102-2
220Philip RothThe American Trilogy 1997–2000Ross Miller2011 978-1-59853-103-9
221variousThe Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived ItStephen W. Sears2012 978-1-59853-144-2
222Barbara TuchmanThe Guns of August, The Proud TowerMargaret MacMillan2012 978-1-59853-145-9
223Arthur MillerCollected Plays 1964–1982Tony Kushner2012 978-1-59853-147-3
224Thornton WilderThe Eighth Day, Theophilus North, & Autobiographical WritingsJ. D. McClatchy2012 978-1-59853-146-6
225David GoodisFive Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50sRobert Polito2012 978-1-59853-148-0
226Kurt VonnegutNovels & Stories 1950–1962Sidney Offit2012 978-1-59853-150-3
227variousAmerican Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s Volume 1: 1953–1956Gary K. Wolfe2012 978-1-59853-158-9
228variousAmerican Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s Volume 2: 1956–1958Gary K. Wolfe2012 978-1-59853-159-6
229Laura Ingalls WilderThe Little House Books Volume 1Caroline Fraser2012 978-1-59853-160-2
230Laura Ingalls WilderThe Little House Books Volume 2Caroline Fraser2012 978-1-59853-161-9
231Jack KerouacCollected PoemsMarilène Phipps-Kettlewell2012 978-1-59853-193-0
232variousThe War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second War of IndependenceDonald R. Hickey2013 978-1-59853-195-4
233variousAmerican Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to EmancipationJames G. Basker2012 978-1-59853-196-1
234variousThe Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived ItStephen W. Sears2013 978-1-59853-197-8
235Sherwood AndersonCollected StoriesCharles Baxter2013 978-1-59853-204-3
236Philip RothNovels 2001–2007: The Dying Animal/The Plot Against America/Exit GhostRoss Miller2013 978-1-59853-198-5
237Philip RothNemeses: Everyman/Indignation/The Humbling/NemesisRoss Miller2013 978-1-59853-199-2
238Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and EcologyCurt Meine2013 978-1-59853-206-7
239May SwensonCollected PoemsLangdon Hammer2013 978-1-59853-210-4
240W. S. MerwinCollected Poems 1953–1993J. D. McClatchy2013 978-1-59853-208-1
241W. S. MerwinCollected Poems 1996–2013J. D. McClatchy2013 978-1-59853-209-8
242John UpdikeCollected Early StoriesChristopher Carduff2013 978-1-59853-251-7
243John UpdikeCollected Later StoriesChristopher Carduff2013 978-1-59853-252-4
244Ring LardnerStories & Other WritingsIan Frazier2013 978-1-59853-253-1
245Jonathan EdwardsWritings from the Great AwakeningPhilip F. Gura2013 978-1-59853-254-8
246Susan SontagEssays of the 1960s & 70sDavid Rieff2013 978-1-59853-255-5
247William Wells BrownClotel & Other WritingsEzra Greenspan2014 978-1-59853-291-3
248Bernard MalamudNovels and Stories of the 1940s & 50sPhilip Davis2014 978-1-59853-292-0
249Bernard MalamudNovels and Stories of the 1960sPhilip Davis2014 978-1-59853-293-7
250variousThe Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived ItAaron Sheehan-Dean2014 978-1-59853-294-4
251variousShakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to NowJames Shapiro2014 978-1-59853-295-1
252Kurt VonnegutNovels 1976–1985Sidney Offit2014 978-1-59853-304-0
253variousAmerican Musicals: Volume 1: 1927–1949Laurence Maslon2014 978-1-59853-258-6
254variousAmerican Musicals: Volume 2: 1950–1969Laurence Maslon2014 978-1-59853-259-3
255Elmore LeonardFour Novels of the 1970sGregg Sutter2014 978-1-59853-305-7
256Louisa May AlcottWork, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Stories & Other WritingsSusan Cheever2014 978-1-59853-306-4
257H. L. MenckenThe Days Trilogy, Expanded EditionMarion Elizabeth Rodgers2014 978-1-59853-308-8
258Virgil ThomsonMusic Chronicles 1940–1954Tim Page2014 978-1-59853-309-5
259variousArt in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and MinimalismJed Perl2014 978-1-59853-310-1
260Saul BellowNovels 1984–2000James Wood2015 978-1-59853-352-1
261Arthur MillerCollected Plays 1987–2004Tony Kushner2015 978-1-59853-353-8
262Jack KerouacVisions of Cody, Visions of Gerard, Big SurTodd Tietchen2015 978-1-59853-374-3
263Reinhold NiebuhrMajor Works on Religion and PoliticsElisabeth Sifton2015 978-1-59853-375-0
264Ross MacdonaldFour Crime Novels of the 1950sTom Nolan2015 978-1-59853-376-7
265variousThe American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764–1772Gordon S. Wood2015 978-1-59853-377-4
266variousThe American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1773–1776Gordon S. Wood2015 978-1-59853-378-1
267Elmore LeonardFour Novels of the 1980sGregg Sutter2015 978-1-59853-412-2
268variousWomen Crime Writers: Volume 1: The 1940sSarah Weinman2015 978-1-59853-430-6
269variousWomen Crime Writers: Volume 2: The 1950sSarah Weinman2015 978-1-59853-431-3
270Frederick Law OlmstedWritings on Landscape, Culture, and SocietyCharles Beveridge2015 978-1-59853-452-8
271Edith WhartonFour Novels of the 1920sHermione Lee2015 978-1-59853-453-5
272James BaldwinLater NovelsDarryl Pinckney2015 978-1-59853-454-2
273Kurt VonnegutNovels 1987–1997Sidney Offit2016 978-1-59853-464-1
274Henry JamesAutobiographiesPhilip Horne2016 978-1-59853-471-9
275Abigail AdamsLettersEdith Gelles2016 978-159853-465-8
276John AdamsWritings from the New Nation 1784–1826Gordon S. Wood2016 978-159853-466-5
277Virgil ThomsonThe State of Music & Other WritingsTim Page2016 978-159853-467-2
278variousWar No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace WritingLawrence Rosenwald2016 978-1-59853-473-3
279Ross MacdonaldThree Novels of the Early 1960sTom Nolan2016 978-159853-479-5
280Elmore LeonardFour Later NovelsGregg Sutter2016 978-1-59853-492-4
281Ursula K. Le GuinThe Complete OrsiniaBrian Attebery2016 978-1-59853-493-1
282John O'HaraStoriesCharles McGrath2016 978-1-59853-497-9
283Jack KerouacThe Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated WritingsTodd Tietchen2016 978-1-59853-498-6
284Albert MurrayCollected Essays & MemoirsPaul Devlin & Henry Louis Gates Jr.2016 978-1-59853-503-7
285Loren EiseleyCollected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: Volume OneWilliam Cronon2016 978-1-59853-506-8
286Loren EiseleyCollected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos: Volume TwoWilliam Cronon2016 978-1-59853-507-5
287Carson McCullersStories, Plays & Other WritingsCarlos Dews2017 978-1-59853-511-2
288Jane BowlesCollected WritingsMillicent Dillon2017 978-1-59853-513-6
289variousWorld War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived ItA. Scott Berg2017 978-1-59853-514-3
290Mary McCarthyNovels and Stories 1942–1963Thomas Mallon2017 978-1-59853-516-7
291Mary McCarthyNovels 1963–1979Thomas Mallon2017 978-1-59853-517-4
292Susan SontagLater EssaysDavid Rieff2017 978-1-59853-519-8
293John Quincy AdamsDiaries 1779–1821David Waldstreicher2017 978-1-59853-520-4
294John Quincy AdamsDiaries 1824–1848David Waldstreicher2017 978-1-59853-522-8
295Ross MacdonaldFour Later NovelsTom Nolan2017 978-1-59853-534-1
296Ursula K. Le GuinHainish Novels & Stories, Volume OneBrian Attebery2017 978-1-59853-538-9
297Ursula K. Le GuinHainish Novels & Stories, Volume TwoBrian Attebery2017 978-1-59853-539-6
298Peter TaylorComplete Stories 1938-1959Ann Beattie2017 978-1-59853-542-6
299Peter TaylorComplete Stories 1960-1992Ann Beattie2017 978-1-59853-543-3
300Philip RothWhy Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-20132017 978-1-59853-540-2
301John AshberyComplete Poems 1991‒2000Mark Ford2017 978-1-59853-535-8
302Wendell BerryPort William Novels & Stories (The Civil War to World War II)Jack Shoemaker2018 978-1-59853-554-9
303variousReconstruction: Voices from America's First Great Struggle for Racial EqualityBrooks D. Simpson2018 978-1-59853-555-6
304Albert MurrayCollected Novels & PoemsPaul Devlin & Henry Louis Gates Jr.2018 978-1-59853-561-7
305Norman MailerFour Books of the 1960s: An American Dream/Why Are We in Vietnam?/The Armies of the Night/Miami and the Siege of ChicagoJ. Michael Lennon2018 978-1-59853-558-7
306Norman MailerCollected Essays of the 1960sJ. Michael Lennon2018 978-1-59853-559-4
307Rachel CarsonSilent Spring & Other Writings on the EnvironmentSandra Steingraber2018 978-1-59853-560-0
308Elmore LeonardWesterns: Last Stand at Saber River/Hombre/Valdez is Coming/Forty Lashes Less One/StoriesTerrence Rafferty2018 978-1-59853-562-4
310Madeleine L'EngleThe Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time/A Wind in the Door/A Swiftly Tilting Planet/Many WatersLeonard S. Marcus2018 978-1-59853-578-5
310Madeleine L'EngleThe Polly O'Keefe Quartet: The Arm of the Starfish/Dragons in the Waters/A House Like a Lotus/An Acceptable TimeLeonard S. Marcus2018 978-1-59853-579-2
311John UpdikeNovels 1959-1965: The Poorhouse Fair/Rabbit, Run/The Centaur/Of the FarmChristopher Carduff2018 978-1-59853-581-5
312James Fenimore CooperTwo Novels of the American Revolution: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground/Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of BostonAlan Taylor2018 978-1-59853-582-2
313John O'HaraFour Novels of the 1930s: Appointment in Samarra/Butterfield 8/Hope of Heaven/Pal JoeySteven Goldleaf2019 978-1-59853-600-3

Special anthologies

  • Writing New York (Phillip Lopate, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-62-8
  • American Sea Writing (Peter Neill, ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-83-3
  • Baseball (Nicholas Dawidoff, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-09-9
  • Writing Los Angeles (David L. Ulin, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-27-3
  • Americans in Paris (Adam Gopnik, ed. 2004) ISBN 1-931082-56-1
  • American Writers at Home (J.D. McClatchy, author, Erica Lennar, photographer 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-75-4
  • American Movie Critics (Phillip Lopate, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-92-1
  • American Religious Poems (Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, eds., 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-74-7
  • American Food Writing (Molly O'Neill, ed., 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-005-6; (paperback, 2009) ISBN 1-59853-041-0
  • True Crime: An American Anthology (Harold Schechter, ed., 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-031-5
  • Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Ilan Stavans, ed., 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-051-3
  • At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing (George Kimball and John Schulian, eds., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-092-6
  • Into the Blue: American Writers on Aviation and Spaceflight (Joseph J. Corn ed., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-108-4
  • The 50 Funniest American Writers* (*according to Andy Borowitz): A Humor Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion (Andy Borowitz ed., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-107-7
  • The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground (Glenn O'Brien ed., 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-256-2
  • Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z (Kevin Dettmar and Jonathan Lethem, eds., 2017) ISBN 978-1-59853-531-0

American poets project

  • James Agee: Selected Poems (Andrew Hudgins, editor 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-032-2
  • American Sonnets (David Bromwich, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-015-5
  • American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (John Hollander, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-49-5
  • A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems (David Lehman, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-93-8
  • John Berryman: Selected Poems (Kevin Young, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-69-3
  • The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (Elizabeth Alexander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-87-7
  • Countee Cullen: Collected Poems (Major Jackson, editor 2013 ) ISBN 978-1-59853-083-4
  • Stephen Crane: Complete Poems (Christopher Benfey, editor 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-093-3
  • Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems (Robert Polito, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-57-0
  • Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs (Ken Emerson, editor 2010) ISBN 978-1-59853-070-4
  • Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics (Robert Kimball, editor 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-052-0
  • Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems (Ron Padgett, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-006-3
  • Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems (John Hollander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-77-8
  • Amy Lowell: Selected Poems (Honor Moore, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-70-9
  • Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems (Christopher Ricks, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-85-3
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (J. D. McClatchy, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-35-8
  • Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics (Richard Wilbur, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-51-8
  • Poems from the Women's Movement (Honor Moore, editor 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-042-1
  • Poets of the Civil War (J. D. McClatchy, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-76-1
  • Poets of World War II (Harvey Shapiro, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-33-4
  • Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics (Robert Kimball, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-94-5
  • Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems (Edward Hirsch, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-78-5
  • Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems (Adrienne Rich, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-58-7
  • Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (Paul Berman, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-100-8
  • Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems (Andrew Motion, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-018-6
  • Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems (John Updike, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-34-1
  • Edith Wharton: Selected Poems (Louis Auchincloss, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-86-0
  • Walt Whitman: Selected Poems (Harold Bloom, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-32-7
  • John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems (Brenda Wineapple, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-59-4
  • William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems (Robert Pinsky, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-71-6
  • Yvor Winters: Selected Poems (Thom Gunn, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-50-1
  • Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (Charles Bernstein, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-95-2

Special publications

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album (Ilan Stavans, editor, 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-64-8
  • Manny Farber, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (Robert Polito, editor, 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-050-6
  • John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams (2010) ISBN 978-1-59853-071-1
  • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (Sanford Schwartz, editor, 2011) 978-1-59853-109-1
  • Joe Brainard, The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Ron Padgett, ed., 2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-149-7
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-165-7
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (2012) ISBN 978-1-59853-164-0
  • Red Smith, American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (Daniel Okrent, ed., 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-217-3
  • Football: Great Writing about the National Sport (John Schulian, editor, 2014) ISBN 978-1-59853-307-1

Notes and references

  1. Current clients
  2. David Skinner (September 2015). "Edmund Wilson's Big Idea: A Series of Books Devoted to Classic American Writing. It Almost Didn't Happen". Humanities. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Gray, Paul (1982-05-03), "Books: A Library in the Hands", Time
  4. Cromie, William J., Ken Gewertz, Corydon Ireland, and Alvin Powell. "Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement's Morning Exercises" Archived 2008-05-04 at the Wayback Machine., Harvard Gazette. June 7, 2007.
  5. 1 2 People Library of America website
  6. Finn, Robin (2001-07-10), "The (Mostly Late) Greats, in New Circulation", New York Times, retrieved 2010-02-22

Bibliography

  • Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future by Jason Epstein, W. W. Norton & Company 2001 ISBN 978-0-393-04984-8
  • Michael Gorra, "The Library of America at Thirty," The Sewanee Review 120.4 (Fall 2012), 545-553.

See also

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