Contemporary (Brit. & Amer.) American Literature Contemporary Amerian Authors, Works, Projects General Contemporary American Resources Edward Abbey Kathy Acker Paula Gunn Allen Maya Angelou John Ashbery Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Beats Dodie Bellamy Charles Bernstein (State U. Of New York, Buffalo) Elizabeth Bishop Paul Bowles Gwendolyn Brooks Charles Bukowski Raymond Carver Robert Creeley Don Delillo Rita Dove Johanna Drucker Bret Easton Ellis William Gass William Gibson Joy Harjo (Karen Strom) John Hawkes Joseph Heller Galway Kinnell Jerzy Kosinski Audre Lorde Rigoberta Menchu N. Scott Momaday Marsha Norman Joyce Carol Oates Sharon Olds Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U.) Thomas Pynchon Tom Robbins Philip Roth J.D. Salinger Anne Sexton Gary Snyder John Updike Kurt Vonnegut Alice Walker Eudora Welty