Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910)

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919)

Bret Harte (1836-1902)

Constance Fenimore Woolson ( 1840-1894)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)

Charlot (c. 1831-1900)

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

Henry James (1843-1916)

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

Booker T. Washington (1856?-1915)

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)

Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939)

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1867-1914)

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

John M. Oskison (1874-1947)

Jack London (1876-1916)

Wovoka (c. 1856-1932)

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa ) (1876-1938)

Henry Adams (1838-1918)