Harlem renaissance 1920’s Important Authors The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. He wrote it in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald He wrote it in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. He wrote it in Significant Events In 1920’s African American migration to northern urban centers. African Americans have more access to media and publishing outlets after they move north. Theme Blues and jazz- “gospel music”

Postmodernism 1950 Important Authors All the King’s Men by: Robert Penn warren he wrote it in the naked and the dead by: Norman mailer he wrote it in The catcher in the Rye by: J.D. Salinger he wrote it in Significant Events Korean War 1950 Vietnam War Theme Individual in isolation, social issues.

Contemporary 1970’s to presents Important Authors A Raisin in the Sun by: Lorraine Hansberry he wrote it in John Steinbeck by: Nobel prize for Literature he wrote it in Bernard Malamud publishes The Fixer, a novel about Jewish life in czarist Russia in Significant Events The Iraq war. Begging a new century Theme Concern connections between people.