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Writers 20th c
Writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries
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Economist and social philosopher who wrote, in Progress and Poverty, that a single tax on land would provide the best way to fund the government since land ownership was concentrated in the hands of the few | Henry George |
Essayist and journalist whose most famous work was the Utopian novel, Looking Backward 2000-1887 | Edward Bellamy |
Social reformer, journalist, and photographer who wrote one of the most influential documents about tenement housing, How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
Assaulted the values and lifestyles of the Gilded Age by mixing economic and sociological theory in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class; coined the term "conspicuous consumption" | Thorstein Veblen |
Historian who wrote that the frontier had provided a safety valve and had influenced the development of a unique American character | Frederick Jackson Turner |
An opponent of business monopolies and one of the pioneer muckrakers of the Gilded Age in his work Wealth Against Commonwealth | Henry Demarest Lloyd |
Eminent American reformer and leader of the muckrackers; documented corruption in American cities in The Shame of the Cities | Lincoln Steffens |
This muckraker attacked the railroad industries in The Octopus and the wheat industry in The Pit | Frank Norris |
He exposed the unsanitary working conditions in the stockyards of Chicago in The Jungle; his book led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Pure Food Act | Upton Sinclair |
Black poet known for the use of jazz rhythms in his poetry; he became a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
Developed the theme of the monotony, emotional frustration, and lack of values in American middle-class life in his book Babbit | Sinclair Lewis |
Editor of the magazine The American Mercury he satirized the shortcomings of democracy and middle-class American culture | H.L. Mencken |
Won the Nobel Prize for his poem The Waste Land which expressed his conception of the contrast between modern society and societies of the past | T. S. Eliot |
A writer of the Lost Generation, he wrote his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, about the dissoluteness of the 1920s | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
A moving force in the development of naturalism in literature, he was the author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
Depicted the lives of people who lost their faith in their values by World War I in A Farewell to Arms and the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
This writer wrote in the style of realism depicting life in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
A Swedish economist, he wrote about relations between the races in An American Dilemma | Gunnar Myrdal |
Wrote about middle class women's dissatisfaction with lives that centered about nothing more than their husbands, children, and homes in The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan |
Famous beat poet who wrote Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
Beat author of On the Road | Jack Kerouac |
His book, The Other America, detailing the persistence of poverty in America despite the affluence of much of society inspired LBJ to push for his War on Poverty programs | Michael Harrington |