English and Literature: Authors by Group/Movement
Knickerbockers
A circle of American writers that contributed to the Knickerbocker magazine, a literary magazine of New York City.
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
George Pope Morris
Tomas Dun English
Phoeby Cary
Stephen Collins Foster
Donald Grant Mitchell
John Howard Payne
Samuel Woodworth
James K. Paulding
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Joseph Rodman Drake
John James Audubon
George William Curtis
Callow, James T. Kindred Spirits: Knickerbocker Writers and American Artists, 1807–1855. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1967: 104.
Strouf, Judie. Literature Lover's Book of Lists: Serious Trivia for the Bibliophile. Paramus: Prentice Hall, 1998, 250-251.
Beat Writers
"Beat movement, also called Beat Generation, American social and literary movement originating in the 1950s and centred in the bohemian artist communities of San Francisco’s North Beach, Los Angeles’ Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village. Generally apolitical and indifferent to social problems, they advocated personal release, purification, and illumination through the heightened sensory awareness that might be induced by drugs, jazz, sex, or the disciplines of Zen Buddhism" (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Allen Ginsburg
Gregory Corso
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Gary Snyder
Michael McClure
Philip Whalen
John Clellon Holms
Lost Generation
"Lost generation" usually refers specifically to the American expatriate writers associated with 1920s Paris, especially Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and to a lesser extent T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Hemingway used the phrase "You are all a lost generation" as the epigraph to his first novel THE SUN ALSO RISES (1926), and the influential critic Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) used "lost generation" in various studies of expatriate writers (PBS: The American Novel)
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
T.S. Eliot
e.e. Cummings
Ernest Hemingway
John Dos Passos
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald