Library of America

The Library of America (LoA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

Overview and history

Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LoA has published more than 150 volumes by a wide range of authors from Mark Twain to Philip Roth, Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, including the selected writings of several U.S. presidents.

The "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade" ("La Pléiade") series published in France provided the model for the LoA, which was long a dream of the critic Edmund Wilson.

A co-founder of the LoA was American academic Daniel Aaron.Cromie, William J., Ken Gewertz, Corydon Ireland, and Alvin Powell. [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.07/03-honorands.html "Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement’s Morning Exercises,"] "Harvard Gazette". June 7, 2007.]

Another of the founders of the LoA, Jason Epstein, left the organization and expressed doubts about the LoA's continued vitality in his book "Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future" (2001). Epstein wrote that the LoA was not managing its funds well and was beginning to publish some volumes of marginal quality. Epstein also stated that he would have concentrated on online sales from the beginning of the LoA if the Internet had existed in its current form in the 1980s.

The first volumes were published in 1982. Besides the works of many individual writers, the series includes anthologies like "Reporting World War II" and (in a different format to the above illustration) "Writing Los Angeles".

The publisher aims to keep classics in print permanently to preserve America's literary heritage. Although the LoA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually, the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet the costs of preparing, marketing and manufacturing its books.

LoA texts are prepared by recognized scholars, and determined efforts are made to correct errors and omissions in previous editions, which are normally listed and the source texts properly identified. For instance, the LoA text of Richard Wright's "Native Son" restored a number of passages that had been previously cut. The books include a chronology of the author's career or significant incidents in the case of the anthology volumes. Technically, the books are designed to be as long-lasting as possible, with acid-free paper, durable binding cloth, and flexible, but firm binding boards.

As of 2006-2007, the Publisher of the Library of America series is Max Rudin; and Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor-in-Chief.

The Library of America series

Main series

1. Herman Melville, "Typee, Omoo, Mardi" (G. Thomas Tanselle, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-00-4
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Tales and Sketches" (Roy Harvey Pearce, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-03-5
3. Walt Whitman, "Poetry and Prose" (Justin Kaplan, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-02-8
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Three Novels" (Kathryn Kish Sklar, ed., 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-01-1
5. Mark Twain, "Mississippi Writings" (Guy Cardwell, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-07-3
6. Jack London, "Novels and Stories" (Donald Pizer, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-05-9
7. Jack London, "Novels and Social Writings" (Donald Pizer, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-06-6
8. William Dean Howells, "Novels 1875-1886" (Edwin M. Cady, ed. 1982) ISBN 978-0-940450-04-2
9. Herman Melville, "Redburn, White Jacket, Moby-Dick" (G. Thomas Tanselle, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-09-7
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Collected Novels" (Millicent Bell, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-08-0
11. Francis Parkman, "France and England in North America, vol. 1" (David Levin, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-10-3
12. Francis Parkman, "France and England in North America, vol. 2" (David Levin, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-11-0
13. Henry James, "Novels 1871-1880" (William T. Stafford, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-13-4
14. Henry Adams, "Novels, Mont Saint Michel, The Education" (Ernest and Jayne N. Samuels, eds. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-12-7
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays and Lectures" (Joel Porte, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-15-8
16. Washington Irving, "History, Tales, and Sketches" (James W. Tuttleton, ed. 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-14-1
17. Thomas Jefferson, "Writings" (Merrill D. Peterson, ed. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-16-5
18. Stephen Crane, "Prose and Poetry" (J.C. Levenson, ed. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-17-2
19. Edgar Allan Poe, "Poetry and Tales" (Patrick F. Quinn, ed. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-18-9
20. Edgar Allan Poe, "Essays and Reviews" (G.R. Thompson, ed. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-19-6
21. Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad & Roughing It" (Guy Cardwell, ed. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-25-7
22. Henry James, "Literary Criticism: Essays, American & English Writers" (Leon Edel and Mark Wilson, eds. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-22-6
23. Henry James, "Literary Criticism: European Writers & The Prefaces" (Leon Edel and Mark Wilson, eds. 1984) ISBN 978-0-940450-23-3
24. Herman Melville, "Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, Tales & Billy Budd" (Harrison Hayford, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-24-0
25. William Faulkner, "Novels 1930-1935" (Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-26-4
26. James Fenimore Cooper, "The Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 1" (Blake Nevius, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-20-2
27. James Fenimore Cooper, "The Leatherstocking Tales, vol. 2" (Blake Nevius, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-21-9
28. Henry David Thoreau, "A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod" (Robert F. Sayre, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-27-1
29. Henry James, "Novels 1881-1886" (William T. Stafford, ed. 1985) ISBN 978-0-940450-30-1
30. Edith Wharton, "Novels" (R.W.B. Lewis, ed. 1986) ISBN 978-0-940450-31-8
31. Henry Adams, "History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson" (Earl N. Harbert, ed. 1986) ISBN 978-0-940450-34-9
32. Henry Adams, "History of the United States during the Administrations of Madison" (Earl N. Harbert, ed. 1986) ISBN 978-0-940450-35-6
33. Frank Norris, "Novels and Essays" (Donald Pizer, ed. 1986) ISBN 978-0-940450-40-0
34. W.E.B. Du Bois, "Writings" (Nathan I. Huggins, ed. 1986) ISBN 978-0-940450-33-2
35. Willa Cather, "Early Novels and Stories" (Sharon O'Brien, ed. 1987) ISBN 978-0-940450-39-4
36. Theodore Dreiser, "Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men" (Richard Lehan, ed. 1987) ISBN 978-0-940450-41-7
37A. Benjamin Franklin, "Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, & Early Writings" (J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume) ISBN 978-1-931082-22-8
37B. Benjamin Franklin, "Autobiography, Poor Richard, & Later Writings" (J.A. Leo Lemay, ed. 1987 one-volume, 2005 two-volume) ISBN 978-1-883011-53-6
38. William James, "Writings" 1902-1910 (Bruce Kuklick, ed. 1987) ISBN 978-0-940450-38-7
39. Flannery O'Connor, "Collected Works" (Sally Fitzgerald, ed. 1988) ISBN 978-0-940450-37-0
40. Eugene O'Neill, "Complete Plays 1913-1920" (Travis Bogard, ed. 1988) ISBN 978-0-940450-48-6
41. Eugene O'Neill, "Complete Plays 1920-1931" (Travis Bogard, ed. 1988) ISBN 978-0-940450-49-3
42. Eugene O'Neill, "Complete Plays 1932-1943" (Travis Bogard, ed. 1988) ISBN 978-0-940450-50-9
43. Henry James, "Novels 1886-1890" (Daniel Mark Fogel, ed. 1989) ISBN 978-0-940450-56-1
44. William Dean Howells, "Novels 1886-1888" (Don L. Cook, ed. 1989) ISBN 978-0-940450-51-6
45. Abraham Lincoln, "Speeches and Writings 1832-1858" (Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed. 1989) ISBN 978-0-940450-43-1
46. Abraham Lincoln, "Speeches and Writings 1859-1865" (Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed. 1989) ISBN 978-0-940450-63-9
47. Edith Wharton, "Novellas and Other Writings" (Cynthia Griffin Wolff, ed. 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-53-0
48. William Faulkner, "Novels 1936-1940" (Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, eds. 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-55-4
49. Willa Cather, "Later Novels" (Sharon O'Brien, ed. 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-52-3
50. Ulysses S. Grant, "Personal Memoirs and Selected Letters" (Mary Drake McFeeley and William S. McFeeley, eds. 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-58-5
51. William Tecumseh Sherman, "Memoirs" (Charles Royster, ed. 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-65-3
52. Washington Irving, "Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveller, The Alhambra" (Andrew Myers, ed. 1991) ISBN 978-0-940450-59-2
53. Francis Parkman, "The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac" (William R. Taylor, ed. 1991) ISBN 978-0-940450-54-7
54. James Fenimore Cooper, "Sea Tales, The Pilot, The Red Rover" (Kay Seymour House and Thomas Philbrick, eds. 1991) ISBN 978-0-940450-70-7
55. Richard Wright, "Early Works" (Arnold Rampersad, ed. 1991) ISBN 978-0-94045066-6
56. Richard Wright, "Later Works" (Arnold Rampersad, ed. 1991) ISBN 978-0-940450-67-7
57. Willa Cather, "Stories, Poems, and Other Writings" (Sharon O'Brien, ed. 1991) ISBN 978-0-940450-71-4
58. William James, "Writings 1878-1899" (Gerald Myers, ed. 1992) ISBN 978-0-940450-72-1
59. Sinclair Lewis, "Main Street & Babbitt" (0-940450-38-0, ed. 1992) ISBN 978-0-940450-61-5
60. Mark Twain, "Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1852-1890" (Louis J. Budd, ed. 1992) ISBN 978-0-940450-36-3
61. Mark Twain, "Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910" (Louis J. Budd, ed. 1992) ISBN 978-0-940450-73-8
62. "The Debate on the Constitution: Part One" (Bernard Bailyn, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-42-4
63. "The Debate on the Constitution: Part Two" (Bernard Bailyn, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-64-6
64. Henry James, "Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain & America" (Richard Howard, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-76-9
65. Henry James, "Collected Travel Writings: The Continent" (Richard Howard, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-77-6
66. "American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1" (John Hollander, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-60-8
67. "American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2" (John Hollander, ed. 1993) ISBN 978-0-940450-78-3
68. Frederick Douglass, "Autobiography" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. 1994) ISBN 978-0-940450-79-0
69. Sarah Orne Jewett, "Novels and Stories" (Michael Davitt Bell, ed. 1994) ISBN 978-0-940450-74-5
70. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Collected Poems and Translations" (Harold Bloom and Paul Kane, eds. 1994) ISBN 978-0-940450-28-8
71. Mark Twain, "Historical Romances" (Susan K. Harris, ed. 1994) ISBN 978-0-940450-82-0
72. John Steinbeck, "Novels and Stories 1932-1937" (Robert DeMott and Elaine A. Steinbeck, eds. 1994) ISBN 978-1-883011-01-7
73. William Faulkner, "Novels 1942-1954" (Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, eds. 1994) ISBN 978-0-940450-85-1
74. Zora Neale Hurston, "Novels and Stories" (Cheryl A. Wall, ed. 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-83-7
75. Zora Neale Hurston, "Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings" (Cheryl A. Wall, ed. 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
76. Thomas Paine, "Collected Writings" (Eric Foner, ed. 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-03-1
77. "Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1944" (Advisory Board: Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et. al 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-04-8
78. "Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944-1946" (Advisory Board: Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, et. al 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-05-5
79. Raymond Chandler, "Stories and Early Novels" (Frank MacShane, ed. 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-07-9
80. Raymond Chandler, "Later Novels and Other Writings" (Frank MacShane, ed. 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-08-6
81. Robert Frost, "Collected Poems, Prose & Plays" (Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson, eds. 1995) ISBN 978-1-883011-06-2
82. Henry James, "Complete Stories 1892-1898" (John Hollander, David Bromwich, Denis Donoghue, eds. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-09-3
83. Henry James, "Complete Stories 1898-1910" (John Hollander, David Bromwich, Denis Donoghue, eds. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-10-9
84. William Bartram, "Travels and Other Writings" (Thomas Slaughter, ed. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-11-6
85. John Dos Passos, "U.S.A." (Townsend Ludington and Daniel Aaron, eds. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-14-7
86. John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941" (Robert DeMott and Elaine A. Steinbeck, eds. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-15-4
87. Vladimir Nabokov, "Novels and Memoirs 1943-1951" (Brian Boyd, ed. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-18-5
88. Vladimir Nabokov, "Novels 1955-1962" (Brian Boyd, ed. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-19-2
89. Vladimir Nabokov, "Novels 1969-1974" (Brian Boyd, ed. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-20-8
90. James Thurber, "Writings and Drawings" (Garrison Keillor, ed. 1996) ISBN 978-1-883011-22-2
91. George Washington, "Writings" (John Rhodehamel, ed. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-23-9
92. John Muir, "Nature Writings" (William Cronon, ed. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-24-6
93. Nathanael West, "Novels and Other Writings" (Sacvan Bercovitch, ed. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-28-4
94. "Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s" (Robert Polito, ed. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-46-8
95. "Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s" (Robert Polito, ed. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-49-9
96. Wallace Stevens, "Collected Poetry and Prose" (Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson, eds. 1997) ISBN 978-1-883011-45-1
97. James Baldwin, "Early Novels and Stories" (Toni Morrison, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-51-2
98. James Baldwin, "Collected Essays" (Toni Morrison, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-52-9
99. Gertrude Stein, "Writings 1903-1932" (Harriet Chessman and Catharine R. Stimpson, eds. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-40-6
100. Gertrude Stein, "Writings 1932-1946" (Harriet Chessman and Catharine R. Stimpson, eds. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-41-3
101. Eudora Welty, "Complete Novels" (Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling, eds. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-54-3
102. Eudora Welty, "Stories, Essays, & Memoirs" (Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling, eds. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-55-0
103. Charles Brockden Brown, "Three Gothic Novels" (Sydney J. Krause, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-57-4
104. "Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969" (Advisory board: Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et al. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-58-1
105. "Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969-1975" (Advisory board: Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, et. al 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-59-8
106. Henry James, "Complete Stories 1874-1884" (William Vance, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-63-5
107. Henry James, "Complete Stories 1884-1891" (Edward Said, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-64-2
108. "American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr." (Michael Warner, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-65-9
109. James Madison, "Writings" (Jack N. Rakove, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-66-6
110. Dashiell Hammett, "Complete Novels" (Steven Marcus, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-67-3
111. Henry James, "Complete Stories 1864-1874" (Jean Strouse, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-70-3
112. William Faulkner, "Novels 1957-1962" (Noel Polk, ed., with notes by Joseph Blotner 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-69-7
113. John James Audubon, "Writings & Drawings" (Christoph Irmscher, ed. 1999) ISBN 978-1-883011-68-0
114. "Slave Narratives" (William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-76-5
115. "American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 1" (Advisory board: Robert Hass, John Hollander, et. al 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-77-2
116. "American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Vol. 2" (Advisory board: Robert Hass, John Hollander, et al. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-78-9
117. F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Novels and Stories 1920-1922" (Jackson R. Bryer, ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-84-0
118. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Poems and Other Writings" (J.D. McClatchy, ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-85-7
119. Tennessee Williams, "Plays 1937-1955" (Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-86-4
120. Tennessee Williams, "Plays 1957-1980" (Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-87-1
121. Edith Wharton, "Collected Stories 1891-1910" (Maureen Howard, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-883011-93-2
122. Edith Wharton, "Collected Stories 1911-1937" (Maureen Howard, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-883011-94-9
123. "The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence" (John Rhodehamel, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-883011-91-8
124. Henry David Thoreau, "Collected Essays and Poems" (Elizabeth Hall Witherell, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-883011-95-6
125. Dashiell Hammett, "Crime Stories and Other Writings" (Steven Marcus, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-931082-00-6
126. Dawn Powell, "Novels 1930-1942" (Tim Page, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-931082-01-3
127. Dawn Powell, "Novels 1944-1962" (Tim Page, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-931082-02-0
128. Carson McCullers, "Complete Novels" (Carlos Dews, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-931082-03-7
129. Alexander Hamilton, "Writings" (Joanne B. Freeman, ed. 2001) ISBN 978-1-931082-04-4
130. Mark Twain, "The Gilded Age and Later Novels" (Hamlin L. Hill, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-10-5
131. Charles W. Chesnutt, "Stories, Novels, and Essays" (Werner Sollors, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-06-8
132. John Steinbeck, "Novels 1942-1952" (Robert DeMott, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-07-5
133. Sinclair Lewis, "Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth" (Richard Lingeman, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-08-2
134. Paul Bowles, "The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House" (Daniel Halpern, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-19-8
135. Paul Bowles, "Complete Stories & Later Writings" (Daniel Halpern, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-20-4
136. Kate Chopin, "Complete Novels & Stories" (Sandra M. Gilbert, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-21-1
137. "Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963" (Advisory board: Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, et. al 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-28-0
138. "Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1963-1973" (Advisory board: Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, et. al 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-29-7
139. Henry James, "Novels 1896-1899" (Myra Jehlen, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-30-3
140. Theodore Dreiser, "An American Tragedy" (Thomas P. Riggio, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-31-0
141. Saul Bellow, "Novels 1944-1953" (James Wood, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-38-9
142. John Dos Passos, "Novels 1920-1925" (Townsend Ludington, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-39-6
143. John Dos Passos, "Travel Books and Other Writings" (Townsend Ludington, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-40-2
144. Ezra Pound, "Poems and Translations" (Richard Sieburth, ed. 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-41-9
145. James Weldon Johnson, "Writings" (William L. Andrews, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-52-5
146. Washington Irving, "Three Western Narratives" (James P. Ronda, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-53-2
147. Alexis de Toqueville, "Democracy in America" (Olivier Zunz, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-54-9
148. James T. Farrell, "Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy" (Pete Hamill, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-55-6
149. Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Stories Vol. 1" (Ilan Stavans, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-61-7
150. Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Stories Vol. 2" (Ilan Stavans, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-62-4
151. Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Stories Vol. 3" (Ilan Stavans, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-63-1
152. George Kaufman & Co., "Broadway Comedies" (Laurence Maslon, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-67-9
153. Theodore Roosevelt, "The Rough Riders and an Autobiography" (Louis Auchincloss, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-65-5
154. Theodore Roosevelt, "Letters and Speeches" (Louis Auchincloss, ed. 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-66-2
155. H. P. Lovecraft, "Tales" (Peter Straub, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-72-3
156. Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys" (2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-73-0
157. Philip Roth, "Novels and Stories 1959-1962: Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories/Letting Go" (Ross Miller, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-79-2
158. Philip Roth, "Novels 1967-1972: When She Was Good/Portnoy's Complaint/Our Gang/The Breast" (Ross Miller, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-80-8
159. James Agee, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction" (Michael Sragow, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-81-5
160. James Agee, "Film Writing and Selected Journalism" (Michael Sragow, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-82-2
161. Richard Henry Dana, "Two Years Before the Mast & Other Voyages" (Thomas Philbrick, ed. 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-83-9
162. Henry James, "Novels 1901-1902" (Leo Bersani, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-88-4
163. Arthur Miller, "Collected Plays 1944-1961" (Tony Kushner, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-91-4
164. William Faulkner, "Novels 1926-1929: Soldiers' Pay/Mosquitoes/Flags in the Dust/The Sound and the Fury" (Joseph Blotner and Noel Polk, eds. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-89-1
165. Philip Roth, "Novels 1973-1977: The Great American Novel/My Life as a Man/The Professor of Desire" (Ross Miller, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-96-9
166. "American Speeches: Revolution to Civil War" (Ted Widmer, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-97-6
167. "American Speeches: Lincoln to Clinton" (Ted Widmer, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-98-3
168. Hart Crane, "Complete Poems and Selected Letters" (Langdon Hammer, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-99-0
169. Saul Bellow, "Bellow: Novels 1956-1964" (James Wood, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-002-5
170. John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charlie and later novels, 1947-1962" (Robert DeMott and Brian Railsback, eds. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-004-9
171. Captain John Smith, "Writings, with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the English Settlement of America" (James Horn, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-001-8
172. Thornton Wilder, "Collected Plays and Writings on Theater" (J. D. McClatchy, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-003-2
173. Philip K. Dick, "Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle/The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/Ubik " (Jonathan Lethem, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-009-4
174. Jack Kerouac, "Road Novels: 1957-1960" (Douglas Brinkley, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-012-4
175. Philip Roth, "Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue; Novels 1979-1985: The Ghost Writer/Zuckerman Unbound/The Anatomy Lesson/The Prague Orgy" (Ross Miller, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-011-7
176. Edmund Wilson, "Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews" (Lewis M. Dabney, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-013-1
177. Edmund Wilson, "Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and Commercials, Uncollected Reviews" (Lewis M. Dabney, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-014-8
178. "American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (David S. Shields, ed. 2007) ISBN 978-1-931082-90-7
179. William Maxwell, "Early Novels and Stories: Bright Center of Heaven / They Came Like Swallows / The Folded Leaf / Time Will Darken It / Stories 1938-1956" (Christopher Carduff, ed. 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-026-1
180. Elizabeth Bishop, "Poems, Prose and Letters" (Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, eds. 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-017-9
181. A.J. Liebling, "World War II Writings: The Road Back to Paris /Mollie and Other War Pieces / Uncollected War Journalism / Normandy Revisited" (Pete Hamill, ed. 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-040-7
182. "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau" (Bill McKibben, ed; Al Gore, fwd., 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-020-9
183. Philip K. Dick, "Five Novels of the 1950s and 1960s: Martian Time Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly" (Jonathan Lethem, ed. 2008) ISBN 978-1-59853-025-4
184. William Maxwell, "Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow / Stories and Improvisations 1957 - 1999" (Christopher Carduff, ed. 2008)
185. Philip Roth, "Novels and Other Narratives 1986 - 1991: The Counterlife / The Facts / Deception / Patrimony" (Ross Miller, ed. 2008)
186. Katherine Anne Porter, "Collected Stories and Other Writings" (Darlene Harbour Unrue, ed. 2008)
187. John Ashberry, "Collected Poems 1956 - 1987" (Mark Ford, ed. 2008)

Special anthologies

* "Writing New York" (Philip Lopate, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-62-8
* "American Sea Writing" (Peter Neill, ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1-883011-83-3
* "Baseball" (Nicholas Dawidoff, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-09-9
* "Writing Los Angeles" (David L. Ulin, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-27-3
* "Americans in Paris" (Adam Gopnik, ed. 2004) ISBN 1-931082-56-1
* "American Writers at Home" (J.D. McClatchy, author, Erica Lennar, photographer 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-75-4
* "American Movie Critics" (Phillip Lopate, ed. 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-92-1
* "American Religious Poems" (Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, eds., 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-74-7
* "American Food Writing" (Molly O'Neill, ed., 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-005-6

American poets project

* "American Sonnets" (David Bromwich, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-015-5

* "American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse" (John Hollander, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-49-5

* "A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems" (David Lehman, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-93-8

* "John Berryman: Selected Poems" (Kevin Young, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-69-3

* "The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks" (Elizabeth Alexander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-87-7

* "Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems" (Robert Polito, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-57-0

* "Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems" (Ron Padgett, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-006-3

* "Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems" (John Hollander, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-77-8

* "Amy Lowell: Selected Poems" (Honor Moore, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-70-9

* "Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems" (Christopher Ricks, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-85-3

* "Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems" (J.D. McClatchy, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-35-8

* "Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics" (Richard Wilbur, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-51-8

* "Poets of the Civil War" (J.D. McClatchy, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-76-1

* "Poets of World War II" (Harvey Shapiro, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-33-4

* "Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics" (Robert Kimball, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-94-5

* "Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems" (Edward Hirsch, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-78-5

* "Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems" (Adrienne Rich, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-58-7

* "Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems" (Paul Berman, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-100-8

* "Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems" (Andrew Motion, editor 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-018-6

* "Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems" (John Updike, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-34-1

* "Edith Wharton: Selected Poems" (Louis Auchincloss, editor 2005) ISBN 978-1-931082-86-0

* "Walt Whitman: Selected Poems" (Harold Bloom, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-32-7

* "John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems" (Brenda Wineapple, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-59-4

* "William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems" (Robert Pinsky, editor 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-71-6

* "Yvor Winters: Selected Poems" (Thom Gunn, editor 2003) ISBN 978-1-931082-50-1

* "Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems" (Charles Bernstein, editor 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-95-2

References

* "Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future" by Jason Epstein, W. W. Norton & Company 2001 ISBN 978-0-393-04984-8

External links

* [http://www.loa.org/ The Library of America official web site]
* [http://loa.org/catalog.jsp?sort=1 The Library of America's Main Catalog]
** [http://loa.org/catalog.jsp?sort=10 The LoA's Catalog by Series number]
* [http://www.americanpoetsproject.org The Library of America's American Poets Project]
* [http://www.singer100.org The Library of America's Isaac Bashevis Singer web site]
* [http://www.reportingcivilrights.org The Library of America's "Reporting Civil Rights" web site]
* [http://loa.org/chesnutt/ The Library of America's Charles W. Chesnutt web site]
* [http://www.loa.org/dawnpowell/ The Library of America's Dawn Powell web site]