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John Updike
“In a way, what Melville did for whales, Updike did for upper-middle-class life in suburban America.”—Orhan Pamuk
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Alexander Hamilton
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William Dean Howells
Langston Hughes
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From poetry, novels, and memoirs to journalism, crime writing, and science fiction, the more than 300 volumes published by Library of America are widely recognized as America’s literary canon.

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