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John Quincy Adams
For almost seventy years Adams minutely recorded the events of his life, and of the life of his mind, in an unrivaled personal record of historical events from the Revolution to the Mexican War by a figure prominently involved in them.
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William Bradford
William Wells Brown
Charles Brockden Brown
Raymond Carver
Willa Cather
Raymond Chandler
John Cheever
Charles W. Chesnutt
Kate Chopin
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Hart Crane
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Philip K. Dick
John Dos Passos
Frederick Douglass
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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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