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American Literature timeline
Helen Keller's The Story of My Life begins publication in serial form
US author Jack London publishes a novel, The Call of the Wild, in which a huge pet dog has alarming adventures
US author W.E.B. Du Bois publishes his first collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk
The Pit, the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously
Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA
Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth
US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason
Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry
US philosopher William James publishes Pragmatism: a New Name for Old Ways of Thinking
Jack London's novel Iron Heel foresees a future repressive capitalist regime in the USA
Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy
Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune
Jack London publishes his most autobiographical novel, Martin Eden
Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature
Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection
In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier
In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier
US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will
Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston
Margaret Anderson publishes in Chicago the first issue of The Little Review, a monthly literary magazine
The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
