NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804 – 1864):
- Hawthorne used this idea of a curse on the family of an evil judge in his novel The House of the Seven Gables.
- many of Hawthorne´s stories are set in Puritan New England, and his greatest novel The Scarlet Letter has become the classic portrayal of Puritan America.
- Hawthorne´s reputation rests on his other novels and tales as well. In The House of the Seven Gables he again returns to New England´s history.
- Hawthorne´s last two novels were less successful - The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun.

James Fenimore Cooper
- describes American wilderness and wrote Indian novels of adventure. His masterpiece is The Last of the Mohicans. It is about a war between England and France in an Indian colony. Some tribes of Indians were with France and some with England. On of English fortresses, called William Henry, is surrounded by French army and Hurons (Indian tribe). Two daughters (Cora and Alice) of the leader of the William Henry wanted to get in. They live many adventures and finally they reach the fortress. However they were successful, the older one, Cora is murdered by a bad Huron.
- another famous books are The pioneers, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer.

Edgar Allan Poe
- he was a poet and short story writer, critical essayist and the founder of science fiction and detective story
- he wrote essays about poetry. As a poet he was a master of rhymes and creatin moods
- his poem The Raven brought him the biggest success
- he is considered to be the founder of the modern detective story, full of horror and mystery: The black cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The pit and the pendulum, The golden Bug

Walt Whitman
- he made the American poetry independent on European poetry. He influenced the whole modern poetry with rhythmical free verse, which was his innovation
- Leaves of grass is collection of all his poems, in which is the famous one Song of myself.