Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents. Anthologies and works containing historical documents, criticism, and journalism are also published. Library of America volumes seek to print authoritative versions of works; include extensive notes, chronolog…

Books from Library of America

• The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text by Ted Widmer
• John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America (LOA #398) The Pine Barrens / Encounters with the Archdruid / The Survival of the Bark Canoe / Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• On Democracy by Walt Whitman
• The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South by Henry Adams
• George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (LOA #396) by George Templeton Strong
• The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (LOA #395) by John Stauffer
• Octavia E. Butler: Lilith's Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy (LOA #393) Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago by Octavia E. Butler
• Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand by Ursula K. Le Guin
• O. Henry for the Holidays by O. Henry
• Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays by Helen Vendler
• Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (LOA #387) 1919-1976: Tulsa to the Boston Busing Crisis by Tyina L. Steptoe
• Gary Snyder: Essential Prose (LOA #391) by Gary Snyder
• I Am the Arrow The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems by Sarah Ruden, Sylvia Plath
• The Annotated Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
• Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings (LOA #388) by Margaret Fuller
• World War II Memoirs: The European Theater (LOA #385) by Charles B. Macdonald, J. Glenn Gray, Mary Lee Settle, Elmer Bendiner
• Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (LOA #386) Political Fictions / Fixed Ideas / Where I Was From / The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir & play) / Blue Nights / South and West by Joan Didion
• Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics by Cole Porter
• Theodore Roethke: Selected Poems by Theodore Roethke
• Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels (LOA #383) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / In My Father's House / A Gathering of Old Men / A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
• On Civil Disobedience by Hannah Arendt, Henry David Thoreau
• Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (LOA #382) by Rigoberto González
• The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain! A Library of America Special Publication by David Mikics
• Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years (LOA #381) by Wendell Berry
• The James Baldwin Collection by James Baldwin
• Walker Percy: The Moviegoer & Other Novels 1961-1971 (LOA #380) The Moviegoer / The Last Gentleman / Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
• Cloudland Revisited A Misspent Youth in Books and Film by S. J. Perelman
• Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings (LOA #378) The Story of My Life / The World I Live In / Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Journals by Helen Keller
• The Frederick Douglass Collection A Library of America Boxed Set by Frederick DOUGLASS
• Black Writers of the Founding Era (LOA #366) A Library of America Anthology by James G. Basker, Nicole Seary
• William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375) Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works by William Faulkner
• The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel by John A. Williams
• Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable by Ronald L. Fair
• Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964 (LOA #370) The Murderers / The Name of the Game Is Death / Dead Calm / The Expendable Man / The Score by Fredric Brown, Dan J. Marlowe, Dorothy B. Hughes, Richard Stark
• Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969 (LOA #371) The Fiend / Doll / Run Man Run / The Tremor of Forgery by Margaret Millar, Ed McBain, Chester Himes, Patricia Highsmith
• Adrienne Kennedy: Collected Plays & Other Writings (LOA #372) by Adrienne Kennedy
• Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories by Nancy Hale
• The Prodigal Women: A Novel by Nancy Hale
• Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369) Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings by Charles Portis