1919–1945
ModernismWorld Literature
Albert Camus, French writer: The StrangerBritish Literature
George Orwell (born Eric Blair): Animal Farm and 1984American Literature
John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize novelist: Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath
Zora Neale Hurston, novelist: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes, poet
Tennessee Williams, playwright: The Glass Menagerie