US literature from 1930 - 1940

• The literature of United States was call the Wasteland of Depression Era
  
• Better known as the New Deal Era.
  
• The United States was merging into an economy of prosperity of the World War II years with hardly a change.
  
• Social change during the period went to liberalism or radical socialism.
  

Literary Events from 1930 - 1945

(1929) - Look Homeward Angel by: Thomas Wolfe

(1929) - The Sound and the Fury by: William Faulkner

(1931) - The Good Earth by: Pearl S. Buck

(1933) - Autobiograpy of Alice B Toklas by: Gertrude Stein

(1935) - Tortilla Flat by: John Steinbeck

(1937) - The Age of Innocence by: Edith Wharton's

(1938) - Our Town by: Thornton Wilder

(1939) - The Grapes of Wrath by: John Steinbeck

(1939) - The Little Foxes by: Lillian Hellman

(1940) - For Whom the Bell Tolls by: Ernest Hemingway

(1940) - Native Son by: Richard Wright

(1943) - Four Quartets by: Burnt Norton

(1945) - The Glass Menagerie by: Tennessee Williams

By: Vickie Davis