The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the

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and the

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, the LOA has published over 300 volumes by authors ranging from Mark Twain to

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...

, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.

Overview and history

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'' ("La Pléiade") series published in France provided the model for the LOA, which was long a dream of critic and author

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. The initial organizers included American academic Daniel Aaron,Cromie, William J., Ken Gewertz, Corydon Ireland, and Alvin Powell
"Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement's Morning Exercises"
, ''Harvard Gazette''. June 7, 2007. Lawrence Hughes, Helen Honig Meyer, and Roger W. Straus Jr. The initial board of advisers included

Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the liter ...

, C. Vann Woodward, R. W. B. Lewis, Robert Coles,

Irving Howe Irving Howe (; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Early years Howe was born as Irving Horenstein in The Bronx, New York. He was the son of ...

, and

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. Officers included

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, Daniel Aaron, and Cheryl Hurley. Hanna M. Bercovitch served as senior editor and then editor-in-chief until her death in 1997. The first volumes were published in 1982, ten years after Wilson's death. Besides the works of many individual writers, the series includes anthologies like ''Reporting World War II'' and (in a different format from the above illustration) ''Writing Los Angeles''. The publisher aims to keep classics and notable historical and genre works in print permanently to preserve America's literary and cultural heritage. Although the LOA sells more than a quarter-million volumes annually, the publisher depends on individual contributions to help meet the costs of preparing, marketing, manufacturing, and maintaining its books. Some books published as additions to the series are not kept in print in perpetuity.

Research and scholarship

LOA volumes are prepared and edited by recognized scholars on the subject. Efforts are made to correct errors and omissions in previous editions and create a definitive version of the material. Notes on the text are normally included and the source texts identified. For instance, the LOA text of Richard Wright's '' Native Son'' restored a number of passages that had been previously cut. The LOA commissioned a new translation of

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's '' Democracy in America'' by

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for their edition of the text. Each volume also includes a chronology of the author's career or significant incidents in the case of the anthology volumes.

Criticism and satire

The Library of America has attracted a number of critical notices, including accusations of selection biases and the questionable inclusion of certain writers. Marketing efforts by the LOA have been faulted as overly commercial and exploitative. The LOA has been satirized as "confer ngvalue on writers by encasing their work in handsome black-jacketed covers with a stripe of red, white, and blue on the spine." The series even prompted a mocking poem that began:

It's like heaven: you've got to die
To get there. And you can't be sure.
The publisher might go out of business.

In an

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swipe at the Library of America's selection standards, another satirical piece proclaimed that the LOA "would publish volumes of

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's and

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's memoirs, and possibly those of '' Jersey Shore's''

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." Images of the faux volumes were included. In his 2001 book ''Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future'' LOA co-founder

sharply criticized the Library of America's finances and what he saw as the publication of unnecessary anthologies and authors whose qualifications for the series were suspect. He concluded:

The Library of America has now published substantially all the work for which it was created and for which rights are available. Its obligation hereafter is to husband its resources so that this work remains in print and accessible to readers, and to ensure that funds are on hand for the publication of twentieth-century writers as rights permit.

Build and manufacture

The LOA uses paper which meets the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute. Each volume is printed on thin acid-free paper, allowing books ranging from 700 to 1,600 pages to remain fairly compact. All volumes in the main series have the same trim size. For the hardcover editions, the binding cloth is woven rayon, and the books are Smyth-sewn. Each includes a ribbon

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. The uniform

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. The LOA publishes selected titles in paperback, mainly for the college textbook market.

Main series

Special anthologies

* ''Writing New York'' ( Phillip Lopate, ed. 1998) * ''American Sea Writing'' (Peter Neill, ed. 2000) * ''Baseball'' ( Nicholas Dawidoff, ed. 2002) * ''Writing Los Angeles'' (David L. Ulin, ed. 2002) * ''Americans in Paris'' (

Adam Gopnik Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist. He is best known as a staff writer for ''The New Yorker,'' to which he has contributed non-fiction, fiction, memoir, and criticism since 1986. He is the author of nine books ...

, ed. 2004) * ''American Writers at Home'' (

J. D. McClatchy J. D. "Sandy" McClatchy (August 12, 1945 – April 10, 2018) was an American poet, opera librettist and literary critic. He was editor of the ''Yale Review'' and president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Life McClatchy was born ...

, author, Erica Lennar, photographer 2004) * ''American Movie Critics'' (Phillip Lopate, ed. 2006) * ''American Religious Poems'' (

Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking worl ...

and Jesse Zuba, eds., 2006) * ''American Food Writing'' (Molly O'Neill, ed., 2007) * ''True Crime: An American Anthology'' (Harold Schechter, ed., 2008) * ''Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing'' (

Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961) is a Mexican-American author and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of ''Quixote'' (2015) and a contributor to the ''Norton Anthology ...

, ed., 2009) * ''At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing'' ( George Kimball and John Schulian, eds., 2011) * ''The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to

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'' (Andy Borowitz ed., 2011) * ''Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight'' (Joseph J. Corn, ed., 2011) * ''The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground'' ( Glenn O'Brien, ed., 2013) * ''Football: Great Writing about the National Sport'' (John Schulian, ed., 2014) * ''Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z'' ( Kevin Dettmar and Jonathan Lethem, eds., 2017) * ''Basketball: Great Writing About America's Game'' ( Alexander Wolff, ed., 2018) * ''Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology'' ( Mindy Aloff, ed., 2018) * ''The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin'' ( Lisa Yaszek, ed., 2018) * ''The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from

Ring Lardner Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Wo ...

to Sally Jenkins'' (John Schulian, ed., 2019) * ''American Birds'' (Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams, eds., 2020) * ''American Christmas Stories'' ( Connie Willis, ed., 2021) * ''Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can'' (

Alix Kates Shulman Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Qu ...

and Honor Moore, eds., 2021) * ''The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women'' ( Lisa Yaszek, ed., 2022)

American poets project

* '' James Agee: Selected Poems'' (Andrew Hudgins, editor 2008) * ''American Sonnets'' ( David Bromwich, editor 2007) * ''American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse'' ( John Hollander, editor 2003) * '' A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems'' (

David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman
at poets.org) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and li ...

, editor 2006) * '' John Berryman: Selected Poems'' ( Kevin Young, editor 2004) * ''The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks'' (Elizabeth Alexander, editor 2005) * ''

Countee Cullen Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. Early life Childhood Countee LeRoy Porter ...

: Collected Poems'' (Major Jackson, editor 2013 ) * ''

Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

: Complete Poems'' ( Christopher Benfey, editor 2011) * ''

Kenneth Fearing Kenneth Flexner Fearing (July 28, 1902 – June 26, 1961) was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the lan ...

: Selected Poems'' (Robert Polito, editor 2004) * ''

Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known also as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, inc ...

& Co.: Lyrics of America's First Great Popular Songs'' (Ken Emerson, editor 2010) * '' Ira Gershwin: Selected Lyrics'' (Robert Kimball, editor 2009) * ''

Kenneth Koch Kenneth Koch ( ; 27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets includ ...

: Selected Poems'' ( Ron Padgett, editor 2007) * ''

Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet " The New Colossus", which was inspire ...

: Selected Poems'' ( John Hollander, editor 2005) * '' Amy Lowell: Selected Poems'' ( Honor Moore, editor 2004) * '' Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems'' ( Christopher Ricks, editor 2005) * '' Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems'' (

, editor 2003) * ''

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wid ...

: Poems and Poetics'' (

Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentle ...

, editor 2003) * ''Poems from the Women's Movement'' ( Honor Moore, editor 2009) * ''Poets of the Civil War'' (

, editor 2005) * ''Poets of World War II'' (Harvey Shapiro, editor 2003) * '' Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics'' (Robert Kimball, editor 2006) * ''

Theodore Roethke Theodore Huebner Roethke ( ; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book ''The Wa ...

: Selected Poems'' (

Edward Hirsch Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including ''The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems'' (2010), which brings toget ...

, editor 2005) * '' Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems'' (

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

, editor 2004) * '' Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems'' (

Paul Berman Paul Lawrence Berman (born 1949) is an American writer on politics and literature. His books include ''Terror and Liberalism'' ( a ''New York Times'' best-seller in 2003), ''The Flight of the Intellectuals'', ''A Tale of Two Utopias'', ''Power and ...

, editor 2007) * '' Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems'' ( John Updike, editor 2003) * '' Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems'' ( Andrew Motion, editor 2007) * '' Edith Wharton: Selected Poems'' (

Louis Auchincloss Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 27, 2010. was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novel ...

, editor 2005) * ''

Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among ...

: Selected Poems'' (

, editor 2003) * '' John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems'' (

Brenda Wineapple Brenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist who has written several books on nineteenth-century American writers. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she graduated from Brandeis University. In 2014, ...

, editor 2004) * ''

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

: Selected Poems'' (

Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most o ...

, editor 2004) * ''

Yvor Winters Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Life Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there until 1919 except for brief stays in Seattle and in Pasadena, where his grandparen ...

: Selected Poems'' ( Thom Gunn, editor 2003) * ''

Louis Zukofsky Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge a ...

: Selected Poems'' (

Charles Bernstein Charles Bernstein may refer to: * Charles Bernstein (composer) (born 1943), American composer of film and television scores * Charles Bernstein (poet) Charles Bernstein (born April 4, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary sc ...

, editor 2006)

Special publications

* ''

Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...

: An Album'' (

, editor, 2004) * ''Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of

Manny Farber Emanuel Farber (February 20, 1917 – August 18, 2008) was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic",Grimes, William (August 19, 2008) ''New York Times''Kiderra, Inga (August 21, 2008Obituary: Artist and Crit ...

'' (

Robert Polito Robert Polito is a poet, biographer, essayist, critic, educator, curator, and arts administrator. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography in 1995 for ''Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson.'' The founding director of th ...

, editor, 2009) * ''Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on

Ted Williams Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1 ...

'' (2010) * ''The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of

Pauline Kael Pauline Kael (; June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for ''The New Yorker'' magazine from 1968 to 1991. Known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated and sharply focused" reviews, Kael's opinions oft ...

'' (Sanford Schwartz, editor, 2011) * ''The Collected Writings of

Joe Brainard Joe Brainard (March 11, 1942 – May 25, 1994) was an American artist and writer associated with the New York School. His prodigious and innovative body of work included assemblages, collages, drawing, and painting, as well as designs for book ...

'' ( Ron Padgett, editor, 2012) * Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''

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'' (2012) ; ''

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'' (2012) * ''American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith'' (

Daniel Okrent Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of ''The New York Times'' newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books (such as ...

, editor, 2013) * ''The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of

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'' (

Bill Littlefield William Littlefield (born July 1948) was the host of National Public Radio and WBUR's Only A Game program from its beginning in 1993 to July 2018, covering mainstream and offbeat United States and international sports. Littlefield joined NPR in 1 ...

, editor, 2015) * '' President Lincoln Assassinated!! The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning'' ( Harold Holzer, editor, 2015) * ''String Theory:

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...

on Tennis'' (2016) * ''My Dearest

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: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife'' (2018) *

, ''The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon'' ( David Mikics, editor, 2019) *

Kate Bolick Kate Bolick (born 1972) is the author of New York Times bestseller ''Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own''. She is also a contributing editor for ''The Atlantic,'' and host of "Touchstones at The Mount," an annual literary interview series at Edi ...

, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley, ''March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women'' (2019) * ''Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of

Nancy Hale Nancy Hale (May 6, 1908 – September 24, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer. She received the O. Henry Award, a Benjamin Franklin magazine award, and the Henry H. Bellaman Foundation Award for fiction. Early life and educatio ...

'' ( Lauren Groff, editor, 2019) * ''The

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Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the Gang, and the Meaning of Life'' (Andrew Blauner, editor, 2019) * ''

Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America, as Told to

Horace Traubel Horace Logo Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, magazine publisher, author, and Georgist. Traubel was closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States and published a monthly literary magazine call ...

'' (

, editor, 2019) * ''American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition'' ( Andrew J. Bacevich, editor, 2020) * ''American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions'' (

Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic, the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has be ...

, editor, 2020) * ''The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters'' (2020) * Dolores Hitchens, ''Sleep with Strangers'' (2021) ; ''Sleep with Slander'' (2021) *

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and worl ...

, ''The Complete

Translations'', volume 1 (2021) ; volume 2 (2021) *

Mary Jane Ward Mary Jane Ward (August 27, 1905 in Fairmount, Indiana—February 17, 1981, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American novelist whose semi-autobiographical book ''The Snake Pit'' was made into an Oscar-winning film. Works Ward authored eight books duri ...

, ''The Snake Pit'' (2021) * Richard Wright, ''The Man Who Lived Underground'' (2021) * Hannah Arendt, ''On Lying and Politics'' (2022) *

, ''The Heart of American Poetry'' (2022) *

, ''The Prodigal Women'' (2023)

Notes and references

Bibliography

* ''Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future'' by Jason Epstein, W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, * Michael Gorra
"The Library of America at Thirty"
''The Sewanee Review'' 120.4 (Fall 2012), 545–553. .

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