re: #297 HappyWarrior

John Cheever, John Updike, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Anne Tyler, Don DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, Ann Beatie. Trying to think if there were others. My favorite story that we had to read in that class was The Swimmer.

My course was the “20th century American Novel,” so we read Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow, Updike, Barth — it’s been too long to remember all of them. IIRC, we did not read any AA novelists, though I read Ellison in high school, nor any female writers, though the prof was a woman. I wish I still had the reading list handy, so I could re-read the books I’ve forgotten about.