[muleboy]

I guess I'll just have to be content with northern authors like Herman Melville and Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. James Fennemore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Washington Irving, and Henry David Throreau. Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane. Julia Ward Howe, Louisa Mae Alcott, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Sandburg, and Robert Frost. And then there's Horatio Alger, Henry James, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, and Upton Sinclair and don't forget Sinclair Lewis. Jack London and O. Henry. Then there's Eugene O'Neil and Henry Miller and e.e. cummings, and, well you get the idea.

Yeah I get the idea that leftists, feminists, socialists, and statists are something in which you take pride. Especially when Twain and Mencken are omitted.

Explains a lot.

[Non-Sequitur]

Spoken like a man who has never read any of them.

[Twodees]

You hit the nail on the head. That list of authors is a magnificent example of how communists, anarchists, socialists and other atheistic scum have to be used fill any list of northern writers. Even with the addition of the traitors, the list is woefully short and without them, it's loaded with dillettants who would never have been published had they not had the family connections to get their tripe into print.

Seeing Julia Ward Howe listed as a great artist is hilarious. That lady was an absolute imbecile who married a worthless slacker and gave him control of her money. Naturally, Steinbeck and Hemingway are the two biggies, both communists who would be giving lavishly to Hillary Clinton if they were alive today.