english timeline By brandonbrunner123 1600 native americans used symbols to write stories Period: 1600 to 1800 foundations of american literature 1640 thomas hooker wrote souls humiliation 1791 benjamin franklin wrote the autobiography of benjamin franklin Period: 1800 to 1860 romanticism 1827 james fenimore cooper wrote the prairie 1843 edgar allen poe wrote the black cat 1850 nathanial hawthorn wrote the scarlet letter Period: 1855 to 1915 realism 1884 mark twain wrote the adventures of huckleberry finn 1891 henry james wrote the turn of the screw Period: 1900 to 1950 the moderns 1933 claude mckay wrote the banana bottom Period: 1950 to 2018 post modernism 1) william H gass the tunnel (1995) 1974 lewis thomas wrote ceti 1995 william H gass wrote the tunnel