Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).

The 20th-century American poet Robinson Jeffers composed a poem titled Ode to Hengist and Horsa.

A number of 19th and 20th-century United States and Canadian painters, often motivated by a desire to document and preserve Native culture, specialized in Native American subjects.

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Norman Percevel Rockwell ( February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978 ) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Theater scholar Charlotte Canning, of the University of Texas at Austin where Williams ' archives are located, has said, " There is no more influential 20th-century American playwright than Tennessee Williams ...

This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 AD, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century North American artists, including Jasper Johns, Tony Scherman, and Fernando Leal Audirac.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

The city's most prominent art museum is the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, whose collection has more than 3, 600 works and a focus on 20th-century American art.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Under the 20th-century editorship of Colonel Robert R. McCormick the paper was strongly isolationist and actively biased in its coverage of political news and social trends, calling itself " The American Paper for Americans ," excoriating the Democrats and the New Deal, resolutely disdainful of the British and French and greatly enthusiastic for Chiang Kai-shek and Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

The story is a look at early 20th-century American race relations.

Category: 20th-century American novels

Category: 20th-century American novels

Miró has been a significant influence on late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist artists such as Motherwell, Calder, Gorky, Pollock, Matta and Rothko, while his lyrical abstractions and color field paintings were precursors of that style by artists such as Frankenthaler, Olitski and Louis and others.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

* 1941 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1970 – Will Clarke, American novelist

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 1947 – Danielle Steel, American novelist

* 1885 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 )

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

* 1970 – Anthony Swofford, American novelist

* 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

* 1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist

* 1943 – Nelson DeMille, American novelist

* 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist

* 1903 – Ward Moore, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

* Alexandra Sokoloff, American novelist and screenwriter

* Isaac Asimov ( 1920 – 1992 ), American essayist, scientist, novelist, written commentator, science fiction writer

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

* Commodore ( shipwreck ), a steamer lost to a maritime disaster in 1897 that occurred off the coast of Daytona Beach, Florida, of which American novelist Stephen Crane was a surviving passenger

James Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

* 1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

* 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist ( d. 1899 )