21.   For years, Morrell was a professor of American literature at the University of Iowa.

22.   Gloster was also an author who often lectured on American literature and education.

23.   Her account of a harrowing three months of captivity is a classic of early American literature.

24.   His literary world opened further two years later, when, as a sophomore at East Brunswick High School, he took a course in American literature.

25.   IMUS GOES THE WAY OF BOOK-LOVING OPRAH Barnes and Noble has announced its institution of the Imus American Book Awards, the richest prize in American literature.

26.   Invented by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle was the most heroic snoozer in American literature.

27.   It is Patrick Stewart who gets to play Ahab, one of the towering figures in American literature.

28.   It is amazing to reflect that the Lone Star state has yet to produce a single writer who can be counted among the giants of American literature.

29.   It may be newly controversial, but black English is a familiar part of American literature.

30.   It poured out fiction and nonfiction, art books, the classics and translations of American literature.