31.   Langston Hughes burst out of southern Missouri with a jazzy style and a searing voice, injecting American literature with a cadence unlike anything that had come before.

32.   Miller argues that a pervasive strain in American literature emphasizes self-invention.

33.   Needham studied American literature at Sussex University but came of age professionally and personally in the laddie magazine world of England.

34.   Overnight, he became the poster boy for American literature.

35.   Our Beijing tour guide brags that he knows a lot about American literature.

36.   Paul Bowles, the novelist, composer, poet and quintessential outsider of American literature, died of a heart attack Thursday in a hospital in Tangier, Morocco.

37.   Part of that mission is to paint a portrait of a particular kind of Irish-American life that McCourt feels has been underrepresented in American literature.

38.   Really get to know this cornerstone of American literature.

39.   Such a multilayered portrayal of black life is rare in American literature, Morrison notes.

40.   Still, he never stopped struggling to close the gap between his ideal and reality, and what was born as a humor magazine ended up reshaping American literature.