DVD 3: 5. 1926-1939; 6. 1940-1949

5. Great American Authors 1926 - 1939
The most turbulent period in American history, encompassing the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression established America s greatest writers, known collectively as the Lost Generation .
Chapters:
1929 - Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel
1929 - William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
1930 - Sinclair Lewis Becomes the First American to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature
1931 - Pearl Buck:  The Good Earth
1936 - Playwright Eugene O Neill Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1939 Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

6. Great American Authors 1940 - 1949
America entered the technological age through the darkness of WWII. American authors were becoming legends in their own time through mass media and popular culture. Their response was as diverse as the nation s response to living in the nuclear age.
Chapters:
1940 - Ernest Hemingway:  For Whom the Bell Tolls
1941 - James Thurber:  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947-1953 - Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov Usher in the Era of Popular Science Fiction
1948 - Tennessee Williams Wins His First Pulitzer Prize for A Street Car Named Desire
1949 - Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman