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| Other Writers on the Road who need to be considered |
| Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Sarah Kemble Knight, The Journal of Madame Knight William Byrd, The Histories of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina Benjamin Franklin — walking into Philadelphia, munching his rolls, and meeting his wife on the side ... Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntley Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry — the by-ways of frontier roads in Western Pennsylvania James Kirke Paulding, John Bull in America Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Georgia Scenes, a former circuit judge's recollections of his days doing the rounds on horseback out on the frontier and in the barrens, a book that incidentally established a genre, Southwestern Humor. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the repercussions of Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie Nathaniel Hawthorne: the path out into the woods and back to the dwellings Herman Melville — before going onboard the Pequot, Ishmael spent some time on the road from New York to New Bedford. Mark Twain — the river as road, and roughing it out west William Dean Howells, or, roads become streets: The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Owen Wister, The Virginian Ambrose Bierce — Owl Creek Bridge and other roadside absurdities Frank Norris, The Octopus Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, a tale of the streets Henry James, The American Scene Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy Sinclair Lewis, Main Street and Elmer Gantry, among others Sherwood Anderson: the roads of rural Ohio; to New Orleans and New York John Dos Passos — the endings of Manhattan Transfer and U.S.A. William Faulkner: The Roads of Yoknapatawpha Erskine Caldwell, Tobacco Road James Agee, A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James E. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice John Steinbeck has at least half a dozen road novels,
from Of Mice and Men to Travels with Charlie in Search of America. Raymond Chandler and the mean streets of L. A. the Beats, whoever they were, or is accounted to them Norman Mailer — leading the fall '67 march to the Pentagon and reporting from the maze-filled streets of Chicago, in July '68. Hunter S. Thompson
(and going on beyond Generation X) ... ... |