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Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from Its Beginnings to 2020 is a five-volume, completely-open anthology that features full text by over 100 authors. From Native American tales of origins to the latest poem read at a presidential inauguration, the selections represent the diverse voices in American literature. This anthology charts the development of the literary production in the United States, highlighting the writers who influenced and authored American letters.Volume 1 was developed as an adaptation of the textbook "Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution" by Wendy Kurant, developed at the University of Georgia and the Galileo Open Learning Materials program.Volumes 2-5 were developed as an adaptation of the textbook Writing the Nation a Concise Introduction… by Amy Berke, Robert Bleil, Jordan Cofer and Doug Davis, developed at the University of Georgia and the Galileo Open Learning Materials program. In volumes 4-5, copyrighted materials are linked to the University of Delaware Library's collections. Others using these volumes should check with their librarians to see if these materials are available and can be linked.Features: Contextualizing introductions to the major literary periods, over 100 historical images, and In-depth biographies of each author.

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