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Library of America

The Library of America[4] (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature. Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents. Anthologies and works containing historical documents, criticism, and journalism are also published. Library of America volumes seek to print authoritative versions of works; include extensive notes, chronologies, and other back matter; and are known for their distinctive physical appearance and characteristics.

Parent company

Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. (d.b.a.)

Active

1979 (1979)

United States

New York City

Penguin Random House Publisher Services[1]

Books

American documents, memoirs, criticism, and journalism

Classic American literature

$8.78 million (2022)[2]

22 (staff, 2023)[3]

www.loa.org

Writing (Phillip Lopate, ed. 1998) ISBN 978-1-883011-62-8

New York

American Sea Writing (Peter Neill, ed. 2000)  978-1-883011-83-3

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(Nicholas Dawidoff, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-09-9

Baseball

Writing (David L. Ulin, ed. 2002) ISBN 978-1-931082-27-3

Los Angeles

Americans in (Adam Gopnik, ed. 2004) ISBN 1-931082-56-1

Paris

American Writers at Home (, author, Erica Lennar, photographer 2004) ISBN 978-1-931082-75-4

J. D. McClatchy

American Movie Critics (Phillip Lopate, ed. 2006)  978-1-931082-92-1

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American Religious Poems ( and Jesse Zuba, eds., 2006) ISBN 978-1-931082-74-7

Harold Bloom

American Food Writing (Molly O'Neill, ed., 2007)  978-1-59853-005-6

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True Crime: An American Anthology (Harold Schechter, ed., 2008)  978-1-59853-031-5

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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (, ed., 2009) ISBN 978-1-59853-051-3

Ilan Stavans

At the Fights: American Writers on (George Kimball and John Schulian, eds., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-092-6

Boxing

The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from to The Onion (Andy Borowitz ed., 2011) ISBN 978-1-59853-107-7

Mark Twain

Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight (Joseph J. Corn, ed., 2011)  978-1-59853-108-4

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The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (, ed., 2013) ISBN 978-1-59853-256-2

Glenn O'Brien

: Great Writing about the National Sport (John Schulian, ed., 2014) ISBN 978-1-59853-307-1

Football

Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from to Jay Z (Kevin Dettmar and Jonathan Lethem, eds., 2017) ISBN 978-1-59853-531-0

Elvis

: Great Writing About America's Game (Alexander Wolff, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-556-3

Basketball

Dance in America: A Reader's Anthology (, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-584-6

Mindy Aloff

The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to (Lisa Yaszek, ed., 2018) ISBN 978-1-59853-580-8

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Great American Sports Page: A Century of Classic Columns from to Sally Jenkins (John Schulian, ed., 2019) ISBN 978-1-59853-612-6

Ring Lardner

American Birds (Andrew Rubenfeld and , eds., 2020) ISBN 978-1-59853-655-3

Terry Tempest Williams

American Christmas Stories (, ed., 2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-706-2

Connie Willis

Women's Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can ( and Honor Moore, eds., 2021) ISBN 978-1-59853-678-2

Alix Kates Shulman

The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women (, ed., 2022) ISBN 978-1-59853-732-1

Lisa Yaszek

The Black Fantastic: Twenty Stories (André M. Carrington, ed., 2025) ISBN 978-1-59853-811-3

Afrofuturist

Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

Hurley, Cheryl (1996). . Publishing Research Quarterly. 12 (4): 36–49. doi:10.1007/BF02680573. S2CID 143756072 – via EBSCO Connect.

"Rescuing America's Literary Heritage: The Story of the Library of America"

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Official website

List of all main series titles

"Forty Years of the LOA Series: Top Volumes 1982–2022"

Nonprofit Explorer 501(c)(3) listings at ProPublica