Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ragged Dick [Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks] (novel) 1868

Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (novel) 1888

George Washington Cable
The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life (novel) 1880

Abraham Cahan
Yekl, A Tale of the New York Ghetto (short story) 1896
The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto (short stories) 1898

Andrew Carnegie
The Gospel of Wealth (essay) 1889

Stephen Crane
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (novel) 1893

Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie (novel) 1900

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Majors and Minors (poetry) 1895

Henry George
Progress and Poverty (nonfiction) 1879

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wall-Paper (short story) 1892
Women and Economics (nonfiction) 1899

Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (short stories) 1881

William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham (novel) 1885
A Hazard of New Fortunes (novel) 1890

Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study (novella) 1879
The Portrait of a Lady (novel) 1881
The Bostonians: A Novel (novel) 1886
The Golden Bowl (novel) 1904

Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs (novel) 1896

Mark Twain With Charles Dudley Warner
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (novel) 1873
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (novel) 1884
Pudd’nhead Wilson: A Tale (novel) 1894

Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class (nonfiction) 1899

Charles Dudley Warner [with Mark Twain]
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (novel) 1873