
(Painting of the Algonquin Round Table on the wall in the Algonquin Hotel Dining Room. Dorothy Parker is on the left.)
This section will contain information about a variety of authors from the 1910s through the 2010s and their works. Below is a timeline chronology of those 100 years.
1910-1919: World War I and the Armistice
1920-1929: Prosperity and Its Demise
1930-1939: The Great Depression
1940-1949: World War II, The Atomic Bomb, NATO
1950-1959 – Two Cars in Every Garage
1960-1969 – Civil Rights and Turmoil
1970-1979 – The Nation in Flux
1980-1989 – The Reagan Revolution
1990-1999 – Prosperity as the World Turns
2000-2009 – The Fight against Terrorism
2010-Present – Economic Recovery