American Literature Kids Hoodies

Read more bell hooks. Digital illustration, 2021.

Audre Lorde was an American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."

H.P. Lovecraft portrait and quote: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

James Baldwin Retro Look

American Sluts

When William S. Burroughs met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, it was an event that would stay recorded in the history of literature. Burroughs was an interesting character and a man of substance.

Author and humorist Mark Twain (portrait by Chris Schweizer)

James Baldwin Artwork For His Fans..

In 1993, Toni Morrison was the first black woman who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. This was the conclusion of successful publishing and academic career. The list of awards she had received is long, and it includes the American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and many others. In 2006, The New York Times Book Review chose her novel Beloved as the best work in American fiction in the previous 25 years! Ms. Morrison died in 2019 at the age of 88.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. 1876 “I Love Books Collection” A retro design collection based on the universal classic books.

American Writer, Kurt Vonnegut. Handwritten font, lettering by my own human hand!! x badlydrawnbabe

If you like the wisdom from literary powerhouse Maya Angelou, then you'll love this inspiring quote. Cute, uplifting illustration perfect for someone who wants to stay energised and centred during this challenging time. Great gift for a fan of this wise and magnficent author or for anyone who wants to remember and share a positive message.

Robert Louis Stevenson - Some Of My Books Are Great

A vintage style William S Burroughs T-shirt

James Baldwin

In World War II, he was captured by Germans. He survived the horrible bombing of Dresden by seeking protection in a meat locker of a slaughterhouse. In 1969, over two decades later, his novel Slaughterhouse-Five climbed to the top of The New York Times Bestseller list.

Marbled paper,traditionally used for book endpapers, with little circles of text from The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James.Perfect for curling up with a good book. Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

AI-generated Pre-Raphaelite portraits representing women entrapped by Shirley Jackson's creepiest setting, Hill House.

James Baldwin quote: "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do." Best gift for James Baldwin fans.

The Man and the Typewriter.

James Baldwin Pop Art Illustration

Good advice from Herman Melville fans: Read More Melville. In white, distressed, retro-style lettering.

Believe nothing you hear, and only half what you see.

The opening of Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby-Dick, in white, antique-typewriter-style lettering.

Prolific 19th Century American author of adventure novels.

Edgar Allan Poe giving you nightmares since 1809

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.” ― Toni Morrison Digital illustration, 2020.

Ayn Rand, born as Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, was a quite controversial but very popular Russian-American writer, known by her novels We the Living, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

The Bell Jar quote by Sylvia Plath: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

A vintage style Kurt Vonnegut T-shirt

Marbled paper,traditionally used for book endpapers over a faintly creepy floral wallpaper, with little circles of text from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Illustration from an old engraving of a patient in an asylum nsane patient at a French asylum.. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Kate chopin quote: Kate chopin portrait and quote: I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was an essential member of the Harlem Renaissance. She researched the African-American folklore and daily life, drawing inspiration from it. Her most recognized work was Their Eyes Were Watching God.

The writer John Steinbeck Rules

Kate chopin quote: It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.