This course offered by Yale University focuses on the American Novel since 1945. The course covers a wide range of works from 1945 to the present, tracing the formal and thematic developments of the novel in this period. The reading list includes works by various authors such as Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course is taught by Amy Hungerford, a Professor of English at Yale, who specializes in 20th- and 21st-century American literature, especially the period since 1945.