Six American Novelists of the Nineteenth CenturySix American Novelists of the Nineteenth Century was first published in 1968. This volume, based on material from the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, provides concise critical introductions to six nineteenth century American novelists of major importance. The novelists discussed and the contributing authors are James Fenimore Cooper by Robert E. Spiller, Nathaniel Hawthorne by Hyatt H. Waggoner, Herman Melville by Leon Howard,