Ernest Hemingway- I saw a movie about him in my English class…it was kinda interesting.

Poe, Twain and Hemingway would be easy about writing their impact on American history.

Joyce Carol Oates is an interesting author, her books are very descriptive and engaging. She has a fictional account of Marilyn Monroe’s called “Blonde” that’s pretty good, but it is a long read. And it might be a but harder to argue her impact on American histoy.

Nora Zeal Hurston was kind of like the outcast of the Harlem Renaissance and also a very good female writer. I’d suggest “Their Eyes Were Watching God”.

You have some very great writers to chose from there! Honestly whoever you choose you can’t go wrong with.