What 1951-2000 U.S. Literature will endure?

[sickboy51]

*Originally posted by Chronos *
**If you’re going to go that route, then Asimov is Russian. But I think that if an author identifies himself as a particular nationality, writes as a member of that nationality, and targets an audience of that nationality… Well, it quacks like a duck. Although I’m not really sure why nationality is so important, anyway: Brits and Americans read each others’ books all the time.

But a clarification on the OP: Is this about literature, or books? Because films are included in the first category, and movies like the Star Wars trilogy (I’m counting them as one work) are sure to endure. Wait-- Is Star Wars American? **

Allright… since when is the UK a part of the US, you say?
Most of the literature I read is anglosaxon, and I usually don´t mind if this author is british or american. when I was going to reply on this board I noticed that most books I thought suitable to last to the next 200 years were written by english (not american) people. That´s why the correction.
I think I´ve read somebody psoting “1984”, yes, I think that book will last 200 years or even more, but wasn´t George Orwell british also?

[lilbtagna]

I’ll have to agree with those who said To Kill a Mockingbird, and the works of Dr. Seuss.

As much as I loved Stranger in a Strange Land, I don’t know if it will endure. I don’t know what the reaction to it was when it came out, but it doesn’t seem very mainstream to me.

[Spoke]

I think I´ve read somebody psoting “1984”, yes, I think that book will last 200 years or even more, but wasn´t George Orwell british also?

D’oh! I’m an idiot. Don’t know what I was thinking.

Substitute Invisible Man on my list.

[MC_Master_of_Ceremonies]

And 1984 was written in 1948.