In addition to F. Scott Fitzgerald and other specific collections, holdings include most major American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Phillis Wheatley
- Walt Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass
- the Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-century American Literature
- Frederick Douglass on Robert Burns
- the William R. Bailey Collection (Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Paul Leicester Ford)
- the Mitchell Kennerly imprint collections (Bruccoli Collection)
- the Robert Frost Collection
- the Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- the Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Foundation Collection of Ernest Hemingway
- the Jules Furthman Screenplay Archive
- Paris Publishers of the 1920's
- James Weldon Johnson 1871-1938
- the Lucille Jordan Palmer Collection of Jesse Stuart
- the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - an exhibition introducing the
Robert D. Middendorf Collection - Reviews on File, 1929-1970
- the Armed Services Editions collection (Bruccoli Collection)
- the Joseph Heller Archive
- the James Dickey Library and the James Dickey Poetry Seminar Room
- the Wallace Markfield Papers: an exhibition
- the Works of Norman Mailer
- the John Jakes Archive
- the Modern American Writers project
- the George V. Higgins Collection
- the George V. Higgins Retrospective Exhibition (pdf download)
- Charles Frazier and the Books of Cold Mountain
- The Kaye Gibbons Archive
- the American Literary Biography Depository
- 22 Collections: An Exhibition from the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collections
- LitCheck--The Center for Literary Biography's Online Checklist
This library is a congressionaly designated depository for U.S. government documents. Public access to the government documents collections is guaranteed by public law.