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Robert Frost(1874-1963)
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A nature poet who used plain
speech and short, traditional
forms of lyrics
Wrote:-Nothing Gold Can Stay
-The Road Not Taken
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F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)
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Celebrated the boom of the
1920s and crash of 1930s
Wrote:
-The Great Gatsby
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T.S. Elliot(1888-1965)
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Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
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Wrote:
-A Farewell to Arms
-For Whom the Bell Tolls
-The Old Man and the Sea
-The Sun also Rises
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Sylvia Plath(1932-1963)
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E.E. Cummings(1894-1962)
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One of the most notablepoets of the 20th C., used
creativity in his poems
Wrote:
-The Enormous Room-Tulips and Chimneys
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William Faulkner(1897-1963)
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Experimented in use ofstream-of-consciousness
technique in his novels
Wrote:
-The Sound and The Fury
-As I Lay Dying
-Absalom! Absalom!
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Sherwood Anderson(1876-1941)
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Influenced Hemingway andFaulkner
Wrote:
-Windy McPhersons Son
-Many Marriages-Marching Men
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Upton Sinclair(1878-1968)
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American novelist, essayist,
playwright, and short story
writerWrote:
-The Jungle
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Willa Cather(1873-1947)
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Considered one of the best
chroniclers of pioneering life
in the 20th C.
Wrote:-My Antonia
-One of Ours
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Gertrude Stein(1874-1946)
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The autobiography of Alice
B. Toklas
Tender Buttons
The Making of Americans
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Sinclair Lewis(1885-1951)
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1st American to win Nobel
Prize for Literature
Wrote:
-Arrowsmith-Main Street
-Babbitt
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John Steinbeck(1902-1968)
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Considered foremost novelist
of American Depression of
the 1930s
Wrote:-The Grapes of Wrath
-Of Mice and Men
-The Red Pony
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Stephen Crane(1871-1900)
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Was internationally well-
known for his depiction of
ghetto life and the
deprivation of warWrote:
-The Red Badge of Courage
-Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
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James Fenimore Cooper(1789-1851)
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1st great national novelist
Wrote:
-The Leatherstocking series
-The Last of the Mohicans
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Mary Rowlandson(1635-1678)
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Wrote about her 11-week
captivity byIndians during an
Indian massacre of 1676
Wrote:-The Narrative
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Phillis Wheatly(1753-1784)
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Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper
(1825-1911)
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Active in abolition, womens
sufferage, and temperance
movement
Wrote:-Sketches of Southern Life
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Best known American poet
of the 1800s
Wrote:
-The Song of Hiawatha-The Courtship of Miles
Standish
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Fredrick Douglass(1818-1895)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864)
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Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
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Sold over 100,000 copies in
1st 3 months of publication
of his 1st book
Wrote:-Common Sense
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Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
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Louisa May Alcott(1832-1888)
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Wrote:
-Little Women-Little Men
-8 Cousins
-Rose in Bloom
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Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
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Wrote The Song of Myself,
which he was most known
for
Wrote:-Leaves of Grass
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Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens)(1835-1910)
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Admired for capturing typical
American experiences in a
language which is realistic
and charming
Wrote:-The Adventures of Huck
Finn
-The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer-Life on the Mississippi
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Jack London(1876-1916)
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Wrote:
-The Call of the Wild
-White Fang
-Seawolf-The War of the Classes
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Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)
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Depicts slavery as evil b/c it
divides families and destroys
normal parental love
Wrote:-Uncle Toms Cabin
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Samson Occom(1723-1792)
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Wrote one of the earliest
autobiographies of an
American Indian, which
explains his conversion toChristianity and rejection of
his tribe, Mohawks
Wrote:
-A Short Narrative of My Life
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Edgar Allan Poe(1809-1849)
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Invented detective fiction
Wrote:
-The Raven
-The Purloined Letter-The Gold Bug
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Herman Melville(1819-1891)
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Wrote:
-Moby Dick
-Typee
-Bartleby, the Scrivner
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John Smith(1580-1631)
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Captain who startedJamestown colony
Married Pocahontas
Wrote:
-A Map of VA, with a
Description of the country
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Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)
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Henry James(1843-1916)
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Made important contributionsto the literary theories
Wrote:
-The Portrait of a Lady
-The Turn of the Screw
-The Art of Fiction
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Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
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Wrote nearly 8,000 poemson love, nature, faith, and
death
Uses ambiguity, obscurity,
and onomatopoeia
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John Greenleaf Whittier(1807-1892)
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Respected for his anti-slavery poems
Wrote:
-Snowbound
-Ichabod
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William Byrd II(1674-1744)
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One of the 1st Americans todocument appreciation of
Americas vast wilderness
Wrote:
-History of the Dividing Line
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914)
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Noted for his Civil War talesWrote:
-Devils Dictionary
-Tales of Soldiers and
Civilians
-Can Such Things Be?
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Paul Laurence Dunbar(1872-1906)
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Well known for his poetrythat was written in the dialect
of southern blacks
1st African-American to gain
national prominence as a
poet
Wrote:
-Oak and Ivy-In Old Plantation Days
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Jupiter Hammon(1711-1806)
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1st black writer to publish inAmerica
Wrote:
-Evening Thought; An Essay
on the 10 Virgins
-An Address of Miss Phyllis
Wheatly
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St. Jean de Crvecoeur(1735-1813)
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1st European writer toexplore the concept of the
American dream
Wrote:
-Letters From an American
Farmer
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Edward Taylor(1642-1729)
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Finest example of 17th C.poetry in America
Best writer of the Puritan
Times
Wrote:
-Prepatory Meditations
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John Winthrop(1588-1649)
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William Bradford(1589-1590)
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One of the authors of TheMayflower Compact
Wrote:
-History of the Plymouth
Plantation
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Washington Irving(1789-1859)
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1st American literaryhumorist
Introduced non-fiction prose
as a genre
Wrote:
-Rip Van Winkle
-The Legend of
SleepyHollow
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William Cullen Bryant(1794-1878)
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Wrote:-Thanatopsis
Translated:
-Illiad
-Odyssey
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Maya Angelou(1928-present)
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*One of the greatest voices ofcontemporary literature
*Has written 12 best sellers which
includes I Know Why the Cage Bird
Sings and her more currentA Song
Flung Up to Heaven
*Another icon (Oprah) respectfully
transcends Mayas words, If you get give
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Apprenticed printer turned witty writer.
Best known for 1733 Poor RichardsAlmanac, which preached the value of
hard work and thrift along with clever
maxims for achieving wealth.
Other Works:
-Rules by which a Great Empire May
be Reduced to a Small Once
-Remarks Concerning the Savages ofNorth America
-The Autobiography
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Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
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Wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems.
Only a handful of them were publishedduring her lifetime all anonymously
and probably without her knowledge.
Wrote:-I shall know why, when time is over-I never lost as much but twice
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Harlem Renaissance(unofficially = 1919-mid 1930s)
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Flowering of African American art, music,
literature, and culture in the US led primarilyby the African American community based in
Harlem, NY
Langston HughesZora Neal Hurston