American Literature Flashcards
Populer for To Kill a Mockingbird that won a pulitzer prize in 1961
Harper Lee
Won the Pulitzer prizefor his work of The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier & Clay. This book tells the tale of two friends who rise through the ranks of the comic industry.
Michael Chabon
Known for his Game of Throwns series
George R. R. Martin
Henry Longfellow was an early american poet who was famous for writing “paul reveres ride.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. Her popular novels include Song of Solomon, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.
Toni Morrison
An American poet and journalist who helped with the transition from transcendentalist to realism. He is best known for his poetry collect “Leaves of Grass” and “O Captain! My Captain!”.
Walt Whitman
An American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist who wrote seven autobiographies about on herself. One of her volumes of poetry was title And Still I Rise.
Maya Angelou
His novel Infinite Jest was listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
David Foster Wallace
An American female poet best known for her lifestyle. Some of her works include “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”, “I taste a liquor never brewed”, and “Success is counted sweetest”.
Emily Dickinson
William Williams was a very famous poet who won the Pulitzer prize for poetry. His famous works include The Red wheelbarrow and “This is just to say”
William Carlos Williams
An American romantic poet whos most famous work is titled “Thanatopsis”. He also published other works such as “To a Waterfowl” and “The Embargo”.
William Cullen Bryant
Robert Frost was a very influential poet who won 4 puolitzer prizes and was nominated for a nobel prize 31 times. His notable works are a Boys Will and North of Boston
Robert Frost
An American fiction writer during the 1900s who has four finished novels and one unfinished novel. his finished novels include “This Side of Paradise”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “The Great Gatsby”, and “Tender Is the Night”.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“A story of San Francisco” Young dentist Mcteague and his emotional decline “The octopus: a story of Calfornia” struggle of California wheat farmers in the San Joaquin valley against the powerful Pacific and Southwestern Railroad monopoly
Frank Norris
Allen Ginsburg was a huge leader of poetry during the 1950’s and had many literary works. Some of his works include Howl, America and Kaddish.
Allen Ginsburg
An American author during the early 1800s known for his poetry and short stories. Considered the central figure for romanticisim writing many books such as “The Raven”, “The Black Cat”, and “Annabel Lee”.
Edgar Allan Poe
. Has been on the list of top 100 american authors since 1923. He is a playwright, novelist, and screenwright known for Blood Meridian, The Road, and All the Pretty Horses
Cormic McCarthy
“An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge” Peyton Farquhar is a plantation owner who is about to be hung
Ambrose Bierce
Won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Mon. 26 Aug 2019.
Ernest Hemmingway
Born in May 31, 1819, he was a famous poet who wrote the poem “O Captain, My Captain.” He was also deemed the poet of democracy.
Walt Whitman
Known for The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.
Ernest Hemingway
An American novelist during the 1800s best known for “The Scarlet Letter” and many other novels that later followed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Was an author for over 50 years. Wrote Slaghterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Best known for the Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald was an avid drinker.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. Famous for The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, and East of Eden.
John Steinbeck
Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He wrote the Adventures of Augie March and Herzog.
Saul Below
An American essayist who is best known for his “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” published in 1821.
Thomas De Quincey
An American Sci-Fi author whose works include “Stranger in a Strange Land”, “Starship Troopers”, and “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”.
Robert A. Heinlein
American novelist and short-story writer. Roth’s fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character. Known for American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and Patnoys Complaint
Phillip Roth
“Germinal” Etienne Lantier arrives on foot at the Voreux pit and is told there is nor work for a mechanic”
Emile Zola
An American poet and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement in the mid 19th century. Some of his essays include “Self-Reliance”, “The American Scholar”, and “Nature”.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Peer Gynt” Peer Gynt is a Norwegian farm lad who wastes his time in lazy dreaming, boasting and brawling-
Henrick Ibsen
An American journalist and women’s rights activist druing the transcendentalist movement. She is commonly known for her book “Women in the Nineteenth Century” which is known as the first major feminist book in the United States.
Margaret Fuller
Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978 “for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.” The Nobel Prize in Literature 1978. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Mon. 26 Aug 2019.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
As a writer and editor, Campbell wrote the books Who Goes There and Islands of Space.
John W. Campbell
Her first novel was the Bluest Eye which was published in 1970 and is famous for the Song of Solomon.
Toni Morrison
“The Gettysburg Address” trying to unite the U.S. during civil war 1963
Abraham Lincoln
An American writer during the 1800s best known for his books “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. He also wrote the bibliograpy for President George Washington.
Washington Irving
Published the novel Infinite Fest in 1997. It is a futuristic portrael of America and a critique of the media-saturated nature of American life. It is seen as one of the most important work of the 20th century.
David Foster Wallace
Author famous for the Enders Quartet, consisting of Enders Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
Author famous for his Dune series
Frank Herbert
Published Gravity’s Rainbow in 1973 winning the national book award. His work was also unanimously nominated for the Pulitzer prize for fiction
Thomas Pynchon
An American poet and educator whose works include “Paul Revere’s Ride”, “The Song of Hiawatha”, and “Evangeline”.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987, “for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity.” The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Mon. 26 Aug 2019.
Joseph Brodsky
An American romantic poet who published “A Fable for Critics” and “The Biglow Papers”.
James Russell Lowell
Sylvia Plath was famous poet who studied at the university of cambridge before going on to become a poet. Her works include Daddy, Lady Lazarus, and Tulips.
Sylvia Plath
Langston Hughes was a famous African American poet who won many awards for his very influential poetry. An example of this is that he was inducted into the chicago literary hall of fame in 2012.
Langston Hughes
He was an American-English poet who was a major influence during the 20th century. He is most famous for The Wasteland ans The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
T.S Eliot
Rose to literary fame in 1985 for his novel, White Noise. A work bringingup subjects of death and comsumerism.
Don DeLillio
Gwendolyn Brooks was the first african american woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was a prominent teacher and poet.
Gwendolyn Brooks
E.E Cummings was an important figure in poetry who was awarded the Bollingen Prize. He had lots of controversy in his poems however due to them containing erotic stories.
E. E. Cummings
“Aventures of Hucklberry Finn” “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” 1873-1916
Mark Twain
“Sister Carrie” Carrie Meeber, an ordinary girl who rises from a low-paid wage earner to a high-paid actress “American Tragedy” Clyde Griffiths, who raises himself up socially and economically, but whose moral shortcomings lead to his eventual downfall.
Theodore Drieser
Emily Dickinson was a famous poet who wrote hundredes of peoms throughout her life. She was an important figure in poetry and has left a very lasting legacy. Her poems are studied from middle school to college.
Emily Dickinson
“My Bondage and my Freedom” Auotbigoprahy of his life and how he traveled as a lecturer 1855
Fredrick Douglas
Mara Angelou was a notable african american poet who won many awards during her lifetime like 3 grammies for example. Her noteable works are I know why the caged bird sings and on the pulse of morning.
Maya Angelou
Dick was an American writer known for his work in science fiction that explored philosophical, social, and political themes. He wrote the books Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, Ubik, and A Scanner Darkly.
Phillip K. Dick
A poet who graduated from harvard and went on to become an incredibly influential poet. He won many many awards like the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prize.
Wallace Stevens
An American poet during the 1800s and advocate for the abolishment of slavery. He wrote “Legends of New England”, “Moll Pitcher”, and “The Song of the Vermonters, 1779”.
John Greenleaf Whittier
A very influential poet who wrote several famous books for poetry after moving to europe. He also attended a military academy in 1897.
Ezra Pound
Edgar Allen Poe was an extremly famous poet who is best know for his poems of mystery. His famous works are The Raven, Annabelle Lee, and The Bells.
Edgar Allen Poe
American author best known for the novels Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions.
Kurt Vonnegut
World renown for the Game of Throwns series. He is also a short story author.
George R. R. Martin
Known for the Rabbit series, Couples, and The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike
“The Call of the Wild” Califonia, St bernard is stolen, and becomes a sled dog, reverting back to a more primitive state of mind.
Jack London
Won the Nobel Proze for literature in 2016 for creating new poetic expressions in American music
Bob Dylan
An American writer during the first half of the 19th century knonw for historical romances. He is known for his works “The Spy” and “The Last of the Mohicans”.
James Fenimore Cooper
An American author and screenwriter within many genres include Sci-Fi. He wrote the following books “Fahreinheit 451”, “The Martian Chronicles”, “The Illustrated Man”, and “I Sing the Body Electric”
Ray Bradbury
An American novelist during the American Renaissance time period. He is best known for his books “Typee” and “Moby Dick”.
Herman Melville
An American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy novels most famous for The Stand, It, and The Shinning. He started in 1967 and is still writing.
Stephen King
Grandfather of Sci-Fi, famous for his books I, Robot and the Foundation Series.
Isaac Asimov
A short story writer known for his novel, The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
An American science fiction writer and editor who won four Hugo and three Nebula awards. He is best known for his novel “Gateway”.
Frederik Pohl
“An Episode of War” (injury of young lieutenant during war) “The Red Badge of Courage” (Henry Fleming enlists in union army in hopes of fullfiling dreams of glory 1895
Stephen Crane
