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
