Authors Flashcards
American author and screenwriter who lived 1920–2012. Famous works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Ray Bradbury
American writer who lived 1916-1965. Known for the short story “The Lottery”. Also wrote the novels “The Haunting of Hill House” and “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”.
Shirley Jackson
American author who lived 1835–1910. Real name was Samuel Clemens. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor. Best known for his works “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” “Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Mark Twain
American write and poet who lived 1809–1849. He was famous for his dark, mysterious poems and stories. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story. His writings include “The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Black Cat”.
Edgar Allen Poe
American novelist who lived 1922–2007. He is known for his satirical literary style, as well as the science-fiction elements in much of his work. He also became known for his unusual writing style—long sentences and little punctuation—as well as his humanist point of view. War was a recurring element in hi work. His best known works were “Slaughterhouse Five”, “Cat’s Cradle”, and “Breakfast of Champion.”
Kurt Vonnegut
American novelist and poet who lived 1932–1963. She struggled with mental illness and committed suicide and was the first person to ever be awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously. Her only novel “The Bell Jar” was based on her life and deals with one young woman’s mental breakdown. She published the novel under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas. Also known for her poetry collections, “The Collosus” and “Ariel”.
Sylvia Plath
English author who lived 1882–1941, was raised in a privileged household by free-thinking parents. She wrote modernist classics including “Mrs. Dalloway”, “To the Lighthouse” and “Orlando”, as well as pioneering feminist works, “A Room of One’s Own” and “Three Guineas”. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59.
Virginia Woolf
An American author who lived 1775–1817, best known for her social commentary in novels including ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Emma.’
Jane Austen
English writer who lived 1797–1851. Both parents and her husband were writers. Best known for her horror novel “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.
Mary Shelley
English writer who lived 1759–1797 and who advocated for women’s equality. Her book ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ pressed for educational reforms.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, African American novelist and poet most famous for authoring ‘The Color Purple”.
Alice Walker
French writer who lived 1908–1986. She laid the foundation for the modern feminist movement. Also an existentialist philosopher, she had a long-term relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. She published countless works of fiction and nonfiction during her lengthy career — often with existentialist themes — including 1949’s “The Second Sex”, which is considered a pioneering work of the modern feminism movement. She also lent her voice to various political causes and traveled the world extensively
Simone de Beauvoir
English poet who lived 1770–1850 who helped found the Romantic movement in English literature. He worked on “Lyrical Ballads” with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, He also wrote “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
William Wordsworth
English poet and founder of the English Romantic movement who lived 1772–1834, best known for his allegorical sea-faring poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and “Kubla Khan” which was reported to have been written under the influence of opium.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Romantic lyric poet who lived 1795–1821 and was dedicated to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery that expressed a philosophy through classical legend. He published a volume of poems sonnets which include “Endymion,” a mammoth four-thousand line poem based on the Greek myth of the same name, “Isabella”, “To Autumn”, and “The Fall of Hyperion”. In his most famous doctrine, “Negative Capability”, he expressed the idea that humans are capable of transcending intellectual or social constraints and far exceed, creatively or intellectually, what human nature is thought to allow.
John Keats
An English fiction writer who lived 1832–1898, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson. His most famous works were “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass”.
Lewis Carol
