Authors and Famous Work Flashcards
Author from England and writer of “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Sense and Sensibility.”
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Jane Austen wrote during what literary movement?
Romantic
Writer from England, wrote “The Invisible Man” and “War of the Worlds,”
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
Who was the Irish author of “A Modest Proposal,” “Drapier’s Letters,” and “Gulliver’s Travels”?
Jonathan Smith (1667–1745)
A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemmas, including “The Martian Chronicles” and “Fahrenheit 451.”
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
An American novelist and chronicler of the jazz age. His novel “THE GREAT GATSBY” is considered a masterpiece about a gangster’s pursuit of an unattainable rich girl.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
- American poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken.”
- highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech
- won Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry four times
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- American poet who wrote “To Kill A Mocking Bird” which deals with the racism she observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
Harper Lee (1926-)
English Writer and Christian apologist who wrote, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “The Allegory of Love,” “Mere Christianity,” and “The Screwtape Letters.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
An American writer in the 1800s who drew on his experiences at sea and living on South Pacific islands for material and also wrote “Moby Dick”. In addition, he rejected the optimism of the transcendentalists and felt that man faced a tragic destiny.
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
- Author of “The Raven”
- Orphaned at young age. Was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
- Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre.
- Failing at suicide, began drinking. Died in Baltimore shortly after being found drunk in a gutter.
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
American author of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
English author of “Frankenstein”
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
- American Writer.
- Daughter of Chinese immigrants and writer of novels which explore the theme of adapting from one culture to another
- Known for “The Joy Luck Club” and “The Kitchen God’s Wife”
Amy Tan (1952-)
- English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor
- Known for: “The Hobbit,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and “The Silmarillion”
J.R.R. Tolkein (1892-1973)
- American author and humorist
- Known for: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin,” “Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
- Real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- Contemporary American writer
- Focuses on the struggles of African-American women, against societies that are racist, sexist, and violent.
- Known for: ‘The Color Purple,’ and ‘Meridian’
Alice Walker (1944-)
- American poet and transcendentalist
- famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, “Leaves of Grass.”
- Important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
American poet who wrote “Leaves of Grass” and “I Hear America Singing”
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Known for, “The Bell Jar,” “Ariel,” “Winter Trees,” and “Crossing the Water.”
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
- English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue
- Known for: “Mrs. Dalloway,” “A Room of One’s Own,” “To the Lighthouse,” and “The Waves”
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
- English writer of the Victorian Period.
- Known for: “A Tale of Two Cities,” “Great Expectations,” “Oliver Twist,” “A Christmas Carol,” and “David Copperfield”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English author of “Great Expectations”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English author of “Oliver Twist”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English Author of “David Copperfield”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English writer who wrote, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “Through the Looking-Glass,” “Jabberwocky,” “The Hunting of the Snark,” of “Sylvie and Bruno.”
Lewis Caroll (1832-1898)
Irish author who is best known for “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and the play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.” He was arrested\imprisoned for being gay.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
American author who wrote, “The Jungle,” “The Brass Check,” and “Dragon’s Teeth”
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
English writer who wrote the book, “Brave New World.”
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
This novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine profoundly to change society.
A. “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
B. Richard Wright’s, “Native Son”
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
This novel includes an orphan named Pip living on the Kent marshes with his abusive sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. While exploring in the churchyard near the tombstones of his parents, Pip is accosted by an escaped convict.
In telling Pip’s story, the author traces a boy’s path from a hardscrabble rural life to the teeming streets of 19th-century London, unfolding a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, and love and loss.
A. “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
B. Richard Wright’s, “Native Son”
C. Harper Lee’s, “To Kill A Mockingbird”
D. Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
Set during Depression in Alabama. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man unjustly accused of rape; and about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed.
A. “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
B. Richard Wright’s, “Native Son”
C. Harper Lee’s, “To Kill A Mockingbird”
D. Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
Harper Lee’s, “To Kill A Mockingbird”
This novel is about Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depression-era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a brighter future. This is a story of human unity and love as well as the need for cooperative rather than individualistic ideals during hard times.
A. “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
B. Richard Wright’s, “Native Son”
C. Harper Lee’s, “To Kill A Mockingbird”
D. Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
“The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck
American author who is famous for, “Of Mice and Men,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” and “East of Eden.”
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Novel about Bigger Thomas, a young black man from Chicago is a chauffer for a wealthy white family - drives wealthy daughter, Mary (drunk), home and panics when the blind mother comes in. Bigger accidentally suffocates Mary and hastily puts her corpse in the furnace - murders his girlfriend - rest of book tells of his attempt to avoid the police, his capture, and death sentence - writer portrays that Bigger had no choice but to kill Mary and his girlfriend.
Richard Wright’s, “Native Son”
American author who is famous for writing, “Black Boy,” “Native Son,” “Uncle Toms Children.”
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Author of the poem, “The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
T.S. Eliot
This noel follows several black women (Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, Mary Agnes, and Sofia Butler through various trials) - won great praise, but also criticism due to it’s negative portrayal of all it’s black male characters
A. Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
B. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.
This novel is set in Jefferson, Mississippi. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to deal with the dissolution of their family and its reputation. Over the course of the 30 years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.
A. Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
B. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
“The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Famous for “The Sound and the Fury” and “As I Lay Dying.”
A. Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
B. “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
William Faulkner
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist about twenty years before the work was published.
A. Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
B. Herman Melville’s, “Moby Dick.”
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
Novel about: Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab’s ship and severed his leg at the knee.
A. Mark Twain’s, “Huckleberry Finn”
B. Herman Melville’s, “Moby Dick.”
C. “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
D. “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner
Herman Melville’s, “Moby Dick.”
The poems of this collection are loosely connected and each represents the author’s celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. praises nature and the individual human’s role in it.
Walt Whitman’s, “Leaves of Grass”
The title of this book refers to the protagonist’s desires for his future. In particular, as the novel progresses, Pip desires greater things for himself and his future. He has great expectations about leaving poverty and becoming a gentleman..
Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations.”
____________ is a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
This author was an English author known for writing “Lord of the Flies.”
William Golding
A novella published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California, United States.
John Steinbeck’s, “Of Mice and Men.”
______is the story of 19-year-old Esther Greenwood, the breakdown she experiences, and the beginnings of her recovery.
Sylvia Plath’s, “The Bell Jar.”
_____ is a novel which story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.
Jane Austen’s, “Pride and Prejudice.”
_____ is a short story first published in 1843. It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. (The victim was an old man with a filmy “vulture-eye”, as the narrator calls it.) The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator’s guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound—possibly hallucinatory—of the old man’s heart still beating under the floorboards.
Edgar Allan Poe’s, “Tell Tale Heart”
In this essay, the author suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general.
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift.
____________is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.
“Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift.
_____________ is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri,
Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Tom Sawyer
_______is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone.
Samuel Beckett’s, “Waiting for Godot”
Irish writer known for “Waiting for Godot”
Samuel Beckett
_____is the story of a young, college-educated black man struggling to survive and succeed in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as a human being. Told in the form of a first-person narrative, it traces the nameless narrator’s physical and psychological journey from blind ignorance to enlightened awareness through a series of flashbacks in the forms of dreams and memories.
Set in the U.S. during the pre-Civil Rights era.
Ralph Ellison’s, “Invisible Man”
English author known for, “1984,” and “Animal Farm.”
George Orwell
English writer who wrote, “Paradise Lost.” (1667)
John Milton
An epic poem in blank verse concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
John Milton’s, “Paradise Lost” (1667)
This is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years’ War. It consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury.
It begins with describing how Spring is the time of rebirth and life.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s, “Canterbury Tales” (1475)
_____ is name of the farmhouse where the story unfolds. The book’s core theme is the destructive effect of jealousy and vengefulness both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities.
Emily Bronte’s, “Wuthering Heights” (1847)
This is a novel that follows the self-destructive journey of Heathcliff as he seeks revenge for losing his soul mate, Catherine, to Edgar Linton.
Emily Bronte’s, “Wuthering Heights”
The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.
Thomas Hobbe’s, “Leviathan”
_______is a work of fiction and political philosophy by published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
Thomas More’s, “Utopia”
English writer famous for his work, “Utopia.”
Thomas More
English Romantic poet, known for “Isabella.”
Keats
_____ is a four-act, lyrical drama that was written during the Romantic period. It is concerned with the torments of the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of Zeus.
A. “Isabella” by Keats
B. “Don Juan” by Byron
C. “Prometheus Unbound” by Shelly
“Prometheus Unbound” by Shelley
_____ is a satiric poem, written during Romantic period. It is based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women.
A. “Isabella” by Keats
B. “Don Juan” by Byron
C. “Prometheus Unbound” by Shelly
Lord Byron’s, “Don Juan”
______ written during Romantic period, it is a narrative poem adapted from a story in Boccaccio’s Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to “some high noble and his olive trees”, but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers’ employees. When the brothers learn of this they murder Lorenzo and bury his body. His ghost informs Isabella in a dream. She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, while pining away.
A. “Isabella” by Keats
B. “Don Juan” by Byron
C. “Prometheus Unbound” by Shelly
“Isabella” by Keats
_____ is a French satire first published in 1759. begins with a young man who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by his slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
Characterised by its sarcastic tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. Philosophical optimism is the focus of this author’s satire; anti-war and anti-church refrains also run throughout the novel.
Voltaire’s “Candide”
_____ is a Spanish novel follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name.
Published in early 1600s and part of the Medieval and Early Modern World Era.
de Cervante’s, “Don Quixote”
____ is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines; setting is in Scandinavia. Protagonist is the hero of Geats and eventually becomes king after slayin someone. This character defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in battle. After his death, his attendants burry him.
It is a part of the Old English\Anglo Saxon period.
Beowulf, author unknown.
_____ is a novel that is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of the institutional processes and the human mind as well as a critique of behaviorism and a celebration of humanistic principles.
Ken Kelsey’s, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
_____is a mock-heroic narrative poem. The poem satirises a minor incident by comparing it to the epic world of the gods.
Pope’s,”Rape of the Lock.”
Which of these was the first comedy performed in early American theater?
A. Freneau’s “The British Prison Ship”
B. Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy”
C. Poe’s “The Raven”
D. Tyler’s “The Contrast”
Tyler’s “The Contrast”
Which of these was the first American novel?
A. Freneau’s “The British Prison Ship”
B. Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy”
C. Poe’s “The Raven”
D. Tyler’s “The Contrast”
Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy”
_______ written during the Middle English Period (1066-1550), tells the story of King Arthur and his Knights at the Round Table. Arthur, who is son of King Uther Pendragon but was raised by another family, takes his rightful place as king when, as a boy, he is able to pull the sword called Excalibur from the stone. Although he rules wisely and is counseled by Merlin the magician, Arthur makes enemies of other kings and is often at war.
Malory’s “Le Morte D’Arthur”
_______ is an extended metaphor poem (24 Lines) written as an elegy by Walt Whitman. It was written in 1865 and is about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
A. “O Captain, My Captain”
B. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
C. “To my lord”
D. “Elegy written in a country churchyard”
“O Captain, My Captain”
______is a long poem (207 lines) in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) in 1865. This is about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
A. “O Captain, My Captain”
B. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
C. “To my lord”
D. “Elegy written in a country churchyard”
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
_____ is a poem written as an elegy published in 1751 by Thomas Gray. In this poem, he is mourning the loss of a way of life.
A. “O Captain, My Captain”
B. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
C. “To my lord”
D. “Elegy written in a country churchyard”
“Elegy written in a country churchyard”
Was Ralph Waldo Emerson a British or American author?
American
“Self-Reliance” and “Nature” are both work by which American author?
Emerson
“Civil Disobedience” and “Walden” are both work by which American author?
Henry David Thoreau
_______ by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
Walden
During what period did Whiteman write during?
American Renaissance Period (1830-1860)
During what age did Dicken’s (Author of “Great Expectations) write during?
British Victorian Age (1830-1901)
Which author is associated with “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Scarlett Letter”?
Nathanial Hawthorne
____ includes when a man says goodbye to his wife, Faith, outside of his house in Salem Village. Faith, wearing pink ribbons in her cap, asks him to stay with her, saying that she feels scared when she is by herself and free to think troubling thoughts. He tells her that he must travel for one night only and reminds her to say her prayers and go to bed early. He reassures her that if she does this, she will come to no harm. He takes final leave of Faith, thinking to himself that she might have guessed the evil purpose of his trip and promising to be a better person after this one night.
“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathanial Hawthorne
During what literary period did Nathanial Hawthorne write during?
A. Medieval
B. Transcendental
C. Romantic
D. Victorian
Transcendental movement
______this controversial novel was originally published in America in the late 1950s, a time of pervasive artistic and moral conservatism. The book’s frank and unapologetic look at abortion, sexuality and small town (im)morality was considered shocking, scandalous, and ultimately notorious, although today its language and subject matter would probably be considered relatively tame.
Metalious’s “Peyton’s Place”
Grace Metalious is known for what novel from 1950?
“Peyton’s Place”
Who wrote the epic poem about the Trojan War, “The Illiad”?
A. Aristotle
B. Socrates
C. Homer
D. Plato
Homer
Henrik Ibsen, English author during Victorian Age, is associated with what play that starts with Nora as a silly young woman who grows to be serious & open-minded who rejects traditional women’s roles.
Play concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants to discover herself. Ibsen was inspired by the belief that “a woman cannot be herself in modern society,” since it is “an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.”
A Doll’s House (1879)
A play, written in the Victorian Age, which is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligatio
Wilde’s, “The Importance of Being Earnest” (1895)
A short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe published in 1839. Includes an unnamed narrator approaching the house of Usher; house is to be observed as evil and have a diseased atmosphere.
Poe’s, “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
“The Waste Land” is a poem written during the Modern Period (1900-1945) and has the famous lines “April is the cruellest month”, and “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Who is this written by?
T.S. Eliot
_______ is a novel published in 1869 by a Russian author, Leo Tolstoy. It broadly focuses on Napoleon’s\the French invasion of Russia in 1812
“War and Peace” by Tolstoy
In what country was “Catcher in the Rye” published in?
AMERICA AMAERICA USA USA CATCH A RYE IN THE THE USA
____________ is a play by Harold Pinter that is seen as an extended metaphor for society in the 1950s. In this play, Stanley represents an “angry young man” and his antagonists represent repressive conformists.
“The Birthday Party” (1957)
An English author who wrote the play, “The Birthday Party.” (1957)
Harold Pinter
______is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. This poem focuses mainly on a Greek hero and his journey home after the fall of Troy.
Homer’s, “The Odyssey”
In Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” who is this character referring to?
______, unlike Hester and Dimmesdale, is a flat character. While he develops from a kind scholar into an obsessed fiend, he is less of a character and more of a symbol doing the devil’s bidding.
Roger Chillingworth
What is the setting of “Grapes of Wrath” (1939) by Steinbeck?
A. Industrial Revolution
B. 1930s Dust Bowl
C. 1890s Gold Rush
D. 1930s pre WWI
1930s Dust Bowl
American author of the 20th century who wrote “Tales of the South Pacific,” “The Covenant,” “The Source,” and Centennial.”
A. Hemingway
B. Michener
C. Orwell
D. Steinbeck
Michener
American author of the 20th century who wrote “The Old Man and the Sea,” “The Sun Also Rises,” “A Farewell to Arms,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
A. Hemingway
B. Michener
C. Orwell
D. Steinbeck
Hemingway
20th Century American Author who is known for “Grapes of Wrath,” “East of Eden,” and “Of Mice and Men.”
A. Hemingway
B. Michener
C. Orwell
D. Steinbeck
Steinbeck
“Sonnets from the Portuguese” which is a collection of 44 love sonnets to this author’s husband, was written by who?
Elizabeth Browning
Who is the author of the tragic place, “Faust” (1806)
Goethe
Which of these is Dorothy Parker’s MOST FAMOUS collection of poems?
A. The Arthurian Legend
B. Enough Rope
C. Death and Taxes
D. The New Yorker Collection
Death and Taxes
What is the name of the poem by Ezra Pound that has 120 cantos?
The Cantos
Ezra Pound was an American poet who was a part of the early ______ movement.
Modernist (1890-1950)
Published in 1969, this is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about WW2 experiences and journeys through time of a soldier named, “Billy Pilgrim.”
Vonnegut’s, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
20th Century American Author who is famous for “Cat’s Cradle,” “Slaughterhouse-Five,” and “Breakfast of Champions”
Kurt Vonnegut
________ is a 1953 play by U.S. playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts.
“The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
______ was an American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his plays are “All My Sons,” “Death of a Salesman,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.”
Arthur Miller
_____ is a novel that follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp. It focuses on their attempts to keep their sanity in order to fulfill their service requirements so that they may return home.
Heller’s, “Catch 22” (1961)
American Author of the 20th century is known for his novel, “Catch 22” (1961)
Joseph Heller
_______is a 1937 novel and the best known work by African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford’s “ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny.” Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century.
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Who is the African-American writer known for writing “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?
Zora Neale Hurston
is a work of children’s literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom. It was written by Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
