final Flashcards
Important member of the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote a poem called “The Weary Blues.” A modernist, he wrote poetry that was often influenced by the rhythms of blues and jazz. Wrote the famous poems “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Harlem,” and “I, Too.”
Langston Hughes
Author of what some consider the “Great American Novel,” The Grapes of Wrath, this Nobel Prize winner wrote many stories about the plight of working people, migrants, and others down on their luck. Also wrote Of Mice and Men and The Pearl.
John Steinbeck
This Nobel Prize-winning author is famous for his sparse style and stories of war and its aftermath, like “Big Two-hearted River.” He also wrote The Old Man and the Sea, reflecting his love for big-game fishing, and the quintessential novel for the “Lost Generation,” The Sun Also Rises.
Ernest Hemingway
Writing with a detailed, syntactically complex style, this Southern writer and Nobel Prize winner wrote acclaimed novels like As I Lay Dying and Light in August as well as classic short stories like “Barn Burning” and “A Rose for Emily.”
William Faulkner
Prolific and versatile writer (novels, poems, stories, essays), this chronicler of modern American society is best known for his series of novels about “Rabbit”Angstrom, beginning with Rabbit, Run. He wrote many short stories as well, like “A&P,” and poems, like “Ex-Basketball Player.”
John Updike
Often called a “minimalist” (a label he rejected), this writer is considered by many to be the most important short story writer of the latter half of the 20th century. Often wrote about alcoholics, the unemployed, and failed relationships. Finally kicked the alcohol habit himself late in his life, and then produced some of his best work, like “Cathedral.”
Raymond Carver
Veteran of the Vietnam War, this author explored the boundaries of fiction with his so-called “metafiction,” as seen in “The Things They Carried.”
Tim O’Brien
