Historic Names Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Deerslayer” was the last written, but first chronologically, of his “Leatherstocking Tales”
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter
The Catcher in the Rye
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as “El Campeon”
The Old Man and the Sea
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1988 book “A Different Kind of Christmas” was based on a story outline for the TV film “Roots: The Gift”
Alex Haley
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The manuscript for “Billy Budd” was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death
Herman Melville
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, “Who would have looked for… poetry in blubber?”
Moby-Dick
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII
Catch-22
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Old Stony Phiz in “The Great Stone Face” by this author of “Twice-Told Tales” is said to be based on Daniel Webster
Hawthorne
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A 1936 operetta, “The Headless Horseman”, was based on this 1820 short story
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child’s doctor bill
pearl
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled “A Story of the Buried Life”
Look Homeward Angel
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel
(Herman) Melville
$2500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders” here
in the Rue Morgue
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Shortly after “The House of the Seven Gables”, he wrote a book of classical myths, “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys”
Hawthorne
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire
Grover’s Corners
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his “As I Lay Dying”
Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled “Hester and the Physician”
The Scarlet Letter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants
The Color Purple
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Henry Fleming, the hero of “The Red Badge of Courage”, reappeared in his short story “Lynx-Hunting”
Stephen Crane
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot
The Sound and the Fury
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| <a>This</a> poet published her novel “The Bell Jar” using the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
(Sylvia) Plath
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include “A Tale”, “The Inland Sea” & “The First War-Path”
Leatherstocking Tales
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| An epigraph he used on one story says, “our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating”
Edgar Allan Poe
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1906 novel says, “Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no…”
The Jungle
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, “The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word”
Ernest Hemingway
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1894 Mark Twain took this character “Abroad”; 2 years later, he became a “Detective”
Tom Sawyer
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife’s hometown, Wheatsylvania, North Dakota
(Martin) Arrowsmith
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Pyncheon Street, previously called Maule’s Lane, was the location of this title home
The House of the Seven Gables
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1940 novel, deaf-mute John Singer commits suicide when he learns his friend Spiros has died
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Sartoris” published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County
Faulkner
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In England his 1950 science fiction novel “The Martian Chronicles” was titled “The Silver Locusts”
Bradbury
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| 1926’s top 2 fiction sellers were John Epskine’s “The Private Life of Helen of Troy” & this Anita Loos book
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1925 novel contains the line “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy”
The Great Gatsby
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 140-pound character in “The Call of the Wild” is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard
Buck
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled “An Episode of the American Civil War”
The Red Badge of Courage
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Books by this Nobel Prize winner include “Love”, “Beloved” & “Tar Baby”
Toni Morrison
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Willa Cather novel is divided into 5 books, the first being “The Shimerdas”
My Antonia
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time
The Natural
$1400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Hemingway’s epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, “One generation passeth away…”
The Sun Also Rises
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels
Louis L’Amour
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This “Age of Innocence” author made her debut in society in 1879
(Edith) Wharton
$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Sons”, the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung
The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck)
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum
Martin Arrowsmith
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, “I am an invisible man”
(Ralph) Ellison
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title object of this 1850 novel is described as “so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom”
The Scarlet Letter
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It contains the line “There stood the Kaatskill Mountains…there was every hill and dale…as it had always been”
Rip Van Winkle
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath” leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California
Oklahoma
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car
The Great Gatsby
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a “History of the Navy of the United States”
(James Fenimore) Cooper
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In “Following the Equator”, this humorist wrote, “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it”
Mark Twain
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel “The Centaur”
John Updike
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This novel’s widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It’s the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale
Amontillado
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 19th century female character “raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale’s church”
Hester Prynne
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled “The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz’ mob
Billy Bathgate
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was “Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires”
The Great Gatsby
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Mark Twain character’s father “Pap” briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi
Huckleberry Finn
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley
“A Farewell to Arms”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey
“Cannery Row”
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It’s the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell
“Studs”
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck
Wolf Larsen
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This character once asked Becky Thatcher, “Do you love rats?”
Tom Sawyer
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, “The Witch’s Curse”
“Little Women”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg
“Moby Dick”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1952 Hemingway story, Santiago goes 84 days without catching a fish, then hooks a gigantic marlin
“The Old Man and the Sea”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title of this 1939 John Steinbeck novel was taken from a Julia Ward Howe song
“The Grapes of Wrath”
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Mute” was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He complained to Tom Sawyer that the widow Douglas “makes me wash”
Huck Finn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Ishmael called him the incarnation of “all the subtle demonisms of life and thought”
Moby Dick
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy
“The Catcher in the Rye”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in “The Legend of” this place
Sleepy Hollow
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Jack London title canine is tormented by one of his owners to make him savage enough to win dogfights
White Fang
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This title character in an 1876 novel asks, “Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
Tom Sawyer
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to “chase that white whale on both sides of land”
“Moby Dick”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He’s the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone
Washington Irving
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The one word uttered by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
“Nevermore”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called “The Last of” this group
the Mohicans
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title of this novella that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize consists of 6 words, each of which is 3 letters long
"The Old Man and the Sea"
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection “Lost Face”
Jack London
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel “To Have and Have Not”
Ernest Hemingway
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Horseman, Pass By”, the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie “Hud” in 1963
Larry McMurtry
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1936 novel by Faulkner tells the story of Thomas Sutpen & bears the name of an Old Testament figure
“Absalom, Absalom!”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Her essays in “Against Interpretation” & “On Photography” call for an emotive response to creative works
Susan Sontag
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Urged to make his peace with God, this “Walden” author replied, “I did not know we had ever quarreled”
Henry David Thoreau
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Clement C. Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is more popularly known by this title
“Twas’ the Night Before Christmas”
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands” begins his poem “The Village Blacksmith”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In Fred Gipson’s novel, this “colorful” dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s
Old Yeller
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| One of his best known works was “The Man Without a Country”, but he himself was a man from Boston
Edward Everett Hale
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23
“The Red Badge of Courage”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic
“Fahrenheit 451”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Upton Sinclair expose of the meatpacking industry led to the passage of a Pure Food & Drug Act
“The Jungle”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby”
Nick Carraway
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel
“Beloved”
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The book of Jonah is quoted before chapter one of this 1851 novel
Moby-Dick
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Queequeg, a tattooed cannibal, is Starbuck’s harpooner aboard the Pequod in this 1851 novel
“Moby Dick”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This novel begins: “Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony…”
“The Maltese Falcon”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The line “A dozen Hurons fell by a discharge from Chingachgook and his band” is from this novel
“The Last of the Mohicans”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Upton Sinclair novel that ends: “Chicago will be ours! Chicago will be ours!”
“The Jungle”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Novel in which Willa Cather wrote, “The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family” in the area
“My Antonia”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This story of 2 devoted sisters earned Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
“The Color Purple”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “You Can’t Go Home Again” until you name this author who wrote it
Thomas Wolfe
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1991 Robert Pirsig published “Lila”, a follow-up to his classic “Zen and the Art of” this
Motorcycle Maintenance
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In titles of novels by John Updike, it precedes “Run”, “is Rich” & “at Rest”
Rabbit
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Published posthumously in 1977, “American Hunger” is a follow-up to his “Black Boy”
Richard Wright
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| To research “airport”, he spent hours in airports absorbing the atmosphere
Arthur Haley
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Hemingway took the title of this novel about journalist Jake Barnes from a passage in Ecclesiastes
The Sun Also Rises
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1946 novel, “There wasn’t any Democratic Party. There was just Willie” Stark
All the King’s Men
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Nature”, an essay by this transcendentalist, was published anonymously in 1836
Emerson
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In “Tom Sawyer” this newcomer to St. Petersburg is described as “a blue-eyed creature with yellow hair”
Becky Thatcher
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| J.N. Reynolds’ “Mocha Dick”, about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man’s “Moby Dick”
Herman Melville
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| World leader who was the subject of David Halberstam’s 1971 book “Ho”
Ho Chi Minh
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Thomas Pynchon followed “V” with this novel about the V-2 rocket
Gravity’s Rainbow
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| If you read her new book “Sex & The Single Girl” at 21 you’re 57 now (& no longer a girl)
Helen Gurley Brown
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Olive Chancellor was into woman’s lib in his 1886 novel “The Bostonians”
Henry James
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Stephen Crane classic is subtitled “An Episode of the American Civil War”
The Red Badge of Courage
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb
East of Eden
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title character of this Bernard Malamud novel is Roy Hobbs of the New York Knights
The Natural
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1985 novel, E.L. Doctorow recalled life & the Expo in NYC during the 1930s
World’s Fair
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| After he becomes wealthy, this Horatio Alger title character uses the name Richard Hunter, Esq.
Ragged Dick
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Controversial even when serialized in the “National Era”, it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about “Life on” this river
Mississippi River
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He wrote “A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys” to capitalize on the success of “The Scarlet Letter”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He described the setting of “Cannery Row” as “A poem, a stink…a habit, a nostalgia, a dream”
John Steinbeck
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The books of his “U.S.A.” trilogy contain “newsreels” made up of headlines & catchphrases
John Dos Passos
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He wrote the short story “Nightfall”, a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old
Isaac Asimov
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1900 he published his first collection of stories, “The Son of the Wolf”
Jack London
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, “On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,…appeared the letter A”
The Scarlet Letter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This vice president is the title character of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal
Aaron Burr
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He won a 1951 Pulitzer for his “Complete Poems” & one in 1940 for “Abraham Lincoln: The War Years”
(Carl) Sandburg
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| When featured on “Oprah”, her 1977 novel “Song of Solomon” returned to the bestseller list in 1996
Toni Morrison
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Francis Phelan an ex-baseball player, is the main character in this author’s “Ironweed”
William Kennedy
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was “told to” this deeply rooted author
Alex Haley
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This legendary fruit tree planter was the subject of a work by Vachel Lindsay
Johnny Appleseed
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Title of Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book about men he described as “single-combat warriors”
The Right Stuff
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| As the first, it jump-started John Updike’s series of novels about Harry Angstrom
Rabbit, Run
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This famous tale of Christmas presents isn’t one in a million, but one in O Henry’s book “The Four Million”
“The Gift of the Magi”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It begins, “ ‘Tom!’ No answer. ‘Tom!’ No answer. ‘What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You, Tom!’ “
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He published “Marjorie Morningstar” 16 years before “The Winds Of War”
Herman Wouk
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He set “The Last Picture Show” & “Texasville” in the fictional town of Thalia
Larry McMurtry
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This novel of high society made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
“The Age Of Innocence”
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title of this Ralph Ellison novel refers to its nameless narrator & protagonist
“The Invisible Man”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Harpooneers in this novel include Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg, a cannibal
Moby Dick
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1950 Ray Bradbury book collected 26 stories about Earth’s colonization of Mars
The Martian Chronicles
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1854 Thoreau work is subtitled “Or Life in the Woods”
Walden
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, this character kills Dr. Robinson, a murder witnessed by Tom
Injun Joe
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Sons”, the second novel in her “House of Earth” trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung’s 3 sons
Pearl S. Buck
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a Longfellow poem, Minnehaha marries this Indian hero
Hiawatha
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His story “Ms. Found in a Bottle” was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest
Edgar Allan Poe
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In “White Fang”, Jack London reversed the theme of this earlier novel
Call of the Wild
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1990 his “Stranger in a Strange Land” was reissued with 60,000 words that had been cut from the original
Robert Heinlein
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| John Steinbeck first came to prominence with this 1935 novel about a group of Mexican-Americans
Tortilla Flat
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His “Red Badge Of Courage” first appeared in shortened form in the Philadelphia press
Stephen Crane
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He had one of his western novels in the Top 10 list every year from 1917 to 1924
Zane Grey
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Characters in this Hemingway novel include Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley & Pedro Romero, a bullfighter
The Sun Also Rises
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Some of the names in this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work were taken from tombstones in a Lewiston, Illinois cemetery
Spoon River Anthology
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This novel about love, marriage & regret earned Anne Tyler a 1989 Pulitzer Prize
Breathing Lessons
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He took the title of his “For Whom The Bell Tolls” from a work by John Donne
Ernest Hemingway
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Union soldier Henry Fleming is the hero of this 1895 Civil War novel
“The Red Badge of Courage”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Amy Tan novel tells the stories of 4 Chinese-born women & their American daughters
“The Joy Luck Club”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” is a 1970 autobiography by this African-American poet
Maya Angelou
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is one of the short stories featured in his “Mosses From An Old Manse”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He first wrote about a woman doomed to wear the letter in his 1838 story “Endicott and the Red Cross”
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Henry March in his novel “The Deerslayer” is nicknamed Hurry Harry because he’s always on the move
James Fenimore Cooper
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The storytelling characters in his book “Tales of a Wayside Inn” are based on real people
(Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This “Sophie’s Choice” author set his 1st novel, “Lie Down in Darkness”, in his native Virginia
William Styron
$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Book one of this Willa Cather novel is entitled “The Shimerdas”
“My Antonia”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It’s the crime for which Hester Prynne is condemned to wear “The Scarlet Letter”
Adultery
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a James Fenimore Cooper novel, Uncas, a young chieftain, is identified as this title character
“The Last of the Mohicans”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a John Steinbeck work, this title object found by Kino the fisherman is as big as a seagull’s egg
“The Pearl”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1941 Budd Schulberg novel chronicles the rise of Sammy Glick from office boy to film tycoon
“What Makes Sammy Run?”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Sinclair Lewis spent several months researching Midwestern Protestantism for this 1927 novel
“Elmer Gantry”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This J.D. Salinger novel covers two days in the life of Holden Caufield
Catcher in the Rye
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| At the end of “Moby Dick”, this ship sinks & Ishmael is the lone survivor
Pequod
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a 1947 novelette, he told of a great pearl, how it was found & how it was lost again
John Steinbeck
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Part of this poet’s autobiography was reprinted in 1955 as “Prairie-Town Boy”
Carl Sandburg
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”, was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1936
Ernest Hemingway
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The same year his “The Last of the Mohicans” was published, he was named U.S. Consul at Lyon, France
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Thoreau work is sub-titled “Life in the Woods”
“Walden”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His first novel, “Typee”, in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific
Herman Melville
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He wrote “A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus” & “A History of New York”
Washington Irving
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1915 Edgar Lee Masters work, the former residents of a Midwestern town speak from their graves
“Spoon River Anthology”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Men in White”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934, is a Sidney Kingsley play about this profession
medicine
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He wrote “The Bells” & “Annabel Lee” at his farmhouse in the Bronx
Edgar Allan Poe
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1976 this Canadian-born author of “Herzog” won the Nobel literature prize
Saul Bellow
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Baltimore writer who coined the term “booboisie” & said Hoover was “a fat Coolidge”
H.L. Mencken
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| She published “The Member of the Wedding” as a novel in 1946, then rewrote it as a play in 1950
Carson McCullers
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The House of the Seven Gables” is set in this New England town, about 150 years after the Witch Trials
Salem, Massachusetts
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Mystery of Marie Roget” followed this Poe story, both featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This first “Mike Hammer” novel is Mickey Spillane’s top-selling paperback book
“I, The Jury”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel told the story of Carol Milford & Dr. Will Kennicott
“Main Street”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Many consider his 1952 book “Invisible Man” the greatest post-war novel about black life in the U.S.
Ralph Ellison
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years
A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur’s Court)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This clergyman who wrote “The Short History of New-England” in 1694 was the son of Increase Mather
Cotton Mather
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He wrote “Cadillac Jack” & “Lonesome Dove” after “Terms of Endearment”
Larry McMurtry
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name
Herman Melville
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel about the adventures of Dean Moriarty & friends as they travel the U.S.
“On The Road”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It was called “A Poem Of Walt Whitman, An American” before it was called this
“Song of Myself”
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Philip Nolan, who died on board the U.S. Corvette Levant, was called this by Edward Everett Hale
“The Man Without a Country”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1981 John Kennedy Toole was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for this novel
A Confederacy of Dunces
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Other Voices, Other Rooms” was this author’s 1st published novel
Truman Capote
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| She based Little Lord Fauntleroy’s costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her
Frances Hodgson Burnett
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Best known for “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight”, he published at least a dozen volumes of poems
Vachel Lindsay
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Among the books set on this river were “Mike FInk”, “Tammy Out of Time” & “Huckleberry Finn”
the Mississippi
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The full title of his 1947 book was “Tales of the South Pacific”
James Michner
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel “In Cold Blood” was written in an event that took place in this state
Kansas
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| After a stint as a Hollywood screenwriter, Nathanael West wrote this Hollywood novel, his last
The Day of the Locust
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Carson McCullers novel about a motherless 12-year-old & her thoughts on her brother’s marriage
Member of the Wedding
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The only native Californian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
John Steinbeck (in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1605 Cervantes wrote about Don Quixote, & in 1969 Mario Puzo wrote about this Don
Corleone
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Katherine Anne Porter got this title & plot device from a 1494 Sebastian Brant work
Ship of Fools
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| American novelist & short story writer who created Yoknapatawpha County
Faulkner
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Title hero of Nathanael West’s 1933 tale who ends up murdered by one of his correspondents
Miss Lonelyhearts
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| While working at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, this Knickerbocker knocked out a Columbus bio
Washington Irving
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| An ex-football player who enters the ministry is the subject of this Sinclair Lewis novel
“Elmer Gantry”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| James M. Cain’s first novel, think letters and bells for a clue to its title
“The Postman Always Rings Twice”
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| J.P. Marquand, who won a Pulitzer for “The Late George Apley,” created this Japanese spy/detective
Mr. Moto
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Among his many books for boys are the Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom series
Horatio Alger
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Richard Henry Dana’s 1840 classic based on a voyage he took around Cape Horn
“Two Years Before the Mast”
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He penned a campaign biography for Franklin Pierce and pinned “The Scarlet Letter” on Hester Prynne
(Nathaniel) Hawthorne
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel “Catch-22”
Joseph Heller
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Little Women” is set during this war
the Civil War
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Among his pen names were Jonathan Oldstyle, Gentleman & Diedrich Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Author of “A Heap o’ Livin’”, listed in Avenel’s companion to American Literature as “Famous Bad Poet”
Edgar Guest
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Cheek color of Whittier’s “Barefoot Boy”
tan
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Crucible”, his 1953 play about Salem witchcraft trials drew a parallel to McCarthyism
(Arthur) Miller
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His lovesick narrator begins, “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins”
Nabokov
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Melville title sailor who personifies innocence
Billy Budd
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Melville’s white whale tale
Moby Dick
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Lincoln called it “the book that caused the big war”
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Steinbeck novel dubbed “the <u>Uncle Tom's Cabin</u> of the Depression”
The Grapes of Wrath
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He gave Hester a scarlet “A”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key, he was the voice of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
