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American Authors
Colonial to contemporary American authors - lit. movements and best known works
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cotton Mather | colonial writer - wrote Magnalia Christi Americana and The Wonders of the Invisible World, about witches and the supernatural |
| Jonathan Edwards | part of the Great Awakening - wrote sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” |
| William Bradford | colonial writer - wrote “Common Sense”, an argument for the colonies’ independence, and “The American Crisis” |
| Washington Irving | romantic - wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle |
| Charles Brockden Brown | early national - The Father of the American Novel - wrote gothic romances |
| Olaudah Equiano | wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), a slave autobiography after obtaining freedom |
| Edward Taylor | colonial writer - puritan - wrote Preparatory Meditations |
| James Fenimore Cooper | romantic - wrote The Last of the Mohicans and Leatherstocking Tales |
| Walt Whitman | romantic writer - wrote Leaves of Grass |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | romantic writer - wrote The Birthmark and The Scarlet Letter |
| Edgar Allan Poe | romantic writer, wrote The Raven |
| Emily Dickinson | romantic writer - poet |
| Herman Melville | romantic writer - wrote Moby Dick |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | romantic writer - fireside poet - wrote The Courtship of Miles Standish |
| Margaret Fuller | transcendentalist - feminist - wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
| Kate Chopin | realist - Louisiana - wrote The Awakening |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | realist - wrote The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Jack London | naturalist writer - wrote Call of the Wild and White Fang |
| Booker T. Washington | realist - wrote autobiography Up from Slavery, Tuskegee and It’s People, and The Story of the Negro |
| William Dean Howells | realist - wrote plays The Mouse Trap and Editha |
| Edith Wharton | realist/naturalist - wrote The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome |
| Upton Sinclair | realist - muckraker - wrote The Jungle |
| T.S. Eliot | modernist - vorticist - wrote poem “The Waste Land”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “Four Quartets” |
| Ezra Pound | modernist/imagist - vorticist - wrote The Cantos, In a Station of the Metro, Ripostes, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley |
| Gertrude Stein | modernist - wrote Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas |
| Wallace Stevens | modernist - wrote Harmonium |
| William Carlos Williams | modernist - objectivist - wrote epic poem Paterson and The Red Wheelbarrow |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | modernist - wrote The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and This Side of Paradise |
| William Faulkner | modernist - South/Mississipi - wrote The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! |
| Tennessee Williams | contemporary - wrote plays A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie |
| Allen Ginsburg | contemporary - THE poet of the Beat Generation - wrote poem Howl |
| James Baldwin | contemporary - wrote Notes of a Native Son, Fire Next Time, and Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Richard Wright | modernist - realist/naturalist - wrote Native Son (w/ Bigger Thomas), Uncle Tom’s Children, and Black Boy |
| Thomas Pynchon | post-modernist - wrote book Gravity’s Rainbow |
| John Cheever | modernism - “the Chekhov of the Suburbs” - wrote about middle class suburban families |
| J. D. Salinger | modernist - wrote The Catcher in the Rye |
| Betty Friedan | contemporary - wrote The Feminine Mystique |
| Toni Morrison | contemporary - wrote Song of Solomon, The Color Purple, Sula, The Bluest Eye, and Beloved |
| John Gardner | post-modernist - wrote Grendel, a retelling of Beowulf from Grendel’s perspective |
| Bernard Malamud | contemporary - wrote The Natural and The Fixer |
| John Updike | contemporary - wrote the Rabbit Run series |
| Vladimir Nabokov | modernist - wrote Pale Fire |
| Amy Tan | contemporary - wrote The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter |
| Carl Sandburg | realist writer - wrote Chicago Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Abraham Lincoln: the Prairie Years and the War Years |
| Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca | colonial writer - wrote Naufragios (Shipwrecks) |
| Samuel de Champlain | colonial writer - wrote Des Sauvages: the Voyage of Samuel Champlain |
| Thomas Harriot | colonial writer - wrote A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia |
| John Smith | colonial writer - wrote The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles |
| John Winthrop | colonial writer - puritan - wrote sermon "A Modell of Christian Charity" - said they were to be a city on a hill |
| Anne Bradstreet | colonial writer - puritan - wrote The Tenth Muse |
| Michael Wigglesworth | colonial writer - puritan - wrote longest colonial poem The Day of Doom |
| Mary Rowlandson | colonial writer - puritan - wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson |
| Cadwallader Colden | colonial writer - wrote the History of the Five Indian Nations |
| Benjamin Franklin | wrote autobiography and “The Way to Wealth” |
| Elizabeth Ashbridge | colonial writer - wrote spir. autobiography “Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of EA" |
| John Woolman | colonial writer - wrote the Journal of John Woolman |
| Samson Occom | colonial writer - wrote A Short Narrative of My Life |
| J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur | colonial writer - wrote Letters From an American Farmer |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| John Trumball | colonial writer - wrote M’Fingal, “Epithalamium”, and Progress of Dulness |
| James Madison | colonial writer - “the Father of the Constitution” - helped write the constitution, Bill of Rights, and federalist papers |
| Philip Freneau | colonial writer - “the Poet of the American Revolution” - wrote “The Beauties of Santa Cruz” and “The House of Night” |
| Phillis Wheatley | colonial writer - AA - wrote Poems On Various Subjects, Religious and Moral |
| Alexander Hamilton | colonial writer - wrote the federalist papers w James Madison and John Jay |
| George Washington Harris | romantic - southern - wrote Sut Lovingood |
| Thomas Bangs Thorpe | romantic - wrote “The Big Bear of Arkansas” and “The Master’s House” |
| William Cullen Bryant | romantic - fireside poet - wrote “Thanatopsis” |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | romantic - fireside poet - wrote “Daily Trials By a Sensitive Man” |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | romantic - fireside poet - wrote “Flowers in Winter” |
| Joseph Kirkland | realist - wrote Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County |
| Rebecca Harding Davis | realist - wrote Life in the Iron Mills |
| Horatio Alger, Jr. | realist - rags to riches writer - wrote Ragged Dick |
| Ambrose Bierce | realist - wrote “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and The Devil’s Dictionary |
| Henry James | realist - wrote Daisy Miller: A Study and other novels/plays |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | realist - Maine - wrote short stories “A Country of the Pointed Firs” and “A White Heron” |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | realist - wrote The Conjure Woman, The House Behind the Cedars, and “The Passing of Grandison” |
| Hamlin Garland | realist - Midwest - wrote A Daughter of the Middle Border (sequel to to “A Son otMB”) and Main-Travelled Roads |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | realist - wrote The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | realist - Maine - wrote Merlin, Tristam, and The Man Who Died Twice |
| Theodore Dreiser | realist/naturalist - Chicago - wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy |
| Stephen Crane | realist - wrote The Red Badge of Courage, Open Boat, and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | realist - helped write AA broadway musical, In Dahomey |
| Willa Cather | realist - Nebraska/Midwest - wrote One of Ours and trilogy My Antonia/O Pioneers!/The Song of the Lark |
| Susan Glaspell | modernist - wrote play Trifles/short story “A Jury of Her Peers” and Alison’s House |
| Eugene O'Neill | modernist - realist - “Father of American drama” - wrote Long Day’s Journey Into Night |
| Elmer Rice | modernist - wrote plays The Adding Machine, Street Scene, and Dream Girl |
| Sherwood Anderson | modernist - Midwest - wrote Dark Laughter and Winesburg, Ohio |
| Katherine Anne Porter | modernist - Texas - wrote Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Ship of Fools |
| Zora Neale Hurston | modernist - South/Eatonville, FL - wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah’s Gourd Vine |
| Nella Larsen | modernist - wrote Quicksand and Passing |
| Ernest Hemingway | modernist - wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea |
| John Steinbeck | modernist - CA/Salinas valley - wrote Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and East of Eden |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | romantic - wrote “Self-Reliance” |
| James Weldon Johnson | modernist - wrote “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”, The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, and God’s Trombones |
| Robert Frost | modernist - NH/VT - wrote The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Mending Wall |
| Amy Lowell | modernist - imagist - wrote Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds, Men, Women and Ghosts, Pictures of the Floating World, and What's O'Clock |
| HD (Hilda Doolittle) | modernist - imagist - wrote Sea Garden, The Walls Do Not Fall, Tribute to the Angels, and Flowering of the Rod |
| Marianne Moore | modernist - objectivist - poet |
| Claude McKay | modernist - wrote Harlem Shadows, “If We Must Die”, and Home to Harlem |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | modernist - wrote sonnets - wrote “Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” and “First Fig”, etc. |
| e e cummings | modernist - wrote “Tulips and Chimneys” and “i carry your heart with me…” |
| Jean Toomer | modernist - wrote Cane |
| Hart Crane | modernist - romantic - wrote “The Bridge” and “Chaplinesque" |
| Sterling Brown | modernist - wrote Southern Road |
| Langston Hughes | modernist - “jazz poet” - wrote “Harlem”/“A Dream Deferred” and “The Weary Blues” |
| Countee Cullen | modernist - wrote Color, Copper Sun, and The Ballad of the Brown Girl |
| Eudora Welty | contemporary - South - wrote “The Optimist’s Daughter”, Golden Apples, and Delta Wedding |
| Ralph Ellison | contemporary - wrote Invisible Man, “Shadow and Act”, and “Going to the Territory” |
| Saul Bellow | contemporary - wrote The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift |
| Jack Kerouac | contemporary - “Father of the Beat Generation” - wrote On the Road |
| Joseph Heller | contemporary - wrote Catch-22 |
| Flannery O’Connor | contemporary - South - wrote Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Everything That Rises Must Converge |
| Harper Lee | contemporary - wrote To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Theodore Roethke | contemporary - wrote Word for the Wind and The Far Field |
| John Berryman | contemporary - confessional - wrote The Dream Songs |
| Robert Lowell | contemporary - confessional - wrote Lord Weary’s Castle, Life Studies, Notebook, and For the Union Dead |
| Anne Sexton | contemporary - confessional - wrote Live or Die |
| Sylvia Plath | contemporary - confessional - wrote The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar |
| Adrienne Rich | contemporary - wrote Diving into the Wreck |
| Arthur Miller | contemporary - wrote plays All of My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman |
| James Russell Lowell | romantic - fireside poet - wrote The Biglow Papers, A Fable For Critics, and The Vision of Sir Launfal |
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