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Literary Figures/MAT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ancient Greek dramatist specialized in tragedies, among them Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus |
| Ancient Greek fabulist whose allegorical fables have inspired many writers | Aesop |
| Early Renaissance Italian writer is called the father of modern literature. His Divine comedy is one of literature's great triumphs | Aligheri,Dante |
| American short-story writer whose most famous collection is Winesburg, Ohio. | Anderson,Sherwood |
| Nineteenth century English author whose novels include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma | Austin, Jane |
| Early 19th-century Frenchwriter best known for his series La Comedie Humanine | Balzac, Honore de |
| Irish-born French novelist and playwright whose Existentialist works include Malloy and Waiting for Godot | Beckett, Samuel |
| American novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. His works include the novels Herzog and Humboldt's Gift | Bellow, Saul |
| British artist, poet, and engraver who wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience. | Blake, William |
| English novelist, who wrote under the pen name Currer Bell. Best known for the novels Jane Eyre and Shirley. | Bronte, Charlotte |
| One of three literary sisters, this English novelist wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Her novel Wuthering Heights is considered on of the great Romantic novels. | Bronte, Emily |
| English preacher and writer of allegorical stories, most famously The Pilgrim's Progress | Bunyan, John |
| Prominent Romantic poet known for his adventurous life and writings. Important works include Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. | Byron, Lord George |
| French writer and Existentialist best known for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. | Camus, Albert |
| Prominent British writer, mathematician, and artist, wrote the classic children's tales Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson) |
| Spanish writer whose book Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel. | Cervantes, Miguel de |
| Early English poet who wrote the influential The Canterbury Tales | Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Late 19th and early 20th century Russian playwright and short-story writer who wrote The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich |
| One of the first English Romantics, widely remembered for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Together with William Wordsworth, he published Lyrical Ballads in 1798. | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
| Late 19th century French female author who published the Claudine novels as well as The Innocent Wife | Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle |
| Polish-born British writer whose famous books are the novella Heart of Darkness and the novel Under Western Eyes | Conrad, Joseph |
| American author of the Civil War novel Red Badge of Courage. | Crane, Stephen |
| English writer immensely popular with his Victorian audience. A contemporary of Thomas Hardy. Some important works are A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol. | Dickens, Charles |
| One of American's great 19th century poets whose emotional poems were never published in her lifetime. | Dickinson, Emily |
| English writer, essayist, and religious scholar considered the greatest of the metaphysical poets due to his highly original poems, including "The Flea" and "Death Be Not Proud" | Donne, John |
| Prominent Russian novelist whose major works include Crime and Punishment and The Idiot. | Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
| American writer of the naturalist school whose novels include Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy | Dreiser, Theodore |
| Victorian English female novelist who wrote the realist novels Middlemarch and Adam Beade | Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) |
| American-born British Modernist poet who wrote the obscure and referential poems "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock." | Eliot, T. S. |
| Important American Transcendentalist writer and philosopher. The mentor of Thoreau, he wrote the essay Nature. | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus, a preeminent Ancient Greek dramatist. | Euripedes |
| Acclaimed American Southern novelist has a major influence on contemporary literature. Some major works include The Sound and The Fury, Absolom! Absolom!, and As I Lay Dying | Faulkner, William |
| One of the 20th century's literary stars, his writing chronicled the Jazz Age. His novel The Great Gatsby is considered an American masterpiece | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| French writer who coined the phrase le mot juste (the perfect world)and had a nortoriously meticulous style. His masterpiece is Madame Bovary. | Flaubert, Gustave |
| Popular American poet of the 20th century who penned such notable poems as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Day" and "The Mending Wall" | Frost, Robert |
| American Beat poet and active political figure who became the face of a generation's underground. Perhaps his most famous work is the collection Howl. | Ginsberg, Allen |
| Prominent German writer, critic, and scientist is most famous for his classic Faust. | Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von |
| Popular American writer of noir, or detective, fiction. Many of his novels, including Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, became successful movies. | Hammett, Dashiell |
| One of the great English writers of the 19th century, his popular novels include Far From the Maddening Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. | Hardy, Thomas |
| Important 19th century American writer who wrote celebrated novels and short stories, including The Scarlet Letter and "The Minister's Black Veil." | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| Holds a place as one of America's most influential writers due to a terse style he honed as a journalist. Best known among his works are the novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. | Hemingway, Ernest |
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