American Authors Word Scramble

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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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