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There is a great and proud tradition of American writers, including some of the world’s most famous authors. Novels, plays, and poems pour out of the United States, with increasing numbers of women, African American, Native American and Hispanic writers making a strong contribution.
- Walt Whitman Overview
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- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary...
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May 17, 2024 · In just two short centuries, the great U.S. of A. has produced an incredible number of writers that have influenced literature and art the world over. This list includes great American novelists, poets, the best playwrights, and writers in the all genres of fiction and nonfiction alike.
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- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee.
- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain.
- The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger.
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- Ernest Hemingway
- Agnes & Ernest
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- Bell Tolls
This article is about the life and works of Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for his writing style that exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century, as well as his adventurous and widely publicized life.
Evan Pugh Professor of English, author of Ernest Hemingway and coauthor of The Hemingway Manuscripts. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge.
An American novelist and short-story writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous life. His succinct prose style exerted a powerful influence on 20th century fiction.
Born in Illinois to a doctor father and mother, educated in public schools, began writing in high school but was rejected from military service due to an eye defect; became ambulance driver during WWI where he fell in love with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky who declined marriage proposal.
Renewed efforts at writing after war injury; worked as foreign correspondent for Toronto Star; advised by other writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald & Gertrude Stein; published first book In Our Time (1925) followed by The Sun Also Rises (1926), Death In Afternoon (1932), Green Hills Of Africa (1935), To Have And Have Not (1937).
Harvested experience from Spain into novel For Whom the Bell Tolls set during Spanish Civil War about Robert Jordan sent to join guerrilla band behind Nationalist lines falling in love with Maria while there.
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- A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar. Buy on Amazon. This biography of esteemed mathematician John Nash was both a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and the basis for the award-winning film of the same name.
- Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition by Andrew Hodges. Buy on Amazon. Hodges’ 1983 biography of Alan Turing sheds light on the inner workings of this brilliant mathematician, cryptologist, and computer pioneer.
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Buy on Amazon. Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton is not only the inspiration for a hit Broadway musical, but also a work of creative genius itself.
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston. Buy on Amazon. A prolific essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Hurston turned her hand to biographical writing in 1927 with this incredible work, kept under lock and key until it was published 2018.
Apr 3, 2014 · Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of...
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( / ˈfɔːknər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.
