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America has a great and proud literary tradition. Here's our take on the top 20 American writers of all time, with detailed bios and book lists of each author.
- Walt Whitman Overview
The poems have been set to music by a large number of...
- Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary...
- Walt Whitman Overview
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( / ˈɜːrnɪst ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
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- American Writer
- Ernest Hemingway
- Agnes & Ernest
- Writing Career
- 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.
Apr 3, 2014 · Who Was Mark Twain? 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...
Apr 17, 2024 · Mark Twain was an American humorist, novelist, and travel writer. Today he is best remembered as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain is widely considered one of the greatest American writers of all time.
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; 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.
