Writers Who Left Their Mark on
Identify the following authors by their work, style of
writing, and how they impacted American literature and/or culture. Did these
authors accurately describe the times they wrote about?
How "political" were their
writings? How did the culture of that time affect their perception?
Walt
Whitman
Edward Bellamy
Michael Wigglesworth
Edward Taylor
Toni Morrison
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sherwood Anderson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Paine
Sinclair Lewis
Flannery 0' Connor
John Steinbeck
Ayn Rand
Carl
Sandburg
James
Fenimore Cooper
Henry
David Thoreau
Robert
Frost
Margaret
Mitchell
T.S. Eliot
Stephen
Crane
William Dean Howells
Mark Twain
Anne Bradstreet
Joseph Heller
Kurt Vonnegut
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Willa Cather
Ben Franklin
William Faulkner
Jack London
J.D. Salinger
Edith Wharton
John Updike
James
Baldwin
Henry W.
Longfellow
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Emily
Dickinson