Writers Who Left Their Mark on America

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Carson McCullers

Ernest Hemingway

Willa Cather

Ben Franklin

William Faulkner

Jack London

J.D. Salinger

Edith Wharton

John Updike

Washington Irving

James Baldwin

Henry W. Longfellow

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Emily Dickinson