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American Literature — Major Authors

Key writers and their contributions to American literature

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lit_margin_notes 15 terms Jun 29, 2025
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; satirized racism and Southern society
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Ernest Hemingway
Minimalist prose style; The Old Man and the Sea; A Farewell to Arms
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby; chronicler of the Jazz Age and the American Dream
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Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate; Beloved; explored trauma and identity of Black Americans
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Edgar Allan Poe
Master of Gothic horror and detective fiction; The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart
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Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass; free verse celebrating democracy and the human body
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Emily Dickinson
Reclusive poet; unconventional dashes and slant rhyme; themes of death and nature
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John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath; depicted Great Depression struggles of working class
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist essayist; Self-Reliance; celebrated individualism and nature
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden; Civil Disobedience; transcendentalism and non-violent resistance
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Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance poet; celebrated Black identity and jazz rhythms
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Sylvia Plath
Confessional poet; The Bell Jar; explored depression and female identity
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William Faulkner
Stream-of-consciousness style; The Sound and the Fury; American South
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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God; Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist
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Jack Kerouac
On the Road; Beat Generation; spontaneous prose and counterculture