THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITERS
Washington Irving 1783 -1859 The first well-known author in American literature, a writer of short stories. “History Of New York” What Happened To Crane?
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 – 1849 He started with poems. Poe is famous for detective stories, stories about supernatural things death, coma. The father of detective
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Samuel Clemens “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer” Humorous stories
O’Henry 1862 - 1910 William Sidney Porter Humorous stories The novel “Cabbages And Kings”
Ernest Hemingway 1899 - 1961 A Farewell To Arms For Whom The Bell Talk The Old Man And The Sea He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954
Jack London “Martin Eden” “White Fang” Stories about golden rush people and animals 1876 - 1916
Fennimore Cooper 1789 - 1851 “Prairie” “Pioneers” The Last Of The Mohicans” “The Trapper”
Theodore Dreiser 1871 - 1945 The American Tragedy Sister Carrie Janie Gerhard Genius
Ray Bradbury 1920 – Science fiction Short stories
John Cheever 1912 – 1982 A well-known American short-story writer and a novelist. He gained a name in modern literature primary as a story-teller.