American Literature! YAY!

Who wrote Tom Sawyer? John Steinbeck Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain

Mark Twain did indeed write Tom Sawyer. He also wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and the Prince and the Pauper Next question

John Steinbeck wrote: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row and Tortilla Flats Back to question

Ernest Hemingway wrote: For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farwell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. Back to Question

Which Poet Wrote the Wasteland? T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound Stephen King

Stephen King isn’t a poet. He did write a book called The Wasteland, though. Back to question

Ezra Pound, writer of the celebrated Cantos, did not write the Wasteland, but helped with editing. Back to question

T.S. Eliot, also wrote the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the Four Quartets. Next question

What did Herman Melville write? Bartleby the Scrivener Moby Dick Billy Budd herman-melville/

They’re all right. Herman Melville, popularly regarded as the greatest American writer, authored all three stories. Next question

Click on the uniquely American literary form. history.html

Although sequential art and storytelling has been around for a great many years, the collected form of sequential art, also known as a comic book, is a uniquely American invention. END

The origin of the novel is highly debated, but one thing’s for certain: the first novel was not American. Back to question

Poetry is among the oldest art forms known to man. Totally not American. Back to question