1. THE MOST FAMOUS
AMERICAN WRITERS

2. 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?

3. 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

4. Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Samuel Clemens “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer”
Humorous stories

5. O’Henry
William Sidney Porter
Humorous stories
The novel “Cabbages
And Kings”

6. 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

7. Jack London “Martin Eden” “White Fang” Stories about golden rush
people and
animals

8. Fennimore Cooper 1789 - 1851 “Prairie” “Pioneers”
The Last Of The Mohicans”
“The Trapper”

9. Theodore Dreiser 1871 - 1945 The American Tragedy Sister Carrie
Janie Gerhard
Genius

10. Ray Bradbury
1920 –
Science fiction
Short stories

11. 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.