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THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN WRITERS
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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?
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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
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Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 Samuel Clemens “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer”
Humorous stories
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O’Henry William Sidney Porter Humorous stories The novel “Cabbages And Kings”
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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
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Jack London “Martin Eden” “White Fang” Stories about golden rush
people and animals
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Fennimore Cooper 1789 - 1851 “Prairie” “Pioneers”
The Last Of The Mohicans” “The Trapper”
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Theodore Dreiser 1871 - 1945 The American Tragedy Sister Carrie
Janie Gerhard Genius
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Ray Bradbury 1920 – Science fiction Short stories
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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.
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