American Authors

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American Authors

• ByShauna 8M

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

• Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst,
  Massachusetts.
• Emily Dickinson was a very religious person.
• Puritanism and transcendentalism played a very
  big role in her writing.
• One example of Emily Dickinson's work is the
  poemI Dwell In Possibility

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John Winthrop (1588-1649)

• John Winthrop was a very well known American
  author who was the first governor of
  Massachusetts.
• Winthrop was also a very religious person whose
  writings were influenced by his faith.
• The eyes of all people are upon us all, so that
  if we deal falsely with our God in this work we
  have undertaken and so cause us to withdraw this
  present help from us, we shall be made a story
  and a byword through the world.
• -John Winthrop
• This and many others were his idea of a model
  Christian.

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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

• Her book of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung
  Up In America By A Gentle Woman Of Those Parts
  was the 1st book to be published by a woman in
  America.
• Her religion of Puritanism played a very
  important role in her writings also.
• Bradstreet was a very educated woman who spent a
  lot of time with her children teaching them to
  read.
• Her works show someone of love and faith.

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Walt Whitman(1819-1892)

• He was born in Long Island, New York and left
  school very early to work for his family.
• He worked at The Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848
  and The Brooklyn Times from 1857 to 1858
• Whitman is an American poet, journalist, and
  essayist.
• He is best known for his work Leaves Of Grass
  which contains the poems I Sing the Body
  Electric and Song of Myself

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• She was born in Litchfield, CT.
• She was the 7th child born in a very big family.
• She married her husband a widower in 1836.
• She is most famous for her first book Uncle Toms
  Cabin (1850) that told people how bad life was
  for slaves and the horrible things that happened
  to them.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton(1815-1902)

• Stanton was one of the 1st leaders of womens
  rights She organized the 1st womens rights
  convention in Seneca Falls, NY along with Susan
  B. Anthony.
• Some Of her writings included A Perfect
  Partnership, Passing The Torch, and The Only
  Girl In School.

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American Authors Project

• By Andrea
• 8M

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Ray Bradbury

• More than 500 published works short stories,
  novels, plays, screenplays, TV scripts, and
  verse.
• His best known and most beloved books, THE
  MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN,
  FAHRENHEIT 451, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY
  COMES.
• Bradbury was awarded the National Book
  Foundations 2000 Medal for Distinguished
  Contribution to American letters, and the
  National Medal of Arts in 2004.

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Mark Twain

• Mark Twains real name is Samuel L. Clemens.
• Mark Twain is one of the most widely loved and
  celebrated American writers.
• Mark Twain has transcended ordinary fame and
  become an icon of American culture and humor the
  world over.
• He lived a rich and eventful life, which covered
  the years 1835 1910.
• He published over 30 works of literature
  encompassing satire, historical fiction, short
  stories, and nonfiction.

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John Steinbeck

• Born in Salinas, California
• Went to Stanford University but never graduated
• After publishing some novels and short stories,
  John first became widely known with Tortilla
  Flat(1935)
• Steinbecks novels can be classified as social
  novels dealing with economic problems of rural
  labor, but there is also a streak of worship of
  the soil in his books.
• Some of his works are In Dubious Battle, Of Mice
  and Men, The Long Valley, and The Grapes of
  Wrath.

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Emily Dickinson

• Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830.
• Many people who were close to her had an enormous
  impact in her thoughts and poetry.
• Dickinsons poetry reflects her loneliness and
  the speakers of her poems generally live in a
  state of want, but her poems are also marked by
  the intimate recollection of inspirational
  moments which are decidedly life- giving and the
  suggest the possibility of happiness.
• She was not publicly recognized during her
  lifetime.
• The last volume of her work was in 1955. She died
  in Amherst in 1886.

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Robert Frost

• Born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New
  England at age 11 and became interested in
  reading and writing poetry during his high school
  years.
• He worked as a teacher, cobbler, and editor of
  the Lawrence Sentinel.
• His first professional poem, My Butterfly, was
  published on November 8, 1894, in the New York
  newspaper The Independent.
• In 1915, he published A Boys Will and North of
  Boston. (when his reputation was established).
• By the 1920s he was the most celebrated poet in
  America.
• He died in Boston on January 29, 1963.

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Ernest Hemingway

• Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899.
• At age 17 he was a writer in a newspaper office
  in Kansas City.
• After returning to the U.S., he became a reporter
  for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon
  sent back to Europe to cover such events as the
  Greek Revolution.
• He then became a member of the group of
  expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described
  in his first important work, The Sun Also
  Rises(1926).
• His most Ambitious novel, For Whom The Bell
  Trolls(1940).
• His most outstanding is the short novel, The Old
  Man and The Sea.
• Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

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American Authors

• By Anna

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Edgar Allan Poe

• Born January 9, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts
• Died October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland
• Poes father left the family in 1810, his mother
  died of consumption in 1811, so Poe lived with
  his uncle John Allan.
• Poe fell into many large gambling debts, and lost
  the respect of his father. He enrolled in
  military school to try to earn it back, but when
  Allan remarried, Poe gave up and purposely
  disobeyed orders to get himself kicked out.
• He first wrote poetry, but was disappointed with
  the lack of recognition, so he began to write
  short stories.
• Poe was found on the streets semi-conscious and
  died a few days later.
• Pseudonyms Hans Pfaal, Quarles
• The Raven
• The Tell-Tale Heart
• The Mask of the Red Death

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Steven King

• Born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine
• Kings father deserted their family when he was
  two.
• At 13, King discovered a box of his father's old
  science fiction and horror books, and he
  immediately became fascinated with that genre.
• King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book
  Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution
  to American Letters.
• King retired from writing in 2002
• Pseudonyms Richard Bachman, John Swithen.
• Carrie
• The Shining
• Pet Sematary

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Samuel Clemens

• Born November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri
• Died April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut
• Clemenss first job was as a printers
  apprentice, but in 1857 he decided he wanted to
  be a steamboat pilot.
• He studied for two years and in 1858 he got his
  steamboat license. However in 1861 the Civil War
  broke out and the traffic along the Mississippi
  was reduced significantly.
• He wrote stories mostly about his travels and
  tours around the world.
• Pseudonym Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson

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Alice Walker

• Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia
• When Walker was eight, her brother accidentally
  shot her in the eye with a BB gun, and she lost
  sight in that eye. It developed into a scar, and
  she became ashamed of it. This period of sadness
  influenced much of Walker wrote.
• She is deeply involved in the civil rights
  movement, which is a common theme in her
  writings.
• She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The
  Color Purple.
• The Color Purple
• In Love and Trouble
• By the Light of My Fathers Smile

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Theodor Geisel

• Born March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts
• Died September 24, 1991 in La Jolla, California
• Geisel at first wrote articles for newspapers and
  magazines, then political cartoons, then
  childrens books
• In 1954, there was a report of illiteracy among
  school children, and it was concluded that the
  cause was that children werent learning to read
  because their books were boring.
• Because of this, Geisels publisher made a list
  of 400 important words, had Geisel cut it down to
  250, and then write a book using them. Using 220
  of those words, Geisel wrote The Cat in the Hat
• Pseudonym Dr. Seuss
• The Cat in the Hat
• How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• Horton Hears a Who

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Shel Silverstein

• Born September 25, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois
• Died May 10, 1999 in Key West, Florida
• Silverstein served in the armed forces in Japan
  and Korea in the 1950s. During this time he was a
  cartoonist for an American paper given to the
  soldiers there.
• He didnt plan on writing childrens books, but
  his friend Tomi Ungerer introduced him to an
  editor, who helped to publish many of
  Silversteins books.
• The Giving Tree
• Where The Sidewalk Ends
• Falling Up

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Female American Authors

• By Devon

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Mary Austin 1868 - 1934

• Mary Austin grew up in California.
• She wrote books such as Early Horizon her
  autobiography(1932), Land of the Sun, (1927)
  The land of the Little Rain (1903) and many
  others.

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Ann Bradstreet

• Anne was born in 1612 and died in 1672
• One example of Bradstreets work is the Flesh
  and the Spirit.

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Kate Chopin

• Kate Chopin was born in 1851.
• She wrote REGRET in 1895
• She died in 1904.
• "There are some people who leave impressions not
  so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the
  water." ---Kate Chopin
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Caroline Kirkland.

• Caroline Kirkland was born in 1801.
• Some samples of her work are A Book for the Home
  Circle (1853) and The Scarlet Letter
• Kirkland died in 1864.

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Emily Dickinson.

• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), The Belle of
  Amherst, American poet, wrote hundreds of poems
  including Because I Could Not Stop for Death,
  Heart, we will forget him!, I'm Nobody! Who
  are You?, and Wild Nights! Wild Nights!

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Zona Gale.

• Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 December 27, 1938)
  was an American writer. Born in Portage,
  Wisconsin, which she often used as a setting in
  her writing, she attended Wayland Academy in
  Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Later she entered the
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, from which she
  received a Bachelor of Literature degree in 1895,
  and four years later a Master's degree.

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American Authors

• By Fadi

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R.L Stine

• R.L. Stine was born on October 8, 1943 in
  Columbus Ohio. Stine began writing at the age of
  9. Stine graduated from Ohio State University in
  1965 and moved to New York City to become a
  writer. Stine also was involved in the creation
  of the PBS childrens show of Eureekas Castle.
  
• Stine was known for the Goosebumps series.
• Stines accomplishments include winning the
  Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award 3 times. Stine
  sold over 300 million books.

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John Steinbeck

• John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in
  Salinas, California. John died on December 20,
  1968. John left Stanford to become a writer.
  Johns first book Cup of gold was
  unsuccessful..
• John is known for Of Mice and Men
• Johns accomplishments include winning the Nobel
  Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize.

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AVI

• AVI was bon on December 23, 1937 in New York
  City, NY. AVI was good in science, but not in
  writing. AVI had a writing problem called
  dysgraphi.
• AVI is known for The Barn.
• AVIs accomplishments include Best Book of the
  year and Newbery Honor.

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Gary Paulsen

• Gary Paulsen was born on May 17,1939 in
  Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was raised by his
  grandmother and his aunts. At age 14 Gary ran
  away from home to travel with a carnival. He
  even flunked ninth grade.
• Garys first ever book was Some Ugly Birds
  Dont Cry. Garys well known book was Hatchet.
  
• Garys accomplishments include the Mark Twain
  Award and the Margaret A. Edwards Award.

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John Updike

• Updike was born on March 18, 1932 in
  Shillington, Pennsylvania. Updike suffered from
  psoriasis and stammering. Updike went to Harvard
  on a full scholarship. Updike was the president
  of the Harvard Lampoon.
• Updike is known for the Rabbit series.
• Updikes awards include two Pulitzer Prize awards.

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Daniel Keyes

• Daniel Keyes was born on August 9, 1927 in
  Brooklyn, NYC, NY. Daniel obtained a B.A. in
  psychology. Daniel earned a Masters degree in
  English and American literature while teaching
  English in public schools.
• Daniel is best known for Flowers for Algernon.
  
• Daniels accomplishments include the Author
  Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy
  Writers of America in 2000.

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Summary

• All of these authors R.L. Stine, John
  Steinbeck, AVI, Gary Paulsen, John Updike, and
  Daniel Keyes all written their books around the
  same time period.