Poets and Poetry
The author of Leaves of Grass
Who is Walt Whitman?
His best-known novel, The Great Gatsby, was published in 1925
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The title of this Lorraine Hansberry play comes from a poem by Langston Hughes
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
His best-known nonfiction work set on the Mississippi river is called Life on the Mississippi
Who is Mark Twain? (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
This novelist carried six chapters from his work in progress, The Catcher in the Rye, during the D-day invasion
Who is J. D. Salinger?
The title of the Robert Frost poem that includes the line "I took the one less traveled by"
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
The collective name for James Fenimore Cooper's novels featuring Natty Bumpoo
What is the Leatherstocking Tales?
Although inspired by the Red Scare, this is the event that provides the story for Arthur Miller's The Crucible
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
His "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is a major document of the Civil Rights Movement
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This poet and short story writer married his cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm, when she was thirteen
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Massachusetts poet known as the Belle of Amherst
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The four sisters in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (props if given oldest to youngest)
Who are Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy?
This Tennessee Williams title refers to the collection kept by the shy Laura Wingfield
What is The Glass Menagerie?
Though also a poet, she may be best known for his first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
Eugene O'Neill became this silent film star's father in law when his daughter Oona married him in 1943
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
The first African-American poet to publish a book of poetry
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
The only novel Ralph Ellison published in his lifetime
What is Invisible Man?
Playwright behind The Emperor Jones, Strange Interlude, and The Iceman Cometh
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
His friend Harper Lee helped him conduct research in Kansas for his "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood
Who is Truman Capote?
Arthur Miller's son in law who played John Proctor in the film The Crucible whose father was a British poet laureate
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?
Two of her best-known poems are "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus"
Who is Sylvia Plath?
David Foster Wallace's massive magnum opus, its title taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet
What is Infinite Jest?
The subtitle of this two-part Tony Kushner play is A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
What is Angels in America?
Title of the John Hersey book about the city where an atomic bomb was dropped during World War II
What is Hiroshima?
This author of Lolita is the only novelist to inspire the name of a butterfly because of his amateur lepidoptery
Who is Vladimir Nabokov?