Poet Rhyme Time
Short Story Adjectives
Before They Were Authors
Notable Connections
African American Authors
100
Price paid by the author of "The Road Not Taken"
What is Frost's cost?
100
Mark Twain: "The ________ Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
What is Notorious?
100
So it's not exactly an occupation, but during her teen years, this female author dressed as a boy and called herself William.
Who is Willa Cather?
100
Charlotte Perkins Gilman counts this author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as an ancestor.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This author of "The Souls of Blackfolk" was the first African American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard, in 1896.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
200
Playwright Williams' personal bottle of famous brandy.
What is Tennessee's Hennessy?
200
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The ________ Wall-Paper"
What is Yellow?
200
There is evidence that this author, who wrote about the Wild West, briefly took on the dangerous job of riding shotgun on a stagecoach for the Wells Fargo Express.
Who is Brett Harte?
200
He was a "neurotic, self-destructive alcoholic whose life was a chaotic jumble of emotional confusion and despair,"(p. 1342) BUT-- his dad invented Life Savers candy.
Who is Hart Crane?
200
Her third novel, "The Color Purple", won her a Pulitzer Prize, and was later made into a movie.
Who is Alice Walker?
300
A circular Ezra.
What is round Pound?
300
Stephen Crane: "The ________ Hotel"
What is Blue?
300
Born William Sydney Porter, this author's stint as a bank teller led to an embezzlement charge--for which he later did time.
Who is O. Henry?
300
His parents named this author after ancestor Francis Scott Key, who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner".
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
This author died broke in 1960, her works forgotten, only to be rediscovered in the 1970's, when her novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God", was republished.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
400
Gertrude's plaintive cry.
What is Stein whine?
400
Gertrude Stein: "The ________ Lena"
What is Gentle?
400
This author, who later won a Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume Lincoln biography, is said to have "wandered throughout America, working as a milkman, porter, stagehand, brickmaker, dishwasher, housepainter, salesman, and newspaper reporter." (McMichael, p. 1128)
Who is Carl Sandburg?
400
She didn't like poetry either, but she loved baseball, and had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at the Yankee's home opener in 1968.
Who is Marianne Moore?
400
She wrote the novel, "Beloved", and was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
Sylvia's bad temper.
What is Plath's wrath?
500
Charles Waddell Chestnutt: "The ________ Grapevine"
What is Goophered?
500
This beautiful author of such poems as "The Farmer's Wife", and "The Addict", once worked as a fashion model.
Who is Anne Sexton?
500
When he first started out, this man wrote under the pseudonym Dexter Wallace, but wrote "Spoon River Anthology" and worked for a time at Clarence Darrow's law firm under this, his real name.
Who is Edgar Lee Masters?
500
This author lead the group of Harlem writers of the Black Literary Renaissance of the 1920's.
Who is Langston Hughes?
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