American Authors
Literary Periods
Nobel Prize Winners
Name that Quote
Who Wrote It?
100
This author was an escaped slave who taught himself how to read and write.
Who is Frederick Douglass
100
Some writers of this era featured heavy anti-slavery themes.
What is the Civil War Era?
100
The first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930, was commended "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
100
The author of this quote was known for his wit and satire: "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Who is Mark Twain?
100
"Howl"
Who is Allen Ginsburg?
200
This author wrote nearly 1800 poems and spent most of her adult life locked in her bedroom.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
Writers of this era focused on the changing mindsets of Americans after World War I.
What is the Modernist Period?
200
The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was born in West Virginia, but focused much of her writing on the peasant life style in China.
Who is Pearl S. Buck?
200
The author of this quote had a novel published in 1952, titled Invisible Man: " I am an invisible man."
Who is Ralph Ellison?
200
"Hills Like White Elephants"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
300
In his 1855 preface to "Leaves of Grass," this poet wrote that "the proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."?
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
Writers of this era tried to focus on real experiences, including believable characters.
What is the Realist Period?
300
This modernist poet, who won the Nobel Prize in 1948, was born in the United States but moved to Great Britain and became a British citizen.
Who is T.S. Eliot?
300
The first line of her Pulitzer Prize winning novel begins "124 was spiteful" and is set after the Civil War.
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
"Drown" / Short Story Collection of the same name
Who is Junot Diaz?
400
This graphic novel, written by Alan Moore, was recognized in Time's List of the 100 Best Novels as one of the best English language novels published since 1923.
What is "The Watchmen"?
400
Writers of this era felt that feelings and intuition were more important than logic and reasoning.
What is the Romantic Era?
400
This American writer focused all of his writing on the South and many of his stories and novels starred members of the Snopes family.
Who is William Faulkner?
400
"For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all," is from a poem published in this writer's collection, Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork.
Who is Richard Brautigan?
400
"The Toughest Indian in the World" / short story collection of the same name.
Who is Sherman Alexie?
500
This author of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman was married to Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Arthur Miller?
500
This is a late-20th-century movement that is a reaction to the aesthetics of modernism and uses fragmentation, unreliable narration, and lack of intrinsic, fixed meaning to establish literary paradox.
What is the Postmodern Era?
500
This woman, the first woman of color to win the Nobel Prize was the last American to be awarded the prize.
Who is Toni Morrison?
500
This short story was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, and concluded with this quote: "There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it."
What is "Brokeback Mountain"?
500
Cannery Row
Who is John Steinbeck?
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