Short Story Authors
(1862-1910) Known for his twist endings, and collections like Cabbages and kings, The Four Million, The Gift of the Magi, and The Ransom of Red Chief.
O. Henry(William Sydney Porter)
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Who painted The Night Watch, The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Nicolaes Tulp, Belshazzar's Feast
Rembrandt van Rijn
One of the first civilizations to arise in Mesopotamia.
Sumer
The fifth-largest satellite in the solar system, the largest relative to the size of the planet it orbits, and the second densest
Earths Moon: Luna
(1899-1961) Collections like Big Two-Hearted River, Hills Like White Elephants, and The Snow of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Who painted The Music Lesson, The Milkmaid, The Art of Painting
Jan Vermeer
The first empire in the world, and consisted of Sumerians and Akkadian-speaking Semites.
Akkadian Empire
The largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the solar system.
Titan
(1809-1849) Collections like The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Who painted The Laughing Cavalier
Frans Hals
A region located along the Upper Tigris River in what is now northern Iraq.
Assyria
Saturn's third-largest after Titan and Rhea
Lapetus
(1804-1864) Collections like The Ministers Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Rappaccini's Daughter, The Birth-Mark, and Young Goodman Brown.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
Who painted Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Hunter in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
A region of lower Mesopotamia centered on the city Babylon
Babylonia
Uranus's largest moons, Named from Shakespeares A Midsummers Nights Dream
Titania and Oberon
(1925-1964) Collections like A Good man is Hard to Find, Good Country People, and Everything That Rises Must Converge.
Flannery O'Connor
Easter, 1916
William Butler Yeats
Who painted The Proposition
Judith Leyster
Succeeded the Minoans as the preeminent Greek civilization.
Mycenaeans
The largest moon of Neptune and the only large moon with a retrograde orbit
Triton