Pre-Civil War Authors
Female
Authors
Mississippi
Authors
Book
Titles
Books and
Movies
100

Author of Rip Van Winkle

Who is Washington Irving?

100

First published author in the new colonies

Who is Anne Bradstreet?

100

Female author from Jackson, MS, who won a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Who is Eudora Welty?

100

Huckleberry Finn and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Who is Mark Twain?

100

Book and movie that detail how a free man was captured and enslaved for a number of years.

What is 12 Years a Slave?

200

Author of Young Goodman Brown and The Scarlet Letter

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

200

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

200

Author from south Mississippi who focused on racial themes in most of his writings such as Black Boy and Native Son

Who is Richard Wright?

200

The Story of an Hour and Desiree's Baby

Who is Kate Chopin?

200

Book and movie that detail the lives of the four March sisters -- Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth

What is Little Women?

300

Former slave who was the first African American to publish a novel

Who is William Wells Brown?

300

Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Who is Harriet Jacobs?

300
Author from Jackson, MS, who wrote a novel about African American maids during the 1960s, and the book was turned into a movie that was set in Jackson

Who is Kathryn Stockett?

300

Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath

Who is John Steinbeck?

300

Book and movie that detail the lives of Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway during the Roaring '20s

What is The Great Gatsby?

400

Former slave who wrote a narrative about his escape and who downplayed the Underground Railroad

Who is Frederick Douglass?

400

Poet who wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Who is Emily Dickinson?

400

Author who attended Ole Miss and authored well-known works The Sound and the Fury and A Rose for Emily

Who is William Faulkner?

400

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Phenomenal Woman

Who is Maya Angelou?

400

Book and movie that detail the abuse suffered by Miss Celie and how she eventually overcomes it

What is The Color Purple?

500

Author who married his young cousin and wrote numerous short stories and poems that have dark themes such as death and depression

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

500
Former slave who was the first African American author of a book of poetry

Who is Phillis Wheatley?

500

Author who attended law school at Ole Miss and wrote numerous legal thrillers such as The Firm and A Time to Kill

Who is John Grisham?

500

A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie

Who is Tennessee Williams?

500

Book and movie that detail how a bullied teenage girl gets revenge at the school prom

What is Carrie?