Pre-Civil War Authors
Author of Rip Van Winkle
Who is Washington Irving?
First published author in the new colonies
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
Female author from Jackson, MS, who won a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Who is Eudora Welty?
Huckleberry Finn and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Who is Mark Twain?
Book and movie that detail how a free man was captured and enslaved for a number of years.
What is 12 Years a Slave?
Author of Young Goodman Brown and The Scarlet Letter
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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?
The Story of an Hour and Desiree's Baby
Who is Kate Chopin?
Book and movie that detail the lives of the four March sisters -- Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth
What is Little Women?
Former slave who was the first African American to publish a novel
Who is William Wells Brown?
Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
Who is Kathryn Stockett?
Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck?
Book and movie that detail the lives of Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway during the Roaring '20s
What is The Great Gatsby?
Former slave who wrote a narrative about his escape and who downplayed the Underground Railroad
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Poet who wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Author who attended Ole Miss and authored well-known works The Sound and the Fury and A Rose for Emily
Who is William Faulkner?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Phenomenal Woman
Who is Maya Angelou?
Book and movie that detail the abuse suffered by Miss Celie and how she eventually overcomes it
What is The Color Purple?
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?
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
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?
A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie
Who is Tennessee Williams?
Book and movie that detail how a bullied teenage girl gets revenge at the school prom
What is Carrie?