Native American
Colonial Puritan
Gothic Romantic
Transcendentalism
Themes
100

This Native American Author wrote about his experience during his school years on and off the reservation.

Who is Sherman Alexie
100

This Colonial/Puritan author was also a clergyman.

Who is Cotton Mather 

100

This Gothic Romantic author married their 13 year old cousin.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe
100

This authors perspective shifted from spiritual to angry in their works.

Who is Henry David Thoreau

100

This eras has a theme surrounding nature, individuality, spirituality, and anti materialism.

What is Transcendentalism 

200

This Native American female author is an enrolled citizen of the Ojibwe people.

Who is Louise Erdrich

200

This author also wrote The Scarlett Letter

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne 

200

This famous author was also a diplomat

Who is Washington Irving

200

This Native American author wrote about his experience hunting and becoming a man

Who is Black Elk

200

This era has a theme that surrounds spirituality and religion, and mass hysteria

What is Colonial/Puritan

300

This female author wrote The Man to Send Rain Clouds

Leslie Marmon Silko

300

This Puritan man was a poet and pastor

Who is Edward Taylor

300

This female author wrote about the cruelty of slavery that she witnessed.

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe

300

This author was the central figure of Transcendentalism

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson

300

This era has a theme surrounding the supernatural and mental health 

What is Gothic Romantic

400

This Native American author attended a Residential school from 1936 to 1947, and is apart of the Mi’Kmaq Nation

Who is Isabelle Knockwood.

400

This Puritan woman had a modern story written on her experience as a ‘witch’

Who is Mary Webster

400

This trio of women wrote famous Gothic Romantic literature such as ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Jane Eyre’

Who are the Brontë Sisters

400

This author wrote An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Who is Ambrose Bierce

400

This era has a theme surrounding nature, spirituality, and generational trauma

What is Native American

500

This Native American tribe believes that the dreamcatcher catches negative dreams.

Who are the Lakota

500

This woman wrote about her experience being held captive by Native Americans

Who is Mary Rowlandson

500

This Gothic Romantic author kept their late husbands heart in their writing desk.

Who is Mary Shelley

500

This female Transcendentalism author wrote what is considered the first feminist book.

Who is Margaret Fuller

500

This final secret question is random, who is the best author throughout these eras.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe