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Walt Whitman wrote poetry that described his home, New York City. This conflict with the Soviet Union shaped global politics for more than four decades, and the proxy wars and threat of nuclear annihilation that came to define it were just some of the influences shaping American literature during the second half of the 20th century. During the 1850s, as the United States headed toward civil war, more and more stories by and about enslaved and free African Americans were written. He is a huge fan of the short story. The poem 1845 is a gloomy depiction of lost love. Other important plays by Odets for the Group Theatre were Paradise Lost 1935 , Golden Boy 1937 , and Rocket to the Moon 1938. She shared this passion with her husband, Diego Rivera, also a prominent Mexican painter.
Granddaughter of , Charlotte Forten was born into an activist family of free blacks. National Championships, in 1950, and made the same landmark appearance at Wimbledon in 1951. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He has written 11 novels, 3 of which are made up of loosely connected stories, and over 40 short story collections, for a grand total of over 400 short stories and novellas. Bonnie Parker, the infamous lover and partner in crime with Clyde Barrow, traveled around the Midwest in the 1930s robbing banks and stores and killing people along the way. She was caught by the Germans in 1943 and was tortured and beaten and scheduled for execution.
Salinger lived to the ripe age of 91 years old and has had a profound impact on the literary world We here at Wordables. Visit Harper Lee 1926- To Kill a Mockingbird is her only published novel, winning the Monroeville, Ala. Tolkien, the British author, has heavily influenced the modern fantasy genre and most recently his writings have been made into award winning movies. He first used that name while reporting on politics in the Nevada Territory. Playwrights drew inspiration from European theater but created plays that were uniquely and enduringly American.
The developed an elaborate philosophy that saw in all of creation a unified whole. He also wrote the first African American play to be published, The Escape 1858. That sense may be centered on specific individuals, or it may be directed toward American society or toward civilization generally. In 1940 she published an autobiography, A Colored Woman in a White World. Author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, first published in 1789, which describes his capture in West Africa and experience as a slave in the West Indies and later a free man.
In truth, most Americans never changed. Estee Lauder built an empire on face creams and her innovative fragrance, Youth-Dew, which was a bath oil that doubled as a scent. Tolkien Known for writing The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J. American poetry and fiction were largely modeled on what was being published overseas in Great Britain, and much of what American readers consumed also came from Great Britain. Scott Fitzgerald pictured above Most famous as the author of The Great Gatsby, F. He also employed a stream-of-consciousness form of psychological monologue in 1928 and produced a work that combined , family drama, and psychological analysis in 1931. John Hersey John Hersey John Richard Hersey was born to Roscoe and Grace Bird Hersey in Tientsin, China on June 17, 1914 and died in Key West, Florida on March 24, 1993 at the age of 78.
Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, with her trip on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. But she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, and their plane disappeared in the middle of the Pacific, and they were never heard from again. Best known for her radicalism, Lucy Parsons supported herself by writing and lecturing within socialist and anarchist circles. I have always admired writers. College survey courses try to give students an overview of some of the trends and major works, but they are pieced together and incomplete by necessity. He is best known for his Jungle Book and other tales for children. Bush remarked that, like millions of other American, he too gained appreciation of theChinese through Pearl S.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a 19th century African American woman writer and abolitionist, was born to a free black family in a slave state, Maryland. John Steinbeck 1902-1968 A native of Salinas, Calif. She was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and held the influential swing vote in many controversial decisions until she retired in 2006. African American women writers have helped bring the black woman's experience to life for millions of readers. This story has been retold in many different forms over the years.
Frances Watkins Harper became a teacher, an anti-slavery activist, and a writer and poet. How adequate is the language of postmodernism to characterize the fiction, poetry and nonfiction prose of the past thirty, forty, fifty years? They've written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, and what 20th and 21st century America has been like for black women. She was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize. Visit James Fenimore Cooper 1789-1851 Cooper, who grew up in Cooperstown, N. So the latest works we can reasonably include have to have been published in 1991 or before. She was also an advocate of women's rights and was a member of the American Woman Suffrage Association. Lessing Moon Tiger Penelope Lively Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos The Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning The Group Mary McCarthy Ballad of the Sad Cafe Carson McCullers Mama Terry McMillan Patience and Sarah Isabel Miller Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Anagrams Lorrie Moore Beloved Toni Morrison Wife Bharati Mukherjee Lives of Girls and Women Alice Munro A Severed Head Iris Murdoch House of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien A Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor Tell Me a Riddle Tillie Olsen Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Grace Paley The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker Black Tickets Jayne Anne Phillips Braided Lives Marge Piercy The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter The Golden Spur Dawn Powell The Shipping News E.
An online collection of short stories, essays, poems, and a novel, with transcriptions and digital images of manuscripts, of an important African American writer before the Harlem Renaissance. Althea Gibson broke the color barrier in tennis -- she was the first African-American to play at the U. Both Rabbit Is Rich 1982 and Rabbit at Rest 1990 were recognized with the Pulitzer Prize. So I decided to draw up a list—a list of major works that would serve as a starting point and overview of 20th Century American fiction. This was the essence of. She was a prolific writer and had written 39 novels.
Who is the best classic American writer of 20th century?
He was preoccupied with the clash in values between the United States and Europe. Many of his stories have ended up in his novels without the reader realizing they were originally independent tales. Visit Washington Irving 1783-1859 One of the earliest American fiction writers, New York City-born Irving wrote the famous and timeless tales Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1819 and 1820, respectively. As of 1997, more than 120 million copies of the book were sold. By the first decades of the 19th century, a truly American literature began to emerge. But that wasn't enough for this courageous woman.
