Little Women (N)

-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March

Louisa May Alcott

-Pen name: A. N. Barnard

Winesburg, Ohio (N)

-George Willard, contains 23 profile stories about the town's residents

Sherwood Anderson

-member of the Chicago Group

Go Tell It On the Montain (N)

The Deerslayer, or The First War Path (N)

-released last, first in plot sequence

-from The Leatherstocking Tales

-Natty Bumpo, known as Leatherstocking; Hawkeye; Deerslayer; and Pathfinder

Lyman Frank Baum

The Martian Chronicles

-collection of short stories

-contains: "Usher II"

Fahrenheit 451 (N)

-Guy Montag

-story of a futuristic society were books are burned

The Good Earth (N)

-Pulitzer Prize-Fiction 1932

-part of: The House of Earth Trilogy

-set in China

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

-1938 Nobel Prize in Literature

-pen name: John Sedges

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (N)

-Clutter family

-set in Holcomb, Kansas

-he called it a nonfiction novel

The Last of the Mohicans (N)

-released second, second in the plot sequence

-from The Leatherstocking Tales

-Natty Bumpo, known as Leatherstocking; Hawkeye; Deerslayer; and Pathfinder

The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea

-released fourth, third in the plot sequence

-from The Leatherstocking Tales

-Natty Bumpo, known as Leatherstocking; Hawkeye; Deerslayer; and Pathfinder

The Pioneers (N)

-released first, fourth in plot sequence

-from The Leatherstocking Tales

-Natty Bumpo, known as Leatherstocking; Hawkeye; Deerslayer; and Pathfinder

The Prairie, or The Sources of the Susquehanna

-released third, last in the plot sequence

-from The Leatherstocking Tales

-Natty Bumpo, known as Leatherstocking; Hawkeye; Deerslayer; and Pathfinder

The Red Badge of Courage (N)

-Henry Fleming and Jim Conklin

-set during the Cicil War

Stephen Crane

-pen name: Johnston Smith

Sister Carrie (N)

-Carrie Meeber, George Hurstwood, and Charles Drouet

H. Theodore Dreiser

An American Tragedy (N)

-Clyde Griffiths and Roberta Alden

-based on the real murder of C. Gillette

H. Theodore Dreiser

Concord Hym (EP)

-contains the line: "..and fired the shot heard round the world."

-about the American Revolution

Ralph Waldo Emerson

-nickname: The Sage of Concord

-Tanscedentalist Poet

Nature (EP)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

-nickname: The Sage of Concord

-Tanscedentalist Poet

The Sound and the Fury (N)

-Jason, Quentin, and Benjy Compson

William Faulkner

-noted for his use of stream of consciousness

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1949

-called: "American Balzac"

-creator of Yoknapatawpha Co., Miss.

The Great Gatsby (N)

-Jay Gatsby, Nick Calloway, and Daisy Buchanan

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cat in the Hat (SS)

Theodore S. Geisel

-pen name: Dr. Seuss

-awarded Special Cotatopm Pulitzer Prize in 1984

The Scarlett Letter (N)

-Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl and Rodger Chillingworth

-the letter is an A and it stands for adultry

Nathaniel Hawthorne

-president of Brooke Farm

-friend of Franklin Pierce

Stranger in a Strange Land (N)

-Michael Alentine Smith

-title from Exodus

Catch-22 (N)

-John Yossarian, Major Major Major, and Milo Minderbinder

-set on Pianosa during WWII

-changed title from Cath-18 to 22

The Sun Also Rises (N)

-Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Michael Campbell, and Romero

-title from Ecclesiastes

Ernest Hemmingway

-worked as an ambulence driver during WWI

-was a correspondent for Toronto Star and Kansas City Star

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1954

A Farewell to Arms (N)

-Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley

-set in Caporetto (Italy) and Switzerland

Ernest Hemmingway

-worked as an ambulence driver during WWI

-was a correspondent for Toronto Star and Kansas City Star

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1954

The Old Man and the Sea (N)

-Pulitzer Prize Fiction 1953

Ernest Hemmingway

-worked as an ambulence driver during WWI

-was a correspondent for Toronto Star and Kansas City Star

-Nobel Prize for Literature 1954

Old Ironsides (P)

-"Aye, tear her tattered ensign down."

Oliver W. Holmes Sr.

-Harvard professor

Call of the Wild (N)

-Humphrey Can Weyden, Wolf Larsen (captian of the Ghost), and Maude

Jack London

-called: "American Kipling

Common Sense (NF)

-urged a break from England

Mobby Dick, or The Whale

-1st line: "Call me Ishmael."

-Ship:Pequod; Captian Ahab, Starbuck, Queequeeg, Daggo, Tashtego, Pip, Parsee, Ishmael, and Stubb

Herman Melville

-was a customs inspector

Death of a Salesman (D)

-Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1949

-Willie Loman

Arthur Miller

-first american elected president of P.E.N.

-married to Marilyn Monroe

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (AB)

Maya Angelou

-from Arkansas

-raped at age 7

-had a child at 16

-teaches at Wake Forest

The Crucible (D)

-set in Salem, MA during the witch trials

-John and Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Adams, Rebecca Nurse, and Mary Werren

Arthur Miller

-first american elected president of P.E.N.

-married to Marilyn Monroe

Annabel Lee (P)

-"It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea."

Edgar Allan Poe

-"Father of the Detective Story"

-married his cousin, Virginia Clemm

-was expelled from West Point

-editor of Southern Literary Messenger

-owned the Brodway Journal newspaper

The Fall of the House of Usher (SS)

-Roderick and Madeline Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

-"Father of the Detective Story"

-married his cousin, Virginia Clemm

-was expelled from West Point

-editor of Southern Literary Messenger

-owned the Brodway Journal newspaper

The Raven (P)

-"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"

-"Get thee back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore"

-"Quoth the raven 'Nevermore'"

Edgar Allan Poe

-"Father of the Detective Story"

-married his cousin, Virginia Clemm

-was expelled from West Point

-editor of Southern Literary Messenger

-owned the Brodway Journal newspaper

The Catcher in the Rye (N)

-Holden Caulfield, Phoebe, Sally Hayes, Stradlater, and Mr. Antolini

The Grapes of Wrath

-Plitzer Prize for Fiction 1940

-Tom Joad and Rose of Sharon

John Steinbeck

-Nobel Prize in Literature 1962

Of Mice and Men (N)

-Lenny Small (retarted), George Milton, and Curly

John Steinbeck

-Nobel Prize in Literature 1962

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (N)

-Uncle Tom, Simon Legree, Little Eva, Augustine St. Clare, and Eliza

-written in 1852

Walden, of Life in the Woods (NF)

Henry David Thoreau

-Trancedentalist

-studied at Harvard

-editor of The Dial

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (SS)

James Thurber

-wrote for the New Yorker

-member of the Algonquin Round Table

-went blind

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

-Tom, Aunt Polly, Huck Finn, Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Becky Thatcher

Mark Twain

-pen name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (N)

-Huck and Jim (runaway slave)

-one scene contains a feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons

Mark Twain

-real name: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Leaves of Grass (collection of Poems)

-contains: Song of Myself, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, Song of the Broad-Axe, Song of the Open Road, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, I Hear America Singing, Drum-Taps, Beat! Beat! Drums, Ising the Body Electric, Passage to India, and Carol of Occupations

Walt Whitman

-nicknamed: The Good Grey Poet and The Bard of Democracy

Our Town (D)

-Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1938

-set in Grover's Corners, NH

-Stage Manager, Prof. Willard, Emily Webb, George Gibbs, and Dr. Gibbs

The Glass Menagerie (D)

-Tom, Laura, and Amnda Wingfield

Tennessee Williams

-born: Thomas Lanier Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire (D)

-Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1948

-Blanche DuBois, Stella, and Stanley

-two streetcars named Desire and Cemetery

-"I have always relied on the kindness of strangers."

Tennessee Williams

-born: Thomas Lanier Williams