Praxis 5038 Authors and their Major Works

Maya Angelou (early 1900s)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African-American autobiographer and poet

Jane Austen (1770s-1800s)

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma. Social Satires of feminism

Ray Bradbury (mid 1900s)

Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles,. Science fiction short stories. McCarthyism

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Death comes for the archbishop, O! Pioneers, My Antonia

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage

Emily Dickinson

United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)

Wild Nights, Fly Buzz When I died,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Self-Reliance, American Scholar. TRANCENDENTALISM

Henry David Thoreau

Walden, Civil Disobedience, TRANCENDENTALISM

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Psalm of Life; The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass (1855), O Captain My Captain

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" coined the term "Jazz Age"

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Bradstreet

To My Dear and Loving Husband, PURITAN POET

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken, fire and ice, birches

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Sweat, Mules and Men, The new Negro

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale,

To Autumn,

six odes.

Gravestone

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia,

Screwtape letters

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher

The raven

Annabelle Lee

Tell-tale heart

J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

The Kitchen God's Wife

JRR Tolkien

The Hobbit

Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn

Tom Sawyer

The Gilded Age

Realism

Alice Walker

American author and humorist. "The Color Purple"

James Fenimore Cooper

The Leatherstocking Tales (Deerslayer, the last of the Mohicans, pathfinder, the pioneers, the prairie)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Avi

Edward Irving Wortis

Children's literature

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Nothing but the Truth

Crispin

George Orwell

1984

Animal Farm

Scott O'Dell

Island of the Blue Dolphins

The Black Pearl

Over Sea, Under Stone

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Virgil

The Aeneid

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland

Paul Zindel

The Pigman

Sylvia Plath

Victoria Lucas= pen name

The Bell Jar

Beowulf

Old English Epic Poem

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Fydor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

David Copperfield

A Christmas Carol

Oliver Twist

Great Expectations

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

SE Hinton

The Outsiders

HG Wells

The War of the Worlds

, The Time Machine

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 43

Aurora Leigh

Virginia Woolf

Ms. Calloway

Night and day

The voyage out

Jacob's room

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, father of English novel

Richard Adams

Watership Down

Louis Sachar

Holes

Katherine Patterson

Bridge to Terabithia

Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy

The Watsons go to Birmingham

Lois Lowry

The Giver

Ester Forbes

Johnny Tremain

Patricia MacLachlan

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Phyllis Wheatley

first African american poet, sold into slavery, raised and educated in her family, household servant

Phyllis Reynolds Taylor

Shiloh

The grand escape

Witch saga

William Armstrong

Sounder

Elizabeth George Speare

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Sign of the Beaver

The Bronze Bow

Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

Gary Paulsen

Hatchet

Brain's winter

Tracker

Dogsong

Carl Hiaason

Hoot

Robert Cormier

The Chocolate War

Sandra Cisneros

The House on Mango Street

Elie Wiesel

Night

Walter Dean Myers

The Glory Field.

Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome

Age of Innocence

Mildred Taylor

Roll of thunder

Hear my cry

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Yearling

Jean Craighead George

Julie of the Wolves

My Side of the Mountain

Leo Tolstoy

wrote Anna Karenina, War and Peace; Russian writer, realistic fiction

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18

Hamlet

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

Johann David Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

The storm

Toni Morrison

Bluest eye

Beloved

Sons of Solomon

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Langston Hughes

A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People"

The weary blues

Not without laughter

Countee Cullen

1903-1946. American romantic poet closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Any human to another

Color

Ballad of a brown girl

Lord Byron

She Walks in Beauty

Ernest Hemingway

an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)

Farewell to arms

Washington Irving

The Devil and Tom Walker

The legend of sleepy hallow

Rip van winkle

Karen Hesse

Out of the Dust

Ben Jonson

Satire plays; Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, the Fox, the Alchemist, Bartholomew fair,

John Fletcher

Playwright.

The King's Men.

Philaster.

The Maides Tragedy.

John Milton

Paradise Lost

Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock

Essays on Man.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

To a Mouse

William Blake

Songs of Innocence.

Songs of experience.

William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads.

Tintern Abbey.

Imitations of Immorality.

I wandered Lonely as a cloud.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

William Cullen Bryant

To a Waterfowl

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus

James Russell Lowell

The First Snowfall

George Eliot

Middlemarch

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles