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American Writers

Can you name these writers and authors from the United States of America
The hint is a well-known work of the writer
The lifespan is in brackets
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Last updated: June 28, 2024
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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1783-1859)
The Last of the Mohicans (1789-1851)
The Scarlet Letter (1804-1864)
Paul Revere's Ride (1807-1882)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven (1809-1849)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1811-1896)
Walden (1817-1862)
Moby Dick (1819-1891)
Leaves of Grass, O Captain! My Captain! (1819-1892)
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (1830-1886)
Little Women (1832-1888)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
The American 1843-1916)
The Gift of the Magi (1862-1910)
The Age of Innocence (1862-1937)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1874-1946)
Birches (1874-1963)
White Fang, Call of the Wild (1876-1916)
The Jungle (1878-1968)
Babbitt (1885-1951)
Ripostes (1885-1972)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1888-1953)
Double Indemnity, The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake (1888-1959)
The Call of Cthulhu (1890-1937)
The Good Earth (1892-1973)
Tender is The Night, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1896-1940)
Absalom, Absalom! - The Sound and The Fury (1897-1962)
A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not (1899-1961)
Jazz Poetry (1901-1967)
East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath (1902-1968)
The Cat in the Hat, How the Grinch stole Christmas, Lorax (1904-1991)
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers (1907-1988)
A Streetcar named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1911-1983)
Invisible Man (1913-1994)
The Naked Lunch (1914-1997)
Death of a Salesman, The Misfits (1915-2005)
The Catcher in the Rye (1919-2010)
I, Robot (1920-1992)
Poet of Dirty Realism (1920-1994)
The Martian Chronicles (1920-2012)
On the Road (1922-1969)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1922-2007)
Marvel Comics (1922-2018)
Catch-22 (1923-1999)
The White Negro (1923-2007)
Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood (1924-1984)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1924-1987)
Wise Blood (1925-1964)
Myra Breckinridge (1925-2012)
Howl (1926-1997)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1926-2016)
The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1928-1982)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1928-2014)
Song of Solomon (1931-2019)
The Bell Jar (1932-1963)
The Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Series (1932-2009)
The Human Stain (1933-2018)
No Country for Old Men (1933-2023)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1935-2001)
Jurassic Park, Westworld (1942-2008)
The Hunt for Red October, Jack Ryan (1947-2013)
The Shining (1947)
The Firm (1955)
The Da Vinci Code (1964)
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3 Comments
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Level 68
Jun 27, 2024
Needs a sad update. Cormac McCarthy left us in 2023.
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Level 89
Jun 27, 2024
Great quiz. Citing some of the more obscure works for the recent authors made it more difficult.

I wonder if Clancy, King, or Gresham will even be remembered in fifty years. I think Brown will definitely not be.

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Level 91
Jun 27, 2024
I like it. 63 legendary authors plus Dan Brown.