Greatest American Literature - Authors - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald
90%
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Mark Twain
90%
The Raven (1845) Edgar Allen Poe
88%
Q.E.D. (1903) Gertrude Stein
88%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee
87%
Inherit the Wind (1955) Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
87%
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck
85%
A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway
84%
The Catcher in the Rye (1951) J. D. Salinger
83%
The Scarlet Letter (1850) Nathaniel Hawthorne
82%
Moby-Dick; or The Whale (1851) Herman Melville
80%
Little Women (1869) Louisa May Alcott
78%
Death of a Salesman (1949) Arthur Miller
76%
Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller
76%
The Bell Jar (1963) Silvia Plath
76%
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut
74%
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury
73%
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe
72%
The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London
72%
Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Jefferson
72%
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov
72%
On the Road (1957) Jack Kerouac
71%
Leaves of Grass (1855) Walt Whitman
69%
Atlas Shrugged (1957) Ayn Rand
67%
Walden (1854) Henry David Thoreau
67%
A Description of New England, (1616) John Smith
66%
The Book of Mormon (1830) Joseph Smith Jr.*
66%
Catch-22 (1961) Joseph Heller
64%
Gone With the Wind, (1936) Margaret Mitchell
64%
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) Maya Angelou
64%
The Glass Menagerie (1944) Tennessee Williams
63%
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) William Faulkner
61%
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) L. Frank Baum
56%
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) Washington Irving
56%
Common Sense (1775) Thomas Paine
55%
The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker
54%
Charlotte’s Web (1952) E. B. White
54%
The Last of the Mohicans(1826) James Fenimore Cooper
54%
The Road Not Taken (1874) Robert Frost
54%
Song of Solomon (1977) Toni Morrison
54%
The Joy Luck Club (1989) Amy Tan
51%
The Jungle (1906) Upton Sinclair
51%
Invisible Man (1952) Ralph Ellison
50%
Rabbit, Run (1960) John Updike
42%
The Good Earth (1931) Pearl S. Buck
40%
Self-Reliance (1836) Ralph Waldo Emerson
39%
Gravity's Rainbow (1973) Thomas Pynchon
39%
O Pioneers! (1913) Willa Cather
38%
“A House Divided” (1858) Abraham Lincoln
37%
The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer
37%
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) Zora Neale Hurston
37%
Ethan Frome (1911) Edith Wharton
36%
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Frederick Douglass
35%
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) Alex Haley
34%
Main Street (1920) Sinclair Lewis
34%
The Gift of the Magi (1905) O. Henry
33%
The Way to Wealth (1758) Benjamin Franklin
32%
The Song of Hiawatha, (1854) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
30%
Ender's Game (1985) Orson Scott Card
30%
The Giver (1994) Lois Lowry
29%
Our Town (1938) Thornton Wilder
29%
The Goldfinch (2013) Donna Tartt
28%
Giovanni's Room (1956) James Baldwin
28%
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) Madeleine L'Engle
28%
I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (1830) Emily Dickinson
25%
All the King’s Men (1946) Robert Penn Warren
25%
Long Days Journey into Night (1957) Eugene O’Neill
22%
From Here to Eternity (1953) James Jones
22%
Goodbye, Columbus (1959) Philip Roth
22%
Oklahoma! (1943) Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
22%
Herzog (1964) Saul Bellow
22%
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) Stephen Crane
22%
White Noise (1985) Don DeLillo
20%
anyone lived in a pretty how town (1940) E. E. Cummings
20%
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741) Jonathan Edwards
20%
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
19%
Flowers for Algernon (1966) Daniel Keyes
19%
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912) James Weldon Johnson
19%
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) Lorraine Hansberry
19%
West Side Story (1957) Arthur Laurents and Lenard Bernstein
18%
The Butter Battle Book (1984) Dr. Seuss
18%
Incarnations of Burned Children (2004) David Foster Wallace
17%
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1929) Langston Hughes
17%
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) Lew Wallace
17%
Lost in Yonkers (1991) Neil Simon
17%
Ragtime (1975) E.L. Doctorow
16%
Tales of the South Pacific (1948) James A. Michener
14%
The Things They Carried (1990) Tim O’Brian
14%
The Piano Lesson (1990) August Wilson
13%
“The New Colossus” (1883) Emma Lazarus
12%
Sunday in the Park with George (1985) James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
12%
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1881) Joel Chandler Harris
12%
The Best Man: A Play about Politics (1960) Gore Vidal
11%
of Plymouth Plantation (1651) William Bradford
11%
Verses upon the Burning of our House (1666) Anne Bradstreet
10%
Rules for Radicals (1971) Saul Alinsky
10%
Good Country People (1955) Flannery O'Connor
9%
A Model of Christian Charity (1630) John Winthrop
9%
The Day of the Locust (1939) Nathanael West
9%
Cabaret, (1966) Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, and John Kander
8%
There Shall Be No Night (1940) Robert E. Sherwood
8%
"Hard Times": An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) Studs Terkel
8%
Angels in America (1993) Tony Kushner
8%
Spoon River Anthology (1915) Edgar Lee Masters
7%
Show Boat (1926) Edna Ferber
7%
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002) Edward Albee
7%
Rent (1996) Jonathan Larson
7%
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?(1966) Joyce Carol Oates
7%
Thanatopsis, (1811) William Cullen Bryant
7%
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) Alison Bechdel
6%
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) Emily Post
6%
Hints toward Reforms (1850) Horace Greeley
6%
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories (1974) Isaac Bashevis Singer
6%
Trees (1913) Joyce Kilmer
6%
The Adding Machine (1923) Elmer Rice
5%
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (1682) Mary Rowlandson
5%
A River Runs Through It (1976) Norman Maclean
5%
Bird by Bird (1995) Anne Lamott
4%
The People, Yes (1936) Carl Sandburg
4%
Casey at the Bat (1888) Ernest Thayer
4%
The Trip to Bountiful (1953) Horton Foote
4%
The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) John Rollin Ridge
4%
Ordinary People (1976) Judith Guest
4%
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (1980) Ntozkae Shange
4%
Diary of a Virginia Gentleman (1709) William Byrd II
4%
Clybourne Park (2010) Bruce Norris
3%
M. Butterfly (1988) David Henry Hwang
3%
Black like Me (1961) John Howard Griffin
3%
Hard Lines (1939) Ogden Nash
3%
Bless Me, Ultima (1972) Rudolfo A. Anaya
3%
Trifles (1918) Susan Glaspell
3%
Yekl; A Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896) Abraham Cahan
2%
Driving Miss Daisy (1987) Alfred Uhry
2%
They Cage the Animals at Night (1984) Jennings Michael Burch
2%
A Part of Speech (1977) Joseph Brodsky
2%
Saga of Pecos Bill (1923) Tex O'Reilly
2%
How I Learned to Drive (1998) Paula Vogel
1%
Next to Normal (2010) Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
1%
Blood on the Forge (1941) William Attaway
1%
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