Name

Works

Other

Films

James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851)

Leather-Stocking Novels
The Last of the Mohican

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)

The Song of Hiawatha
The Arrow and the Song

He wrote poetry

Harriet Beecher-Stowe
(1811-1896)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass

He wrote poetry

Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
(1835-1910)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Prince and the Pauper

He wrote short stories

O. Henry
(William Sidney Porter)
(1862-1910)

273 short stories and the novel “Cabbage and Kings”

Jack London
(1876-1916)

Love of Life
White Fang
Martin Eden
(an autobiographical novel)
The Little Lady of the Big House

Theodore Dreiser
(1871-1945)

An American Tragedy
Sister Carrie
Jennie Gerhard
Trilogy
The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic

He belonged to the Communist party of America

Earnest Hemingway
(1899-1961)

Fiesta or The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Green Hills of Africa
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Old Man and the Sea
Starring: Anthony Queen

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
20th – Fox Production
Starring: Gregory Peck
Produced by Darryl Zanuck

A Farewell to Arms (1933)
Director: Franck Borzede
Awarded 2 “Oscars”

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Director: Sam Wood
Awarded 1 “Oscar”

Katherine Susanna Prichard
(1884-1969)

The Roaring Nineties

(Australia)

William Saroyan
(1908-1981)

The Human Comedy

He wrote short stories, plays and novels

The Human Comedy (1943)
Director: Clarence Brown
Awarded 1 “Oscar”

Tennessee Williams
(the middle of the 20th century)

A Streetcar Named Desire
The Rose Tattoo
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

He was a playwright

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Director: Elijah Kazan
Starring: Vivian Leigh, Marlone Brando
Awarded 3 “Oscars”

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman

The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Director: Daniel Mann
Awarded 3 “Oscars”

Francis Scott Fitsgerald
(1917-1996)

The Great Gatsby
So Tender is the Night

William Faulker
(1897-1962)

He wrote novels of the stream of consciousness

Jerome Salinger
(1919-)

The Catcher in the Rye

He wrote short stories

John Steinbeik
(1902-1968)

Grapes of Wrath

Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Director: John Ford
Awarded 2 “Oscars”

Thomas Mayne Reid
(1818—1883)

The Headless Rider

Margaret Mitchell
(1900-1949)

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Selsnic International and MGM Production
Director: Victor Flemming
Starring: Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable
Awarded 9 “Oscars”