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Born March 20, 1814 • Pennsylvania
Died December 11, 1869 (aged 55) • Tennessee?
Notable Works “Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a ‘Natural Born Durn’d Fool’ ”
Movement / Style frontier humour
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Norman Maclean
American author and teacher
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
American writer
Richard Matheson
American author and screenwriter
Junot Díaz
Dominican-born American writer
Michael Cunningham
American author
Anzia Yezierska
American author
Albert Halper
American author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
A son of Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American writer
Tillie Olsen
American author
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author