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List of Notable Authors and Their Works: A Guide for Literature Students, Exams of English Language

This list features renowned authors and their significant works across various literary genres and periods. It's a valuable resource for literature students, offering a concise overview of key figures and their contributions to the literary landscape. The list includes authors like J.D. Salinger, Margaret Mitchell, Homer, John Steinbeck, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Agatha Christie, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Burney, Mark Twain, Harper Lee, G.K. Chesterton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Daniel Defoe, Maya Angelou, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Zora Neale Hurston, John Keats, C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry includes the author's name, a brief description of their work, and their most notable literary contributions.

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Praxis 5039 Authors Latest Update
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J.D. Salinger ✔✔American writer
The Catcher in the Rye
Margaret Mitchell ✔✔Gone With the Wind
Homer ✔✔Iliad
Odyssey
John Steinbeck ✔✔Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
J.R.R. Tolkien ✔✔The Hobbit
Jane Austen ✔✔Pride and Prejudice
Emma
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J.D. Salinger ✔✔American writer The Catcher in the Rye

Margaret Mitchell ✔✔Gone With the Wind

Homer ✔✔Iliad Odyssey

John Steinbeck ✔✔Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath

J.R.R. Tolkien ✔✔The Hobbit

Jane Austen ✔✔Pride and Prejudice Emma

Sense and Sensibility English Novelist Romantic Fiction

Mary Shelley ✔✔English novelist Gothic novel - Frankenstein

Jonathon Swift ✔✔Gulliver's Travels

Upton Sinclair ✔✔The Jungle

Jack London ✔✔The Call of the Wild

Agatha Christie ✔✔Murder on the Orient Express

Herman Melville ✔✔Moby Dick American Novelist

Daniel DeFoe ✔✔Robinson Crusoe

Maya Angelou ✔✔Poet - I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing and Still I Rise

Edgar Allen Poe ✔✔American writer, poet, editor and literary critic The Raven

Ray Bradbury ✔✔American fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery Fahrenheit 451

Willa Cather ✔✔American Author of Novels of Frontier life on the Great Plains 1918 My Antonia 1913 O Pioneers

Stephen Crane ✔✔American author Realist tradition 1895 The Red Badge of Courage

1893 Maggie - A Girls of the Streets

Emily Dickinson ✔✔American Poet I Heard a Fly Buzz Wild Nights

Ralph Waldo Emerson ✔✔An American essayist, lecturer, poet Led the transcendulist movement Wrote Self Reliance Nature Representative Men

Robert Frost ✔✔American Poet Highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of colliquial speech 1923 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening 1914 North of Boston

Zora Neale Hurston ✔✔American folklorist

Hamlett The Tempest MacBeth A Mid Summer Night's Dream

Percy Bysshe Shelley ✔✔Major English Romantic Poet Finest Lyric Poet The Masque of Anarchy - a political poem following the Peterloo Masssacre - the first modern statement of nonviolent resistance written

Amy Tan ✔✔American Writer works explore mother and daughter relationships Wrote the Joy Luck Club

Alice Walker ✔✔American author and activist 1982 The Color Purple - focuses on the life of women of color in the south of the US addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in America and social culture

Walt Whitman ✔✔American Poet 1855 Leaves of Grass A humanist - part of the transcendialism and realism - called the Father of Free Verse