American Literature

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1 James Fenimore Cooper 17x

2 Ernest Hemingway 15x

3 Edgar Allan Poe 13x

4 Nathaniel Hawthorne 12x

5 Mark Twain 11x

6 Jack London 10x

7 Sinclair Lewis 9x

8 Faulkner 9x

9 Washington Irving 8x

10 John Steinbeck 8x

11 Herman Melville 8x

12 F. Scott Fitzgerald 7x

13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7x

14 Louisa May Alcott 7x

15 Willa Cather 6x

16 Uncle Tom's Cabin 6x

17 The Great Gatsby 6x

18 Larry McMurtry 6x

19 Henry James 6x

20 Stephen Crane 6x

21 William Styron 5x

22 The Natural 5x

23 Harriet Beecher Stowe 5x

24 Truman Capote 4x

25 Thoreau 4x

26 The Sun Also Rises 4x

27 Sister Carrie 4x

28 L. Frank Baum 4x

29 Gertrude Stein 4x

30 Carson McCullers 4x

31 Walt Whitman 4x

32 Theodore Dreiser 4x

33 Winesburg, Ohio 3x

34 The Red Badge of Courage 3x

35 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 3x

36 the Civil War 3x

37 On the Road 3x

38 Moby-Dick 3x

39 Laura Ingalls Wilder 3x

40 Kurt Vonnegut 3x

41 Joyce Carol Oates 3x

42 Joseph Heller 3x

43 John Dos Passos 3x

44 Emerson 3x

45 Edna Ferber 3x

46 Edgar Rice Burroughs 3x

47 Cormac McCarthy 3x

48 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 3x

49 John Updike 3x

50 Daniel Webster 3x

Sample Clues

This novelist of the frontier died in 1851 in a village his dad founded, the future home of the Baseball Hall of Fame

James Fenimore Cooper

Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me”

Ernest Hemingway

Upon seeing this author in the audience, a 19th c. actor worked "Nevermore, nevermore" into his dialogue

Edgar Allan Poe

In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Huck Finn appears in Chapter 3 of his autobiographical "Life on the Mississippi"

Mark Twain

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Other 473

James Fenimore Cooper (18) Sinclair Lewis (10) Washington Irving (9) Larry McMurtry (6) Henry James (6) Uncle Tom's Cabin (6) Edgar Rice Burroughs (5) Harriet Beecher Stowe (5) William Styron (5) Stephen Crane (5)

American Literature 165

Ernest Hemingway (16) Nathaniel Hawthorne (13) Mark Twain (11) Jack London (9) John Steinbeck (8) F. Scott Fitzgerald (8) Faulkner (8) Herman Melville (8) Willa Cather (7) Louisa May Alcott (4)

Poetry 63

Edgar Allan Poe (13) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (8) Walt Whitman (5) Ogden Nash (2) Robert Frost (2) (Maya) Angelou (1) Ezra Pound (1) Thoreau (1) Erica Jong (1) Herman Melville (1)

Children's Literature 15

Dr. Seuss (3) Louis L'Amour (2) L. Frank Baum (2) Peter Benchley (1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1) Glinda (1) The Last of the Mohicans (1) The Good Earth (1) Stephen Crane (1) Rip Van Winkle (1)

Mystery / Thriller 10

Stephen King (2) Tom Sawyer (2) Cormac McCarthy (1) Dashiell Hammett (1) Lillian Hellman (1) Walter Mosley (1) Faulkner (1) Raymond Chandler (1)

British Literature 4

Laura Ingalls Wilder (3) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1)

Shakespeare 3

Faulkner (1) Santiago (1) The Old Man and the Sea (1)