American Literature

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Memorize these and recognize 29.5% of all American Literature clues.

1 James Fenimore Cooper 16x

2 Ernest Hemingway 14x

3 Nathaniel Hawthorne 13x

4 Edgar Allan Poe 12x

5 Jack London 10x

6 Mark Twain 9x

7 Faulkner 9x

8 Herman Melville 9x

9 Sinclair Lewis 8x

10 Washington Irving 7x

11 F. Scott Fitzgerald 7x

12 John Steinbeck 7x

13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 7x

14 Louisa May Alcott 7x

15 Willa Cather 6x

16 Uncle Tom's Cabin 6x

17 Henry James 6x

18 Stephen Crane 6x

19 The Great Gatsby 5x

20 Larry McMurtry 5x

21 Harriet Beecher Stowe 5x

22 Thoreau 5x

23 William Styron 4x

24 Truman Capote 4x

25 The Sun Also Rises 4x

26 Sister Carrie 4x

27 L. Frank Baum 4x

28 Gertrude Stein 4x

29 Carson McCullers 4x

30 Walt Whitman 4x

31 Theodore Dreiser 4x

32 Winesburg, Ohio 3x

33 The Red Badge of Courage 3x

34 The Natural 3x

35 the Civil War 3x

36 Moby-Dick 3x

37 Kurt Vonnegut 3x

38 Joyce Carol Oates 3x

39 Joseph Heller 3x

40 John Dos Passos 3x

41 Edna Ferber 3x

42 Edgar Rice Burroughs 3x

43 Cormac McCarthy 3x

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

45 John Updike 3x

46 Daniel Webster 3x

47 Buck 3x

48 (James) Baldwin 3x

49 Zane Grey 2x

50 William Kennedy 2x

Sample Clues

This novelist died in 1851 & is buried about a quarter-mile walk from the Baseball Hall of Fame

James Fenimore Cooper

Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day

Ernest Hemingway

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Edgar Allan Poe

This Jack of many trades sought fortune in the 1897 Klondike gold rush & used the experience in his books

Jack London

Sub-Areas

Other 432

James Fenimore Cooper (17) Sinclair Lewis (9) Washington Irving (8) Henry James (6) Uncle Tom's Cabin (6) Larry McMurtry (5) Harriet Beecher Stowe (5) Stephen Crane (5) Carson McCullers (5) Edgar Rice Burroughs (4)

American Literature 157

Ernest Hemingway (15) Nathaniel Hawthorne (13) Mark Twain (9) Jack London (9) F. Scott Fitzgerald (8) Herman Melville (8) Faulkner (8) John Steinbeck (7) Willa Cather (7) Louisa May Alcott (4)

Poetry 61

Edgar Allan Poe (12) 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) Rip Van Winkle (1) The Joy Luck Club (1) Glinda (1) The Last of the Mohicans (1) The Good Earth (1)

Mystery / Thriller 7

Tom Sawyer (2) Cormac McCarthy (1) Stephen King (1) Dashiell Hammett (1) Lillian Hellman (1) Faulkner (1)

Shakespeare 3

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

British Literature 3

Laura Ingalls Wilder (2) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1)