Ray Bradbury
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Carl Sandburg
- Modern writer-never completed high school-known as the "Bard of Chicago"- Won a Pulitzer Prize on a biography on Lincoln - his poetry celebrated the lives and the vitality of ordinary Americans and painted vivid portraits of the energy and enthusiasm of the working class
Robert Frost
-Modern Poet-depicted New Englanders in his poems-won 4 Pulitzer Prizes-attended Dartmouth; and taught at 4 colleges -worked as a farmer in New Hampshire-1st poet to read his work at a presidential inauguration
T.S. Eliot
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Ezra Pound
- leader of Imagism -moved to Italy; supporter of Mussolini; got arrested by US troops; later confined criminally insane
William Carlos Williams
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
-1920s era -captured paradox of this glittering, materialistic, and self-destructive lifestyle because he lived it-related to Francis Scott Key; married Zelda Sayre-attended Princeton, then went to army-after stock market crash, his life crumbled
E.E. Cummings
-Modern writer-was a political prisoner in WWI-went to Harvard -unconventional style of poetry -playful use of language, distinctive use of grammar and punctuation, and his interest in the poem's appearance-used his poems to challenge life's ironies; expressed traditional ideas
Langston Hughes
-from Harlem Renaissance - his poems expressed pride in his heritage and voiced displeasure w/ the oppression he witnessed -went to Columbia in NY-tried to recreate the rhythms of contemporary jazz in his poetry -known as most popular African American writer in the 20th-century
Claude McKay
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Ernest Hemingway
-Modern writer-his fiction expressed the sentiments of many members of the post WWI generation-wrote about peoples struggles to keep sense of dignity in a hostile world-joined Red Cross in WWI-> sent to Italy-> got injured -> went back to US-> then moved to Paris-writing style: concise, concrete, and highly-charged
Eudora Welty
-Modern Writer-stories capture life in the deep South; creating images of the landscape and conveying the shared attitudes and values of the people-confronted the hardships of life in poor rural areas (writing was still optimistic) -born and lived in Jackson, Mississippi
Katherine Anne Porter
-Modern Writer-lived through what she called "the heavy threat of world catastrophe" (WWI, great depression, WWII) -stories were set in the south and featured characters at pivotal moments in their lives-raised in poverty-lived in Mexico
William Faulkner
-Modern Writer-Oxford, Mississippi was the basis for the imaginary world of Yoknapatawpha County, which was the setting of many of his stories -was in British Royal Flying Corps during WWI-uncovered a "gold mine" of inspiration in Oxford, Mississippi -used jumbled time sequences, steam of consciousness narration, dialect, page-long sentences
Randall Jarrell
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Sylvia Plath
-Postmodern Writer-lived short, unhappy life -suffered nervous breakdown-poems express intense feelings of despair and deep inner pain -committed suicide at age 30
William Safire
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Ian Frazier
-Postmodern writer-born in Ohio, now lives in New York - is a writer for The New Yorker magazine-known for humorous essays and affectionate descriptions of rural and urban America (brings an "antic sense of fun" to his work)
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Arthur Miller
-Postmodern writer-chronicled the dilemmas of common people pitted against powerful and unyielding social forces-was a playwright-used salem witchcraft trials to attack the anti communist "witch hunts" in Congress during the 1950s -wasn't a communist, but he advocated their principles of social justice and equality among the classes-married Marilyn Monroe
Flannery O'Connor
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Bernard Malamud
-Postmodern writer - had a strong social and political conscience -he explored the power of art to liberate people -born in Brooklyn, son of Russian immigrants -knew English and Yiddish, which contributed to his fine ear for the rhythms of spoken dialogue -his stories were drawn from oral tradition -his characters are real and accessible, w/ universal hopes and concerns - uses Jewish characters to represent all of humanity; he shows the essence of the human experience and creates a delicate balance between tragedy and comedy-tells his stories in spare, compressed prose, with highly charged metaphorical language
Anne Tyler
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John Steinbeck
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Anna Quindlen
-New York Times reporter-won Pulitzer Prize in 1992-currently writes for Newsweek