Emily Dickinson is a renowned female poet who was born in 1860 and died in 1886. Though she has been dead for over a century, her poems have been loved by many people from all around the world. She is considered to be a key figure of American literature and the defining voice of the…
Walt Whitman is an American poet who was born in 1819. His most famous work is “Leaves of Grass,” which was published in 1855. Walt Whitman wrote about his views of America, democracy, and social issues he saw around him. Walt Whitman is an American poet, essayist, and humanist. His work is considered part of…
Herman Melville was a 19th century American author, best known for his novel Moby-Dick. Born in 1819, Melville became an apprentice of an apothecary when he was twelve years old. As he grew older, Melville had more time to explore books and reading. When he was 16, Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne who would later become…
Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19 th 1809, was an American writer and poet of the Romantic movement of the 19th century. One of his most famous works is “The Raven” which tells the story of a man who is obsessed with a woman he knows only as Lenore. He imagines that her name means…
Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered one of the foremost American writers of all time. He was also a great man of character, who strove to live his life by the Puritan virtues of hard work, honesty, and simplicity. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a nineteenth century American writer most famous for his novel “The Scarlet Letter” which was…
The Great Gatsby is a novel, which tells the story of a strange, but seemingly well-off man named Jay Gatsby. The book starts off by detailing Gatsby’s obsession with a woman named Daisy Buchanan, who he doesn’t even know. The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be a classic American novel published in 1925….
The great Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that touches on the hardships faced by migrant workers. The book, set in the 1930s in America’s central plains states, tells the story of Joad family who are forced off their land due to drought and economic depression. They plan to escape the Dust…
John Steinbeck’s novel of Mice and Men tells the story of an unlikely pair: a small, quick-witted, and intelligent man named George and a large, strong drifter named Lennie. It is the Great Depression and they are returning to their old ranches in California, looking for work. Along the way, they meet new people and…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a boy who runs away from his abusive father and stumbles on some treasure belonging to a fugitive slave. He teams up with an escaped slave named Jim and the two of them have various adventures over the course of the story. The novel, The Adventures…
The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee is an American classic. The novel is set in the town of Maycomb in the 1930s and tells the story of 6-year-old Scout Finch and her father Atticus who tries to defend a Black man on trial for raping a White woman. The theme of…