Survey of American Literature

Today you are going to create a time line of major authors in American literature. Here is a well-laid out example of a timeline for you to look at. Do not use theirs, make your own. I am supplying you with a list of significant American authors in random order. For each author, you must write out their full name, their dates, and one major work. This is a project and will be counted for a grade, so be neat. Use colorful pictures or headings to make this look nice. These are the required authors:

1. John Steinbeck
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Emily Dickinson
4. John Irving
5. Herman Melville
6. Henry James
7. James Russel Lowell
8. Ernest Hemmingway
9. Henry David Thoreau
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Edgar Allen Poe
12. Tenessee Williams
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. Mark Twain
15. James Fenimore Cooper
16. Arthur Miller
17. Phyllis Wheatley
18. Washington Irving
19. Zora Neale Hurston
20. Thomas Paine
21. Anne Bradstreet
22. Louisa May Alcott
23. Isaac Asimov
24. Sarah Orne Jewett
25. O. Henry
26. Edith Wharton
27. William Faulkner
28. Maya Angelou
29. Laura Ingalls Wilder
30. Jack London
31. F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. Flannery O'Connor

Feel free to add any other authors you think should be included. Place a star by the names of any authors you add. American Authors on the Web is a great source to use. It also provides you with many links to help you find out more about each author.

When you have finished your timeline, you will pick an author who has works posted on line and read one. Tell me what you read and what it was about by the time you leave.