By: Dan TaylorETE 100-211/23/09

Famous American Writers

Henry David Thoreau Born: July 12, 1817 Died: May 6, 1862

Famous Works: Sir Walter Raleigh, Walden,

Resistance to Civil Government, Life Without Principle

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Born: May 25, 1803 Died: April 27, 1882

Famous Works: Nature, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, Self-Reliance, Society and Solitude,

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Emily Dickinson Born: December 10, 1830 Died: May 15, 1886

Famous Works: (Note: Many of her most

famous works were altered after her death, the names of her works are the first lines in the literature)

Thomas Johnson released the complete collection of Dickinson poetry titled, “Complete Poems” Library of Congress

Walt Whitman Born: May 31, 1819 Died: March 26, 1892

Famous Works: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, Poems of Walt Whitman

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Mark Twain Born: November 30,

1835 Died: April 21, 1910

Famous Works: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today,

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Edgar Allen Poe Born: January 19, 1809 Died: October 7, 1849

Famous Works: The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, The Raven, Ligeia, The Pit and the Pendulum

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Robert Frost Born: March 26, 1874 Died: January 29, 1963

Famous Works: Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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W.E.B. DuBois Born: February 23, 1868 Died: August 27, 1963

Famous Works: The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction, Efforts for Social Betterment among Negro Americans

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Langston Hughes Born: February 1, 1902 Died: May 22, 1967

Famous Works: Street Scene, Not Without Laughter, Let America Be America Again, Montage of a Dream Deferred

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Theodor Seuss Geisel “Dr. Seuss”

Born: March 2, 1904 Died: September 24,

1991

Famous Works: The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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