FAMOUS AMERICAN

WRITERS
Malomud Maria
 Stephen King
 Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an
American author of horror, supernatural fiction,
suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have
sold more than 350 million copies,many of which have
been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television
series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels,
including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman
, and six non-fiction books. He has written around 
200 short stories, most of which have been published
in book collections.
 King has received Bram Stoker Awards, 
World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society
 Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation
 awarded him the 
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Let
ters
.[3] He has also received awards for his contribution to
literature for his entire oeuvre, such as the 
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004),
and the Grand Master Award from the 
Mystery Writers of America (2007).In 2015, King was
awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the 
United States National Endowment for the Arts for his
contributions to literature.He has been described as
the "King of Horror".
 Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE

 (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an
English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14
short story collections, particularly those revolving around her
fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also
wrote the world's longest-running play, a murder mystery, The
Mousetrap]and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six 
romances. In 1971 she was appointed a 
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for
her contribution to literature.
Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in 
Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in
London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the 
First World War, tending to troops coming back from the
trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six
consecutive rejections, but this changed when 
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, was
published in 1920. During the Second World War, she worked as
a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London,
acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of
her novels.
 Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an

American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His
economical and understated style—which he termed the 
iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction,
while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him
admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most
of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven
novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works.
Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-
fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works
are considered classics of American literature.
 Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens 7 February 1812 – 9 June

1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created
some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is
regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the 
Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented
popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century
critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary
genius. His novels and short stories are still widely read
today.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a
factory when his father was incarcerated in a 
debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he
edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five 
novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction
articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was
an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously
for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
 James Baldwin

 James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1,

1987) was an American novelist and social critic. His
essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955),
explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions
in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century
America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length,
including The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street
 (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished
manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded and
adapted for cinema as the Academy Award–nominated
documentary film I Am Not Your Negro.
 Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental
personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social
and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable
integration of not only African Americans, but also gay
and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized
obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance.
Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second
novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the 
gay liberation movement.
 John Griffith London
 John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January
12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American
novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the
world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the
first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a
large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the
genre that would later become known as science fiction.[6]
 His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and 
White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as
the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the
North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South
Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "
The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in 
The Sea Wolf.
 London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd"
in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, 
socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several
powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his 
dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé 
The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
 Mark Twain

 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21,

1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an
American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and
lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
 (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 (1885),the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
 Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later
provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He
served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a
typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older
brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on
the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in
Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at
mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City 
Territorial Enterprise. His humorous story, "
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was
published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at 
Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had
spent some time as a miner. The short story brought
international attention and was even translated into
French. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned
praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to
presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
 Robert Frost

 Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 –

January 29, 1963) was an American poet.
His work was initially published in
England before it was published in
America. Known for his realistic
depictions of rural life and his command
of American colloquial speech Frost
frequently wrote about settings from
rural life in New England in the early
twentieth century, using them to examine
complex social and philosophical themes.
 Frost was honored frequently during his
lifetime, receiving four 
Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one
of America's rare "public literary figures,
almost an artistic institution." He was
awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
 in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22,
1961, Frost was named poet laureate of 
Vermont.