NORTH AMERICA

AUTHORS AND WRITERS

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 Born: January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland (Aged 40)

Nationality: American
Spouse: Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Genres: Horror fiction, crime fiction, detective fiction

Moniker: The Master of Macabre, the Father of American

Gothic, Detective Fiction, and the Short Story

Relevant Era: Romanticism

EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar A. Perry Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1910)
 Born: January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S. Died:
August 11, 1937, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, near Paris, France
(Aged 75)
Nationality: American
Spouse: Edward Robbins Wharton
Genres: Novels, short stories, poetry, drama, criticism and
literary theory, travel writing and autobiography, and writing
on architecture and design.

Moniker: The Master of Macabre, the Father of American

Gothic, Detective Fiction, and the Short Story

EDITH WHARTON Relevant Era: Realist Movement

Edith Newbold Jones
Awards and Honors: Pulitzer Prize (the first woman to win
the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of
Innocence.)
 Born: July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois,
U.S.
Died: July 2, 1961, Ketchum Idaho, (Aged 61)
Nationality: American
Spouse: Mary Welsh Hemingway
Genres: fiction novel and short story, Modernist genre

Pseudonym: Bumby, Hem, Papa, Wemedge, Champ,

Hemingstein Tatie, Ernestoic, Hemmy, Tiny, Ernie,
Oinobes, and Wax Puppy.
Relevant Era: Modernism
ERNEST HEMINGWA
Awards and Honors: Nobel Prize (1954) Pulitzer Prize
Y Edith Newbold Jones (1953)
 Born: June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Died: July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut (Aged 85)

Nationality: American
Spouse: Calvin Ellis Stowe

Children: Charles Edward Stowe, Georgiana May,

Eliza Tyler, Henry Ellis, Samuel Charles,
Harriet Beecher, Frederick William
Pseudonym: Christopher Crowfield
Genres: Historical Fiction
HARRIET BEECHER S
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Harriet Elizabeth Stowe
Awards and Honors: Hall of Fame (1910)
 Born: April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.
Died: February 28, 1916, London, England (Aged 72)

Nationality: American

Parents: Henry James, Sr. and Mary Robertson Walsh

Genres: Fiction and Non-fiction

Relevant Era: Realism

HENRY JAMES
 Born: January 24, 1862, New York, New York, U.S.

Nationality: American
Parents: Frances Blunt and John Wallace Blunt

Spouse: Janet Turnbull Blunt (m. 1987), Shyla Leary (m.

1964–1982)

Children: Eva Everett Irving, Colin Irving, Brendan Irving

Genres: Fiction
JOHN IRVING Relevant Era: Contemporary Period
John Wallace Blunt Jr.
Awards and Honors: Academy Award (2000))
 Born: November 18, 1939, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Aged
84).
Nationality: Canadian
Spouse: Jim Polk
Children: Eleanor Atwood Gibson:
Genres: Poem and Prose fiction, Historical fiction,
Speculative fiction, Dystopian fiction

Relevant Era: Contemporary Period

Awards and Honors: Book Prize (2009),

MARGARET ATWOO Booker Prize (2000) •
D Margaret Eleanor Atwood Governor General’s Literary Awards (1985)
 Born: November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, U.S. Died:
April 21, 1910 Redding, Connecticut(Aged 74)

Nationality: American
Spouse: Olivia Langdon Clemens
Children:: Clara Clemens, Susy Clemen, Jean Clemens, and
Langdon Clemens
Genres: Adventure fiction, speculative fiction, travelogue,
opinion, journalism, literary criticism, polemic, essay,
autobiography, correspondence, oration.

Pseudonym: Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Sieur Louis de

MARK TWAIN Conte, John Snook, and Josh
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Moniker: The Father of American Literature
Relevant Era: American Realism and naturalism
Awards And Honors: Hall of Fame (1920)
 Born: July 4, 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. Died: May
19, 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire (Aged 59)

Nationality: American
Spouse: Sophia Hawthorne
Genres: Dark Romanticism

Pseudonym: Hath

Relevant Era: Romantic, American Renaissance

Awards and Honors: Hall of Fame (1900)

NATHANIEL HAWTHORN
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 Born: December 14, 1916, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died: August 8, 1965, North Bennington, Vermont (Aged
48)
Nationality: American
Spouse: Stanley Edgar Hyman
Children: Laurence Jackson Hyman, Barry Hyman,
Sarah Hyman DeWitt, Joanne Hyman
Pseudonym: Lenore Hart

Genres: Gothic, mystery, and horror

Relevant Era: Modernism to Post-modernism

SHIRLEY JACKSON
Shirley Hardie Jackson