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By: Dan Taylor ETE 100-2 11/23/09

Famous American Writers. By: Dan Taylor ETE 100-2 11/23/09. Henry David Thoreau. Born : July 12, 1817 Died: May 6, 1862 Famous Works: Sir Walter Raleigh, Walden, Resistance to Civil Government, Life Without Principle. Library of Congress. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Born : May 25, 1803

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By: Dan Taylor ETE 100-2 11/23/09

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  1. Famous American Writers By: Dan Taylor ETE 100-2 11/23/09

  2. Henry David Thoreau • Born: July 12, 1817 • Died: May 6, 1862 • Famous Works: • Sir Walter Raleigh, Walden, Resistance to Civil Government, Life Without Principle Library of Congress

  3. 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, Library of Congress

  4. 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

  5. Walt Whitman • Born: May 31, 1819 • Died: March 26, 1892 • Famous Works: Leaves of Grass, Song of Myself, Poems of Walt Whitman Library of Congress

  6. 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, Library of Congress

  7. 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 Library of Congress

  8. 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 Library of Congress

  9. 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 Library of Congress

  10. 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 Library of Congress

  11. 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 Library of Congress

  12. References Library of Congress. (2009). [1 photographic print on card mount:albumen] (1873). retrieved from http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgibin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field%28NUMBER+@1%28cph2 4247%29%29 Library of Congress. (2009). [digital file from intermediary roll film] (1942). retrieved from http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/i?pp/fsaall:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28fsa+8d03175%29%29:displayType=1:m856sd=fsa:m856sf=8d03175

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