Who is the best modern American writer?

The 10 best living American novelists

• Jonathan Franzen. Getty Images.
• Michael Chabon. Getty Images.
• Bret Easton Ellis. Alamy.
• George Saunders. Getty Images.
• Rachel Kushner. Getty Images.
• Anne Tyler. Getty Images.
• Stephen King. Getty Images.
• Percival Everett. Alamy.

Who are America’s greatest writers?

• Edgar Allan Poe 1809 –1849.
• Herman Melville 1819 – 1891.
• Walt Whitman 1819-1892.
• Mark Twain 1835 – 1910.
• T.S. Eliot 1888 – 1965.
• William Faulkner 1897 –1962.
• Tennessee Williams 1911-1983.
• Kurt Vonnegut 1922 – 2007.

Who is a contemporary author?

Perhaps it might be more productive to define ‘contemporary’ as ‘an author that is still alive’, or even ‘a twenty-first-century author’.

Who is the most influential writer in American literature?

Here’s a summary of 20 of America’s most celebrated and influential writers.

• Herman Melville (1819-1891)
• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)
• John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
• Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)
• Mark Twain (1835-1910)
• Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

What is contemporary American literature?

The word contemporary means living, belonging to or occurring in the present. So when we talk about contemporary literature, we are talking about literature that is being written in the now about the now. Contemporary literature is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day.

What type of writer is Toni Morrison?

Was Harper Lee Black?

Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama where she grew up as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (née Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee. Before A.C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper.

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