Famous Writers From America

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The Adventures of Tom SawyerThe A dventures of To m Sawyer by MarkTwain is an 1876 novel about a young b oy

growing up along the Mississippi River. The storyis set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg,inspired by Hannibal, Missouri , where Twainlived.

According to a n October 2012 article publishedin Smithsonian magazine, Twain named hisfictional character after a San Francisco fireman

whom he met in June 1863. The real Tom Sawyer was a local hero, famous for rescuing 90passengers after a shipwreck. The two remainedfriendly during Twain's three-year stay in SanFrancisco, often drinking and gambling together. Tom Sawyer was modeled on Twain as a child,

with traces of two schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. The book also introduced in asupporting role Huckleberry Finn, based onTwain's boyhood friend Tom Blankenship.
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F. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24,1896 December 21, 1940) was an American authorof novels and short stories, whose works are theparadigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term hecoined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "LostGeneration" of the 1920s. He finished fournovels: This Side of Paradise , The Beautiful andDamned ,The Great Gatsby (his most famous),and Tender Is the Night . A fifth, unfinishednovel, The Love of the Last Tycoon , was publishedposthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many shortstories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films manytimes. His short story, "The Curious Case ofBenjamin Button", was the basis for a 2008film.Tender is the Night was filmed in 1962, andmade into a television miniseries in 1985. TheBeautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and2010.The Great Gatsby has been the basis fornumerous films of the same name, spanning nearly90 years; 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in Beloved

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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba,and published in 1952. It was the last major work offiction to be produced by Hemingway andpublished in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an agingfisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far outin the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea wasawarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing tothe awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature toHemingway in 1954.Hemingway wanted to use the story of the old man,Santiago, to show the honor in struggle and to drawbiblical parallels to life in his modern world. Possiblybased on the character of Gregorio Fuentes,Hemingway had initially planned to use Santiago's

story, which became The Old Man and the Sea , aspart of an intimacy between mother and son andalso the fact of relationships that cover most of thebook relate to the Bible.Hemingway mentions the real life experience of anold fisherman almost identical to that of Santiagoand his marlin in On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream

Letter (Esquire , April 1936).


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Herman MelvilleHerman Melville (August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891) was an American

writer of novels, short stories andpoetry. His contributions to the Westerncanon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, theScrivener (1853) about a clerk in a WallStreet office; the slave ship

narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and BillyBudd, Sailor , left unfinished at his deathand published in 1924. When he died in1891, Melville was almost completelyforgotten. It was not until the "MelvilleRevival" in the early 20th century thathis work won recognition,especially Moby-Dick , which was hailedas one of the literary masterpieces ofboth American and world literature. He

was the first writer to have his workscollected and published by the Libraryof America.


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Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixthbook by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahab's voyagein pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. Itinitially received mixed reviews and at Melville'sdeath in 1891 was remembered, if at all, as achildren's sea adventure, but now is consideredone of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.

The opening line, "Call me Ishmael," is one of themost recognizable opening lines in Westernliterature. Ishmael then narrates the voyage of the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ahab has one purpose: revenge on Moby Dick, aferocious, enigmatic white whale which on aprevious voyage destroyed Ahab's ship andsevered his leg at the knee. The detailed andrealistic descriptions of whale hunting and theprocess of extracting whale oil, as well as lifeaboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, aremixed with exploration of class and social status,good and evil, and the existence of God.Melville uses a wide range of styles and literarydevices ranging from lists and catalogsto Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies,and asides

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