ANGLO AMERICAN

LITERARY PERIOD
AUTHORS OF THE ANGLO AMERICAN PERIOD

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 Geoffrey Chaucer
• Chaucer was an English poet and
author; widely considered the
greatest English poet of the Middle
Ages.
• He's known as the “Father of English
Literature”
• His work, “The Canterbury Tales”
ranks as one of the greatest poetic
works in English.
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 William Shakespeare
• Shakespeare was a respected poet
and playwright in his own day, but
his reputation did not rise to its
present heights until the nineteenth
century.
• Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154
sonnets throughout the span of his
life. Shakespeare's writing average
was 1.5 plays a year since he first
started writing in 1589.
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 Oscar Wilde
• Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet,
and author of numerous short
stories, and one novel.
• Known for his biting wit, and a
plentitude of aphorisms, he became
one of the most successful
playwrights of the late Victorian era
in London, and one of the greatest
celebrities of his day
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 Herman Melville
• Melville was the master of dense and
complex prose, rich in mystical
imagery and packed with allusions
to philosophy, myth, scripture,
visual arts and other literary works.
• His themes go deep into the human
condition: he explores such things as
the impossibility of finding enough
common ground for human
communication.
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 Francis Fitzgerald
• Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an
American writer of novels and short
stories, whose works have been seen
as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term
he himself allegedly coined.
• He finished four novels, left a fifth
unfinished, and wrote dozens of
short stories that treat themes of
youth, despair, and age.
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 Jerome Salinger
• Jerome David Salinger was an
American author, best known for his
1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as
well as his reclusive nature.
• Salinger began writing short stories
while in secondary school, and
published several stories in the early
1940s before serving in World War
II.
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 Thomas Pynchon
• He is an American writer based in
New York City, noted for his dense
and complex works of fiction.
• Pynchon is regarded by many
readers and critics as one of the
finest contemporary authors. He is a
MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of
the National Book Award, and is
regularly cited as a contender for the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
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 Toni Morrison
• Toni Morrison is an American
novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and
professor emeritus at Princeton
University.
• She won the 1993 Nobel Prize in
Literature for being an author "who
in novels characterized by visionary
force and poetic import, gives life to
an essential aspect of American
reality."
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 John Green
• He is an American author, vlogger,
producer, and educator.
• He won the 2006 Printz Award for
his debut novel, Looking for Alaska,
and his fourth solo novel, The Fault
in Our Stars, debuted at number one
on The New York Times Best Seller
list in January 2012.

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 Dave Eggers
• Eggers is a writer, editor, and
publisher. He wrote the best-selling
memoir A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius.
• He is the founder of McSweeney’s,
an independent publishing
company, a quarterly journal of new
writing (McSweeney’s Quarterly
Concern), and a monthly magazine,
The Believer.
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