General Knowledge——American.doc

General Knowledge——American Name Masterpiece Title 1 Jonathan Edwards（1703 ~ 1758） Author, Plosophical Theologian 2 Benjamin Franklin（1706～1790） AutobiographyPhysical, Inventor，Politician，Scientist, Community leader 3 Thomas Paine（1737—1809) Common Sense Anglo-American Ideologist, Author, Politician, Revolutionist Democrats， 4 Philip Freneau (1752-1832) The British Prison Ship Poet 5 Edgar Allan Poe（1809-1849） To Hellen American poet, critic, short story writer, and author 6 William Cullen Bryant（1794-1878） The Fountain Poet 7 James Fenimore Cooper（1789-1851） The Pioneer a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is particularly remembered as a novelist 8 Washington Irving（1783-1859） The Stretch Book American author, short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer, biographer, and columnist 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803－1882) The American Scholar American author, poet and philosopher 10 Henry David Thoreau（1817-1862） Walden American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher 11 Walt Whitman（1819-1892） Leaves of Grasses Short biography of the American poe 12 Emily Dickinson（1830-1886） The Poems of Emily Dickinson American lyrical poet, a recluse, nicknamed the nun of Amherst 13 Nathaniel Hawthorne（1804-1864） The Scarlet Letter Novelist and short story writer 14 Herman Melville（1819-1891） Typee American novelist and his masterpieces, Moby Dick and Bartleby 15 Jack London（1876-1916） The Call of the Wild novelist and short story writer 16 Henry James（1843-1916） Daisy Miller American-born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy 17 O. Henry（1862-1910） The Cop and the Anthem American short-story writer 18 Mark Twain (1835～1910) The Adventure of Tom Sawyer American humorist, lecturer, essayist, and author 19 Theodore Dreiser（1871-1945） Trilogy of Desire greatest writers, and its .greatest naturalist writer 20 Frank Norris（1870-1902） Mac Teague the