1. WORLD-KNOWN AMERICAN
WRITERS
Presented by: Diana Maler, 1LM2
11.02.2014

2.  Yale University, member of
Linonian Society
 U.S Navy, midshipman
 LeatherstockingTales
 The Last of Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851
History of the Navy of the USA

3.  Mystery and the Macabre
 John and Frances Allan, of
Richmond,Virginia
 Tamerlane and other Poems
 The Raven
 The Fall of the house of Usher
 The tell tale heart
 Murders in the Rue Morgue
 Purloined Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

4.  Leader of the Abolitionist movement
 Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, an American slave
 Life andTimes of Frederick Douglass
 Women's Suffrage
Frederick Douglass
February 1818 – February 20, 1895
 I would unite with anybody to do right and with
nobody to do wrong

5.  1969 memoir,
I know why the caged bird sings
 Drama Georgia
 TonyAward, LookAway (1973)
 EmmyAward, Roots (1977)
 All God s Children Need
 Just give a cool Drink of Water
Fore I Die
Maya Angelou
April 4, 1928
 On the pulse of Morning

7.  DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx
 Go tell it on the Mountain
 Giovanni's room
 Another Country
 Just above my head
James Baldwin
August 2, 1924- December 1, 1987
Once I found myself on the other side of the ocean, I see
where I came from very clearly...I am the grandson of a
slave, and I am writer. I must deal with both