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Authors: Sophocles. He is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: tragedy of the Golden Age of Ancient Greece, 5th century BCE
Connection to Other Works: The Kite Runner, both fathers in each novel died tragically; resulting in suffering for the main protagonists
Contribution to Literature: Opedipus is a tragedy that has Greek literature influence

Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer. He was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest one of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: medieval, 14th century England
Connection to Other Works: Beowulf
Contribution to Literature: Canterbury Tales has poetic power and entertainment value.

Authors: Thomas more. He was venerated as a saint. Among his many occupations it is know that he was a lawyer, judge, social philosopher and a writer.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: 16th century England, idealistic (utopian) society
Connection to Other Works: The Prince
Contribution to Literature: utopia fiction is a style of fiction that takes place in an idealized world.

Authors: William Shakespeare. He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is usually regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is also known for contributing a substantial amount of words to the language
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Greatest Love Story
Connection to Other Works: Wuthering Heights
Contribution to Literature: Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition.

Authors: William Shakespeare. He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is usually regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is also known for contributing a substantial amount of words to the language
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Renaissance
Connection to Other Works: The Crucible
Contribution to Literature: Julius Caesar wielded his power to enlarge the Senate, created needed government for reforms, and decreased Rome’s debt.

Authors: William Shakespeare. He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is usually regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is also known for contributing a substantial amount of words to the language
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: tragedy written in Renaissance era
Connection to Other Works: Macbeth
Contribution to Literature: Othello is a tragedy that tells a story about a noble principled hero who makes a tragic error of judgment.

Authors: William Shakespeare. He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is usually regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is also known for contributing a substantial amount of words to the language
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Elizabethan era
Connection to Other Works: The Iliad
Contribution to Literature: Macbeth is a tragedy that dramatizes the physical and psychological effects of political ambition.

Authors:Homer, is the famous author who wrote both the odyssey and the Iliad.This work lays the foundation for Ancient Greek literature.
Literary Time Period:Bronze Age
Connection to Other Works:The Hobbit like Odysseus’s journey, Bilbo epic travels to defeat the dragon Smaug leads him through a series of challenges that leave him wondering if he’ll ever return home.
Contribution to Literature:The odyssey influenced modern literature through its narrative structure

Authors: John Milton. He was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: restoration period
Connection to Other Works:Inferno
Contribution to Literature:Paradise lost concerns the biblical story of the fall of man.

Authors: Jonathan Edwards. He was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher and Congregationalist theologian.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: written enen New England was in the midst of a sweeping religious revival known as the Great Awakening
Connection to Other Works:Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Contribution to Literature: sinners in the hands of an angry God is a Sermon.

Authors: Jane Austen. was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon gentrification.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Romance novel, Victorian era
Connection to Other Works: Jane Eyre
Contribution to Literature:Sense and Sensibility had the comedy of manners of middle class life in the England of her time, revealing the possibilities of domestic literature.

Authors: There isn’t an author for this work but it’s believed to be Anglo-Saxon work translated by monks later in history.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: heroic poem, Old English Literature, Anglosaxon
Connection to Other Works: Grendel
Contribution to Literature: Beowulf has influenced artists to make adaptations in the form of films, graphic novels, comic books, and theatrical plays.

Authors: Mary Shelley. She was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as well as other works like the last mas and Valperga.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: romanticism and enlightenment period; emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism
Connection to Other Works:Oliver Twist
Contribution to Literature: Frankenstein has a pioneering theme of reanimating the dead.

Authors: Charlotte Brontë. She was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Victorian era
Connection to Other Works: Pride and Prejudice
Contribution to Literature:Jane Eyre introduced the idea of the modern individual.

Authors: Emily Brontë. She was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Victorian era
Connection to Other Works: The Great Gatsby
Contribution to Literature: Wuthering Heights is based on the Gothic tradition of the late 18th century.

Authors: Edgar Allan Poe. He was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his stories of suspense and terror.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Romantic era
Connection to Other Works: Young Goodman Brown
Contribution to Literature:The Poe short stories contain elements of Gothic literature.

Authors: Charles dickens. He was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Victorian era, Bildungsroman
Connection to Other Works: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Contribution to Literature: It shows how people's expectations in life are often unrealistic, uninformed, or unreasonable.

Authors: Edwin Abbot Abbot. He was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest. Best know for being the author of flatland.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, and examination of dimensions
Connection to Other Works: The Late Mattia Pascal
Contribution to Literature: Flatland is a romance of many dimensions.

Authors: Joseph Corand. English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent. He is best known for writing the novels Lord Jim , Nostromo , and The Secret Agent and for the novella Heart of Darkness.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: early modernism
Connection to Other Works: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contribution to Literature: Heart of Darkness is about the stereotypes of Africa which plays on racist anxieties about immigration.

Authors: Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Modernist, Frontierism
Connection to Other Works: Dancing on Sunday Afternoons
Contribution to Literature:My Antonia deals with romance, violence, tenderness, cruelty, comedy, and tragedy.

Authors: Herman Hesse. He was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf and Siddhartha.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: literature of Indians, Buddhists, and Middle Eastern cultures
Connection to Other Works: The Alchemist and Siddhartha both share a constant theme to pursue your dreams by following what your heart desires.
Contribution to Literature: Siddhartha carries themes that relate to Buddhist teachings.

Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best know for his works depicting the nuances of the jazz age.
Literary Time Period: one of the greatest literary documents of the Jazz Age period, in which American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels of prosperity to the nation
Connection to Other Works: Passing
Contribution to Literature: The Great Gatsby explores universal themes like man's struggle with time and fate.

Author: John Steinbeck was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. He is considered as one of the best American writers of all time.
Literary Time Period: realism, written and set in the mid-1930s written to prove a point about the Great Depression
Connection to Other Works: The Old Man and the Sea, deal with the impossibility of achieving the American Dream.
Contribution to Literature: Of Mice and Men includes elements of verbal irony, imagery, and foreshadowing.

Authors: George Orwell. He was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. He is best known for his most famous novels animal farm and 1984.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: dystopian, modernism
Connection to Other Works: Brave New World
Contribution to Literature: 1984 is an example of political and dystopian fiction.

Authors: John Steinbeck. He was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. He wrote more that 33 books and many more different types of literary works and he is considered as one of the best American writers of all time.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: naturalism
Connection to Other Works: The Bible
Contribution to Literature: East of Eden regards marriage, parenthood, succession, Heritance, and sibling rivarly.

Authors: Arthur Miller was an American playwright and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. His most famous screenplays include all my sons, the crucible and a view from the bridge.
Literary Time Period:contemporary; written recently, but wrote in a different time period (1692-93) to prove a point about the Salem Witch Trials
Connection to Other Works:The Scarlet Letter
Contribution to Literature:The Crucible has historical context and serves as an allegory for McCarthyism.

Authors: Ray Bradbury. He was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: contemporary/postmodern era
Connection to Other Works: Animal Farm
Contribution to Literature: Fahrenheit 451 deals with themes of human expression, individualism, and censorship.

Authors: William Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. He is best known for Lord of flies, rites of passage and his sea trilogy, to the ends of the earth. He won the nobel prize in literature in 1983.
Literary Time Period: contemporary; written recently, serves as an allegory for the Garden of Eden
Connection to Other Works: The Outsiders
Contribution to Literature: Displays author’s failure to move beyond a fundamentally eurocentric and colonialist view of the world

Authors: Elie Wiesel. Between many things, he was a professor and activist and also a Nobel peace prize winner.
His source of inspiration was his experience at the concentration camps
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Modernism
Connection to Other Works: The Book Thief
Contribution to Literature: Night build postwar memory of the holocaust.

Authors: Arthur Lauraents. Was an American playwright, theatre director, film producer and screenwriter. He wrote many works for broadway including west side story, gypsy and hallelujah, baby!.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: contemporary musical
Connection to Other Works: Romeo and Juliet, the theme of two lovers thwarted by circumstances beyond their control
Contribution to Literature: The innovation of West Side Story is that it used dance to tell most of the story.

Authors: John Knowles, an American writer that graduated from Yale university. He worked for the Hartford Courant as well as the holiday magazine. Later he started writing novels including a separate piece.
Literary Time Period: Contemporary; written recently, but wrote in a different time period to prove a point about World War II
Connection to Other Works: To Kill A Mockingbird
Contribution to Literature: A Separate Peace includes antithesis, parallelism, cliché, & metaphor.

Authors: Robert Bolt was an English playwright and a twice Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award
Literary Time Period: contemporary; written recently, but written in the time period of the 16th century to teach people about the historical events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More
Connection to Other Works: Murder in the Cathedral
Contribution to Literature:A man for all seasons includes motifs

Authors: Sandra Cisneros. She is an American writer. She is best known for house on algo street and her subsequent short story collection called hollering Creek and Other stories.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: modern classic of Chicano literature
Connection to Other Works: Esperanza Rising
Contribution to Literature: The House on Mango Street is an example of Chicano literature. It explores the complexities of its culture.

Authors: Toni Morrison. She was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: reconstruction era
Connection to Other Works:Their Eyes Were Watching God
Contribution to Literature: Beloved talked about the dealing with invisibility of the African American presence in American literature.

Authors: Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books, like Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Transcendentalism
Connection to Other Works: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, both discuss the metal challenges of being “trapped” and how they deal with it.
Contribution to Literature: Into the wild is a non fiction book.

Authors: Markus Zusak. He is an Australian writer with Austrian and German roots. He is best known for the book thief and the messenger.
Literary Time Period or Philosophy: Contemporary; written recently, but wrote in a different time period to prove a point about the Holocaust
Connection to Other Works: The Boy in theStriped Pyjamas
Contribution to Literature: The Book Thief is a historical fiction novel that takes place in the WWII setting of Nazi Germany.