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​5 Top American Authors

1. ​Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

   Twain was most famous for “Tom Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” which has been called “the Great American Novel.”

2. ​Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

   ​Hemingway’s classics include “The Sun Also Rises,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and “The Old Man and the Sea.”

3. ​Edgar Allen Poe (1809 – 1849)

   ​Poe is best known for his short stories and dark poetry, including one of his most famous: “The Raven.” He is largely viewed as the creator of the detective fiction genre.

4. John Steinbeck​ (1902 – 1968)

   ​Steinbeck is most well-known for his work “The Grapes of Wrath.” Steinbeck won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature.

5. F. Scott Fitzgerald​ (1896 – 1940)

   Fitzgerald was only moderately successful while alive, but has achieved notoriety as one of the best American authors of all time in the decades since. Think “The Great Gatsby.”