Can you name the authors of classic American literature?

Title	Author
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
To Kill a Mockingbird
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Great Gatsby
The Age of Innocence
Walden
The Red Badge of Courage
Invisible Man
Slaughterhouse-Five

Title	Author
My Ántonia
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Of Mice and Men
The Last of the Mohicans
The Sound and the Fury
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Moby-Dick
The Scarlet Letter
The Catcher in the Rye

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	Mutford:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT		19 points
	Good quiz. There are so many other variations and nationalities I'd like to see as well. I for one would love to see a Classic Canadian Literature.

	mkgrenwel:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 15:16 GMT		1 point
	Canadians can read?

	xander:	Feb 28th, 2009 at 01:50 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz! It would be fun to read all of these

	jessbowen:	Mar 20th, 2009 at 14:31 GMT		-1 points
	I knew Zora, but thought the last name was Houston, Huston, and all kinds of other spellings I tried. That was the only one I missed too - that is so frustrating when that happens. Great quiz

	Lia:	Apr 8th, 2009 at 11:12 GMT		4 points
	Great fun, can never remember Ralph Ellison's name though!

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	cdspro:	Jul 15th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT		12 points
	Steinback? Garbage??? walks away shaking head and muttering to self....

	jezzilynne:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 00:00 GMT		10 points
	Oh my. Please don't call Hawthorne garbage. Good choice. I didn't know them all, and I had to do a little racking of my English major brain.

	teapot37:	Sep 3rd, 2009 at 21:33 GMT		0 points
	I remembered her name as Zora Hurston Neale instead of the other way around. Had all the rest.

	ad808:	Oct 1st, 2009 at 01:50 GMT		-3 points
	I kept typing in "Tubman" as the author of Uncle Toms Cabin. @teapot - you aren't the only one who thought the author of "Their Eyes.."was Neale. Otherwise, it was all good.

	AtoneMENT:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 02:28 GMT		1 point
	This was great, thanks. Anyone want to try one of my favorite authors?? http://www.sporcle.com/games/AtoneMENT/SinclairLewis

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	cashtray:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 08:26 GMT		5 points
	Come on, debondair, Catcher is completely a classic, albeit less for what it says than what it is. Anyone remotely interested in 20th century American literature is almost obligated to read it at this point.

	Dancinganimal256:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 22:14 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz. I had to read some of these for my American Literature class, so I guess that helped, even though we read House of Seven Gables and not The Scarlet Letter. Classics are not always known for being interesting books, if you can find a person that finds Walden a fun read please tell me, but more for what they say considering the time period when it was written.

	abanazerb:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 15:38 GMT		-2 points
	Interesting to see what counts as a classic in the US - I count myself as reasonably literate (just got 19/20 on the British lit quiz!) but I'd never heard of 8 of these. No doubt it would be the other way around for an American doing the British quiz.

	betty2dogs:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 23:20 GMT		1 point
	Good quiz. Made me thankful I took so many American Lit courses. I kept getting Zora Neale Hurston as Zora Thurston Neal until I slowed down and kept at it.

	weeksc07:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT		10 points
	Saw Invisible Man and thought of HG Wells, instead of Ellison. Hurts because we just read part of Invisible Man for AmLit two weeks ago.

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	POLLUX:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 00:01 GMT		6 points
	@Master0, nope, it's Beecher (:

	dadlak:	Jan 25th, 2010 at 03:22 GMT		0 points
	All the authors and books listed are bonafide American classics. Good quiz, even though I managed to get them all right.

	alexcabot:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 21:32 GMT		14 points
	How in the world is Steinbeck garbage? That's possibly the most ignorant statement I've ever heard!

	mrgregirwin:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 16:04 GMT		1 point
	solid quiz!

	voland:	May 6th, 2010 at 21:04 GMT		-3 points
	Henry Thoreau should be sufficient.

	Parasite:	May 24th, 2010 at 20:22 GMT		2 points
	H. G. Wells wrote a book called the Invisible Man, too.

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	marsviking:	May 31st, 2010 at 02:23 GMT		1 point
	why cdnt i remember stowe--i kept typing alcott

	bibliophile17:	May 31st, 2010 at 15:33 GMT		5 points
	Anyone ever notice that people who always demand that you respect their opinions are the most disrespectful to yours? Just a thought.

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	mellybmel:	Jun 19th, 2010 at 01:29 GMT		5 points
	Nice collection of titles, but way too much time, I thought.

	JimmyJazz25B:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT		2 points
	In my experience people read Grapes Of Wrath and don't like the politics. Regardless of how you feel about that he still spins quite a tale. The Short Reign Of Pippin IV is hilarious.

	howard38:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 00:03 GMT		1 point
	Cooper is, IMO, the worst writer of the lot. Mark Twain's critique of his work is hilarious.

	Roman:	Oct 22nd, 2010 at 18:15 GMT		1 point
	For whatever reason "hemingway" did not come to mind. I was thinking the same author who wrote "The Sun also Rises" and a Farewell to Arms but the name escaped me.

	monstro:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 16:41 GMT		2 points
	jiminymatthew: You are correct that having read the book you're dismissing means your opinion is not ignorant. Instead, your opinion is stupid.

	Dymefire:	Mar 10th, 2011 at 23:38 GMT		3 points
	Accept Samuel Clemens for Mark Twain?

	RecycleNazi:	Mar 28th, 2011 at 08:02 GMT		-3 points
	I would remove "Invisible Man," since it is also the name of a book by H.G. Wells. Interesting picks otherwise.

	cuttywise:	May 20th, 2011 at 12:09 GMT		0 points
	More than half didn't get Faulkner. 40 something percent don't know Melville wrote the greatest book ever written in the English language. I think Native Son or something by Toni Morrison would be a nice addition.

	midnightdj:	May 20th, 2011 at 12:54 GMT		2 points
	@RecycleNazi: H.G. Wells is British, so he doesn't fit the category and his book is "THE Invisible Man". Ralph Ellison's is "Invisible Man" which is what was asked for.