| born samuel langhorne clemens | Mark Twain |
| 1st thoroughly american writer | Mark Twain |
| rejected Eu art, history and cultural tradition | Mark Twain |
| returned to his native land for inspiration | Mark Twain |
| born and raised in the South | Mark Twain |
| first author who examined possibilities of American | Mark Twain |
| Colloquial speech of common America | Mark Twain |
| personal experience in his books | Mark Twain |
| was soldier during Civil War then journalist | Mark Twain |
| riverboat pilot on Missouri, also connected with this river | Mark Twain |
| wealth and fame, first media personality | Mark Twain |
| 1st guidebooks to Europe | Mark Twain |
| his writing grew pessimistic with time: depression bankruptcy | Mark Twain |
| focus on consciousnes, psychological complexity of mind | Henry James |
| One of the greatest novelist in English fiction | Henry James |
| pioneer of psychological realism | Henry James |
| characters presented through meaningful dialogue and detailed observation, | Henry James |
| brought up in a family interested in the arts, philosophy and politics | Henry James |
| injury prevented from enlisting | Henry James |
| failed in drama writing | Henry James |
| developed dramatic techniques for his fiction | Henry James |
| experiments with narrative techniques | Henry James |
| Who invented invisible narrator? | Henry James |
| Who invented different points of view? | Henry James |
| his poetry is nostalgic, conventional,expressing,romantic | Sydney Lanier |
| musical composition about Georgia's field | Sydney Lanier |
| Belief in the redemptive power of the land | Sydney Lanier |
| one of the feminist authors of the 20th century | Kate Chopin |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin |
| Slavery and women's right | Kate Chopin |
| Exploration of women's independence | Kate Chopin |
| Champion of literart realism | W.D.Howells |
| Biography of Abraham Lincoln | W.D.Howells |
| Editor of the Atlantic Montly | W.D.Howells |
| The Rise of Silas Lapham | W.D.Howells |
| fidelity to life, realism as 'nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material" | W.D.Howells |
| Maggie : a girl of the street | Stephen Crane |
| The Red Badgee of Courage (Henry Fleming) | Stephen Crane |
| The Open Boat | Stephen Crane |
| combined authenticity and emotional involvement | Theodore Dreiser |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Jennie Gerhardt | Theodore Dreiser |
| An American Tragedy- best novel | Theodore Dreiser |
| he joinced Communist Party in 1945 | Theodore Dreiser |
| 1st author who won Nobel Prize for literature | Sinclar Lewis |
| criticised American provincial life and middle class | Sinclar Lewis |
| Nobel prize in 1930 | Sinclar Lewis |
| Nobel Prize in 1962 | John Steinbeck |
| naturalist and California regionalist | John Steinbeck |
| combination of realistic naturalism and moral optimism | John Steinbeck |
| worked in ranches and as a constructor | John Steinbeck |