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D.W. Griffith - ✔️✔️carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of
a Nation, Intolerance, etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to
filmmaking.
Federico Fellini - ✔️✔️Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. "La Dolce
Vita"
Al Jolson - ✔️✔️Made the first talking movie in 1927..The "Jazz Singer"
Eisenstein - ✔️✔️Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered
among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Lillian Gish - ✔️✔️United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Penny Marshall - ✔️✔️Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big, A
League of Their Own, Jumping Jack Flash
Issac Asimov - ✔️✔️science fiction writer
Jane Austen - ✔️✔️Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Bronte Sisters - ✔️✔️were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell
Brothers.."Wuthering Heights"
Honore de Balzac - ✔️✔️Wrote "The Human Comedy"
,James Boswell - ✔️✔️Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Ray Bradbury - ✔️✔️American Science Fiction writer.."Fahrenheit 451"
Mathew Brady - ✔️✔️famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Pearl Buck - ✔️✔️novelist who won Nobel Peace prize, advanced humanitarian causes.
"Americans in China"
Cervantes - ✔️✔️Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and
influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Joseph Conrad - ✔️✔️Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Stephen Crane - ✔️✔️author of The Red Badge of Courage
Simone De Beauvoir - ✔️✔️French feminist who wrote the treatise titled " The Second Sex"
Daniel Defoe - ✔️✔️wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Charles Dickens - ✔️✔️Realist novelist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist, A
Christmas Carol, The Pickwick Papers
Alexander Dumas - ✔️✔️wrote "The Three Musketeers" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" and The
Count of Monte-Cristo
,Paul Lawrence Dunbar - ✔️✔️African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives
of slavery
William Faulkner - ✔️✔️Twentieth-century novelist, used the stream-of-consciousness technique
in his novel The Sound of Fury, whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - ✔️✔️writer of "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby" who coined the
term "Jazz Age"
Langston Hughes - ✔️✔️African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Victor Hugo - ✔️✔️wrote "Les Miserables" which criticized the French Revolution
James Joyce - ✔️✔️An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses, a stream of consciousness book based
loosely on Odyssey
Niccolo Machiavelli - ✔️✔️(1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of
ruling a country. "End justifies the means."
Mary McCarthy - ✔️✔️United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Herman Melville - ✔️✔️wrote Billy Budd, Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic;
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Pilgrim's Progress - ✔️✔️story of man, Christian, journey faces hobglobins/dragons
Francois Rabelais - ✔️✔️Former monk. French humanist, wrote the comic masterpieces
Gargantua and Pantagruel, stories contained gross humor.
, George Sand - ✔️✔️French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name
and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Richard Sheridan - ✔️✔️Wrote Rivals
Edmund Spenser - ✔️✔️author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era, one of the greatest moral
epics in any language
Jonathan Swift - ✔️✔️Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels
and A Modest Proposal, Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman, which often made
hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Modest
Proposal).
Leo Tolstoy - ✔️✔️wrote Anna Karenina, War and Peace; Russian writer, realistic fiction
Mark Twain - ✔️✔️Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Jules Verne - ✔️✔️20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days. He is
considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Mary Wollstonecraft - ✔️✔️An English writer who wrote "Vindication of the Rights of Women",
arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be so because of lack of
education
Mary Shelley - ✔️✔️wrote "Frankenstein" which was a criticism of man controlling nature,
"Gothic literature" Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Samuel Beckett - ✔️✔️Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a
giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
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