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This naturalist writer published his first novel under the pseudonym Johnson Smith.

This writer was known as “the Dean of American Letters.”

This novel was written in a burst of energy in two days!

He defended a prostitute who had been harassed by police, fled to Florida, and met Cora Taylor, a madame of a brothel, with whom he lived for the rest of his life:

Bret Harte’s success rested on his ability to portray distinctive characters whom he connected to the increasingly urban cites of the East coast.

The terms free will and determinism are interchangeable.

Roughing It, Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi were written by

Which of the following chronologies is the correct sequence of literary periods in American literature?

In “The Open Boat,” the correspondent remembers a verse that “he had forgotten that he had forgotten.” In the poem he remembers __________________.

This writer commited suicide after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer.