1. Major American Writers and their works 1). Bejamin Franklin (1706-1790) 本杰明•富兰克林: the only writer in the colonial period. Works: Poor Richard's Almanac, which is an annual collection of proverbs. 殖民地时期的作家。作品：《穷理查年鉴》，一本年度谚语集。 2). Washington Irving (1803-1882) 华盛顿•欧文: A History of New York纽约外史; The Sketch Book最著名的作品为《见闻札记》，his most famous book, contains “Rip Van Winkle”《瑞普•凡•温克尔》and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”《睡谷的传说》 3). Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) 爱默生：the leader of the movement of transcendentalism.超验主义运动的领导者Works: Nature,（论自然）Self-reliance（论自助）, Representative Men（代表人物）, English Traits and Poems (英国人的性格和诗).
4). Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 霍桑：The Scarlet Letter红字 5). Mark Twain1835-1910）马克•吐温: The Celebrated Jumping Frog (《著名的跳蛙》，成名之作) ；The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (a boy book) 汤姆•索亚历险记; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (his master work) 哈克贝利•芬历险记，则是他最杰出著作; A tramp Abroad浪迹海外, Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上, The Gilded Age 镀金时代and Innocents Abroad异乡奇遇。 6). Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 沃尔特•惠特曼: the first to explore fully the possibilities of free verse（探索自由诗体可能性的第一人）. Leaves of Grass (his masterpiece) 草叶集, Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) 艾米丽•狄更生:Death was one of the great themes of her work死亡是她作品的重要主题之一
