A Timeline of Authors

A TIMELINE OF AUTHORS When Famous Authors Lived, Died, and Published Their Most Famous Book 1607 - 1776 1803 - 1815 NAPOLEONIC WARS 1861 - 1865 AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1914 - 1918 WORLD WAR I 1939 - 1945 WORLD WAR II 1947 - 1991 THE COLD WAR COLONIAL AMERICA 1950 AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1954 - 1966 1800 1850 1900 2000 2020 AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 - 1783 THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 - 1933 Pride and Prejudice The Catcher in the Rye 1951 War and Peace 1813 1869 1775 Jane Austen 1817 Leo Tolstoy 1919 J.D. Salinger 1828 1910 2010 Frankenstein 1818 #43 Anne of Green Gables The The Color Purple 1908 Purple 1982 1797 Mary Shelley 1851 1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery 1942 1944 Alice Walker The Count of Monte Cristo 1844 #41 The Call of the Wild 1903 Foundation (series) 1951 #37 1802 Alexandre Dumas 1870 (1876 Jack London 1916 1920 Isaac Asimov 1992 Jane Eyre The Great Gatsby 1925 GATSBY 1847 #10 I Lonesome Dove 1985 1816 Charlotte Brontë 1855 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1940 LARRY 1936 Larry McMurty Wuthering Heights 1847 GONE Gone with the Wind WITH 1936 WIND Mir The Handmaid's Tale 1985 #34 1818 Emily Brontë 1848 1900 Margaret Mitchell 1949 1939 Margaret Atwood Moby-Dick 1851 #46 Sath ee The Little Prince 1943 #36 OHN A Prayer for Owen Meany RVING 1989 1819 Herman Melville 1891 1900 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1944 FOR OWEN 1942 John Irving Great Expectations 1861 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 KEN Pillars of the Earth FOLLEH 1989 1812 Charles Dickens 1870 1902 John Steinbeck 1968 1949 Ken Follett Alice's Adventures in Wonderland jange Chaell Nineteen Eighty-Four kineteen 1949 1865 The Joy Luck Club 1989 1832 Lewis Carroll 1898 1903 George Orwell 1950 1952 Amy Tan Little Women NARNIA The Chronicles of Narnia (series) 1869 1950 Outlander (series) 1991 1832 Louisa May Alcott 1888 1898 C.S. Lewis 1963 1952 Diana J. Gabaldon The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876 #17 CATCH-22 Catch-22 1953 JOSIPH HELLER 1835 Mark Twain 1910 1923 Joseph Heller 1999 MANIN And Then There Were None 1939 The Giver 1993 1890 Agatha Christie 1976 1937 Lois Lowry MA Rebecca 1938 REBECCA EIINI 1907 Daphne du Maurier 1989 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943 GROWS IN A GAME OF A Song of Ice and Fire (series) THRONES 1996 1896 Betty Smith 1972 ||---- MARTIN 1948 George R.R. Martin arilotie Charlotte's Web web 1952 Memoirs of a Geisha These top 50 books were voted on by the American people for in the Great American Read national survey published by PBS. 1997 1899 E.B. White 1985 1956 Arthur Golden The Lord of the Rings (series) 1954 FOMER Harry Potter (series) 1997 1892 J.R.R. Tolkien 1973 PHOTOS BY: Stuart C. Shapiro (Wikimedia.org) 1965 J.K. Rowling Exodus Books Uli Kaiser (Wikimedia.org) ATLAS Atlas Shrugged SHRUGGED 1957 Jose Lara (Flickr) The Da Vinci Code DA VINCI 2003 CODE Goodreads Angela George (Wikimedia.org) 1905 Ayn Rand 1982 AN BROWN pinguino k (Flickr) Michael Hughes (Flickr) Dan Brown 1964 -- -- KA To Kill a Mockingbird veesees (Flickr) Boston College (Flickr) Feanne Collins (Wikimedia.org) Actualitte (Flickr) Russell Ernst (Wikipedia.org) 1960 1926 Harper Lee 2016 Ricardo Stuckert (Wikimedia.org) Blaues Sofa (Flickr) sivza The Outsiders 1967 Fon Chase (Wikimedia.org) Gage Skidmore (Flickr) 1948 S.E. Hinton Kenneth C. Zirkel (Wikimedia.org) Daniel Ogren (Flickr) Where the Red Fern Grows John Mattherw Smith (Flickr) Larry D. Moore (Wikimedia.org) David Shankbone (Flickr) 1961 The Book Thief 2005 1913 Wilson Rawls 1984 Philip Scalia (Wikimedia.org) Page Thirteen (Wikimedia.orG) 1975 Markus Zusak Tylerwardis (Wikimedia.org) Dune Christopher Peterson (Wikipedia.org) Niccolo Caranti (MWikimedia.org) 1965 NEE The Hunger Games 2008 IUA College of Arts & Sciences (Vimeo) ActuaLitte (Flickr) 1920 Frank Herbert 1986 phrodite-in-nyc (Flickr) Slowking (Wikimedia.org) 1962 Suzanne Collins The Stand 1978 STAND #20 Avery Jensen (Wikimedia.org) THE 1947 Stephen King The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1979 1952 Douglas Adams 2001 The Help 2009 Playground Equipment 1969 Kathryn Stockett ILAIN M The Clan of the Cave Bear AUEL 1980 (1936 Jean M. Auel