Great American authors since 1650 / [produced by Centre Communications, Inc. for Ambrose Video Publishing ; producer, Ronald C. Meyer ; director, Scott Gordon ; written by Mark Reeder.

Presents the lives and literary output of more than 60 of America's most read authors in concise, stand-alone segments presented in chronological order. Program 1. The awe-inspiring saga of America's greatest authors comes alive in Great American Authors since 1650. As the American colonies moved to...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Corporate Authors: Centre Communications
Ambrose Video Publishing
Other Authors: Meyer, Ronald C.
Gordon, Scott L.
Reeder, Mark
Kaczmarek, Jane
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Soundtrack in English. Spanish subtitles. Closed captioned.
Published: New York : Ambrose Video Pub. [distributor], [2007], ©2007.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:
Authors, American > Biography.
American literature > History and criticism.
Biographical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
American literature.
Authors, American.
Genre:
Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:4 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD Software
Contents:
  • Program 1. Great American authors 1650-1845. 1650 Anne Bradstreet, America's first poet
  • 1702 Cotton Mather publishes The ecclesiastical history of New England ; 1773 Phillis Wheatley becomes America's first black woman poet
  • 1819 Washington Irving publishes Rip van Winkle
  • 1826 James Fenimore Cooper publishes The last of the Mohicans
  • 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson initiates American transcendentalism with Nature
  • 1845 Edgar Allan Poe publishes The raven.
  • Program 2. Great American authors 1846-1855. 1846 Henry David Thoreau originates America's proud history of civil disobedience
  • 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne writes The scarlet letter
  • 1851 Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published
  • 1852 Emily Dickinson publishes first poem
  • 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe writes Uncle Tom's cabin
  • 1855 Frederick Douglass publishes My bondage and my freedom
  • 1855 Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of grass
  • 1855 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow writes The song of Hiawatha.
  • Program 3. Great American authors 1856-1906. 1868 Louisa May Alcott writes Little women
  • 1878 Henry James writes Daisy Miller
  • 1885 Mark Twain publishes The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • 1906 Upton Sinclair's novel The jungle is published
  • 1906 the whole country speaks ; Stephen Crane ; O. Henry ; Theodore Dreiser ; Willa Cather ; Jack London ; Sherwood Anderson.
  • Program 4. Great American authors 1907-1925. 1913 poet William Carlos Williams publishes his first book of poems, The tempers
  • 1914 Carl Sandburg publishes his poem Chicago
  • 1920 Edith Wharton wins a Pulitzer Prize for The age of innocence
  • 1922 The innovators ; e.e. cummings ; Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot ; Henry Miller
  • 1923 Robert Frost publishes Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
  • 1925 F. Scott Fizgerald writes The great Gatsby.
  • Program 5. Great American authors 1926-1939. 1929 Thomas Wolfe writes Look homeward angel
  • 1929 William Faulkner showcases the South with The sound and the fury
  • 1930 Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • 1931 Pearl Buck writes The good Earth
  • 1936 playwright Eugene O'Neill wins Nobel Prize for Literature
  • 1939 Steinbeck writes The grapes of wrath.
  • Program 6. Great American authors 1940-1949. 1940 Ernest Hemingway's For whom the bell tolls is published
  • 1941 James Thurber writes The secret life of Walter Mitty
  • 1947-1953 the era of popular science fiction ; Robert Heinlein ; Isaac Asimov ; Ray Bradbury
  • 1948 Tennessee Williams wins his first Pulitzer Prize for A street car named Desire
  • 1949 Arthur Miller produces Death of a salesman.
  • Program 7. Great American authors 1950-1957. 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize
  • 1951 setting the stage for the Baby Boomer Generation ; J.D. Salinger ; Sylvia Plath
  • 1952 speaking for the American black male ; Ralph Ellison ; James Baldwin
  • 1957 Jack Kerouac begins the Beat Generation in American literature
  • 1957 Dr. Seuss writes The cat in the hat.
  • Program 8. Great American authors 1958-present. 1959 Lorraine Hansberry's play A raisin in the sun is produced
  • 1961 Joseph Heller writes Catch-22
  • 1966 Truman Capote writes In cold blood
  • 1969 Kurt Vonnegut writes Slaughterhouse five
  • 1982 John Updike's Rabbit is rich wins Pulitzer Prize for literature
  • 1989 Asian American Amy Tan publishes The joy luck club
  • 1993 redefining the black experience ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Walker ; August Wilson
  • 2007 Cormac McCarthy wins the Pulitzer Prize for The road.