The Lying Writers Who Tell the Truth - ENC1102/P5 21 March 2017 Mrs. Fritz The Lying Writers Who Tell the Truth 1. Daniel Defoe: 18th Century Robinson

ENC1102/P5 21 March 2017 Mrs. Fritz The Lying Writers Who Tell the Truth 1.Daniel Defoe: 18thCentury; Robinson Crusoe Invented modern journalism 2.Jonathan Swif 18th Century; Gulliver’s Travels Invented the name Vanessa 3.Jane Austen 19thCentury; Lady Susan Regarded as classic yet is widely read 4.Mary Shelley 19thCentury; The Last Man Gave birth to four children in her life but only one survived 5.Charles Dickens 19thCentury; ThePaperwick Papers Started working at age 12 afer father was imprisoned for debt 6.Nathaniel Hawthorne 19thCentury; The House of the Seven Gables Franklin Pierce discovered Hawthorne dead 7.Herman Melville 19th Century; Moby-Dick A majority of his work was not successful during his lifetime 8.Lewis Carroll 19thCentury; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Opium addict—Obsessed with the neighbor’s little girl named Alice 9.Willkie Collins 19thCentury; The Woman in White He went to a boarding school where he was bullied by a peer who forced him to tell him a story before he could sleep 10. George Eliot 19thCentury; Middlemarch She received 20 euros for her first book 11. Mark Twain 19thCentury; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Top 10 banned book in U.S. schools—stories just deep enough to find meaning 12. Robert Louis Stevenson 19thCentury; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde He invented the sleeping bag 13. Jerome K. Jerome

19thCentury; Three Men in a Boat The majority of his work was humorous 14. Arthur Conan Doyle 19thCentury; A Study in Scarlet He couldn’t become a soldier because he was too overweight 15. Oscar Wild 19th Century; The Picture of Dorian Gray He only published one novel 16. Thomas Hardy 19thCentury; Tess of the d’Urbervilles Aspired to be an architect 17. Stephen Crane 19thCentury; The Red Badge of Courage As a child, he was always very sick, having constant colds 18. Bram Stocker 19thCentury; The Lair of the White Worm Mathematician yet becomes a writer- goes against what you’re trained to do 19. Joseph Conrad 19thCentury; Heart of Darkness Tried to commit suicide by shooting himself, he lived 20. Theodore Dreiser 20thCentury; An American Tragedy He was twelve out of thirteen children 21. Rudyard Kipling 19thCentury; The Jungle Book He was constantly scolded for not speaking up about his mistreatment 22. Truman Capote 20th Century; In Cold Blood He taught himself how to read and write 23. Jack London 20thCentury; White Fang His mom tried to kill herself while pregnant 24. Henry James 19thCentury; The Portrait of a Lady Best friends with Woolson jumped from her bedroom window 25. H.G. Wells 20th Century; The Time Machine He became a teacher and won scholarship to attend a science college 26. Ayn Rand 20th