1, Steinbeck
John steinbeck is one of the most influential American writers in the 20th century. He is familiar with the people at the bottom of society, and many works take them as the leading role, which shows the kindness and simplicity of the people at the bottom and shapes the image of "Steinbeck hero". At the same time, his novels have high artistic attainments, and organically combine realistic style with fantasy style, which has a great influence on the later development of American literature, especially western literature. His representative works include of mice and men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Falls, Pearl, East of Eden, Troubled Winter, etc.
2. william faulkner
William faulkner (1September 25th, 897-1July 6th, 962), one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature, is a representative of American stream-of-consciousness literature, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. The reason for winning the prize is "because he has made a powerful and unparalleled contribution to contemporary American novels". He wrote 19 novels and 120 short stories in his life. Among them, 15 long stories and most short stories took place in Napatafa County, York, which is called "the lineage of York Napatafa". Its main line is from 1800 to the story of several families and generations in Jefferson Town and its suburbs belonging to different social classes after World War II. More than 600 celebrities with surnames in their lineages appear alternately in various novels and short stories. The most representative work is The Sound and the Fury.
3. Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830~ 1886) is an American legendary poet. Born into a lawyer's family. Life as a teenager was monotonous and quiet, and he received a formal religious education. From the age of twenty-five, she abandoned social women and stayed at home. She wrote poems in solitude for 30 years, leaving more than 1,700 poems. Only seven songs were published before her death, and the rest were published after her death and are well known to the world. Dickinson's poems mainly focus on life interest, nature, life, faith, friendship and love. The poetic style is concise and graceful, with fresh conception, vivid and exquisite description, profound thought, strong cohesion and great originality. She is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist poetry in the twentieth century. The most famous American poets are Irving, Whitman and Dickinson, the fathers of American literature. She locked a lot of poems in a box, which is her greatest gift to the world. Before her death, her works failed to win favor, but the incomprehension and misunderstanding of people around her did not diminish her rich creative talent at all. According to statistics, Emily's amazing creativity left over 1800 poems for the world, including the final version of 1775 poems and 25 newly discovered poems.