Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level

Aesop is the legendary storyteller behind Aesop's Fables, a collection of animal tales that have been teaching lessons for centuries. These short, memorable stories often carry a moral, making them a timeless source of wisdom and entertainment.

American writer and author of the popular 1970s book Roots which was adapted into a record setting TV mini-series. "The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contributing to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don’t. That’s what having roots—and writing Root...

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS, much better known as "Alfred, Lord Tennyson," was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, "In the valley of Cauteretz", "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears" and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses, although In...

An English poet.

An American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist.

Amy Tan is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work focuses on literature and educational texts.

Anna Quindlen is the author of Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work often explores themes of American life and literature.

Anne Terry White is the author behind the Prentice Hall Literature series, including the Bronze Level edition of Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Her work focuses on making classic literature accessible for students.

Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. - Wikipedia

Barbara Jordan is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. Her work focuses on literature education, making classic and contemporary texts accessible to students.

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Bill Cosby is the author behind the Prentice Hall Literature series, including Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. This collection offers a solid foundation in literary study.

Carl Sandburg was a poet and biographer, most famous for his multi-volume work on Abraham Lincoln. He also wrote poetry collections like Chicago Poems.

Charles Dickens, was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work. The continuing popularity of his novels and short stories is such that they have never gone out of print. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

radio and television commentator in the United States

Chief Dan George's work is featured in Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold. He's known for his contributions to literature, particularly within educational contexts.

Cynthia Rylant is an American author and librarian. She has written more than 100 children's books, including works of fiction (picture books, short stories and novels), nonfiction, and poetry. Several of her books have won awards, including her novel Missing May, which won the 1993 Newbery Medal, and A Fine White Dust which was a 1987 Newbery Honor book. Two of her books are Caldecott Honor Books. Many of Rylant's books are about her childhood in Appalachia, her pets, the joys and hardships...

Don Lessem is the author of Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. He's a writer focused on educational literature.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.[1] He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in...

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke fluent French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a celebrated American poet and playwright. Her work, often found in collections like Prentice Hall Literature, is known for its lyrical beauty and exploration of themes like love and freedom.

Longtime mystery writer and editor Edward Dentinger Hoch was practically an institution in the field. Born in 1930, he published over eight hundred mystery stories including one in every issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine from 1973 to 1981. His TV writing credits include episodes of "MacMillan and Wife", "Night Gallery", the "Alfred Hitchcock Show", and "Tales of the Unexpected". Mr. Hoch served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote mysteries under the pseudonyms...

Edward Estlin Cummings popularly known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular. --Wikipedia.org

Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, e...

Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist whose spare, understated prose reshaped twentieth-century fiction. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he worked briefly as a reporter before serving as an American Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front in the First World War, where he was seriously wounded by mortar fire in July 1918 and decorated for helping other wounded men to safety. He settled in Paris in the early 1920s as a...

Ernesto Galarza is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. This work showcases his contributions to educational literature, specifically in the realm of literary anthologies for young readers.

Eve Merriam is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature, a collection that brings classic and contemporary stories to readers. Her work focuses on making literature accessible and engaging for students.

Gary Soto is a writer whose work you'll find in Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold. He's known for his accessible stories and poems, often exploring themes of everyday life and Chicano culture.

Geoffrey Champion Ward (born November 30, 1940) is an American editor, author, historian and writer of scripts for American history documentaries for public television.

Gillian Standing is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes, Bronze Level. This work showcases her expertise in educational literature.

compiler and editor of folk literature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1978. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer

Israel Horovitz is the author of Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. This work is a key resource for exploring classic and contemporary literature.

Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes. Source: [Jack Finney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney) on Wikipedia.

Jacqueline Dineen is the author behind the Prentice Hall Literature series, including the Bronze Level edition of Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Her work focuses on making classic literature accessible and engaging for students.

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name.

James Alfred "Alf" Wight, known by the pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinary surgeon to write a series of books each consisting of stories about animals and their owners. - Wikipedia

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James Stephens, born in Dublin, Ireland, was an Irish novelist and poet. His father died when Stephens was two years old, and his mother remarried when he was six years old. He attended school with his adoptive brothers, Thomas and Richard Collins, before graduating as a solicitor's clerk. By the early 1900s Stephens was increasingly inclined to socialism and the Irish language (he spoke and wrote Irish) and by 1912 was a dedicated Irish Republican. He was a close friend of the 1916 leader, Thom...

The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons, was born in Columbus, Ohio on December, 8, 1894. One of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, his inimitable wit and pithy prose spanned a breadth of genres, including short stories, modern commentary, fiction, children's fantasy and letters. Thurber's father, Charles, was a civil clerk, and his mother, Mame, was an eccentric woman who would influence many of her son's...

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Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American writer, journalist and mountaineer. Raised in Corvallis, Oregon, he took up climbing young and became known for his magazine work, much of it for Outside, some of which was collected in Eiger Dreams (1990). His books of narrative nonfiction include Into the Wild (1996), an account of Christopher McCandless's death in the Alaskan wilderness; Into Thin Air (1997), his first-hand report of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster...

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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Writer, editor, lecturer Langston Hughes achieved fame as a poet during the burgeoning of the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance, but those who label him "a Harlem Renaissance poet" have restricted his fame to only one genre and decade. In addition to his work as a poet, Hughes was a novelist, columnist, playwright, and essayist, and though he is most closely associated with Harlem, his world travels influenced his writing in a profound way. Langston Hughes f...

Laurence Michael Yep (born June 14, 1948) is an American writer, best known for his children's books. He is a two-time Newbery Honor winner for books from his Golden Mountain series, the best known title being Dragonwings. In 2005, he received the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his career contribution to American children's literature.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), an English writer, poet, mathematician, logician and photographer, born at Daresbury, Cheshire. He lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871), along with the nonsense poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark. Under his own name he published work on mathematics and logic and devised word puzzles such as Doublets.

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"Before she settled in the scrub country, Marjorie Rawlings had been a newspaperwoman in Louisville Kentucky, and Rochester New York. Tiring of a life that seemed "scrappy and always in a hurry," she turned her hand unsuccessfully to short-story writing. She had almost given up when, at 32, she used a small legacy to buy her 72-acre orange grove at Cross Creek. The people and the country inspired her to continue writing. Increasingly, her fiction reflected her deepening knowledge of her chosen p...

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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Naomi Long Madgett was a writer whose work you might recognize from Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum. She contributed to educational literature, making classic texts accessible to students.

American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator.

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times "the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry." Wikipedia

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

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Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes, are masterworks that readers carry wi...

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Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

British historian

Rod Serling is the author of Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level. This work explores classic and contemporary literature across various genres. He's a familiar name to students and educators looking for well-curated literary collections.

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction "[The Jungle Book][1]" (1894). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature. ([Source][2]) [1]: /works/OL15400121W/ [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Russell Baker is the author of Laughing Space, a collection of humorous essays. He's known for his sharp wit and insightful observations on everyday life. If you enjoy a good laugh and a fresh perspective, you'll appreciate his writing.

Sandra Cisneros is a celebrated author whose work often explores themes of family, identity, and the Mexican-American experience. She's known for her powerful storytelling, and you might recognize her name from Prentice Hall Literature, where her writings are featured.

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Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Ohio on the 13th of September, 1876. He attended school only intermittently, while helping to support his family by working as a newsboy, housepainter, stock handler, and stable groom. At the age of 17 he moved to Chicago where he worked as a warehouse laborer and attended business classes at night. During the Spanish-American war Anderson fought in Cuba and returned after the war to Ohio, for a final year of schooling at Wittenberg College, Springfield. A...

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Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a grea...

Virginia Hamilton was born and raised in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She attended Antioch College on a scholarship, and then transferred to Ohio State University in 1956 to study literature and creative writing. In 1958 she moved to New York City where she worked odd jobs, studied fiction writing at the New School for Social Research, and wrote. Hamilton married in 1960 and became a full-time writer. In 1967 she published her first book, Zeely, published in 1967, which won numerous awards, includin...

Walter Dean Myers was a celebrated author whose work often explored the experiences of young people. He is known for his contributions to educational literature, including the Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes series.

Walter de la Mare was a poet, short-story writer and novelist, whose best-known work remains his poetry for children, though his ghost stories have long been highly regarded.

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal...

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William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film adaptation of his novel The Human Comedy. An Armenian American, Saroyan wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant life in California. Many of his stories and plays are set in his native Fresno. Some of his best-known works are The Time of Your Life, My Name...

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and "the Bard of Avon." His surviving works comprise 38–39 plays (depending on classification), 154 sonnets, and several other poems, and have been translated into every major living language and performed more often than those of any other playw...

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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891  – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)