Major Early American Authors早期主要的美国作家

MajorEarlyAmericanAuthorsMonicaBolanos,ShakerKattoula,KevinKearney,andHaeminKwonMissGybenEnglish3Gold516September2010FrancisScottKey1779-1843WasborninFredrickCounty,MarylandAugust1,1779EducatedatSt.John’sCollegetobeanattorney.StarSpangledBannerbasedonFt.McHenryflaghesaw.CharlesJaredIngersoll1782-1862WasborninPhiladelphiaonOctober3,1782WentPrincetoncollegefor3years,thenwenttoEuropeMajorwork–Inchiquin,theJesuit’slettersonAmericanLiteratureandpolitics(1810)containsfavorableviewofAmericanlifeservedasUSrepresentative2timesThomasPain1737-1809BornJanuary29,1737inThetford,Norfolk,England.MovedtoAmericaaftermanyfailedattemptsatsuccessinEngland.WrotesixmajorworksmostnotablyCommonSensein1776.WhichemphasizedtheneedtobreakawayfromEnglandandKingGeorgeIII’styranny.BenjaminFranklin1706-1790BorninBostononJanuary17,1790.HeldmanyimportantrolesinearlyAmericaincludingPostMasterGeneral,GovernorofPennsylvania.Wrotemanyarticlesandbooksunderdifferentnames.MajorworksincludehisAutobiographyandExperimentsAndObservationsonElectricity1751.JohnHancock1737-1793BornonJanuary12,1737inBraintree(Quincy),Massachusetts.Majorwritingwasthe“BostonMassacreOration.”SignerontheDeclarationofIndependence.PatrickHenry1736-1799BornMay25,1736inHanoverCounty,Virginia.BigpublicspeakerandleaderinVirginia.Majorwritingis“TheWarInevitable.”OlaudahEquiano1745–1797BorninEssaka,anIgbovillageinthekingdomofBenin.Purchasedhisownfreedom.Wrotehisautobiography"TheInterestingNarrativeoftheLifeofOlaudahEquiano,orGustavusVassa,theAfrican"FrancisHopkinson1737–1791BorninPhiladelphiaEducatedatCollegeofPennsylvania.SignedtheDeclarationofIndependence.Majorworksare"APrettyStoryWrittenintheYearofOurLord1774"and"TypographicalMethodofconductingaQuarrel.”WorksCited:///english/reuben/pal/chap2/franklin.html:///writers/paine.asp://earlyamerica/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/://laughtergenealogy/bin/history/hancock.html://famouspoetsandpoems/poets/francis_scott_key/biography://ushistor