Does anybody have any good recommanditions on an american author i can write about?

Answer 1

Mark Twain is a classic, but for cool modern author try Kurt Vonnegut.

Answer 2

One very interesting author you might consider is Jack Kerouac, who is most famous for "On the Road".

From Wikipedia:
Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, and artist. He is perhaps the best known of a group of writers and friends who came to be known as the Beat Generation.

Kerouac enjoyed some degree of popular appeal but little critical acclaim during his lifetime. He is now, however, considered to be one of America's most important and influential authors. His spontaneous, confessional prose style has inspired numerous other writers and musicians, including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.

Kerouac divided most of his young adult life between roaming the vast American landscape and life at home with his mother. Faced with a changing post-war America, he sought to find his place, but came to eventually reject the values and social norms of the Fifties. His writing often reflects a desire to break free from society's structures and to find higher meaning.

This search led Kerouac to experiment with drugs and to embark on trips around the world. His writings are often credited as the catalyst for the 1960s counterculture. Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the age of forty-seven from an internal hemorrhage, the result of chronic alcoholism.

Sounds like an interesting enough fellow to write about.

Answer 3

Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Joy in the Morning. She is an amazing author. There is good information out there about her but she seems to get forgotten alot. I am personally a huge fan of hers, and I promise she will go over well with your teacher.

Answer 4

Poe
Hemmingway
Salinger
Steinbeck
Hawthorne
Twain
Stephen King
Anne Rice

Answer 5

Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's trilogy) or Kurt Vonnegut (Hocus Pocus, Slaughterhouse Five, etc)

Answer 6

Andre Dubus (the father, not the son). Fascinating man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Dubus

http://www.amywelborn.com/reviews/dubus.html

http://www.reaaward.org/html/andre_dubus.html

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/LITLINKS/fiction/dubus.htm

Answer 7

Mark Twain led a very interesting life...

Answer 8

Stephen King he is without a doubt the best