Early American Authors Quiz Game Showing 301-350 of 14,459

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "What???"

Have I your permission to speak?

[Allyson]

Yes!!

[Joanna]

Edward Taylor. Wow, I had not heard of him before! A new author for our obscure NE authors list!! Good one Allyson!

[Allyson]

Thanks! Did you have to look it up?

[Allyson]

I was trying to make up for my last question being so easy!!😂

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Thanks! Did you have to look it up?"

Umm, yes... 🧐

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "I was trying to make up for my last question being so easy!!😂"

Well you sure did! 😂

[Allyson]

😂😂😂

[Ruth]

Oh my gosh!
Guy something
I remember reading about it last month
and thought Guy was an unusual name
for the time- unless one is French, of course.

Thank you Allyson, I need a Tylenol from
heavy thinking and remembering.💊

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "Oh my gosh!
Guy something
I remember reading about it last month
and thought Guy was an unusual name
for the time- unless one is French, of course.

Thank you Allyson, I need a Tylenol from
heavy..."

Guy something...hmmm, now I'm curious! 🧐
Hope your head feels better soon, Ruth! 🤕

[Ruth]

Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Oh my gosh!
Guy something
I remember reading about it last month
and thought Guy was an unusual name
for the time- unless one is French, of course.

Thank you Allyson, I need a Tyleno..."

Thanks Meg.
I haven't felt this way since reading Walden.😄

[Allyson]

Sorry Ruth! I didn't mean to cause you pain!!!😷

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Sorry Ruth! I didn't mean to cause you pain!!!😷"

Why are you wearing a mask, Allyson?! Is it contagious? 😄

[Allyson]

I don't know, it just looked like a nice emoji!😂😂

[Joanna]

Haha!! 😂

[Joanna]

I've got a new question for you all, if Ruth is feeling better...😄

[Allyson]

Ooh ooh!

[Joanna]

So the question is...what great American classic was influenced by its author's reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Little Women??

[Allyson]

Moby Dick?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

...no it can't be Little Women... that was based off of her life...

[Allyson]

I really think it's Moby Dick!!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

If it is then I'm gonna feel reallllly stupid...

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Sorry Ruth! I didn't mean to cause you pain!!!😷"

Hi Allyson,
No worries on that score,
it was more a taxed than pain.

[Ruth]

🚨🚏WAIT.🚏🚨
Allyson, What was the answer?

[Allyson]

Edward Taylor

[Ruth]

Edward Taylor!!!
Allyson, that was a curve ball.
I honestly thought it was Guy(?).
Thanks for the challenge.

[Allyson]

Glad you enjoyed it!!😂😂

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "Edward Taylor!!!
Allyson, that was a curve ball.
I honestly thought it was Guy(?).
Thanks for the challenge."

So somewhere out there is an ENE author with the first name Guy?

[Allyson]

Yeah, Guy who Ruth?

[Joanna]

And Allyson is correct...it was Moby Dick!! Makes me want to read it again. I read it about 10 years ago and enjoyed it, but now I wonder how much I really got out of it!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Phewy

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Congratulations Allyson! :D ❤️

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Yeah, Guy who Ruth?"

It was the Guy Johnson,
but he wasn't an author.

[Allyson]

Wow! It really was Moby Dick?! Awesome!!

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Wow! It really was Moby Dick?! Awesome!!"

Quoted from a rather lengthy but fascinating article... "After Shakespeare and the Bible, Hawthorne as man and artist had perhaps the greatest influence on Melville's writing, leaving a distinctive imprint on his plots, themes, characterizations, symbols, and images from Moby-Dick through Clarel and beyond."

[Joanna]

Perhaps this isn't the place to ask this, but while we're on the subject, would any of you be interested in doing a side-read of Melville's Hawthorne and His Mosses this upcoming month? It's available online and is fairly short (maybe around 12 pages?). If you all think I rave about Hawthorne, you have yet to hear Melville do it! 😂

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Meg wrote: "Perhaps this isn't the place to ask this, but while we're on the subject, would any of you be interested in doing a side-read of Melville's Hawthorne and His Mosses this upcoming mo..."

Sounds good to me! Could you please put the link on here for the online book?

[Joanna]

Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Perhaps this isn't the place to ask this, but while we're on the subject, would any of you be interested in doing a side-read of Melville's Hawthorne and His Mosses this..."

Here it is! :)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/atki...

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Thank you! ❤️

[Allyson]

That sounds interesting! When do you want to read it? I'll join!

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "That sounds interesting! When do you want to read it? I'll join!"

That's wonderful Allyson!! 😊 I was planning to start the threads for our July reads soon, so anytime you're ready!

[Allyson]

Awesome!😁😃

[Ruth]

Hi Allyson,
What is your quiz for the day? 🙂

[Allyson]

Here it goes... What New England author met future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U. S. president Franklin Pierce while at Bowdion college?

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Wowsers

[Allyson]

😂😂

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Here it goes... What New England author met future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future U. S. president Franklin Pierce while at Bowdion college?"

Hawthorne

[Allyson]

CONGRATS!!! You guessed right!!!😁😀😃😄

[Ruth]

Why thank you Miss Allyson.
(by the way, what is your pen name?)