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Famous Authors and Their Best-Known Works

Match writers from many times and places to books they are known for.

102 cardsGrades 3–5, Grades 6–8, Grades 9–12#authors#literature#books

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  • William ShakespeareAuthor
    Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Jane AustenAuthor
    Pride and Prejudice, Emma
  • Charles DickensAuthor
    A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations
  • Mark TwainAuthor
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Louisa May AlcottAuthor
    Little Women
  • Lewis CarrollAuthor
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • L. Frank BaumAuthor
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Robert Louis StevensonAuthor
    Treasure Island, Kidnapped
  • J.M. BarrieAuthor
    Peter Pan
  • Kenneth GrahameAuthor
    The Wind in the Willows
  • Beatrix PotterAuthor
    The Tale of Peter Rabbit
  • A.A. MilneAuthor
    Winnie-the-Pooh
  • Rudyard KiplingAuthor
    The Jungle Book, Just So Stories
  • Roald DahlAuthor
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG
  • Dr. SeussAuthor
    The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who
  • E.B. WhiteAuthor
    Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little
  • Laura Ingalls WilderAuthor
    Little House on the Prairie
  • Beverly ClearyAuthor
    Ramona Quimby books, Henry Huggins
  • Judy BlumeAuthor
    Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  • C.S. LewisAuthor
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
  • J.R.R. TolkienAuthor
    The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
  • J.K. RowlingAuthor
    Harry Potter series
  • Madeleine L'EngleAuthor
    A Wrinkle in Time
  • Lois LowryAuthor
    The Giver, Number the Stars
  • Katherine PatersonAuthor
    Bridge to Terabithia
  • Gary PaulsenAuthor
    Hatchet
  • Suzanne CollinsAuthor
    The Hunger Games
  • Rick RiordanAuthor
    Percy Jackson and the Olympians
  • Jeff KinneyAuthor
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • Dav PilkeyAuthor
    Dog Man, Captain Underpants
  • Eric CarleAuthor
    The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Maurice SendakAuthor
    Where the Wild Things Are
  • Shel SilversteinAuthor
    The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Margaret Wise BrownAuthor
    Goodnight Moon
  • Judith ViorstAuthor
    Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  • Kate DiCamilloAuthor
    Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
  • Sharon CreechAuthor
    Walk Two Moons
  • Louis SacharAuthor
    Holes
  • Lemony SnicketAuthor
    A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Ernest HemingwayAuthor
    The Old Man and the Sea
  • F. Scott FitzgeraldAuthor
    The Great Gatsby
  • Harper LeeAuthor
    To Kill a Mockingbird
  • John SteinbeckAuthor
    The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
  • George OrwellAuthor
    Animal Farm, 1984
  • Aldous HuxleyAuthor
    Brave New World
  • J.D. SalingerAuthor
    The Catcher in the Rye
  • Herman MelvilleAuthor
    Moby-Dick
  • Nathaniel HawthorneAuthor
    The Scarlet Letter
  • Edgar Allan PoeAuthor
    The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Emily DickinsonAuthor
    Poems such as "Because I could not stop for Death"
  • Robert FrostAuthor
    The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • Walt WhitmanAuthor
    Leaves of Grass
  • Langston HughesAuthor
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Dreams
  • Maya AngelouAuthor
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Toni MorrisonAuthor
    Beloved
  • Jules VerneAuthor
    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days
  • H.G. WellsAuthor
    The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds
  • Mary ShelleyAuthor
    Frankenstein
  • Bram StokerAuthor
    Dracula
  • Charlotte BronteAuthor
    Jane Eyre
  • Emily BronteAuthor
    Wuthering Heights
  • Arthur Conan DoyleAuthor
    Sherlock Holmes stories
  • Agatha ChristieAuthor
    Murder on the Orient Express
  • Leo TolstoyAuthor
    War and Peace, Anna Karenina
  • Fyodor DostoevskyAuthor
    Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
  • Victor HugoAuthor
    Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • Alexandre DumasAuthor
    The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Miguel de CervantesAuthor
    Don Quixote
  • HomerAuthor
    The Iliad and The Odyssey
  • Dante AlighieriAuthor
    The Divine Comedy
  • Geoffrey ChaucerAuthor
    The Canterbury Tales
  • John MiltonAuthor
    Paradise Lost
  • Gabriel Garcia MarquezAuthor
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Chinua AchebeAuthor
    Things Fall Apart
  • Hans Christian AndersenAuthor
    The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling
  • The Brothers GrimmAuthor
    Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Snow White
  • AesopAuthor
    Fables such as The Tortoise and the Hare
  • Jack LondonAuthor
    The Call of the Wild, White Fang
  • Frances Hodgson BurnettAuthor
    The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
  • Johanna SpyriAuthor
    Heidi
  • Astrid LindgrenAuthor
    Pippi Longstocking
  • Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAuthor
    The Little Prince
  • Natalie BabbittAuthor
    Tuck Everlasting
  • Scott O'DellAuthor
    Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Mildred D. TaylorAuthor
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Walter Dean MyersAuthor
    Monster, Fallen Angels
  • Jerry SpinelliAuthor
    Maniac Magee, Stargirl
  • R.J. PalacioAuthor
    Wonder
  • Jacqueline WoodsonAuthor
    Brown Girl Dreaming
  • Neil GaimanAuthor
    Coraline, The Graveyard Book
  • Cressida CowellAuthor
    How to Train Your Dragon
  • Mo WillemsAuthor
    Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
  • Arnold LobelAuthor
    Frog and Toad Are Friends
  • Chris Van AllsburgAuthor
    The Polar Express, Jumanji
  • Tomie dePaolaAuthor
    Strega Nona
  • Ezra Jack KeatsAuthor
    The Snowy Day
  • Virginia HamiltonAuthor
    M.C. Higgins, the Great
  • Elizabeth George SpeareAuthor
    The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Ray BradburyAuthor
    Fahrenheit 451
  • Isaac AsimovAuthor
    I, Robot, Foundation

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