American Authors Anagrams
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Identify the American Authors from the anagrams below. For some there is an anagram of one of their major works. (Novels and plays are in italics; poems, short stories, and essays are in quotation marks.) Answers can be found in American Writers and Their Works.

1. an airmen romeo ("hearsay water")
2. who endorsed arson (heinous orb wig)
3. eleven harm mill ("reverberate lynch bits")
4. linen llama hill (chloride hurts hen)
5. harsh academic bill ("cartoon squid")
6. cot for fiddles (get nifty airflow)
7. new lime essentials (anesthesia germ gel)
8. skinny domicile ("scoop of authenticated boulders")
9. sting me anywhere (fearsome wall rat)
10. ukraine film wall (shun fatty deerhound)
11. dry arab ruby (their celt anachronism)
12. hoe tree disorder (criers satire)
13. warm sly doorman
14. cartwheels gig him low ("my foot had toe")
15. nuns saw no oars (her cello attempt)
16. long donkeys brow ("breathe senate")
17. joke bin stench (financed memo)
18. scorn cellar scum (confidentially serene ego)
19. nylon roof canner (low bodies)
20. yam analogue
21. hid ornamental axle ("heartflet side")
22. healthy swill pie
23. maniac ball horn ("sturdy daggers best")
24. aerobic embers ("celebrating cuckoo erred crew")
25. freshens foot jam
26. burma dreamland (charitable germ)
27. hen lags gunshot
28. glue one in eel (meet hot mechanic)
29. ensnarled batter ("the tennis hum" [this one's tricky!])
30. vain nightgown sir("new pink rival")
31. theatric germ mall (entwined with hog)
32. chew gingernail letter
33. tin hornet world (outwarn)
34. motherland blade
35. non library hearers (unitarians shine)
36. disregards coke flu (this old effeminate disregards coke flu) 37. low angel legs (dragon burner)
38. alarm handling ("old yardmaster navel")
39. amputate corn (colloid bond)
40. solarium bug whirl (candle hunk)
41. trojans had waned ("disheartening nanny dash no frogs")
42. ninth bookstore wag (sly femur vapor)
43. far smaller jet (standing soul)
44. real low job ("his gnashed puddy")
45. railways oilman (touched many hem)
46. slender clawlike (accord taboo)
47. tact fez god flirts (the gab stategy)
48. auk jock race (horned oat)
49. mechanism jeer (hot acuatical sheep tiff)

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