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Johnson Highspot of American Literature

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Washington Irving

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In 1929, Merle Johnson defined "high spots" as being "those literary landmarks that rise above mediocrity." Ahearn

Prize Winners

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1819:

Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

1821:

William Cullen Bryant, Poems

1826:

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

1837:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-told Tales

1840:

Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before The Mast

1841:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

1844:

Clement C. Moore, Poems

1845:

Edgar Allan Poe, Tales

1845:

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems

1847:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

1848:

James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

1849:

Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

1850:

Ik Marvel, Reveries of A Bachelor: or A Book of The Heart

1850:

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

1851:

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

1852:

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

1854:

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in The Woods

1855:

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

1855:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

1856:

George William Curtis, Prue and I

1857:

William Allen Butler, Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life

1858:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of The Breakfast-table

1861:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny

1865:

Edward Everett Hale, The Man Without a Country

1866:

Mary Mapes Dodge, Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates

1866:

John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-bound

1868:

Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

1870:

Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp

1870:

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

1871:

Charles Godfrey Leland, Hans Breitmann's Party

1871:

John Hay, Jim Bludso of The Prairie Bell, And Little Breeches

1871:

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

1871:

Bret Harte, Poems

1871:

Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sierras

1871:

Edward Eggleston, The Hoosier School-master

1871:

John Burroughs, Wake-robin

1873:

Will Carleton, Farm Ballads

1873:

Lewis Wallace, The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'tzins

1876:

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1879:

Henry James, Daisy Miller

1879:

George W. Cable, Old Creole Days

1880:

Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur

1881:

Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus

1883:

Edward Eggleston, The Hoosier School-boy

1883:

James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-hole

1884:

Frank R. Stockton, The Lady, Or the Tiger?

1884:

Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona: A Story

1885:

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1885:

William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham

1886:

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy

1886:

Frank R. Stockton, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine

1887:

Thomas Nelson Page, In Ole Virginia

1887:

Lafcadio Hearn, Some Chinese Ghosts

1888:

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887

1888:

Frank R. Stockton, The Dusantes

1889:

Eugene Field, A Little Book of Profitable Tales

1889:

Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse

1890:

William Dean Howells, A Boy's Town

1890:

Harold Frederic, In The Valley

1890:

Thomas A. Janvier, The Aztec Treasure-house

1890:

Lafcadio Hearn, Two Years in The French West Indies

1891:

F. Hopkinson Smith, Colonel Carter of Cartersville

1891:

James Lane Allen, Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales

1891:

Hamlin Garland, Main-Travelled Roads

1891:

Henry Cuyler Bunner, Short Sixes

1891:

Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

1891:

Edwin Markham, The Man With the Hoe

1892:

Howard Pyle, Men of Iron

1894:

Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

1894:

Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought Of Him

1895:

James Lane Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal

1895:

Gelett Burgess, The Purple Cow

1895:

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

1896:

James Lane Allen, Aftermath

1896:

Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware

1897:

Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville

1897:

Silas Weir Mitchell, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker

1897:

Henry Van Dyke, The First Christmas-tree

1898:

Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia

1898:

Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum: A Story of American Life

1898:

Finley Peter Dunn, Mr. Dooley in Peace And War

1898:

Ernest Seton Thompson, Wild Animals I Have Known

1899:

Frank Norris, McTeague

1899:

Margaret Deland, Old Chester Tales

1899:

William Allen White, The Court of Boyville

1899:

Booth Tarkington, The Gentleman from Indiana

1899:

Stephen Crane, War Is Kind

1899:

Morgan Robertson, Where Angels Fear To Tread

1900:

George Ade, Fables in Slang

1900:

Booth Tarkington, Monsieur Beaucaire

1900:

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

1900:

Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold

1901:

Frank Norris, The Octopus

1901:

Henry Van Dyke, The Ruling Passion

1902:

Owen Wister, The Virginian

1903:

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

1903:

Frank Norris, The Pit

1904:

Henry James, The Golden Bowl

1904:

Charles G.D. Roberts, The Watchers of the Trails

1905: