Matching Pairs USHL U5 RealismOnline version Join the Authors and Books to the right descriptions. by Andreina Farias Monasterios 1 The Portrait of a Lady 2 Henry James 3 Jack London 4 Stephen Crane 5 The Red Badge of Courage 6 The Call of the Wild 7 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 8 Mark Twain A novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri. He had weathered a harrowing sealing voyage, one in which a typhoon had nearly taken out London and his crew. After using this story to take part in a writing contest, with just an eighth-grade education, he won the $25 first prize beating out college students. He stayed in Hannibal until age 17, on the Mississippi River. He was a licensed steamboat pilot and served in the Confederate Army for 2 weeks. His novel "The Innocents Abroad" became a nationwide bestseller. Living a bohemian lifestyle among local artists, he gained firsthand familiarity with poverty and street life. He is also known for authoring Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. This Civil War novel realistically depicts the psychological complexities of battlefield emotion. Published in 1881, this novel tells us about a woman in her early twenties who comes from a genteel family in Albany, New York, in the late 1860s. He wrote 20 novels, 112 tales, 12 plays, several volumes of travel and criticism, and a great deal of literary journalism. His year’s wandering in Europe set the stage for a lifetime writing about those countries. Published in 1903, this novel is about a powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheepdog, which lives on Judge Miller’s estate in California.