U.S. Authors Bingo Cards

Famous American Authors Bingo Card

These cards are about Famous American Authors. Here is a list of American authors who penned classics like "The Call of the Wild" and "Leaves of Grass" as well as modern day horror novels like "The Shining". These include words like Benjamin Franklin, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Clancy.

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Words List For Famous American Authors Bingo Cards

Benjamin Franklin Dean Koontz Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Ernest Hemingway
Flannery O'Connor Gore Vidal Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Isaac Asimov
Jack Kerouac Jack London Jane Smiley John Grisham Jonathan Franzen
Kurt Vonnegut Nathaniel Hawthorne Robert Ludlum Saul Bellow Stephen King
Tom Clancy Tom Wolfe Vladimir Nabokov Walt Whitman William S. Burroughs



How To Play U.S. Authors Bingo

  1. Print out your free Famous American Authors bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started.
  2. Give one card to each player.
  3. Call off words randomly (you can read them left to right, top to bottom off a card yourself if that helps you). You can either just say a word, like "Jane Smiley", or you can make up a more involved clue involving Jane Smiley.
  4. When a word is called, each player should find it and mark it.
  5. The first player(s) to clear five words in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) wins a small prize.

Notes: How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be.