Who wrote "The Author to Her Book"?

• A. Anne Bradstreet
• B. Phillis Wheatley
• C. Paul Laurence Dunbar
• D. James Fenimore Cooper

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is recognizing authorship from historical context and voice. "The Author to Her Book" comes from the colonial era and is written in a intimate, self-reflective voice about publishing one's own verse. That style and setting point to Anne Bradstreet, a 17th‑century Puritan poet who published in The Tenth Muse and often writes with a personal, candid tone about her writing and its imperfections. The other writers listed lived later or in different genres, so their voices don’t fit the poem: Phillis Wheatley with late 18th‑century verse, Paul Laurence Dunbar with late 19th–early 20th‑century poetry and dialect, and James Fenimore Cooper as an early 19th‑century novelist.