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79 Cards in this Set
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John Smith
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author
American Colonist 1580 - 1631 founder of Jamestown wrote about the settler's life and mindset _The General History of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles_ |
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William Bradford
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author
American Colonist 1590 - 1657 writes about historical realities and moral tones writes with a plain style, common in Puritan writing _Of Plymouth Plantation_ |
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Anne Bradstreet
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poet
American Colonist 1612 - 1672 poetry is about the simple Puritan life writings give insight into moral and religious priorities "To My Dear and Loving Husband" |
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Jonathan Edwards
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minister
American Colonist 1703 - 1758 part of The Great Awakening sermons are fiery depictions of an eternal damnation if God's forgiveness is not accepted "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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Edward Taylor
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poet
American Colonist 1642 - 1729 writings give insight into the spiritual beliefs of the Puritan settlers more metaphorical than Bradstreet's, dealing with ethereal concepts "Huswifery" |
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William Byrd
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surveyor
American Colonist 1674 - 1744 born in Virginia British aristocrat writings contain observations about colonial life _History of the Dividing Line_ |
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Ben Franklin
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author, etc
American Revolutionary 1706 - 1790 the aphorisms in _Poor Richard's Almanac_ are frequently used as writing prompts _Autobiography of Ben Franklin_ _Poor Richard's Almanac_ (contributions) |
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Patrick Henry
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politician
American Revolutionary 1736 - 1799 wrote the words "give me liberty or give me death" writings give insight into colonial politics works are used as rhetoric primers "Speech to the Virginia Convention" |
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Thomas Paine
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author
American Revolutionary 1737 - 1809 "these are the times that try men's souls" comes from _The Crisis, No. 1_ thoughts on deism were controversial _Common Sense_ _The Crisis, No. 1_ |
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Phyllis Wheatley
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poet
American Revolutionary 1753? - 1784 the first African-American poet in North America used elevated diction and syntax a slave educated by her owners |
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Thomas Jefferson
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president
American Revolutionary 1743 - 1826 _The Declaration of Independence_ |
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Washington Irving
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author
American Pre-Romantic 1783 - 1859 wrote narratives based on European folklore, set in America was America's "first international literary celebrity" _Legend of Sleepy Hollow_ _Rip Van Winkle_ |
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William Cullen Bryant
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poet
American Pre-Romantic 1794 - 1878 influenced by English poetry of the time works were often spiritual meditations some call him the "father of American poetry" "Thanatopsis" -- meditation on death |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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author
American Romantic 1804 - 1864 _The Scarlet Letter_ was a protest against a growing transcendental movement, and is considered to be the first fully American novel _The Scarlet Letter_ _House of Seven Gables_ _The Minister's Black Veil_ |
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Edgar Allen Poe
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author and poet
American Romantic 1809 - 1849 wrote works of terror and the supernatural used poetic conventions expertly _The Fall of the House of Usher_ _The Tell-Tale Heart_ "The Raven" "Annabelle Lee" |
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Herman Melville
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author
American Romantic 1819 - 1891 _Moby Dick_ is a metaphoric battle to discover the nature of man _Moby Dick_ _Billy Budd_ |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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poet
American New Poet 1809 - 1894 also a physician founded the Atlantic Monthly one of the Fireside Poets "Old Ironsides" "The Chambered Nautilus" |
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James Russell Lowell
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essayist and poet
American New Poet 1819 - 1891 devoted much time to popular causes at the time of the Civil War one of the Fireside Poets "Stanzas on Freedom" |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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poet
American New Poet 1807 - 1882 first American poet to be honored in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey one of the Fireside Poets "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" |
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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poet and politician
American New Poet 1807 - 1892 campaigned for abolition one of the Fireside Poets "Snow-bound" |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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essayist
American New Poet 1803 - 1882 wrote about the relationship between man and nature transcendentalist _Nature_ _Self Reliance_ |
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Henry David Thoreau
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essayist
American New Poet 1817 - 1862 sought truth in nature felt that land and nature contained keys to (American) man's existence _Walden_ _Resistance to Civil Government_ |
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Emily Dickinson
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poet
American New Poet 1830 - 1886 a recluse in life poetry lacked many contemporary conventions discovery of her poetry coincided with the "new American poetry" of the last half of the 19th century "I heard a Fly buzz-- when I died" "I taste a liquor never brewed" "Because I could not stop for Death" |
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Walt Whitman
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poet
American New Poet 1819 - 1892 ignored conventional poetic styles, which set the stage for a poetry revolution _Leaves of Grass_ "I Hear America Singing" "Song of Myself" |
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Abraham Lincoln
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president
American Voice 1809 - 1865 "Gettysburg Address" is studied for its imagery and rhetoric "Gettysburg Address" |
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Frederick Douglass
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author
American Voice works gave insight into the lives of those living under slavery eventually declared a free man fought for abolition through a newspaper he published _The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass_ |
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Stephen Crane
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poet and author
American Realist 1871 - 1900 influenced American Naturalism _The Red Badge of Courage_ "A Man said to the Universe" |
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Jack London
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author
American Realist 1876 - 1916 writer of adventure fiction _The Call of the Wild_ _The Sea Wolf_ |
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Mark Twain
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author and essayist
American Realist 1835 - 1910 works were humorous, contained with observations about manners, and were filled with local color also wrote about morality _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ _Life on the Mississippi_ _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court_ _The Prince and the Pauper_ |
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Bret Harte
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poet
American Realist 1836 - 1902 works spotlight the local color of the Old West "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" "The Luck of Roaring Camp" |
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Kate Chopin
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author
American Realist 1851 - 1904 wrote short stories that depict the French Creole lifestyle _The Awakening_ is about the rights of women to chart their own course in life _The Awakening_ |
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Chief Joseph
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humanitarian and peacemaker
American Realist 1840 - 1904 champion for the rights of the Nez Perce people his "I will Fight No More Forever" is a reflection of the many promises made to native Americans during the late 1800's and later broken "I Will Fight No More Forever" |
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Ambrose Bierce
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author
American Realist 1842 - 1914 wrote about the effects of war and violence _An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge_ |
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Edgar Lee Masters
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poet
American Modernist 1868 - 1950 the _Spoon River Anthology_ are epitaphs from the fictitious citizens of the Midwestern town of Spoon River _Spoon River Anthology_ "Lucinda Matlock" "Fiddler Jones" |
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Edward Arlington Robinson
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poet
American Modernist 1869 - 1935 used traditional poetic forms to express modern themes and narratives "Richard Cory" "Miniver Cheevy" |
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Carl Sandberg
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poet
American Modernist 1878 - 1967 wrote about Chicago wrote a non-fiction biography of Abraham Lincoln "Chicago" "Fog" |
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Robert Frost
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poet
American Modernist 1874 - 1963 poems focus on farm and nature themes with underlying moral implications had a mastery of poetic conventions "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" "The Death of the Hired Man" "After Apple-Picking" "The Mending Wall" |
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William Carlos Williams
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poet
American Modernist distinctively sparse style focused on common subjects "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
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Ezra Pound
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poet
American Modernist 1885 - 1972 champion for the poetic school of Imagism "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" |
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T. S. Elliot
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poet
American Modernist 1888 - 1965 used classic poetic conventions to deal with modern themes like the emptiness of life American-born, later a citizen of Britain "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "The Waste Land" |
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Archibald MacLeish
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poet
American Modernist 1892 - 1982 "Ars Poetica" is about the art of poetry "Ars Poetica" |
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e. e. cummings
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poet
American Modernist 1894 - 1962 known for his experiments in typography and syntax "anyone lived in a pretty how town" |
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Langston Hughes
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poet
American Modernist 1902 - 1967 focused on the experiences of African-Americans poetry is known for its innovative use of rhythm and departure from poetic conventions part of the Harlem Renaissance "Harlem" |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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poet
American Modernist 1892 - 1950 outspoken on issues involving women's roles and free living "Recuerdo" |
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Randall Jarrell
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poet
American Modernist 1914 - 1965 wrote poems about World War II "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" |
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Karl Shapiro
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poet
American Contemporary 1913 - 2000 winner of the Pulitzer Prize used everyday language sought raw emotions "Auto Wreck" |
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Wallace Stevens
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poet
American Contemporary 1879 - 1955 combined experimental imagism with everyday narrative was an insurance executive "Anecdote of the Jar" |
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Anne Sexton
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poet
American Contemporary 1928 - 1974 plagued by depression won the Pulitzer Prize poetry was intensely personal "The Starry Night" "The Bells" |
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Nikki Giovanni
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poet
American Contemporary 1943 - a new voice in African-American poetry (in the late 1960's) "Winter Poem" |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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poet
American Contemporary 1917 - 2000 first African-American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry her works include snapshots of life in her childhood home of Chicago |
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Willa Cather
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author
American Modernist 1873 - 1947 wrote portraits of life on the Midwestern prairie _My Antonia_ _O Pioneers!_ |
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Thomas Wolfe
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author
American Modernist experimented with fiction, but his work was very autobiographical _Look Homeward Angel_ _You Can't Go Home Again_ |
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Katherine Anne Porter
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author
American Modernist 1890 - 1980 work dealt with women and their relationship to historical periods or events _The Jilting of Granny Weatherall_ _Ship of Fools_ |
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Ernest Hemingway
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author
American Modernist 1899 - 1961 wrote adventurous stories with distinctive, manly heroes had simple diction and syntax _The Old Man and the Sea_ _A Farewell to Arms_ _The Sun Also Rises_ _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ |
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Sinclair Lewis
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author
American Modernist 1885 - 1951 first American to win a Nobel Prize for literature focuses on middle class Americans _Babbitt_ _Main Street_ |
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Theodore Drieser
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author
American Modernist 1871 - 1945 works reflect the popularity of Naturalism _Sister Carrie_ _An American Tragedy_ |
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John Steinbeck
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author
American Modernist 1902 - 1968 best known for his portrayals of migrant workers won Nobel prize for the autobiographical _Travels with Charley_ _Grapes of Wrath_ _Of Mice and Men_ _The Pearl_ _Travels with Charley_ |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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author
American Modernist 1896 - 1940 fiction of the Jazz Age _Winter Dreams_ _The Great Gatsby_ _Tender is the Night_ _This Side of Paradise_ |
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Eudora Welty
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author
American Modernist 1909 - 2001 focused on the rural South known for accuracy of colloquial speech _A Worn Path_ _Why I Live at the P.O._ |
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Tennessee Williams
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dramatist
American Modernist 1911 - 1983 often set in the antebellum South or in an urban environment _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ _The Glass Menagerie_ _A Streetcar Named Desire_ |
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Arthur Miller
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dramatist
American Modernist 1915 - 2005 works examine the search for values in American life husband of Marilyn Monroe _Death of a Salesman_ _The Crucible_ |
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William Faulkner
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author
American Modernist 1897 - 1962 work is distinctive for its complex sentences and high-focus view of life in the South _The Sound and the Fury_ _As I Lay Dying_ _Absalom, Absalom_ _Light in August_ _A Rose for Emily_ _The Bear_ |
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James Thurber
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author
American Contemporary 1894 - 1961 wrote humorous stories, essays and cartoons _The Secret Life of Walter Mitty_ |
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Flannery O'Conner
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author
American Contemporary 1925 - 1964 wrote about the rural South religious themes are pervasive _Everything That Rises Must Converge_ _The Life You Save May Be Your Own_ |
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Alice Walker
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author
American Contemporary 1944 - works often deal with the struggles of African-American women _The Color Purple_ |
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Amy Tan
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author
American Contemporary 1952 works deal with the relationships among Chinese-Americans _The Joy Luck Club_ _The Kitchen God's Wife_ |
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Bernard Malamud
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author
American Contemporary 1914 - 1986 wrote about the everyday life of Jews in America _The Natural_ -- about baseball |
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John Updike
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author
American Contemporary 1932 - 2009 wrote the four-novel "Rabbit" series about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom reflected on American sociology _Rabbit, Run_ _Rabbit Redux_ _Rabbit is Rich_ _Rabbit at Rest_ _Rabbit Remembered_ |
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Sylvia Plath
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author
American Contemporary 1932 - 1963 _The Bell Jar_ is about depression and attempted suicide _The Bell Jar_ |
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J. D. Salinger
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author
American Contemporary 1919 - _The Catcher in the Rye_ is about a teenager's adventure in examining middle-class values. it is still widely read and widely banned _The Catcher in the Rye_ |
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Sandra Cisneros
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author
American Contemporary 1954 - _The House on Mango Street_ -- a novel of a young Latina written in a unique blend of English and Spanish |
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Richard Wright
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author
American Contemporary 1908 - 1960 one of the first authors to bring a hard look at American racism to a large white audience _Black Boy_ _Native Son_ |
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Toni Morrison
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author
American Contemporary 1931 - won the Pulitzer Prize for _Beloved_ has "epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and poetically-charged and richly-expressive depictions of Black America" _Beloved_ |
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John Dos Passos
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biographer
American Contemporary 1896 - 1970 "newsreel" writing style _U.S.A._ |
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E. B. White
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author
American Contemporary 1899 - 1985 frequently contributed to _The New Yorker_ the White of _Strunk and White_ _Charlotte's Web_ _Stuart Little_ |
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John F. Kennedy
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president
American Contemporary 1917 - 1963 "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" from his 1960 inaugural address _Profiles in Courage_ -- stories about eight brave politicians |
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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activist
American Contemporary 1929 - 1968 the use of imagery and repetition in "I Have a Dream" is often studied "I Have a Dream" |
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Elie Wiesel
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activist
American Contemporary 1928 - born in Hungary survived the Holocaust became an American citizen in 1963 _Night_ |
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John Hersey
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journalist
American Contemporary 1914 - 1993 _Hiroshima_ -- combined a narrative sense and a reporter's eye for detail |