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187 Cards in this Set
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Driving Miss Daisy
(Pulitzer in Drama 1989) |
Uhry, Alfred
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Midpoint
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Updike, John
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The Poorhouse
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Updike, John
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Rabbit series - Harry Angstrom
-Rabbit, Run -Rabbit Redux -Rabbit is Rich (Pulitzer in Fiction 1982) -Rabbit at Rest (Pulitzer in Fiction 1991) |
Updike, John
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The Witches of Eastwick
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Updike, John
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Of the Farm
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Updike, John
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The Centaur
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Updike, John
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Couples
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Updike, John
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Updike, John
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A&P
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Updike, John
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Battle Cry
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Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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Exodus
-about the Jewish resettlement of Palestine & the creation of Israel |
Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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Trinity
-fictional account of the Protestant-Catholic battles in N. Ireland |
Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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The Haj
-a Muslim's pilgrimage to Mecca |
Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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Armageddon
-deals with a Berlin airlift |
Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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QB VII (Queen's Bench No. Seven)
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Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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The Angry Hills
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Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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A Terrible Beauty
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Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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Mila 18
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Uris, Leon
-served in the Marines during WWII |
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Near Changes
-Pulitzer in Poetry 1991 |
Van Duyn, Mona
-6th Poet Laureate of US (1992-93) |
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
-introduced the concept of "conspicuous consumption" |
Veblen, Thorstein
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Visit to a Small Planet
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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An Evening with Richard Nixon
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Williwaw
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Myra Breckenridge
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Two Sisters
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Julian
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Empire
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Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Tetrology
-Burr (about Aaron Burr) -Washington D.C. -1876 -Lincoln: A Novel |
Vidal, Gore
-pen name: Edgar Box |
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Player Piano
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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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The Sirens of Titan
-Malachi Martin |
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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Cat's Cradle
-created the substance ice-9 |
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
-Billy Pilgrim, Montana Wildhack, Linda Ellerbee -set on planet Tralfamadore and in the city of Dresden during WWII |
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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Mother Night
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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday
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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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God Bless You Mr. Rosewater
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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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Welcome to the Monkey House
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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
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In A Green Night
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Walcott, Derek
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The Fortunate Traveller
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Walcott, Derek
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The Color Purple
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1983 -Celie, Nettie |
Walker, Alice
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
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Walker, Alice
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Meridian
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Walker, Alice
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
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Walker, Alice
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The Temple of My Familiar
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Walker, Alice
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Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ
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Wallace, Lew
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The Price of India, or Why India Fell
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Wallace, Lew
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Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend
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Waller, Robert James
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The Bridges of Madison County
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Waller, Robert James
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Band of Angels
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Warren, Robert Penn
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All the King's Men
-based on life of Huey Long; char. Willie Stark, Jack Burden, Tiny Duffy, Sadie Burke, Anne Stanton) |
Warren, Robert Penn
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Promises: Poems 1954-1956
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1958 |
Warren, Robert Penn
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World Enough and Time
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Warren, Robert Penn
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Now and Then: Poems
-Pulitzer in Poetry 1979 |
Warren, Robert Penn
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The Cave
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Warren, Robert Penn
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Up From Slavery
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Washington, Booker T.
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The Double Helix
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Watson, James
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Blue-Backed Speller
-best-selling American book of all time |
Webster, Noah
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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Webster, Noah
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Delta Wedding
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Welty, Eudora
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The Ponder Heart
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Welty, Eudora
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Losing Battles
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Welty, Eudora
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The Optimist's Daughter
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1973 |
Welty, Eudora
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The Golden Apples
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Welty, Eudora
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The Wide Net
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Welty, Eudora
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A Worn Path
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Welty, Eudora
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A Visit of Charity
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Welty, Eudora
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell
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West, Nathaniel
-pen name of Nathaniel Weinstein -killed en route to F.S. Fitzgerald's funeral |
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Miss Lonelyhearts
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West, Nathaniel
-pen name of Nathaniel Weinstein -killed en route to F.S. Fitzgerald's funeral |
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The Day of the Locust
-Homer Simpson |
West, Nathaniel
-pen name of Nathaniel Weinstein -killed en route to F.S. Fitzgerald's funeral |
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A Cool Million
-Lemuel Pitkin |
West, Nathaniel
-pen name of Nathaniel Weinstein -killed en route to F.S. Fitzgerald's funeral |
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My Sister Eileen
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West, Nathaniel
-pen name of Nathaniel Weinstein -killed en route to F.S. Fitzgerald's funeral |
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The Valley of Decision
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Wharton, Edith
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The House of Mirth
-Lily Bart, Lawrence Seldon |
Wharton, Edith
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The Custom of the Country
-Urdine Spragg, a ruthless social climber |
Wharton, Edith
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The Marne
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Wharton, Edith
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A Son at the Front
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Wharton, Edith
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Summer
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Wharton, Edith
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The Age of Innocence
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1921 -Ellen Olenska, Newland Archer, May Welland |
Wharton, Edith
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Ethan Frome
-Zeena, Mattie |
Wharton, Edith
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Old New York (collection of four stories)
-False Dawn (Lewis Raycie) -The Old Maid (Tina, Charlotte Lovell) -The Spark -New Year's Day |
Wharton, Edith
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A Backward Glance
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Wharton, Edith
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An Elegiac Poem On the Death of the Celebrated Divine George Whitefield
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Wheatley, Phyllis
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Charlotte's Web
-Fern Arable, Wilbur, Templeton, Charlotte |
White, E[lwyn] B[rooks]
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Stuart Little
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White, E[lwyn] B[rooks]
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The Trumpet of the Swan
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White, E[lwyn] B[rooks]
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The Making of a President: 1960
-Pulitzer in Non-fiction 1962 [and then there's 1964, 1968, 1972.] |
White, Theodore
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Franklin Evans
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Leaves of Grass
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Song of Myself
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Song of the Broad-Axe
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Song of the Open Road
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-I Hear America Singing
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Drum-Taps
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Beat! Beat! Drums
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-I Sing the Body Electric
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Passage to India
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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-Carol of Occupations
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
-mourns the death of Lincoln |
Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Specimen Days and Collect
-collection of essays about his life in the Civil War |
Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Democratic Vistas
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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O Captain! My Captain!
-mourns the death of Lincoln |
Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Pioneers! O Pioneers!
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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A Hub for the Universe
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
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Whitman, Walt
(The Good Grey Poet, The Bard of Democracy) |
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Barbara Frietchie
-"Shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare your country's flag" |
Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Snow-Bound
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Telling the Bees
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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The Barefoot Boy
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Maud Muller
-"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been" |
Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Legend of New England in Prose and Verse
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Skipper Ireson's Ride
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Songs of Slaves in the Desert
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Whittier, John Greenleaf
(Quaker poet, poet laureate of abolitionism) |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
-Rebecca Randall, Miranda, Jane, Emma Perkins |
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
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Things of This World
-Pulitzer in Poetry 1957 |
Wilbur, Richard
-2nd poet laureate of US '87-'88 |
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New and Collected Poems
-Pulitzer in Poetry 1989 |
Wilbur, Richard
-2nd poet laureate of US '87-'88 |
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The Little House in the Big Woods
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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Farmer Boy
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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By the Shores of Silver Lake
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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The Long Winter
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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Little Town on the Prairie
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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These Happy Golden Years
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Wilder, Laura Ingalls
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The Cabala
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Wilder, Thornton
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The Trumpet Shall Sound
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Wilder, Thornton
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1928 -Brother Juniper watches a bridge collapse -First line "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." |
Wilder, Thornton
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The Ides of March
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Wilder, Thornton
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The Eighth Day
-won National Book Award 1968 |
Wilder, Thornton
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Theophilus North
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Wilder, Thornton
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Our Town
-Pulitzer in Drama 1938 -Grover's Corners, NH -Stage Manager, Prof. Willard, Emily Webb, George Gibbs, Dr. Gibbs |
Wilder, Thornton
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The Skin of Our Teeth
-Pulitzer in Drama 1943 -George Antrobus, Sabina |
Wilder, Thornton
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The Angel that Troubled the Waters
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Wilder, Thornton
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The Matchmaker
-basis for the musical "Hello, Dolly" |
Wilder, Thornton
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The Alcestiad
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Wilder, Thornton
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Battle of Angels
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Williams, Tennessee
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The Glass Menagerie
-Tom, Laura, and Amanda Wingfield |
Williams, Tennessee
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A Streetcar Named Desire
-Pulitzer in Drama 1948 -Blanche DuBois, Stella, Stanley -two streetcars named Desire and Cemetery -"I have always relied on the kindness of strangers" |
Williams, Tennessee
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Summer and Smoke
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Williams, Tennessee
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The Rose Tattoo
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Williams, Tennessee
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Camino Real
-Don Juan, Casanova, Kilroy |
Williams, Tennessee
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-Pulitzer in Drama 1955 -"Big Daddy" Pollitt, Gooper, Brick, Maggie |
Williams, Tennessee
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Suddenly Last Summer
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Williams, Tennessee
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Sweet Bird of Youth
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Williams, Tennessee
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Period of Adjustment
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Williams, Tennessee
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Night of the Iguana
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Williams, Tennessee
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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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Williams, Tennessee
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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Williams, Tennessee
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Picture from Breughel and Other Poems
-Pulitzer in Poetry 1963 |
Williams, William Carlos
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The Red Wheelbarrow
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Williams, William Carlos
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In the American Grain
-a collection of essays studying Columbus, Cortez, De Soto, Raleigh, Franklin |
Williams, William Carlos
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Paterson
-a 5 volume epic |
Williams, William Carlos
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Fences
-Pulitzer in Drama 1987 |
Wilson, August
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The Piano Lesson
-Pulitzer in Drama 1990 |
Wilson, August
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The Virginian
-set in Wyoming; Trampass, Molly Wook -"When you call me that, smile!" |
Wister, Owen
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The Return of Buck Gavin
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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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The Third Night
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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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Welcome to Our City
-city is Altamont |
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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Look Homeward Angel: A Story of Buried Life
-Eugene Gant; set in Altamont, Catawba |
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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A Portrait of Bascon Hawke
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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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Of Time and the River
-Eugene Gant, teaches at school for Utility Cultures -sequel to Look Homeward Angel |
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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The Web and the Rock
-George Webber, Esther Jack |
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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You Can't Go Home Again
-George Webber, Esther Jack |
Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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From Death to Morning
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Wolfe, Thomas Clayton
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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The Pump House Gang
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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Mauve Gloves and Madmen
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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Clutter and Vine
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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The Right Stuff
-about the Mercury astronauts |
Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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The Painted Word
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
-about Ken Kesey and his pranks |
Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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Bonfire of the Vanities
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Wolfe, Jr., Thomas Kennerly
"new journalism" |
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The Caine Mutiny
-Pulitzer in Fiction 1952 -set during WWII on the minesweeper Caine -Captain Queeg, Ensign Willie Keith, Barney Greenwald |
Wouk, Herman
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War and Remembrance
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Wouk, Herman
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The Winds of War
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Wouk, Herman
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The Hope
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Wouk, Herman
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Marjorie Morningstar
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Wouk, Herman
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Inside, Outside
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Wouk, Herman
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Uncle Tom's Children
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Wright, Richard
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Native Son
-Bigger Thomas, set in Chicago |
Wright, Richard
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Black Boy
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Wright, Richard
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The Outsider
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Wright, Richard
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Almos'a Man
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Wright, Richard
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Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The Moon Marigolds
-Pulitzer in Drama 1971 |
Zindel, Paul
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Dimensions of a Peacock
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Zindel, Paul
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I Never Loved Your Mind
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Zindel, Paul
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Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball
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Zindel, Paul
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