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14 Cards in this Set
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Michael Chabon
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wrote "summerland" and "WOnderboys"
received Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
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Elizabeth Berg
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had an array of jobs
has 8 bestsellers wrote "talk before sleep", "joy school" "range of motion" and "durable goods" recieved cancer research center award for illuminating book |
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Julia ALvarez
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grew up in Dominican republic
father was a rebel she wrote "How the garcia girls lost their accents", "in the time of the butterfly" |
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Jeff Shaara
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became a coin dealer at age of 16
finished his fathers trilogy on the civil war "Gods and Generals" writes mostly about war stories |
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Steinbeck
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nobel prize
"voice of the depression" |
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jack London
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socialist, darwinism is a huge theme
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Jodi Picoult
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wrote Salem Falls
all books have trials wrote for a wall street firm |
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Barbra Kingsolver
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lots of imagry
loves to write about family and strong women |
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Edith Wharton
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bron during Civil War
won Politzer Prize |
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Charles mcCarthy
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focuses on naturalism and dreams of men
he is known for grusome violence |
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Alice Hoffman
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Themes:love, lust, family, natural instincts, self destruction
Wrote "here on earth" which is quite similar to Wuthering heights |
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Sherman Alexie
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a lot of his books contain real facts
Wrote reservation Blues and toughest little indian |
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Anna Quindlen
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writes about:abuse, murder, abandoning, rape, teenage preg., and cancer
huge feminist wrote for the post, the times and now for newsweek |
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Susan Minot
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won the Prix femina Entranger in 1987
"stealing beuty" "evening" wirtes about memory, love and relationships |
