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79 Cards in this Set
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John Smith
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1580 - 1631
American colonist; author; founder of Jamestown; wrote about the settlers' life and mindset. "The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles" |
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William Bradford
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Colonial Period
1590 - 1657 American colonist; author; 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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Colonial Period
1612 - 1672 American colonist; poet; poetry is about the simple Puritan life; writings give insight into moral and religious priorities. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," "The Flesh and the Spirit" |
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Jonathan Edwards
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Colonial period
1703 - 1758 American Colonist; minister; 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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Colonial period
1642 - 1729 American Colonist; poet; writings give insight into the spiritual beliefs of the Puritan settlers; more metaphorical than Bradstreet's, dealing with ethereal concepts. "Huswifery," "Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children" |
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William Byrd
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Colonial Period
1674 - 1744 American Colonist; surveyor; 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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Revolutionary Period
1706 - 1790 American Revolutionary; author; inventor; the aphorisms in "Poor Richard's Almanac" are frequently used as writing prompts. "On the Slave Trade," "The Autobiography" |
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Patrick Henry
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Revolutionary Period
1736 - 1799 American Revolutionary; politician; 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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Revolutionary Period
1737 - 1809 American Revolutionary; author; "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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Revolutionary Period
1753? - 1784 American Revolutionary; poet; the first African-American poet in North America; used elevated diction and syntax; a slave educated by her owners. "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To His Excellency General Washington" |
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Thomas Jefferson
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Revolutionary Period
1743 - 1826 American Revolutionary; president. "The Declaration of Independence" |
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Washington Irving
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Nationalist Period
1783 - 1859 American Pre-Romantic; author; 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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Nationalist Period
1794 - 1878 American Pre-Romantic; poet; influenced by English poetry of the time; works were often spiritual meditations; some call him the "father of American poetry." "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl" |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nationalist Period
1804 - 1864 American Romantic; author; "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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Nationalist Period
1809 - 1849 American Romantic; author and poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1819 - 1891 American Romantic; author; "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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Renaissance Period
1809 - 1894 American New Poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1819 - 1891 American New Poet; essayist and poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1807 - 1882 American New Poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1807 - 1892 American New Poet; poet and politician; campaigned for abolition; one of the Fireside Poets. "Snow-bound" |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renaissance Period
1803 - 1882 American New Poet; essayist; wrote about the relationship between man and nature; transcendentalist. "Nature," "Self Reliance" |
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Henry David Thoreau
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Renaissance Period
1817 - 1862 American New Poet; essayist; 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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Renaissance Period
1830 - 1886 American New Poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1819 - 1892 American New Poet; 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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Nationalist Period
1809 - 1865 American Voice; president; "Gettysburg Address" is studied for its imagery and rhetoric. "Gettysburg Address" |
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Frederick Douglass
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Nationalist Period
American Voice; author; 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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1871 - 1900
American Realist; poet and author; influenced American Naturalism. "The Red Badge of Courage," "A Man said to the Universe" |
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Jack London
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Modern Period
1876 - 1916 American Realist; author; writer of adventure fiction. "The Call of the Wild," "The Sea Wolf" |
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Mark Twain
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Renaissance Period
1835 - 1910 American Realist; author and essayist; 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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Renaissance Period
1836 - 1902 American Realist; poet; 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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Renaissance Period
1851 - 1904 American Realist; author; 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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1840 - 1904
American Realist; humanitarian and peacemaker; 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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1842 - 1914
American Realist; author; 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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Modern Period
1868 - 1950 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1869 - 1935 American Modernist; poet; used traditional poetic forms to express modern themes and narratives. "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy" |
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Carl Sandburg
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Modern Period
1878 - 1967 American Modernist; poet; wrote about Chicago; wrote a non-fiction biography of Abraham Lincoln. "Chicago," "Fog" |
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Robert Frost
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Modern Period
1874 - 1963 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1883 - 1963 American Modernist; poet; distinctively sparse style; focused on common subjects. "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
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Ezra Pound
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Modern Period
1885 - 1972 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1888 - 1965 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1892 - 1982 American Modernist; poet; "Ars Poetica" is about the art of poetry. "Ars Poetica" |
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E. E. Cummings
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Modern Period
1894 - 1962 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1902 - 1967 American Modernist; poet; 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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Modern Period
1892 - 1950 American Modernist; poet; outspoken on issues involving women's roles and free living. "Recuerdo" |
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Randall Jarrell
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Postmodern Period
1914 - 1965 American Modernist; poet; wrote poems about World War II. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" |
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Karl Shapiro
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Contemporary Period
1913 - 2000 American Contemporary; poet; winner of the Pulitzer Prize; used everyday language; sought raw emotions. "Auto Wreck" |
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Wallace Stevens
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Modern Period
1879 - 1955 American Contemporary; poet; combined experimental imagism with everyday narrative; was an insurance executive. "Anecdote of the Jar" |
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Anne Sexton
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Postmodern Period
1928 - 1974 American Contemporary; poet; 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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Contemporary Period
1943 - American Contemporary; poet; a new voice in African-American poetry (in the late 1960's). "Winter Poem" |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Contemporary Period
1917 - 2000 American Contemporary; poet; 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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Modern Period
1873 - 1947 American Modernist; author; wrote portraits of life on the Midwestern prairie. "My Antonia," "O Pioneers!" |
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Thomas Wolfe
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Modern Period
American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1890 - 1980 American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1899 - 1961 American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1885 - 1951 American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1871 - 1945 American Modernist; author; works reflect the popularity of Naturalism. "Sister Carrie," "An American Tragedy" |
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John Steinbeck
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Modern Period
1902 - 1968 American Modernist;author; 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" |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Modern Period
1896 - 1940 American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1909 - 2001 American Modernist; author; 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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Modern Period
1911 - 1983 American Modernist; dramatist; 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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Modern Period
1915 - 2005 American Modernist; dramatist; 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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Modern Period
1897 - 1962 American Modernist; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1894 - 1961 American Contemporary; author; wrote humorous stories, essays and cartoons. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
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Flannery O'Conner
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Contemporary Period
1925 - 1964 American Contemporary; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1944 - American Contemporary; author; works often deal with the struggles of African-American women. "The Color Purple" |
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Amy Tan
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Contemporary Period
1952 - American Contemporary; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1914 - 1986 American Contemporary; author; wrote about the everyday life of Jews in America. "The Natural" -- about baseball |
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John Updike
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Contemporary Period
1932 - 2009 American Contemporary; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1932 - 1963 American Contemporary; author; "The Bell Jar" is about depression and attempted suicide. "The Bell Jar" |
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J. D. Salinger
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Contemporary Period
1919 - 2010 American Contemporary; author; "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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Contemporary Period
1954 - American Contemporary; author. "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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Contemporary Period
1908 - 1960 American Contemporary; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1931 - American Contemporary; author; 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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Contemporary Period
1896 - 1970 American Contemporary; biographer; "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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Contemporary Period
1917 - 1963 American Contemporary; president; "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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Contemporary Period
1929 - 1968 American Contemporary; activist; 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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Contemporary Period
1928 - American Contemporary; activist; born in Hungary; survived the Holocaust; became an American citizen in 1963. "Night" |
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John Hersey
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Contemporary Period
1914 - 1993 American Contemporary; journalist. "Hiroshima" -- combined a narrative sense and a reporter's eye for detail. |
