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46 Cards in this Set
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This author uses symbols in her stories, including the #4 multiple times
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Amy Tan
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This author doesn't think it's important to put everyone from China into a positive light
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Amy Tan
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This author "felt like an American girl trapped in a Chinese body"
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Amy Tan
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After attending college, this author worked for IBM as a writer of computer manuals
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Amy Tan
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At first, this author felt her first book contract was a "token minority" thing
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Amy Tan
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This author was born the son of a coal miner in Nottingham, England.
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D.H. Lawrence
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This author writes about characters caught between their unsatisfactory relationships with others and their struggle to break free.
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D.H. Lawrence
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This author suffered from Tuberculosis
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D.H. Lawrence
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This author was frequently harassed because his stories included sexually explicit material
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D.H. Lawrence
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This author was born in Dublin, Ireland
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James Joyce
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This author left Ireland for Pais
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James Joyce
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This author wrote a book called DUBLINERS, a group of fifteen short stories begun in 1904.
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James Joyce
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This author wrote about the lives of young people, politicians, and the complacent middle class
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James Joyce
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This author structured his stories around "Epiphanies"
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James Joyce
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This author was born in Lockport, New York, one of three children in a Roman catholic family
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Joyce Carol Oates
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This author received lined tablets and a typewriter at age 14.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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This author has published over seventy books, including over 100 stories
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Joyce Carol Oates
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This writer is a professor at Princeton University
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Joyce Carol Oates
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This author was born to a family of sharecroppers in Notasulga, Alabama
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Zora Neale Hurston
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This author moved to Eatonville, Florida when she was a very young girl
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Zora Neale Hurston
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This author did work with folk culture
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Zora Neale Hurston
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This author published more than any other African American woman writer of her time
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Zora Neale Hurston
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This author was very poor and relied on strangers to live at times
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Zora Neale Hurston
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This author moved his family from Yakima, Washington to Chico, California
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Raymond Carver
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This author grew up in a logging town in Oregon
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Raymond Carver
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This author married at the age of nineteen and had two children
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Raymond Carver
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This author enrolled briefely as a student at Chico College in California
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Raymond Carver
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This author was an African American who was born in Harlem
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James Baldwin
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This author was a preacher/minister while he was still in high school
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James Baldwin
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This author was the son of a clergyman
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James Baldwin
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This author moved to France, where he eventually died of Cancer
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James Baldwin
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This author was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but spent most of his boyhood in Michigan
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Ernest Hemingway
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This author was a reporter for the Kansas City Star
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Ernest Hemingway
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This author killed himself with a shotgun in his Idaho hunting Lodge
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Ernest Hemingway
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This author was born and educated in St. Johns, Antigua, in the West Indies
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Jamaica Kincaid
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his author left Antigua to study in the United States, but found college a "dismal failure"
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Anything about the West Indies, includes this author
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Jamaica Kincaid
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This author writes in a deliberately precise rhythmic style
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Jamaica Kincaid
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This author was born in Wellington, New Zealand
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Katherine Mansfield
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This author studied the cello
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Katherine Mansfield
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This author used concrete images to convey her characters' feelings
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Katherine Mansfield
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This author died at the Gurdieff Institute
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Katherine Mansfield
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This author suffered from Tuberculosis
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Katherine Mansfield
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Our book is an example of an
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Anthology
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This author considered Dublin the "Center of Paralysis"
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James Joyce
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ANYTHING POLITICS
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James Joyce
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