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82 Cards in this Set
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Winesburg, Ohio (major work)
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Anderson
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wrote about grotesques
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Anderson
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peple who seize one truth, an idea or ambition, and allow it to become an obsession
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grotesques
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grew up in Clyde, Ohio
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Anderson
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called "Jobby" bc of the variety of jobs he held
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Anderson
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Windy McPherson's Son
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Anderson
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influenced by Master's Spon River Anthology
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Anderson
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The Triumph of the Egg
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Anderson
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Horses and Men
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Anderson
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"Sophistication"
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Anderson
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born in Indian Creek, Texas
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Porter
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Flowering of Judas
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Porter
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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Porter
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Ship of Fools (her only novel)
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Porter
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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
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Porter
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worked for The New Yorker
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Thurber
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My Life and Hard Times
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Thurber
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My World--and Welcome to It
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Thurber
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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
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Thurber
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"The Catbird Seat"
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Thurber
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created and wrote about Yoknapatawpha County
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Faulkner
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born in New Albany, Mississippi
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Faulkner
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during WWI he went to Canada and joined the Royal Flying Corps (he was too small to meet the US enlistment requirements)
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Faulkner
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first novel, Soldier's Pay
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Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury
-idiot narrator Benjy |
Faulkner
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As I Lay Dying
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Faulkner
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The Hamlet
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Faulkner
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Light in August
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Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom!
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Faulkner
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Go Down, Moses (short story collection)
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Faulker
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awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949
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Faulkner
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"A Rose for Emily"
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Faulkner
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Five Men and Pompey
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Benet
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John Brown's Body
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Benet
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
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Benet
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born in Oak Park, Illinois
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Hemingway
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served in Red Cross ambulance corps during WWI in Italy
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Hemingway
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was severely wounded and spent 3 months in a Milan hospital during WWI
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Hemingway
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called Papa
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Hemingway
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Death in the Afternoon
(about bullfighting) |
Hemingway
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In Our Time
(a short story collection) |
Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises
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Hemingway
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A Farewell to Arms
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Hemingway
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
(about the Spanish Civil War) |
Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Hemingway
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awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954
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Hemingway
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committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho
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Hemingway
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A Moveable Feast
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Hemingway
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The Green Hills of Africa
(about big game hunting) |
Hemingway
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awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962
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Steinbeck
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born in Salinas, California
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Steinbeck
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attended Stanford and studied marine biology
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Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat
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Steinbeck
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born in Salinas, California
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Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men
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Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck
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The Sea of Cortez
(with Edward Ricketts, he describes his marine biology expedition to the Galapagos Islands) |
Steinbeck
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The Pearl
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Steinbeck
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The Winter of Our Discontent
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Steinbeck
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East of Eden
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Steinbeck
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Travels with Charley
(an account of a trip across America with his poodle) |
Steinbeck
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"Flight"
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Steinbeck
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a poet laureate of Kentucky
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Stuart
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Harvest of Youth
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Stuart
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Man with a Bull-Tongued Plow
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Stuart
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The Thread That Runs So True
(an autobiographical account of his experience as a teacher in Kentucky and Ohio) |
Stuart
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"Another April"
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Stuart
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born in Jackson, Mississippi
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Welty
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took pictures and wrote about people from Mssissippi
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Welty
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A Curtain of Green
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Welty
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The Wide Net and Other Stories
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Welty
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The Golden Apples
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Welty
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A Curtain of Green
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Welty
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One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album
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Welty
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The Optimist's Daughter
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Welty
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"A Worn Path"
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Welty
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The Color Purple
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Walker
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born to sharecroppers in Eatonton, Georgia
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Walker
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educated at Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College
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Walker
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did voter-registration work in Georgia and Head Star work in Mississippi
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Walker
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The Temple of My Familiar
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Walker
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"Everyday Use"
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Walker
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