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As a young woman Flannery O’Connor developed lupus an incurable hereditary disease but she continued to write moving powerful stories about faith grace and salvation.
Suffering from poverty and psychological conflict Edgar Allen Poe was an important literary figure in early America.
Eugene O’Neill’s play The Iceman Cometh takes at least three and a half hours to perform.
When a young woman expressed her admiration for his work Faulkner responded by changing the subject.
At the outbreak of the Civil War Samuel Clemens enlisted in an irregular military outfit but he later denounced war in a satirical essay entitled “The War Prayer.”
In such novels as Babbitt Sinclair Lewis who grew up in Sauk Center Minnesota castigated the happy …show more content…
“Did you know class” asked the teacher “that Homer author of The Iliad and The Odyssey was blind?”
After being raised in Algeria Albert Camus moved to France but he continued to write stories set in northern Africa for he treasured the contrast between bleak land and bright ocean.
John Irving believe it or not includes a trained bear in nearly all of his novels and motorcycles Vienna and Marcus Aurelius generally pop up as well.
In his moving beautifully written and very long Raj Quartet Paul Scott chronicles the end of British rule in India.
The first mystery story Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” was published on August 1 1841 in Graham’s Magazine.
The authors who influenced Ken Kesey in his writing of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest surely include Twain Fitzgerald and Faulkner.
“By the shores of Gitchee Gumee” stands “the wigwam of Nokomius” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha” (171).
Kurt Vonnegut author of Slaughterhouse Five clearly detests war.
When he realizes that the birds are attacking he does not panic but instead warns other families of the