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14 Cards in this Set
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Maya Angelou |
American author, and poet best known for her 7 autobiographies: * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969): Up to 1944 (age 17) * Gather Together in My Name (1974): 1944–48 * Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976): 1949–55 * The Heart of a Woman (1981): 1957–62 * All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986): 1962–65 * A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002): 1965–68 * Mom & Me & Mom (2013): overview |
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Jane Austen |
English novelist (romantic fiction) * Sense and Sensibility (1811)* Pride and Prejudice (1813) * Mansfield Park (1814) * Emma (1815) * Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) * Persuasion (1818, posthumous) |
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Ray Bradbury |
American fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction author. * Fahrenheit 451 (1953) * The Martian Chronicles (1950) * Illustrated Man (1951) * Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
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Willa Cather |
American author * O Pioneers! (1913) * The Song of Lark (1915) * My Antonia (1918) * One of Ours (1922)
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Stephen Crane |
American author
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
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Emily Dickinson |
American Poet * Pre-1861. These are often conventional and sentimental in nature. * 1861–1865. This was her most creative period—these poems are more vigorous and emotional. Estimated that she composed 86 poems in 1861, 366 in 1862, 141 in 1863, and 174 in 1864. Post-1866. It is estimated that two-thirds of the entire body of her poetry was written before this year. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
American essayist, lecturer, and Transcendentalist poet
"Self-Reliance.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
American short story writer and novelist
"The Great Gatsby" |
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Anne Frank |
German teen writer who was in hiding during WWII
"The Diary of Anne Frank"
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Robert Frost |
American Poet
Wrote poems about rural life using American colloquial speech |
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Zora Neale Hurston |
Anthropologist and novelist
Harlem Renaissance
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" |
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John Keats |
English Romantic lyric poet
"Endymion," a mammoth four-thousand line poem based on the Greek myth of the same name. |
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Harper Lee |
American Author
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) |
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C. S. Lewis |
Irish Writer
The Chronicles of Narnia |
