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American Authors
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65
English
11th Grade
01/20/2007

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James Agee
Definition
A Death in the Family; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Louisa May Alcott
Definition
Little Women
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Sherwood Anderson
Definition
Winesburg, Ohio
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James Baldwin
Definition
Go Tell It On The Mountain; Another Country. (Black American)
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Edward Bellamy
Definition
Looking Backward
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Hal Borland
Definition
When the Legends Die
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Ray Bradbury
Definition
The Illustrated Man; Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
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Pearl S. Buck
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The Good Earth
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Olive Ann Burns
Definition
Cold Sassy Tree
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Truman Capote
Definition
In Cold Blood; Breakfast at Tiffany's; The Grass Harp
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Willa Cather
Definition
O Pioneers!; My Antonia; A Lost Lady; The Song of the Lark; Death Comes For the Archbishop
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John Cheever
Definition
Falconer; Bullet Park
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Kate Chopin
Definition
The Awakening and other stories
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James Fenimore Cooper
Definition
The Pioneers; The Last of the Mohicans; The Prairie; The Pathfinder; The Deerslayer
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Stephen Crane
Definition
The Red Badge of Courage; Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
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Theodore Drieser
Definition
Sister Carrie; An American Tragedy; Twelve Men
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Clyde Edgerton
Definition
Walking Across Egypt; Raney
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Walter D. Edmonds
Definition
Drums Along the Mohawk (Hist. Novels mainly about N.Y.)
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Ralph Ellison
Definition
Invisible Man
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William Faulkner
Definition
The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Sanctuary; Absalom, Absalom; Go Down Moses; Flags in the Dust; The Helmet. (the greatest 20th century Southern writer)
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Definition
This Side of Paradise; The Great Gatsby; Tender Is the Night;
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Ernest J. Gaines
Definition
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman; A Lesson Before Dying
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Kaye Gibbons
Definition
Ellen Foster; A Virtuous Woman
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Definition
The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables; Twice-Told Tales; The Blithedale Romance
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Joseph Heller
Definition
Catch-22; Something Happened; Good As Gold. (military absurdity)
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Ernest Hemingway
Definition
A Farewell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Old Man and the Sea; Islands in the Stream. (depressed and alcoholic)
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William Dean Howells
Definition
The Rise of Silas Laphan; A Modern Instance
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Zora Neale Hurston
Definition
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Definition
Ramona
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Henry James
Definition
Daisy Miller; The Portrait of a Lady; Washington Square; The Golden Bowl; The Turn of the Screw; The Wings of the Dove
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John Knowles
Definition
A Seperate Peace; Indian Summer
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Harper Lee
Definition
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Sinclair Lewis
Definition
Main Street; Arrowsmith; Babbitt
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Jack London
Definition
The Call of the Wild; The Sea Wolf; White Fang; Martin Eden
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Bernard Malamud
Definition
The Natural
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Carson McCullers
Definition
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter; The Member of the Wedding; The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and other stories. (One of the three best southern female writers)
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Herman Melville
Definition
Typee; Omoo; Moby Dick; Billy Budd
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Arthur Miller
Definition
All My Sons; Death of A Salesman; The Crucible. (DOAS--1949 America's greatest tradgedy)
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Toni Morrison
Definition
The Bluest Eye; Sula; Song of Solomon; Tar Baby; Beloved; Paradise; Jazz. (won Nobel prize)
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Frank Norris
Definition
The Octopus; Vandover and the Brute
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Flannery O'Connor
Definition
Wise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away; Everything That Rises Must Converge; The Complete Stories
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O'Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Definition
The Pocket Book of O'Henry Stories
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Eugene O'Neill
Definition
Desire Under The Elms; Beyond the Horizon; Long Day's Journey Into The Night
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Walker Percy
Definition
The Moviegoer; The The Second Coming; Love in the Ruins
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Sylvia Plath
Definition
The Bell Jar; Colossus
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Chaim Potok
Definition
The Chosen; The Promise; My Name is Asher Lev; In the Beginning; Wanderings; The Book of Lights; Davita's Harp
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J.D. Salinger
Definition
The Catcher in the Rye; Franny and Zooey
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Upton Sinclair
Definition
The Jungle (1906)
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John Steinbeck
Definition
The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row; The Pearl; The Moon Is Down; Tortilla Flat; East of Eden
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Definition
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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William Styron
Definition
Sophie's Choice; The Confessions of Nat Turner
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Henry David Thoreau
Definition
Walden
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James Thurber
Definition
Thurber's Carnival
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Mark Twain
Definition
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Anne Tyler
Definition
The Accidental Tourist; Breathing Lessons
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John Updike
Definition
Pigeon Feathers and other stories; Rabbit Run; S; The Witches of Eastwick
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Definition
Slaughterhouse Five; Slapstick; Welcometo the Monkey House; Deadeye Dick; Jailbird
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Alice Walker
Definition
The Color Purple; Possessing the Secret of Joy
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Lew Wallace
Definition
Ben Hur
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Robert Penn Warren
Definition
All the King's Men
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Eudora Welty
Definition
Delta Wedding; The Optimist's Daughter; Losing Battles; The Robber Bridegroom; The Golden Apples; Thirteen Stories
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Edith Wharton
Definition
Our Town; The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Matchmaker
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Tennesse Williams
Definition
The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Youth
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Richard Wright
Definition
Native Son; Black Boy; The Outsider; Uncle Tom's Children
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Thomas Wolfe
Definition
Look Homeward, Angel; You can't Go Home Again
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