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American Authors Flashcards

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Who wrote: Little Women

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Louisa May Alcott

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Who wrote: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Richard Bach

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Who wrote: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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L. Frank Baum

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Who wrote: O, Pioneers

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Willa Cather

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Who wrote: My Antonia

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Willa Cather

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Who wrote: Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Willa Cather

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Who wrote: The Clan of the Cave Bear

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Jean M. Auel

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Who wrote: Leatherstocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Who wrote: Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison

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Who wrote: Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane

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Who wrote: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane

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Who wrote: The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Who wrote: As I Lay Dying

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William Faulkner

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Who wrote: Roots

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Alex Haley

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Who wrote: Catch 22

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Joseph Heller

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Who wrote: The Old Man and the Sea

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Ernest Hemingway

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Who wrote: The Sun Also Rises

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Ernest Hemingway

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Who wrote: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Ken Kesey

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Who wrote: To Kill a Mockingbird

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Harper Lee

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Who wrote: Executioner’s Song

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Norman Mailer

21
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Who wrote: Daisy Miller

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Henry James

22
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Who wrote: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston

23
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Who wrote: Babbitt

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Sinclair Lewis

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Who wrote: The Call of the Wild

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Jack London

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Who wrote: Rosemary’s Baby

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Ira Levin

26
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Who wrote: Catch 22?

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Joseph Heller

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Who wrote: The World According to Garp?

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John Irving

28
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Who wrote: The Scarlet Letter?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Who wrote: The Good Earth?

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Pearl Buck

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Who wrote: Our Town?

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Thornton Wilder

31
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Who wrote: Dr. Zhivago?

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Boris Pasternak

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Who wrote: Invictus?

“My head is bloody, but unbowed….
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

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William Ernest Henley

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Who wrote: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

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James Thurber

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Who wrote: Tarzan?

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Who wrote: Leaves of Grass?

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Walt Whitman

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Who wrote: The Waste Land?

The first section begins “April is the cruelest month.”

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T. S. Eliot

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Who wrote about encounters with the Roman poet Statius & a woman named Matilda in a work that depicts the mountain of Purgatory?

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Dante

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Who wrote: “Tender is the Night?”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What novelist’s best known work is set in the Long Island town of West Egg? What is the name of the novel?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby

40
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Who wrote: “The Jungle?”

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Upton Sinclair

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Who wrote: “Nineteen Eighty Four?”

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George Orwell

42
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Who wrote the following: “The Shadow Line”,”Lord Jim”, and “Heart of Darkness”?

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Joseph Conrad

43
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Who wrote: “ Things Fall Apart”?

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Chinua Achebe

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Who wrote “Transformation In Metamorphosis?”

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Franz Kafka

45
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Who wrote “Age of Innocence?”

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Edith Warton

46
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Who wrote “Silent Spring?”

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Rachel Carson

47
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Who wrote “Long day’s Journey into Night?”

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Eugene O’Neill

48
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Who wrote “Father’s & Sons?”

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Ivan Turgenev

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Who wrote “Death of a Salesman”?

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Arthur Miller

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