Arkansas Authors and Journalists Flashcards
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Maya Angelou
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- raised in Stamps
- National Book Award nominee, Pulitzer Prize nominee, Tony Award winner, Emmy nomination
- second poet to be selected to present inaugural poem
- “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, “Just Give Me a Drink of Water Fore I Diiie”, “Look Away”, “Roots”, “On the Pulse of Morning”
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Harry Scott Ashmore
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- Pulitzer Prize winner
- 1957 Little Rock Central High desegregation crisis
- “Hearts & Minds”
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Douglas A. Blackmon
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- Stuttgard, Monticello
- Pulitzer Prize winner
- “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War I”
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Dee Alexander Brown
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- Stephens
- “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, “American Spa”
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Helen Gurley Brown
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- Green Forest and Little ROck
- “Sex and the Single Girl”, “Cosmo Girl”, “Having It All”, “I’m Wild Again”
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Ernie Deane
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- father of Arkansas journalism
- created Arkansas Traveler
7
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Michael Disfarmer
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- Cleburne County
- photographer
8
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John Gould Fletcher
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- Little Rock
- first Southern poet to win Pulitzer Prize
- “Selected Poems”
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Ellen Gilchrist
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- Fayetteville
- “The Land Surveyor’s Daughter”, “In the Land of Dreamy Dreams”, “Falling Through Space”, “Victory over Japan”
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Fred Graham
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- Little Rock
- winner of 3 Emmy Awards (Watergate and Agnew)
- “The Self-Inflicted Wound”, “The Alias Program”
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John Grisham
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- Jonesboro
- “A Time to Kill”, “The Rainmaker”, “The Firm”, “The Pelican Brief”, “The Client”, “The Chamber”, “A Painted House”
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Donald Harington
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- Little Rock
- America’s greatest unknown writer
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Charlaine Harris
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- Magnolia
- “The Southern Vampire Mysteries”, the Harper Connelly series
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John Hess
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- Fayetteville
- “Malice in Maggody”
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Kenny Johnson
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- Pine Bluff
- “V”, “Alien Nation”, “Bionic Woman”
