authors Flashcards
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aeschylus
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Greek dramatist and author of Prometheus Bound
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aesop
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Greek author of fables (stories with a moral)
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louisa may allcot
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American author of Little Women
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horatio alger
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american novelist
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dante alighieri
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Italian author of The Divine Comedy
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hans christian andersen
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Danish author of fairytales
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maya angelou
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Black American writer who wrote about growing up in the South
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aristophanes
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Greek playwright and author of The Clouds
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jane austen
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British author of Pride and Prejudice
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honoré de balzac
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French writer and author of La Comédie Humaine
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charles baudelaire
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French poet and author of Les Fleurs du Mal
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samuel beckett
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Irish existentialist and author of Waiting for Godot
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saul bellow
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American novelist and author of Herzog
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william blake
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British poet and author of Songs of Innocence
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ray bradbury
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American science fiction writer and author of The Martian Chronicles
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charlotte bronte
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British author of Jane Eyre
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emily bronte
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British author of Wuthering Heights
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lord george byron
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Romantic poet and author of Don Juan
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albert camus
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Existentialist French writer and author of The Stranger
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lewis caroll
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British author of Alice in Wonderland
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willa cather
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American author of Death Comes for the Archbishop
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miguel de cervantes
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Spanish author of Don Quixote
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geoffrey chaucer
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English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales
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anton pavlovich chekov
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Russian playwright and author of The Cherry Orchard
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samuel taylor coleridge
British romantic poet and author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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joseph conrad
British writer and author of Heart of Darkness
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e.e. cummings
american poet
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daniel defoe
American author of Robinson Crusoe
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charles dickens
British author of David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities
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emily dickinson
american poet
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john donne
English poet and author of “Death Be Not Proud”
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fyodor dostoevsky
Russian novelist and author of Crime and Punishment
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john dryden
English poet and author of Alexander’s Feast
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george eliot
English novelist and author of Middlemarch
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t.s. eliot
British poet and author of “The Waste Land”
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ralph ellison
American author of The Invisible Man
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ralph waldo emerson
American philosopher and writer, and author of “Concord Hymn”
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euripedes
Greek dramatist known for his tragedies
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william faulkner
American author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August
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scott f fitzgerald
American novelist and author of The Great Gatsby
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gustave flaubert
French writer and author of Madame Bovary
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robert frost
American poet and author of “The Road Not Taken”
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allen ginsberg
American poet and author of beat poetry, including Howl
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johann wolfgang von goethe
German writer and author of Faust
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william golding
English author of The Lord of the Flies
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grimm brothers
German authors of fairytales
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thomas hardy
English writer and author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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nathaniel hawthorne
American author of The Scarlet Letter
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ernest hemmingway
American author of For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea
50
hernest hesse
German writer and author of Siddhartha
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homer
Greek poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
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langston hughes
Black American poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
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victor hugo
French writer and author of Les Misérables
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zora neale hurston
Black American author of Their Eyes Were Watching God who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
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aldous huxley
British author of Brave New World
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henrick, ibsen
Norwegian playwright and author of A Doll’s House
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henry james
American writer and author of The Turn of the Screw
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james joyce
Irish author of Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
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franz kafka
German author of The Metamorphosis
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john keats
English poet and author of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
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jack kerouac
American poet and author of On the Road
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rudyard kipling
British author of The Jungle Book
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d.h. lawrence
British author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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sinclair lewis
American satirist and author of Main Street
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jack london
American author of The Call of the Wild
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henry wadsworth longfellow
American poet and author of Paul Revere’s Ride
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thomas mann
German author of The Magic Mountain
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christopher marlowe
English playwright and author of Dr. Faustus
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herman melville
American author of Moby Dick
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arthur miller
American playwright and author of The Crucible
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john milton
British author of Paradise Lost
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toni morrison
Black American author of Beloved
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vladimir nabokov
Russian writer and author of Lolita
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eugene o'neil
American playwright and author of A Long Day’s Journey into Night
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george orwell
English author of 1984 and Animal Farm
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ovid
Roman poet and author of Metamorphoses
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thomas paine
American writer and author of Common Sense
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petrarch
Italian Renaissance poet
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sylvia plath
American poet and author of The Bell Jar
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plutarch
Greek writer and author of The Parallel Lives
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edgar allen poe
American author of “The Raven”
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ezra pound
american poet
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marcel proust
French novelist and author of Remembrance of Things Past
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salman rushdie
British novelist and author of The Satanic Verses
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sir walter scott
Scottish novelist and author of Ivanhoe
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dr suess
American author of children’s books, including The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax
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william shakespeare
British dramatist and author of MacBeth and The Tempest
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george bernard shaw
Irish playwright and author of Pygmalion
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Mary Shelly
English novelist and author of Frankenstein
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percy bysshe shelley
English poet and author of Prometheus Unbound
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shel silverstein
American author of children’s poems, including Where the Sidewalk Ends
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upton sinclair
American writer and author of The Jungle
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aleksander solzhenitsyn
Russian writer and author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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sophocles
Greek playwright and author of Oedipus Rex
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edmund spencer
English poet and author of The Faerie Queen
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robert lewis stevenson
Scottish author of Treasure Island
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harriet beecher stowe
American author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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jonathan swift
English author of Gulliver’s Travels
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henry david thoreau
American author of Walden
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j.r.r tolkien
British author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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leo tolstoy
Russian author of Anna Karenina
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mark twain
American author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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john updike
American author of Rabbit, Run
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virgil
Roman poet and author of The Aeineid
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kurt vonnegut
American novelist and author of Slaughterhouse-Five
106
edith wharton
British author of Ethan Frome
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walt whitman
American poet and author of Leaves of Grass
108
oscar wilde
Irish author of The Picture of Dorian Gray
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laura ingalls wilder
American author of Little House on the Prairie
110
thornton wilder
American playwright and author of Our Town
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tennessee williams
American playwright and author of A Streetcar Named Desire
112
virgina woolf
British novelist and author of Mrs. Dalloway
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willam woodsworth
British poet
