Authors Flashcards

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Anne Sexton

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“Live or Die”
“Transformations”
(Confessional poetry)

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Sylvia Plath

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“Ariel”
“The Bell jar” (novel)
(Confessional poetry)

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Robert Lowells

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“Skulk Hour”
“Life Studies”
“For the Union Dead”
“The Dolphin”
(Confessional poetry)

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Isaac Azimov

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“Robots”
“Foudnation” (psychohistory)
(Science Fiction)

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Phillip K. Dick

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“Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep”
(Science Fiction)

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Octavia Butler

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“Kindred”
“Patternist Serie”
(Science Fiction)

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Pat Francks

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“Alas, Babylone”
(Nuclear)

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Richard Mathewson

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“I am a legend”
(Nuclear)

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Robert McCammon

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“Swan Song”
(nuclear)

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Alice Walker

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“The Color Purple”
(Afro-Americans)

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Maya Angelou

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“I known why Caged Birds Sings”
“Phenomenal”
(Afro-Americans)

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Toni Morrison

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“Beloved”
(Afro-Americans)

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Louis l’Amour

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“Hondo”
(Western)

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Cormac McCarty

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“Blood Meridian”
(Western)

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Larry McMurtry

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” Lonesome Dove”
(Western)

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Armistead Maupin

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“Tales of the city”
(HIV)

17
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Samuel Delany

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“The Mad Men”
(HIV)

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Larry Kramer

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“The Normal Heart”
(HIV)

19
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Chimamanda Ngozi Radiche

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“Americanah”
(9/11)

20
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Don DeLillo

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“The Falling Man”
(9/11)

21
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Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
(9/11)

22
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Shirley Jackson

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“The Haunting of Hills House”
“We have always lived in the castle”
(Gothic)

23
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Harper Lee

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“To Kill a MockingBird”
(Gothic)

24
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Anne Rice

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“The Vampire Chronicles”
“Interview with the Vampire”
(Gothic)

25
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Michal McDowell

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“The Blackwater series”
(Gothic)

26
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Fitzgerald

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“The great Gatsby”
“Tender is the night”
(lost generation)

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Hemingway

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“The Sun Also Rise”
“A Farewell to Arms”
(Lost generation)

28
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Steinbeck

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“The Grapes of Wrath”
“Of Mice and Men”
(lost generation)

29
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Kerouack

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“On the Road”
(Beat generation)

30
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Ginsberg

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“Howl, Kaddish and other poems”
(Beat Generation)

31
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Burroughs

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“Naked Lunch”
(beat Generation)