Books and Authors #1 Flashcards

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The Ambassadors

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Henry James (1903)

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Henry James originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.

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Thomas Paine pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution.

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Noah Webster (First of many starting around 1828)

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HL Mencken 919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Inspired by Mark Twain

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Theodore Dreiser (1925)

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Mackinlay Kantor (PUlitzer 1956)

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Mikhail Sholokhov (1965 Nobel) depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War.

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Dante Alighieri n epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature

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Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. A sequel to the book, 'Tis, was published in 1999, and was followed by Teacher Man in 2005

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Dan Brown a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown's subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code; his 2009 novel, The Lost Symbol; and the 2013 novel Inferno.

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LM Montgomery (1908)

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Margaret Landon a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.In the early 1860s, Anna Leonowens, a widow with two young children, was invited to Siam (now Thailand) by King Mongkut (Rama IV), who wanted her to teach his children and wives the English language and introduce them to British customs. Her experiences during the five years she spent in the country served as the basis for two memoirs, The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870) and Romance of the Harem (1872). Adapted into 1951 Stage Musical King and I

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Leo Tolstoy (1873-1877)

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Maxwell Anderson a hit on the stage in 1948, but did not reach movie screens for 21 years. It opened on Broadway starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman, and became a 1969 movie with Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold. Margaret Furse won an Oscar for the film's costume designs

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Truman Capote n unfinished novel by American author Truman Capote, published posthumously in 1986 in England and in 1987 in the United States

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Sophocles A tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BCE. Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first

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``` Norman Mailer (Pulitzer nonfic 1968) split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. ```

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Jules Verne is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works

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Sinclair Lewis (Pulitzer - unaccepted 1926) American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature,

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Dalai Lama

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William Faulkner s a 1930 The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades."

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Ayn Rand s a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing

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Gertrude Stein a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.

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William March 1954 novel by William March, the last of his major works published before his death. Nominated for the 1955 National Book Award for Fiction, The Bad Seed tells the story of a mother's realization that her young daughter has committed a murder

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Jim Bouton (The book is a diary of Bouton's 1969 season, spent with the Seattle Pilots (during the club's only year in existence) and then the Houston Astros following a late-season trade.

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Anthony Trollope (Barsetshire series) ublished in 1857, is the second novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents.

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Jim Carroll (1978) The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll and Mark Wahlberg as Mickey.

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L Ron Hubbard a 1982 science fiction novel written by the Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He also composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz. The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the "worst films ever made"

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Conrad Hilton (1957 Autobiography)

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William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair) a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. As in Fitzgerald's other novels, the characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald.

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Jerzy Kosinski a satirical novel by the Polish born writer Jerzy Kosinski, first published in 1970.[1] Set in America, the story concerns Chance, a simple gardener who unwittingly becomes a much sought-after political pundit and commentator on the vagaries of the modern world Adapted into a Move in 1979. Melvin Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Peter Sellers was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role

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Jean-Paul Sartre s a 1943 book by philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.[1] Sartre's main purpose is to assert the individual's existence as prior to the individual's essence. His overriding concern in writing the book was to demonstrate that free will exists

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Sylvia Plath s the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical,

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Joyce Carol Oates (1980) a magic realist novel by Joyce Carol Oates about the generations of an upstate New York family. It is the first book in Oates' "Gothic Saga

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Toni MOrrison (Pulitzer) a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865), it is inspired by the story of an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988[2] and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award.[3] It was adapted during 1998 into a movie of the same name starring Oprah Winfrey.

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General Lew Wallace 1880. Considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century" The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11. As of 2012, only Titanic in 1998 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 have matched the film's wins

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1886) It draws on and expands the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical and polemical approach.

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Carl Sagan (scientific communicator) -- phrase from series "Cosmos"

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E. L. Doctorow is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990[1] and the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,[2] and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize[3] and the 1989 National Book Award.[4] The story is told in the first person by Billy "Bathgate" Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz Made into a movie in 1991 with Dustin Hoffman

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Herman Melville is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924. Melville began writing the work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891. he best-known adaptation is the opera, Billy Budd, with a score by Benjamin Britten and a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. It follows the earlier text of 1924. Since its premiere in December 1951, the opera has become a regular production at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York City. The libretto takes many creative liberties with elements of the novella's plot.

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John J. Audubon It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. The work consists of hand-coloured, life-size prints, made from engraved plates,

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Daphne Du Maurier novelette by British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. It is the story of a farmhand, his family, and his community that are attacked by flocks of seabirds in kamikaze missions. The story is set in du Maurier's native Cornwall shortly after the end of World War II. By the end of the story it has become clear that all of Britain is under aerial assault.

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Aristophanes a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize.

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Anna Sewell is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid

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Walter Farley 1940s bestselling series about the stallion and his young owner, Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of an Arab sheikh's prized stallion after it comes into Alec's possession, although later books furnish the Black's backstory.

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Charles Dickens published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by a mostly omniscient narrator.

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Michael Lewis 2006 Book about American Football. Basis for 2009 book

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Cormac McCarthy is a 1985 Western (or anti-Western[1][2]) novel

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Noah Webster

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr s a 1987 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault.

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Thomas Wolfe s a 1987 novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens' writings; it ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984.

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Joan Didion The novel is a story of both personal and political tragedy in the fictional Central American country of "Boca Grande." 1977

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Alexander Pushkin was written in 1825, published in 1831, but not approved for performance by the censor until 1866. Its subject is the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar from 1598 to 1605. It consists of 25 scenes and is written predominantly in blank verse Opera based on it.

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Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain.

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Fannie Farmer 1896) by Fannie Farmer is a 19th-century general reference cookbook which is still available both in reprint and in updated form. It was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point.

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Henry James published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters

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Timothy Crouse 1973) is author Timothy Crouse's seminal non-fiction book detailing life on the road for reporters covering the 1972 United States presidential campaign.

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Roger Kahn is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series. He then tracks the lives of the players over the subsequent years as they aged. The title of the book is taken from a Dylan Thomas poem that describes "the boys of summer in their ruin"

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Aldous Huxley

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Truman Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's is a novella by Truman Capote published in 1958. The main character, Holly Golightly, is one of Capote's best-known creations.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.

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Anny Tyler (Pulitzer 1988) The story describes the joys and pains of the ordinary marriage of Ira and Maggie Moran as they travel from Baltimore to attend a funeral and back home again in one day.

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Evenlyn Waugh 1945- Film version in 2008 with Emma Thompson Charles Ryder reads history at the University of Oxford, where he befriends the flamboyant and wealthy Lord Sebastian Flyte. Sebastian's family, the noble Marchmains, strongly disapprove of both proclivities. When Sebastian takes him home to visit his nanny, Charles is enthralled by the grandeur of the Marchmain family estate, known as Brideshead, and he is entranced by its residents, including the devout Catholic Lady Marchmain and her other children, Sebastian's elder brother Bridey and his sisters Julia and Cordelia.

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Thornton Wilder (Pulitzer 1928) story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge

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Pierre Boulle The story is fictional but uses the construction of the Burma Railway, in 1942–43, as its historical setting. The novel deals with the plight of World War II British prisoners of war forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to build a bridge for the "Death Railway", 1957 movie starring alex guinness (Obi-Wan)-- won Best Picture and Best Actor (

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James Waller a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian woman living in 1960s Madison County, Iowa. She engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. 1995 film by Eastwood staring eastwood and Meryle Streep -- who got Oscar nom

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Stephen Hawking

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Alexander Pushkin is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg. Widely considered to be Pushkin's most successful narrative poem, "The Bronze Horseman" has had a lasting impact on Russian literature. Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Scott Turow

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John O'Hara (Taylor, then 28 years old, won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role

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O Henry (William Sydney Porter)

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Herman Wouk (Pulitzer 1951) grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during a historic typhoon in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot

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John Le Carre (1961) Introduces George Smily, the most famous of Le Carre's recurring characters -- in a story about East German spies in GB He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War and The Secret Pilgrim. AKA David John Moore Conwell He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War and The Secret Pilgrim.

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Jack London

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Dan Rather | American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News.

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Alexandre Dumas and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata, with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry. Love Story, published by Eric Segal in 1970, has essentially the same plot updated to contemporary New York. The conflict here centres on the relative economic classes of the central characters.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. It explores the moral responsibility — symbolized by the patients' malignant tumors — of those implicated in the suffering of their fellow citizens during Stalin's Great Purge

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John Steinbeck

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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CS Forester His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston)

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Rudyard Kipling is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.

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Stephen King

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel

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James Herriot

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Joseph Heller

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JD Salinger

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Suzanne Collins

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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Mark Twain

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John Updike (mostly known for Rabbit)

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Peter Jennings He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer.

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James Michener (1948 Pulitzer for SP) an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history Very popular

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Roald Dahl

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Dylan Thomas (do not go gentle)

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Ian Fleming

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Charles Dickens

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John Irving

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Edna Ferber (also wrote Show Boat) Cimarron the Film won best pic in 1931 (RKO Pictures)

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Maeve Binchy

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EL Doctorow

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Henry David Thoreau

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Tom Clancy (espionage thrillers)

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John Grisham (legal Thrillers)

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Anthony Burgess

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Stephen Spielberg

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Alice Walker

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Margaret Mead (cultural anthropologist)

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Thomas Paine

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Izaak Walton

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John Kennedy Toole (posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981)

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``` William Styron (Pulitzer 1967) led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths ```

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Carl Sagan

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Michael Crichton (science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres.

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Mark Twain

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Lord Byron

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Alexandre Dumas

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Play - Clifford Odets

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PD James (English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh.[2]

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Mary Higgins Clark (American Suspense Writer)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Immanuel Kant

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Pope John Paul II

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Alan Payton

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Henry James one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism American who lived in GB

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George RR Martin

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Ray Bradbury

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Arthur Koestler (USSR show trials)

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Charles DIckens

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Nathanael West

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Judith Krantz

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Nikolai Gogol

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Thomas Mann

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Agatha Christie

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Ernest Hemingway

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James Agee (1958 Pulitzer)

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Thomas Jefferson

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Edward Gibbon

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James Dickey (basis for 1972 film)

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James Fennimore Cooper

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Ambrose Bierce The book offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language, lampooning cant and political doublespeak, as well as other aspects of human foolishness and frailty

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Anne Frank

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Samuel Johnson

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Basis for Blade Runner | Phillip K Dick

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Frederick Forsyth

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Henrik Ibsen

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Charles Dickens

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Miguel De Cervantes

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Hugh Lofting

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Thomas mann

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Boris Pasternak

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James. M. Cain a highly influential 1943 crime novel, written by American journalist-turned-novelist James M. Cain

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Bram Stoker

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Anne McCaffrey

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Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer) was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle

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James Joyce

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Frank Herbert

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John Steinbeck

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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Sigmund Freud

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Orson Scott Card

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Priscilla Presley