English Study Guide

Question 1

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 1

Raised in all black eatonville fl
- Leading African-American novelist in 30s
- Fell out of favor in 40s
- Died of poverty in 60s
- Came back to interest in the 70s

Question 2

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 2

was a war journalist
alcoholic
worked for NANA

Question 3

John Steinbeck

Answer 3

Worked in factories on road crews
6 months as a WW2 CORRESPONDENT

Question 4

E.B. White

Answer 4

Best essayist of the 20th century
a newspaper journalist for New Yorker and Harpers

Question 5

Flannery O’Connor

Answer 5

Taught a chicken to walk backward
- Loved the grotesque
- Catholic in protestant Georgia
- Went to college at the age of 16
- Diagnosed with Lupus at the age of 25 and died at 39

Question 6

Katherine Anne Porter

Answer 6

stream of consciousness
grandma was a popular character in her storys
married 3 times

Question 7

William Faulkner

Answer 7

literary giant
people thought his view on the South was “ too often vicious, depraved, decadent and corrupt.
messing with timelines

Question 8

Agatha Christie

Answer 8

66 detective novels & 14 short stories
Served in hospitals in World Wars