Famous Authors/Poets/Playwrights

Question 1

Wrote Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys

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Louisa May Alcott

Question 2

Wrote Things Fall Apart, A Man of the People, Arrow of God

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Chinua Achebe

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Wrote Cairo Trilogy, and Children of the Alley

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Naguib Mahfouz

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Wrote Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wrote Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad

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Wrote Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Doctor Faustus

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Thomas Mann

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Wrote House of Mirth, Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome

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Edith Wharton

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Wrote Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey

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JD Salinger

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Wrote Death of a Salesman, the Crucible -> about Salem witchhunts but really is about mccarthy anti-communist “witchhunt”, All My Sons, married to Marilyn Monroe for a time

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Arthur Miller

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Wrote Moby Dick, Billy Budd

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Herman Melville

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Wrote Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, the Pearl

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John Steinbeck

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Wrote Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Wrote House for Mr. Biswas, Bend in the River

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VS Naipaul

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Wrote 1984, Animal Farm

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George Orwell

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Wrote Beloved, Bluest Eyes, Song of Solomon

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Tori Morrison

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Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman

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Harper Lee

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Madama Butterfly was opera by who?

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Giacomo Puccini

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Wrote Metamorphosis, The Castle

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Franz Kafka

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Wrote Streetcar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie -> horn on glass unicorn breaks, Orpheus Descending, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Tenessee Williams

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Wrote Picture of Dorian Grey, Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde

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Wrote Ragged Dick, Strive and Succeed

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Horatio Alger

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Wrote “And I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, “And Still I Rise”

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Maya Angelou

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Wrote “Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded”, and “Clarissa Harlowe: Or, The History of a Young Lady”

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Samuel Richardson

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Wrote “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, “The Joke”

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Milan Kundera

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Wrote The Color Purple, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens

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Alice Walker

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Wrote “Call of the Wild”, White Fang

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Jack London

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Wrote “Infinite Jest”, “The Pale King”

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David Foster Wallace

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Wrote “I, Robot”, “Foundation”, Nightfall

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Isaac Asimov

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Wrote “Ulysses”, “Dubliners”

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James Joyce

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Wrote “Disgrace”, “Waiting for the Barbarians”, “Elizabeth Costello”

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John Maxwell Coetzee

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Wrote Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace

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Margaret Atwood

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Wrote Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf

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Wrote A Room with a View, A Passage to India

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E. M. Forster

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Wrote Last of the Mohicans

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Minister’s Wooing

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Wrote The Sound and The Fury, Absalom, Absalom!

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William Faulkner

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Wrote Invisible Man, Juneteenth, Shadow and Act

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Ralph Ellison

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Wrote Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 47

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Thomas Pynchon

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Wrote No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian

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Cormac McCarthy

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Wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Betty Smith

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Wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, How Much Land Does a Man Need? , The Kreutzer Sonata

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Leo Tolstoy

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Wrote Wizard of Oz

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L Frank Baum

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Wrote Gone With the Wind

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Margaret Mitchell

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Wrote Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Lew Wallace

Question 45

Irish playwright of Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World, Pegeen Mike falls in love with Christy Mahon, who claims to have killed his father, In Riders of the sea, someone gets thrown off a grey pony and drowns, wrote “In the shadow of the Glen”, “The Well of the Saints”

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John Millington Synge

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wrote The Pillowman, included The Lieutenant of Inishmore in his Aran Islands trilogy, wrote the film “In Bruges”

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Martin McDonagh

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poet of “I Hear America Singing” and “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,” which appear in his book Leaves of Grass. wrote “Song of Myself”, “I Sing the Body Electric”

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Walt Whitman

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Wrote “Spanish Tragedy”

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Thomas Kyd

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Wrote “Einstein on the Beach”

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Phillip Glass

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Wrote “Bald Soprano” and “Rhinoceros”, character named Berenger that recurs in many of his plays, this character is a semi-autobiographical character,

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Eugene Ionesco

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Wrote “Don Quixote”

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Wrote “100 Years of Solitude”, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Wrote “The Old Gringo”, “Terra Nostra”, “Death of Artemio Cruz”

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Carlos Fuentes

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Wrote “Count of Monte Cristo”, “Three Musketeers”

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Alexandre Dumas

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Wrote “Lady Chatterly’s Lover”, “The Rainbow”, “Women in Love”, “Sons and Lovers”

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DH Lawrence

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Wrote “Time Machine”, “War of the Worlds”, “Island of Dr. Moreau”

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HG Wells

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Wrote “Lord of the Flies”

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William Golding

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Wrote “Little Prince”

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Wrote “Eugene Onegin”, “Captain’s Daughter”, short story “Queen of Spades” - three seven ace,

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Alexander Pushkin

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Wrote “Jew of Malta”, “Doctor Faustus” , often called the greatest dramatist before Shakespeare, stabbed to death in a barroom brawl over the payment of a dinner bill.

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Christopher Marlowe

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Wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

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Ken Kesey

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Wrote “Fences”, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”, “Ma Raimey’s Black Bottom”

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August Wilson

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wrote “Dead Souls”, “The Overcoat”, “Nevsky Prospekt”, “The Nose”

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Nikolai Gogol

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Wrote “The Bet”, “Ward No. 6”, “Lady with a Dog”, “Cherry Orchard”, said “…See how bad and dreary your lives are!”

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Anton Chekhov

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Wrote “Lolita”, “Pale Fire”

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Argentine short story writer who often dealt with meta-fictional themes. “The Library of Babel”, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,”“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”best-known stories appeared in the collections Ficciones and Labyrinths

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Jorge Luis Borges

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wrote “Slaughterhouse Five”, “Cat’s Cradle”

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Kurt Vonnegut

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novel Invisible Cities is framed as a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, who describes 55 fictional cities to the Mongol ruler. 1979 novel If on a winter’s night a traveler, his fantastical short stories, some of which are collected in the volume Cosmicomics and narrated by an ancient being named Qfwfq

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Italo Calvino

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wrote Catch-22, Closing Time

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Joseph Heller

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wrote “White Noise” (professor of Hitler Studies) , “Libra” about Lee Harvey Oswald, wrote about the waste management executive Nick Shay in “Underworld”

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Don DeLillo

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wrote ‘Midnight’s Children”, “The Satanic Verses”

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Salman Rushdie

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wrote “White Teeth”, “NW”

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Zadie Smith

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wrote “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” -> supposed to be published 25 years after his death, “Mourning becomes Electra” (Trilogy), “Iceman Cometh”

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Eugene O’ Neill

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wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

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Edward Albee

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wrote “A Raisin in the Sun” -> the first play by an African American woman to be performed on Broadway

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Lorraine Hansberry

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wrote “The Little Foxes”

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Lillian Hellman

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“Father of Tragedy”, said Dionysius ordered him to write tragedies, Died, according to tradition, when eagle dropped turtle on his head. During a fictional poetry contest in Aristophanes’s The Frogs, this playwright beats Euripides.
Wrote Seven Against Thebes, Oresteia

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Aeschylus

Question 78

Won many prizes in dramatic competitions, even defeating Aeschylus once
Improved theatre by adding a 3rd actor and writing complete single tragedies
Invented skenographia-scene painting
Wrote more than 100 plays; only 7 complete tragedies survived. Wrote Oepidus Rex, Antigone

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Sophocles

Question 79

Last of the three great tragic poets of Greece
First of the realists, he focused on ordinary people, and his characters used everyday language
Pioneer in tragicomedy
Considered eccentric by his peers; wrote his tragedies in a cave
Wrote Medea, the Bacchae

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Euripedes

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Father of Modern Drama because of his works’ psychological and social realism
Plays did not follow the traditional framework
Plays: Brand, A Doll’s House, Peer Gynt, The Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck

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Henrick Ibsen

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An active Socialist and brilliant speaker, he formed the Fabian Society with others
Plays: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Man and Superman

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George Bernard Shaw

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Born in Ireland
Traveled to Paris and met James Joyce
He and his wife Susan joined "The Resistance" after Paris was attacked.
Most famous play: Waiting for Godot
Krapp's Last Tape
Endgame

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Samuel Beckett

Question 83

wrote A Man of All Seasons, Wrote script for Lawrence of Arabia

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Robert Oxton Bolt

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Wrote “Waiting for the Parade”

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John Murrell

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author of The Rover and Oroonoko, Women are urged to drop flowers on this author’s tomb in A Room of One’s Own, author of “The Emperor of the Moon”

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Aphra Behn

Question 86

wrote

• Les Miserables
• Notre-Dame de Paris
• Ruy Blas

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Victor Hugo

Question 87

wrote

• The Storm
• Don’t Live as You Like
• Dream on the Volga

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Alexander Ostrovsky

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Who wrote “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”? author of the “Lucy” poems, “Tintern Abbey”“Lyrical Ballads”

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William Wordsworth

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American poet who wrote The Raven, The Bells, “Once upon a midnight dreary” in “The Raven.” bird who cried “Nevermore”, “Annabel-Lee”

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Edgar Allen Poe

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his poet of “The Oven Bird” and “Out, Out—.” poet of “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken.” poet of “Home Burial,” “Birches,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

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Robert Frost

Question 91

this reclusive poet of “I felt a funeral, in my brain” and “Because I could not stop for Death.” ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” “I heard a fly buzzed when I died,” known as the Belle of Amherst

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Emily Dickinson

Question 92

name this Harlem Renaissance poet of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “The Weary Blues.”

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Langston Hughes

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this English poet who wrote “The Lotos Eaters” and “Ulysses.” poet of “In Memoriam A. H. H.” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Greek playwright of The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Birds, The Clouds

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Aristophanes

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Victorian novelist who wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far From the Maddening Crowd

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Thomas Hardy

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Guatemalan author of El Senor Presidente include The Cyclone, The Green Pope, and The Eyes of the Interred, which form his “Banana Trilogy.”

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Miguel Angel Asturias

Question 97

“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is a story written by this American author, who penned Pale Horse, Pale
Rider, and wrote about the travels of Jenny Brown and Mary Treadwell on the title boat in Ship of Fools.

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Katherine Anne Porter

Question 98

Author of the Bone People, from New Zealand

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Keri Hulme

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Author of the “Garden Party”, from New Zealand, wrote “Bliss”, “Daughters of the Late Colonel” (Jug and Con cope with the death of their tyrannical father)

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Katherine Mansfield

Question 100

name this man who wrote the Prose Poems, the French author of The Flowers of Evil?

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Charles Baudelaire

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this Italian author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.

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Umberto Eco

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This Spanish playwright and member of the Generation of ‘27 included Blood Wedding in his rural trilogy. His other works include The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and the historical play Marina Pineda.

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Federico Garcia Lorca

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Author of Brave New World, Doors of Perception, Island, Point Counter Point

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Aldous Huxley

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Welsh poet of “And Death Shall have no Dominion” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.”

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Dylan Thomas

Question 105

describes the title animal as “burning bright.”, poet of Marriage Between Heaven and Hell and “The Tyger”, marvels at the “fearful symmetry” of a beast “burning bright / In the forests of the night.” “weep! weep! weep! weep!”

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William Blake

Question 106

this author of “On the Pulse of Morning” and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie

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Maya Angelou

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poet of ‘In the bleak midwinter’ and ‘Goblin Market’, where goblins try to get Lizzie to eat fruit

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Christina Rossetti

Question 108

name this Southern Gothic author of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Grandmother is killed by the Misfit)

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Flannery O’Connor

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first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize, wrote “A Street in Bronzeville” (Chicago), “The Bean Eaters” and “We Real Cool.”(“Seven at the Golden Shovel” who “left school,” “lurk late,” and “strike straight.” )

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 110

name this poet of “Fog,” who wrote about the “Hog Butcher for the World” in his poem “Chicago.”, poet of “Grass” (“Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo” is the opening line)

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Carl Sandburg

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Wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility

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Jane Austen

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Wrote Darkness at Noon

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Arthur Koestler

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Wrote Crime and Punishment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Wrote Dracula

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Bram Stoker

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Wrote “The Awakening”, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”

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Kate Chopin

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name this author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Truman Capote

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Wrote Americanah and “We Should All Be Feminists”, Purple Hibiscus, Half a Yellow Sun, TED talk “The Danger of a Single Story.”

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Chimamanda Adichie

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Wrote Our Town

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Thornton Wilder

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Wrote The Jungle

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Upton Sinclair

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Wrote the Red Badge of Courage, the Open Boat (details the time spent in the title structure by the Correspondent, the Cook, the Captain, and the Oiler. Crane was inspired to write this work after surviving the sinking of the SS Commodore.) , Blue Hotel (centers on the murder of the Swede at Pat Scully’s title establishment) , The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

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Stephen Crane

Question 121

Wrote Farewell to Arms, Old Man and the Sea

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Ernest Hemingway

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Wrote Wuthering Heights

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Emily Bronte

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Wrote Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

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Wrote the Waste Land, Ash Wednesday

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T.S. Eliot

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Wrote Pilgrim’s Progress

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John Bunyan

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Wrote Penguin Island, the Gods are Athirst

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Anatole France

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Wrote Yellow Wallpaper, Herland

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 128

Wrote In Search of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust

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Wrote about his experiences of the Holocaust in “Night”

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Elie Wiesel

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Wrote “The Dumb Waiter”

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Harold Pinter

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Wrote “Naked and the Dead”

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Norman Mailer

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Wrote “Winesburg, Ohio”

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Sherwood Anderson

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Wrote “Siddartha” and “Steppenwolf”

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Herman Hesse

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twentieth poem begins, “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.”, “It is the hour of departure” in a poem that repeats the refrain, “in you, everything sank!”, wrote of “white hills, white thighs” in “Body of a Woman.”, author of the Elemental Odes and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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Pablo Neruda

Question 135

author of “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,” “Essay on Criticism,” and “The Rape of the Lock.”

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Alexander Pope

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author of July’s People

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Nadine Gordimer

Question 137

first poem begins, “thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.” frequently addressed God in his collection Gitanjali. . He wrote of a place “where the mind is without fear and the head is held high” and asked that “into that heaven of freedom, Father, let my country awake.”

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Rabindranath Tagore

Question 138

author of the collection The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, described her marriage by saying “if ever two were one, then surely we”, wrote “Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”

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Anne Bradstreet

Question 139

name this German author who wrote about the struggle between Karl and Franz Moor in The Robbers and who penned “Ode to Joy.” also wrote William Tell

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Friedrich Schiller

Question 140

known for a collection beginning “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?,” his Duino Elegies. wrote Letters to a Young Poet

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Ranier Marie Rilke

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playwright of Barefoot in the Park (newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter, Corie’s desire for Paul to be less uptight) and the Odd Couple (unlikely roommates Oscar and Felix)

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Neil Simon

Question 142

“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” was written by this 16th century English poet. He attacked “men of high condition” and “church and court” in his poem “The Lie” and was ultimately executed for treason. led a failed attempt to establish a colony in Roanoke, North Carolina

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Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 143

Wrote A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

Question 144

Wrote “The Stranger”, “The Plague”, Myth of Sisyphys, “Exile and the Kingdom”

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Albert Camus