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Stephen King

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  • American author
  • Contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy
  • Shining
  • The Misery
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Charles Dickens

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  • fictional characters
  • English writer
  • Great Expectations
  • Oliver Twist
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Edgar Allan Poe

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  • American author, poet
  • The Raven
  • The Black Cat
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Virginia Woolf

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  • English writer
  • modernist
  • Mrs Dalloway
  • To the Lighthouse
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William Faulkner

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  • American writer
  • Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at Oxford
  • The Sound of Fury
  • As I lay Dying
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Francis Fitzgerald

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  • American novelist and short story writer

- The Great Gatsby

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James Joyce

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  • Irish novelist and poet

- Ulysses

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Vladimir Nabokov

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  • Russian-American novelist

- Lolita

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Sylvia Plath

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  • The Bell Jar

- American Poet

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Kurt Vonnegut

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  • American author

- Slaughterhouse Five

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William Shakespeare

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  • English poet, playwright, and actor
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Julius Caesar
  • Othello
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George Orwell (Eric Blair)

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  • English novelist
  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
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Oscar Wilde

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  • Irish Playwright

- The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Truman Capote

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  • American novelist

- In Cold Blood

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Jack Kerouac

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  • American novelist

- On the Road

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John Steinback

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  • American author
  • Of Mice and Men
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • East of Eden
  • The Pearl
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John R.R. Tolkien

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  • English writer
  • The Silmarillion
  • Unfinished Tales
  • The Two Tower
  • The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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Neil Gaiman

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  • The Graveyard Book

- Coraline

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Agatha Christie

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  • English crime novelist
  • And Then There Were None
  • Murder on the Orient Express
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Maya Angelou

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  • American author
  • Civil Rights Activist
  • I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • And Still I Rise
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Charlot Tolstoy

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  • Russian Writer
  • War and Peace
  • Resurrection
    “Greatest Writers of All Time”
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Margaret Atwood

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  • Canadian Poet
  • Oryx and Crake
  • The Blind Assassin
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Ernest Hemingway

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  • Farewell to Arms
  • The old Man and the Sea
  • Influenced 20th century fiction

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