General Flashcards
1
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Stephen King
A
- American author
- Contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy
- Shining
- The Misery
2
Q
Charles Dickens
A
- fictional characters
- English writer
- Great Expectations
- Oliver Twist
3
Q
Edgar Allan Poe
A
- American author, poet
- The Raven
- The Black Cat
4
Q
Virginia Woolf
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- English writer
- modernist
- Mrs Dalloway
- To the Lighthouse
5
Q
William Faulkner
A
- American writer
- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate at Oxford
- The Sound of Fury
- As I lay Dying
6
Q
Francis Fitzgerald
A
- American novelist and short story writer
- The Great Gatsby
7
Q
James Joyce
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- Irish novelist and poet
- Ulysses
8
Q
Vladimir Nabokov
A
- Russian-American novelist
- Lolita
9
Q
Sylvia Plath
A
- The Bell Jar
- American Poet
10
Q
Kurt Vonnegut
A
- American author
- Slaughterhouse Five
11
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William Shakespeare
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- English poet, playwright, and actor
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet
- Julius Caesar
- Othello
12
Q
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
A
- English novelist
- 1984
- Animal Farm
13
Q
Oscar Wilde
A
- Irish Playwright
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
14
Q
Truman Capote
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- American novelist
- In Cold Blood
15
Q
Jack Kerouac
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- American novelist
- On the Road
16
Q
John Steinback
A
- American author
- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- East of Eden
- The Pearl
17
Q
John R.R. Tolkien
A
- English writer
- The Silmarillion
- Unfinished Tales
- The Two Tower
- The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
18
Q
Neil Gaiman
A
- The Graveyard Book
- Coraline
19
Q
Agatha Christie
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- English crime novelist
- And Then There Were None
- Murder on the Orient Express
20
Q
Maya Angelou
A
- American author
- Civil Rights Activist
- I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- And Still I Rise
21
Q
Charlot Tolstoy
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- Russian Writer
- War and Peace
- Resurrection
“Greatest Writers of All Time”
22
Q
Margaret Atwood
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- Canadian Poet
- Oryx and Crake
- The Blind Assassin
23
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Ernest Hemingway
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- Farewell to Arms
- The old Man and the Sea
- Influenced 20th century fiction
