J! Literature 8/30/23- Flashcards by Jen Kennings | Brainscape

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True West playwright

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Sam Shepard

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Buried Child playwright

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Sam Shepard

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single-named female French author

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Colette

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Jazz female author

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Toni Morrison

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first black woman to win Nobel Prize for literature

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Toni Morrison

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Day of the Locust author

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Nathanael West

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Pirandello

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Lyrical Ballads 2 authors

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Coleridge, Wordsworth

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The Iceman Cometh

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Eugene O’Neill

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Mourning Becomes Electra

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Eugene O’Neill

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Neuromancer author

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William Gibson

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City of Bones book series

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Mortal Instruments

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Dragonriders of Pern author

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Anne McCaffrey

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Dover Beach poet

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Matthew Arnold

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Leslie Charteris book/character

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Simon Templar (The Saint)

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The Barfly novelist

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Charles Bukowski

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Tabard Inn book

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Canterbury Tales

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Robert Bolt drama about Henry VIII, Thomas More

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A Man for All Seasons

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protagonist of The Big Sleep

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Philip Marlowe

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Daisy Miller author

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Henry James

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Life of Samuel Johnson author

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James Boswell

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1600s diarist

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Samuel Pepys

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John le Carre detective

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George Smiley

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Tales of the South Pacific author

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James Michener

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Khalil Gibran book

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The Prophet

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Thanatopsis poet

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William Cullen Bryant

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Pilgrim’s Progress author

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John Bunyan

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Exodus novelist

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Leon Uris

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Mila 18 novelist

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Leon Uris

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The Beautiful and the Damned author

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Fitzgerald

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author of Postmortem books about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta

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Patricia Cornwell

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medical thriller writer of Coma; Contagion

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Robin Cook

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Cyrano de Bergerac author

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Edmond Rostand

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A Visit from the Goon Squad author

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Jennifer Egan

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Charlaine Harris vampire novels became HBO show

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True Blood

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Irish/English satirist and St. Patrick’s Cathedral dean

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Jonathan Swift

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All the Pretty Horses author

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Cormac McCarthy

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The Martian

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Andy Weir

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Mickey Spillane detective

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Mike Hammer

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Laurence Sterne novel inspired by Don Quixote

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Tristram Shandy

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Mystic River, Shutter Island author

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Dennis Lehane

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Charles Dickens pseudonym

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Boz

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Presumed Innocent author

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Scott Turow

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The Natural author

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Bernard Malamud

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Portrait of a Lady author

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Henry James

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Tara Road author

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Maeve Binchy

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Circle of Friends author

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Maeve Binchy

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novel with Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise

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On the Road

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Wolf Hall author (book about Cromwell)

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Hilary Mantel

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_____ of Sunnybrook Farm

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Rebecca

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Princess Bride author

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William Goldman

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Flowers of Evil author

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Baudelaire