Origins Flashcards by Ben Skolnik

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Edgar Allen Poe

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(b. 1809, Boston MA)

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Charles Dickens

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(b. 1812, UK)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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(b. 1804, Salem, MA)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(b. 1803, Boston, MA)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(b. 1811 Litchfield, CT)

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George Eliot

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(b. 1819, UK)

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Brontë Sisters

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(b. 1810s-20s, West Yorkshire, UK)

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Henry David Thoreau

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(b. 1817, Concord, MA)

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Herman Melville

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(b. 1819, NYC)

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Walt Whitman

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(b. 1819, West Hills, NY)

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Jules Verne

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(b. 1828, France)

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Emily Dickinson

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(b. 1830, Amherst, MA)

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Lewis Carroll

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(b. 1832, UK)

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Mark Twain

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(b. 1835, MO, USA)

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Leo Tolstoy

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(b. 1828, Russia)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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(b. 1821, Moscow, Russia)

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Thomas Hardy

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(b. 1840, UK)

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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(b. 1844, Germany)

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Oscar Wilde

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(b. 1854, Dublin, Ireland)

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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(b. 1859, UK)

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Rudyard Kipling

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(b. 1859, Mumbai, India)

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Ruben Dario

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(b. 1867, Nicaragua)

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Marcel Proust

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(b. 1871, Paris, France)

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Gertrude Stein

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(b. 1874, Pittsburgh, PA)

James Joyce

(b. 1882, Ireland)

T.S. Elliot

(b. 1888, St. Louis, MO)

Agatha Christie

(b. 1890, UK)

Franz Kafka

(b. 1883, Prague, Czech Republic)

J.R.R. Tolkien

(b. 1892, South Africa)

Aldous Huxley

(b. 1894, UK)

Arthur Miller

(b. 1915, NYC)

William Faulkner

(b. 1897, New Albany, MS)

John Steinbeck

(b. 1902, Salinas, CA)

Pablo Neruda

(b. 1904, Chile)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(b. 1896, St Paul, MN)

Earnest Hemmingway

(b. 1912, Oak Park, IL)

J.D. Salinger

(b. 1919, NYC)

George Orwell

(b. 1903, India)

Gabriel García Márquez

(b. 1927, Colombia)

Roald Dahl

(b. 1916, UK)

Dr. Seuss

(b. 1904, Springfield, MA)

Harper Lee

(b. 1926, Monroeville, AL)

Kurt Vonnegut

(b. 1922, Indianapolis, IN)

Jack Kerouac

(b. 1922, Lowell, MA)

Truman Capote

(b. 1924, New Orleans, LA)

Dante Alighieri

(b. 1265, Florence, IT)

Geoffrey Chaucer

(b. Late 1300s, London, UK)

William Shakespeare

(b. 1564, UK)

John Milton

(b. 1608, London, England)

William Wordsworth

(b. 1770, UK)

Jane Austen

(b. 1775, UK)

Washington Irving

(b. 1783, NYC)

Robert Frost

(b. 1874, San Francisco)