People Flashcards
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James Baldwin
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- Author of The Fire Next Time
- Prominent African American author in the 1960s
- A leader in the Civil Rights movement
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Becca Rothfield
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Author of “What Chatbots Can’t Do” and “All Things Are Too Small”
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Elaine Scarry
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Author of On Beauty and Being Just
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A.E. Housman
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- 19th century poet
- wrote [“Terence, this is stupid stuff”]
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Michel de Montaigne
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- “inventor” of the essay; first to write in that sort of format
- author of “How We Weep adn Laugh at the Same Thing”
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Andrew Marvell
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- English poet
- wrote “To His Coy Mistress”
- spy/courtier during English Revolution
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- essayist, author, Transcendentalist
- author of “Self-Reliance”
- inspired generation of American Transcendentalists/Romantics/new thinkers
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Henry David Thoreau
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- essayist
- wrote “Civil Disobedience” (aka “Resistance to Civil Government”)
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Saki (H. H. Munro)
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- British author
- wrote The Bag
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Henri Matisse
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- Fauvist artist
- famous for painting simplistic, (often) faceless people
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Richard Wright
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- prominent Black author during mid-20th century
- author of Native Son
- known for not shying away from brutality/gore in his novels
- often compared to Baldwin
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Thomas Hardy
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- English novelist
- late 19th century to mid-290th century
- author of Far from the Madding Crowd
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