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Russian author, wrote “Lolita”.
Valdimir Nabokov
Often dealt with meta-fiction themes.
Jorge Luis Borges
Wrote “Slaughter-House Five”
Kurt Vonnegut
Wrote “If on a Winter’s Night Traveler”.
Italo Calvino
Wrote “Catch-22”.
Joseph Heller
Wrote “White Noise”.
Don DeLillo
Wrote “Gravity’s Rainbow”.
Thomas Pynchon
Wrote “Midnight’s Children”.
Salman Rushdie
Wrote “Infinite Jest”
David Foster Wallace
British author, wrote “White Teeth”.
Zadie Smith
Grew up in Harlem. Wrote “Go Tell it to the Mountain”
James Baldwin
Wrote a poetry collection named “Annie Allen”
Gwendolyn Brooks
Wrote “Invisible Man”
Ralph Ellison
Wrote “A Raisin in the Sun”
Loraine Hansberry
Wrote a poem named “I, Too”
Langston Hughes
Works in her home town Eatonville, Florida.
Zora Neale Hurston
Wrote “Beloved”.
Toni Morrison
Wrote “The Color Purple”.
Alice Walker
Wheatley was her slave name, she was freed in the 1770s.
Phillis Wheatley
Wrote “Native Son”
Richard Wright
An american author, known for twist endings.
O. Henry
An american author, presents a character named “Nick Adams”.
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote “The Lottery”.
Shirley Jackson
Wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”. Many of his stories present the Glass Family.
J. D. Salinger
Best known for detective fiction, science fiction, and horror genres. Wrote “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Edgar Allan Poe
Wrote “There Will Come Soft Rains”.
Ray Bradbury
A french author known for his ironic endings. Wrote the story named “The Necklace”.
Guy De Maupassant
Wrote “The Minister’s Black Veil”.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
She wrote in the “Southern Gothic” style. Wrote the story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.
Flannery O’ Conner
An Argentine author best known for his philosophical stories. Wrote “The Library of Babel”.
Jorge Luis Borges
Originally consisted of five tribes native to upstate New York: the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, and Onondaga.
The Iroquois Confederacy
An Algonquin-speaking people who lived in eastern Virginia.
The Powhatan
Lived as one of the so-called “Five Civilized Tribes” of the southeastern United States.
The Cherokee
Another “civilized tribe,” lived in what is now Florida.
The Seminole
Are native to the Ohio Valley. Their leader Blue Jacket allied with the Miami people to crush an American incursion into the region at the Battle of the Wabash in 1791.
The Shawnee
The preeminent tribe of the northern Great Plains for most of the 19th century.
The Lakota Sioux
Held lands on the northern plains, while their linguistic relatives the Comanche dominated the southern plains.
The Shoshone
Lived along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest and maintained friendly relationships with Americans through most of the 19th century.
The Nez Perce
Live in the American southwest and contested land claims with both Mexican and American settlers, having earlier gained a reputation for ferocity by raiding other tribes in the southwest for generations.
The Apache
Indigenous to the American southwest. After their homeland was devastated in a campaign led by Kit Carson.
The Navajo
The sponges are all water-dwellers.
Porifera [por-IF-ur-uh]
Also called Coelenterata, the cnidarians develop from a diploblastic (two-layered) embryo, and have two separate tissue layers and radial body symmetry.
Cnidaria [ny-DAIR-ee-uh]
The flatworms are the most primitive phylum to develop from a triploblastic (three-layered) embryo.
Platyhelminthes [plat-ee-hel-MIN-theez]
The roundworms are unsegmented worms that live in a variety of habitats. They are pseudocoelomate; the three tissue layers are concentric, but the body cavity is not lined with tissue derived from the mesoderm (middle embryonic layer).
Nematoda [nee-muh-TOH-duh]
The annelids are segmented worms and represent the first lineage of truly eucoelomate animals, meaning their body cavities are lined with tissue derived from the embryonic mesoderm.
Annelida [an-uh-LEE-duh]
The most diverse and successful animal phylum on earth (incorporating about 75% of all described animal species), the Arthropoda are characterized by jointed legs and a chitinous exoskeleton.
Arthropoda [arth-roh-POH-duh]
The molluscs are second in diversity only to the arthropods. Body plans within this phylum are diverse, but general characteristics include a soft body covered by a thin mantle, with a muscular foot and an internal visceral mass.
Mollusca [moh-LUS-kuh]
Characteristics of this phylum include an endoskeleton composed of many ossicles of calcium and magnesium carbonate, a water vascular system, a ring canal around the esophagus, and locomotion by tube feet connected to the water vascular system.
Echinodermata [eh-KY-noh-dur-MAH-tuh]
The phylum that contains humans, Chordata is divided into three subphyla: Urochordata, the sea squirts; Cephalochordata, the lancelets, and Vertebrata, the true vertebrates, which is the most diverse subphylum.
Chordata [kor-DAH-tuh]
Novelist, diarist, and lady-in-waiting. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary Murasaki Shikibu nikki; and a collection of tanka poems.
Lady Murasaki Shikibu
Like Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagan was a lady-in-waiting of the Empress. Since Lady Murasaki and Sei Shonagan were contemporaries and known for their wit, they were often rivals*.
Sei Shonagon
also called Kanze Motokiyo: The second master of the Kanze theatrical school, which had been founded by his father, he is regarded as the greatest playwright of the No theater.
Zeami
a pseudonym of Matsuo Munefusa: Generally acknowledged as the master of the haiku form, the most notable influences on his work were Zen Buddhism and his travels throughout Japan.
Matsuo Basho
He was one of Japan’s first professional dramatists (as opposed to playwright-actors). Originally named Sugimori Nobumori, Chikamatsu wrote more than 150 plays for both the bunraku (puppet theater) and the kabuki (popular theater).
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
His mother died insane while he was a child, and his father was a failure who gave him up to relatives. Despite this inauspicious childhood, his 1915 short story “Rashomon” brought him into the highest literary circles and started him writing the macabre stories for which he is known. In 1927 he committed suicide by overdosing on pills, and his suicide letter “A Note to a Certain Old Friend” became a published work.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Recipient of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel. His works combine classic Japanese values with modern trends, and often center on the role of sex in people’s lives.
Kawabata Yasunari
a pseudonym of Hiraoka Kimitake: He was a novelist whose central theme was the disparity between traditional Japanese values and the spiritual emptiness of modern life. He failed to qualify for military service during World War II, so worked in an aircraft factory instead.
Mishima Yukio
He converted to Catholicism at the age of 11, and majored in French literature. His first works, White Man and Yellow Man, explored the differences between Japanese and Western values and national experiences.
Endo Shusaku
Novelist and recipient of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. His first work, Shiiku (The Catch), describes a friendship between a Japanese boy and a black American POW, and won him the Akutagawa award while he was still a student.
Oe Kenzaburo
