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KANTOR, MACKINLAY – American novelist & short-story writer; wrote historical novels; wrote Andersonville; Valley Forge; Gettysburg; & The Voice of Bugle Ann. KEILLOR, GARRISON – American writer, short-story writer, & radio entertainer; books are semiautobiographical with deadpan humor; wrote Lake Wobegon Days; Homegrown Democrat; Leaving Home; & We Are Still Married. KELLER, HELEN – American writer & educator; was blind & deaf at age 19 months; was taught by Anne Sullivan; worked for women’s suffrage & became involved in socialist & humanitarian causes; wrote The Story of My Life. KENNEDY, WILLIAM – American novelist & journalist; known for the “Albany cycle novels”; writings revitalized regionalism; wrote Legs; Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game; & Ironweed. KEROUAC, JACK – American novelist, poet & leader & spokesman of the Beat Movement; wrote in expressive poetic language; books about the American quest for adventure & renewal; wrote On the Road; The Dharma Bums; Atop An Underwood; & Door Wide Open. KESEY, KEN – American novelist; became the hero of the 1960s counterculture; his writings expressed the conflict between free spirit independence & the authoritarianism of society; wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Demon Box; Last Go Round; Sailor Song; & Sometimes a Great Notion. KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. – African-American writer & civil rights leader; founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; known for his eloquent speeches – I Have A Dream; also wrote Why We Can’t Wait; The Testament of Hope; & A Trumpet of Conscience. KING, STEPHEN – American horror novelist, short-story writer & screenwriter; revived the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century; addresses the “nature of evil”; writes under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman – Thinner; wrote Carrie; Salem’s Lot; The Shining; The Stand; Misery; Firestarter; The Dead Zone; Cujo; Pet Sematary; Christine; The Green Mile; The Tommyknockers; The Dark Half; It; Dolores Claiborne; Rose Madder; Bag of Bones; Insommia; Duma Key; & Under the Dome. KINGSOLVER, BARBARA – American writer & political activist; writes about the strength & endurance of the poor & disenfranchised people of the Southwest; wrote Animal Dreams; Prodigal Summer; Pigs in Heaven; High Tide in Tucson; The Bean Trees; & The Poisonwood Bible. KNOWLES, JOHN – American novelist; known for A Separate Peace a novel based on his personal experiences at a private school; his characters are caught in a conflict between the wild & pragmatic sides of their personalities; also, wrote The Paragon; Peace Breaks Out; & A Stolen Past. KOONTZ, DEAN – American horror & science fiction novelist; writes under seven other pseudonyms; wrote Phantoms; Strangers; Watchers; Hideaway; From the Corner of His Eye; The Husband; The Mask; Forever Odd; Odd Thomas; Dark Rivers of the Heart; Mr. Murder; Whispers; The Face & The Eyes of Darkness. KOSINSKI, JERZY – American novelist; writes about individuals in controlling & bureaucratic societies; accused of fraudulently marketing his life story; wrote Being There & Passing By. KUNITZ, STANLEY J. – American poet & editor; noted for his poetic subtle craftsmanship & complexity; edited many literature reference books; wrote The Collected Poems. L L’AMOUR, LOUIS – American western novelist; his books were formula westerns portraying frontier life & western detective novels; he was the most popular writer of this genre in the U.S.; wrote The Daybreakers; Flint; Lando; The Lonesome Gods; The Haunted Mesa; Valley of the Sun; & The Sackett Novels. LAWHEAD, STEPHEN – American science fiction writer; known for his Celtic fantasies; writes of the epic battles of good versus evil; wrote The Paradise War; The Endless Knot; Taliesin; Merlin; & Arthur. LARDNER, RING – American short-story writer & journalist; a gifted satirist & storyteller; was blacklisted during the McCarthy era; wrote You Know Me & The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner. LEE, HARPER – American novelist; wrote To Kill A Mockingbird which dealt with racist prejudice & violence in a small Southern town as seen through the eyes of a white child. LeGUIN, URSULA K. – American fantasy & science fiction writer; her writings range from subtle feminist works to multi-media fiction; wrote Rocannon’s World; Planet of Exile; The Left-Hand of Darkness; The Dispossessed; The World for Word is Forest; & The Lathe of Heaven. LEHANE, DENNIS – American detective novelist & short story writer; writes the hard-boiled detective mystery novel; wrote Mystic River; Shutter Island; & Coronado: Stories. L’ENGLE, MADELEINE – American writer; writings are concerned with the conflict of good & evil, the nature of God, & individual responsibility; wrote The Moon By Night; The Young Unicorns; A Ring of Endless Light; A Wrinkle In Time; A Circle of Quiet; & Two-Part Invention. LEVINE, IRA – American novelist & playwright; writes mystery & horror stories; wrote Rosemary’s Baby; Son of Rosemary; A Kiss Before Dying; The Stepford Wives; & a play, Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts. LEWIS, SINCLAIR – American novelist; was the first to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; wrote about the emerging middle class during the1920s in a dry satire wit & a descriptive style; wrote Main Street; Babbitt; Arrowsmith; Elmer Gantry; & It Can’t Happen Here. LONDON, JACK - American novelist, short-story writer & journalist; known for his vivid adventure tales of the wilderness; wrote The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Sea-Wolf; Smoke Bellew; & To Build a Fire & Other Stories. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH – American romantic poet; most popular American poet of the 19th century; wrote melodious poetry with memorable rhymes & patriotic themes; wrote The Song of Hiawatha & Other Poems; The Complete Poetic Works of Longfellow; & Favorite Poems. LOWELL, AMY – American critic, lecturer, & imagist poet; pioneered modern American poetry; wrote poetry in free verse & in what she called “polyphonic prose”; wrote Selected Poems. LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL – American poet, critic, essayist, editor, & diplomat; developed the Atlantic Monthly magazine; wrote humorous satires concerning social problems; his poetry is in various anthologies. LOWELL, ROBERT – American poet & playwright; poet noted for his complex, confessional & political poetry; his poetry has a richness of imagery & allusions; poetry is found in various anthologies. LUDLUM, ROBERT – American suspense novelist; writes fast-paced novels with complex plots; wrote The Scarlatti Inheritance; The Bourne Identity; The Bourne Supremacy; The Bourne Ultimatum; The Matarese Circle; The Aquitaine Progression; The Road to Omaha; & The Parsifal Mosaic. M McCAFFREY, ANNE – American fantasy writer; uses vivid imagery; wrote the “Pern Series”; wrote The Dragonriders of Pern; The Harper Hill of Pern; The People of Pern; The Skies of Pern; Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern; All the Weyrs of Pern; Nimisha’s Ship; Pegasus in Space; & The Acorna Series. McCARTHY, CORMAC – American contemporary novelist; uses historical Western themes & controversial realism in his subject matter; writes in the gothic Southern tradition; wrote All The Pretty Horses; No Country for Old Men; The Crossing; & The Road. McCARTHY, MARY – American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, drama critic, & poet; writes autobiographical fiction using satirical analysis of society’s weaknesses; wrote The Group & Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. McCOURT, FRANK – American biographer & novelist; writing is based on his own childhood; wrote Angela’s Ashes; ‘Tis; & Teacher Man. McCULLERS, CARSON – American novelist; writes stories in an evocative style about the love & loneliness of life; writes in the Southern Gothic style; wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter & The Member of the Wedding. McGINLEY, PHYLLIS – American poet & children’s writer; known for her light verse about the suburban home life; wrote The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley & Sixpence in Her Shoe. McGUANE, THOMAS – American novelist; writes as a prose stylist producing masculine fiction focusing on men in society & their vocations; wrote The Cadence of Grass & Nothing But Blue Skies. McKAY, CLAUDE – African-American novelist & poet; writes in Jamaican dialect; his writings are in Selected Poems. MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD – American poet, playwright, & public official; his concern for liberal democracy influenced his work; wrote J.B., A Play; Poetry & Experience; & The Human Season: Selected Poems. McMILLAN, TERRY – African-American novelist; her writings dramatize the struggles of young professional African-American women in society; wrote Waiting to Exhale; How Stella Got Her Groove Black; & Disappearing Acts. McMURTRY, LARRY – American novelist; writes about the Western myth of the cowboy & the rancher; wrote Terms of Endearment; The Last Picture Show; Lonesome Dove; The Evening Star; Dead Man’s Walk; & When the Lights Go Out. MAILER, NORMAN – American novelist & journalist; one of the major figures in American literature of the later 20th century; writes about the fates of individuals in society; wrote The Naked & The Dead; The Executioner’s Song; The Armies of the MALAMUD, BERNARD American novelist & short-story writer; writes parables based on Jewish immigrant life; wrote The Natural; The Assistant; The Fixer; The Tenants; & The Malamud Reader. MARQUAND, JOHN P. – American novelist; recorded the shifting patterns of middle-& upper-class American society; wrote The Late George Apley. MASTERS, EDGAR LEE – American poet & novelist; depicted a community through portraits of its citizens; wrote crafted epitaphs; best known for The Spoon River Anthology. MATHER, COTTON – American Puritan leader & writer; his writings contributed to the hysteria surrounding the Salem witchcraft trials; though he disapproved of their excesses; wrote moral essays. MELVILLE, HERMAN - American novelist; writings were about the sea; one of the greatest American novelists of the 19th century; questioned society; wrote Moby Dick, or, The Whale; Billy Budd, Sailor; Typee, or A Peep at Polynesian Life; Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas; Bartleby & Benito Cereno; & Five Tales. MICHENER, JAMES – American novelist & short-story writer; wrote detailed epics with carefully researched historical detail; considered the best writer of historical fiction; wrote Tales of the South Pacific; Hawaii; Centennial; Chesapeake; Mexico; & Space. MILLAY, EDNA St. VINCENT – American poet & dramatist; her writings personified romantic rebellion & bravado in the 1920s; poetry grouped in Collected Poems. MILLER, ARTHUR – American playwright; in his dramas he combined social awareness with a searching concern for his character’s inner strength; wrote The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; & The Price. MITCHELL, MARGARET – American novelist; wrote Gone with the Wind, a novel about the Civil War & Reconstruction as seen from the Southern point of view. MOMADAY, N. SCOTT – Native American novelist; uses the Native American oral (storytelling) tradition in his poetry, fiction, & autobiography; wrote House Made of Dawn; The Man Made of Words; & In the Presence of the Sun. MOORE, MARIANNE – American poet; acclaimed for her innovations in poetic technique, use of detail, & exploration of paradox; writings in The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore; Tell Me, Tell Me; & Poems of Marianne Moore. MORRISON, TONI – African-American novelist & editor; “magical realism” is applied to describe her fiction; wrote The Bluest Eye; Sula; Song of Solomon; Beloved; Jazz; Paradise & Tar Baby. MOSLEY, WALTER – African-American mystery suspense writer; writings noted for their realistic portrayals of segregated inner-city life; wrote 47; Bad Boy Brawley Brown; Gone Fishin’; RL’s Dream; & Walkin’ the Dog. N NABOKOV, VLADIMIR – Russian-American novelist & short-story writer; a master prose stylist; wrote King, Queen, Knave; Speak, Memory; & The Complete Novels. NASH, OGDEN – American poet; wrote humorous poetry; wrote Marriage Lines; There’s Always Another Windmill; You Can’t Get There From Here; I Couldn’t Help Laughing. NORRIS, FRANK – American novelist & short-story writer; Father of American naturalism in writing; believed in love’s ability to reform people into being better; wrote McTeague; The Octopus; & The Pit. NORTON, ANDRE – American science-fiction & fantasy novelist; her writings usually featured adolescents undergoing rites of passages in life; wrote The Witch World Series; Android at Arms; Black Trillium; The Crystal Gryphon; Iron Cage; & No Night Without Stars. O OATES, JOYCE CAROL - American novelist & short-story writer; prose writer with a wide range of genres, including gothic, romance, & suspense stories; a master of thought-provoking fiction; wrote Expensive People; Them; Bellefleur; A Bloodsmoor Romance; We Are the Mulvaneys; The Gravedigger’s Daughter; Small Avalanches & Other Stories; Blonde: A Novel; The Falls; You Must Remember This; & Missing Mom. O’CONNOR, (MARY) FLANNERY – American novelist & short-story writer; her symbol-laden writings, usually set in the rural South, concern an individual’s relationship to God; wrote A Good Man is Hard to Find; Everything That Rises Must Converge; Complete Stories; & Collected Works. ODETS, CLIFFORD – American playwright & screenwriter; leading dramatist of the theater of social protest during the 1930s; wrote Six Plays. O. HENRY – (William Sydney Porter) American short-story writer; transformed the mundane occurrences of everyday life into stories; wrote The Gift of the Magi; The Last Leaf; Heart of the West; & other stories. O’NEILL, EUGENE – American dramatist & poet; considered the greatest American dramatist in the 20th century; wrote drama using gritty realism, satire, & tragedy; wrote The Complete Plays; Nine Plays; Selected Plays of Eugene O’Neill; The Emperor Jones, “Anna Christie”, & The Hairy Ape. P PAINE, THOMAS – English born American writer & pamphleteer; wrote revolutionary pamphlets; wrote Common Sense. PARKER, DOROTHY – American poet, short-story writer, & critic; used “cruel” humor, sharp dialogue, & irony in her writings; wrote in The Collected Short Stories & The Portable Dorothy Parker. PARKS, GORDON – African-American author, photographer & film director; documented African-American life; wrote In Love (poetry); The Learning Tree (novel); & Gordon Parks: A Poet & His Camera. PATCHETT, ANN – American novelist; writes romantic tragicomic novels; wrote Bel Canto; The Patron Saint of Liars; & Run. PICOULT, JODI – American modern novelist; her novels cross many genres, including literary fiction, legal thrillers, psychological portraits, romances & ghost stories; wrote Handle With Care; Harvesting the Heart; My Sister’s Keeper; Nineteen Minutes; Plain Truth; Vanishing Acts; The Pact; Change of Heart; Mercy; & Keeping Faith. PLATH, SYLVIA – American poet & novelist; her writings were known for their personal imagery & intense focus; used themes of women’s creativity, alienation, death & self-destruction in her writings; wrote the autobiographical The Bell Jar; The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; Winter Trees; & The Collected Poems. POE, EDGAR ALLAN – American horror writer, critic, poet, & short-story writer; “Master of the American Gothic”; famous for his mystery & macabre in fiction & eerie poetry; considered the father of the short-story form; wrote short stories - The Masque of the Red Death; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Murders of the Rue Morgue: The Pit & The Pendulum; The Tell-Tale heart; The Purloined Letter; & The Cask of Amontillado; wrote poetry – The Raven & Annabel Lee. PORTER, KATHERINE ANNE – American short-story writer & novelist; her writings are noted for being distinct, concise, subtle, elegant & based on her own first-hand experiences; wrote The Ship of Fools & The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. POTOK, CHAIM – American novelist; his writings explores the Orthodox Jewish experience in the U.S.; wrote The Chosen; The Promise; My Name Is Asher Lev; & Zebra & Other Stories. POUND, EZRA – American poet, translator, & critic; defined literary modernism; was one of the most influential & controversial figures in modern literature; wrote in Early Poems & poems in anthologies. PROULX, E. ANNE – American modern novelist; writes about rural North America with humor; wrote The Shipping News; Accordion Crimes; That Old Ace in the Hole; Heart Songs & Other Stories; Close Range: Wyoming Stories; & Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories. PUZO, MARIO – American novelist; wrote about Italian immigrants earning a living in America; wrote The Godfather; the Last Don; Fools Die; Fourth K; & Fortunate Pilgrim. PYNCHON, THOMAS – American postmodern novelist & short-story writer; one of the leading practitioners of metafiction, the dominant avant-garde style in novels during the sixties & the seventies; wrote Vineland; Mason & Dixon; & The Crying of Lot 49. R RAND, AYN – Russian-born American novelist; her writings depicted her philosophy of objectivism & individual self-reliance; wrote Anthem; Atlas Shrugged; Fountainhead; The Virtue of Selfishness; & The Journals of Ayn Rand. RAWLINGS, MARJORIE, KINNAN – American novelist; writes about families in Florida living in poverty; wrote The Yearling. RAWLS, W. WILSON – American novelist; writes about rural life; wrote The Summer of the Monkeys & Where the Red Fern Grows. RICE, ANNE – American horror novelist; known for her vampire novels; wrote Interview with a Vampire; The Vampire Lestat; The Queen of the Damned; The Tale of the Body Thief; The Witching Hour; Lasher; & Taltos. RICHTER, CONRAD – American novelist & short-story writer; known for his lyrical fiction about early America; Pennsylvania native; known for the development of the realistic historical novel; wrote The Sea of Grass; The Light in the Forest; The Awakening Land Trilogy -The Trees; The Fields; & The Town; The Aristocrat; The Country of Strangers; & The Free Man. ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON – American poet; known for his short dramatic poems about the occupants of a small New England village; poetry found in anthologies. ROTH, PHILIP – American novelist; reworks the fabric of his own life into material for his fiction; writes great dialogue with satirical comic touches; called a psychological realist novelist; wrote The Ghost Writer; Everyman; Exit Ghost; The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel; The Breast: A Novel; American Pastoral; & The Plot Against America. RUSSO, RICHARD – American novelist & screenwriter; writes character descriptions of New Englanders & their families; wrote Empire Falls; Nobody’s Fool; & the Bridge of Sighs. S SALINGER, J.D. – American novelist & short-story writer; wrote masterful depictions of characters; uses vivid realistic dialogue; wrote The Catcher in the Rye; Nine Stories; Raise High the Roof Beam; & Franny & Zooey. SANDBURG, CARL – American poet, historian, novelist, & folklorist; his writings celebrate the American spirit & champion the working man; wrote Abraham Lincoln:The Prairie Years; Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; The American Songbag; Complete Poems; Wind Song: Poems; Always Young Strangers; Storm Over the Land: A Profile of the Civil War; & Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg. SAROYAN, WILLIAM – American novelist; short-story writer & playwright; wrote brash, irreverent stories celebrating the joy of living during the Great Depression despite the poverty, hunger, & insecurity people were experiencing; wrote Places Where I’ve Done Time; My Name is Aram; The Human Comedy; & the plays – My Heart’s in the Highlands & The Time of Your Life. SCHAEFER, JACK – American western novelist & short-story writer; created a mythical western hero with a shady past in his most famous novel, Shane; The Plainsmen; Mavericks, & The Short Novels of Jack Schaefer. SEUSS (GEISEL, THEODORE) – American writer & illustrator of children’s books; known as Dr. Seuss; writes in humorous rhyming text; wrote The Cat in the Hat; Horton Hatches the Egg; Green Eggs & Ham; Oh, The Places You’ll Go; & How the Grinch Stole Christmas. SEXTON, ANNE – American poet; poetry is noted for its personal confessional intensity; wrote All My Pretty Ones; Live or Die; Love Poems; The Death Notebooks; Transformations; Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters; Selected Poems of Anne Sexton; & Complete Poems. SHEPARD, SAM – American playwright, novelist, short-story writer, & actor; his dramas have blended images of the American West; science fiction, & elements of popular culture; one of the most individualistic voices of the American stage; his plays are considered the most enduring postmodern dramatic literature of the 1970’s & 1980’s; Seven Plays. SHIELDS, CAROL – Canadian-American novelist, playwright, & poet; lived most of her life in Canada; wrote about ordinary lives with depth & wit while exploring the gender gap; Small Ceremonies; The Stone Diaries; Dressing Up For the Carnival; & Unless: A Novel. SHREVE, ANITA – American popular novelist & journalist; writings are about the imagined lives of other people; writes of the past & present while weaving a story with mystery & suspense; wrote Fortune’s Rocks; The Last Time They Met; Sea Glass; All He Ever Wanted; Eden Close; The Weight of the Water; Light in the Snow; Resistance; Strange Fits of Passion; The Pilot’s Wife; Where or When; A Wedding in December; Body Surfing; & Testimony. SILKO, LESLIE MARMON – Native-American novelist, short-story writer, & poet; writes about the conflict between Native Americans & white Anglo-American cultures & folklore; recognized as one of the leading female contributors to the renaissance in Native American literature; wrote Laguna Woman; Ceremony; Yellow Woman & Gardens in the Dunes. SIMON, NEIL – American playwright & screenwriter; dramas are both tragic & comic depicting humorous family life & friendships; is the most successful playwright in the history of the theater; wrote Come Blow Your Horn; Barefoot in the Park; The Odd Couple; Plaza Suite; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Biloxi Blues; Lost in Yonkers; The Heartbreak Kid; The Goodbye Girl; I Ought to be in Pictures; The Comedy of Neil Simon; & The Collected Plays. SINCLAIR, UPTON – American novelist & socialist; wrote about social injustices; The Jungle is considered the best of the naturalistic proletarian novels; Oil; World’s End; & Dragon Teeth. SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS – Polish-American writer of novels, short stories, & essays; writes about Jewish culture, families, & history; wrote The Slave; The Manor; The Estate; A Friend of Kafka & other Stories;& in various short-story anthologies. SMILEY, JANE – American popular author; believes she is a comic, realist writer who focuses on family life; wrote A Thousand Acres; Moo; The Age of Grief; Ordinary Love & Good Will; Good Faith; At Paradise Gate; Barn Blind; & Horse Heaven. SMITH, BETTY – American novelist, dramatist, & poet; wrote about family life; wrote A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Joy in the Morning. SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ – American novelist; Pennsylvania born; best known for his novels featuring Arkady Renko; wrote Gorky Park; Nightwing; & Polar Star. STEIN, GERTRUDE – American avant-garde writer, eccentric, salon hostess, & self-styled genius; Pennsylvania born; cubist style; influenced postmodern poetry; helped reshape the sound of American prose; wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas & Three Lives: Stories…. STEINBECK, JOHN – American novelist, short-story writer, & journalist; considered one of the greatest American writers; wrote with compassion about people at the bottom of American society while celebrating simple, human values; wrote Tortilla Flat; In Dubious Battle; Of Mice & Men; The Grapes of Wrath; The Red Pony; The Moon Is Down; Cannery Row; The Pearl; East of Eden; The Winter of Our Discontent; & Travels with Charley. STEVENS, WALLACE – American modernist poet & essayist; Pennsylvania born; viewed poetry as supreme fiction; used romantic diction & imagery in poetry; wrote Collected Poems & Emperor of Ice Cream & Other Poems. STONE, IRVING – American writer of historical biographies; used the term “bio-history” providing well researched biographies in which he immersed himself in their character; wrote Lust for Life; Love Is Eternal; The Agony & The Ecstasy; Men to Match My Mountains; Clarence Darrow for the Defense; The President’s Lady; They Also Ran; & Those Who Love. STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER – American novelist & philanthropist; wrote controversial works about slavery; used Christian themes; considered the most important writer of antislavery fiction; wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin & The Pearl of Orr’s Island.. STYRON, WILLIAM – American novelist & short-story writer; his characters battle to maintain their own principles & ideals; a master at modern literary style; wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner; Sophie’s Choice; & The Long March. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 116.19 Kb. Share with your friends:
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