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TAN, AMY – American novelist; writes about Chinese-American women; wrote The Joy Luck Club; The Kitchen God’s Wife; The Hundred Secret Senses; The Bonesetter’s Daughter; & Saving Fish From Drowning. TARKINGTON, BOOTH – American novelist, short-story writer & playwright; writings celebrate conservative middle class values; wrote The Magnificent Ambersons; The Midlander; The Plutocrat; & Alice Adams. TERKEL, STUDS – American writer & interviewer; was blacklisted for his leftist leanings; wrote Hard Times; Working; The Good War; The Great Divide; & Race; Coming of Age. THOREAU, HENRY DAVID – American writer, teacher, handyman, hermit, naturalist, protestor, & man of letters; believed in the importance of the individual & had strong political views; was a proponent of Transcendentalism; advocated environmental awareness; wrote Walden; A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers; The Maine Woods, & Civil Disobedience. THURBER, JAMES – American writer, humorist, & cartoonist; his cartoons have been classics of urban mythology in the New Yorker Magazine; his writings were an appraisal of human foibles; wrote My Life & Hard Times; The Thurber Album; Thurber Carnival; Writings & Drawings; & The Years with Ross; & The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. TRUTH, SOJOURNER – African-American writer, social reformer, & evangelist; was born a slave & later freed; was an advocate of abolitionism & women’s suffrage; had a magnetic speaking style; wrote The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. TWAIN, MARK (pseudonym of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS) – American humorist, writer, journalist, & lecturer; considered one of America’s greatest novelists & one of the world’s greatest writers of juvenile & comic literature; wrote stories about realistic adventures; his social satires, compassion & biting wit remain an inspiration to writers today; wrote Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson; A Tramp Abroad; The Prince & the Pauper; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; The Diary of Adam & Eve; & The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. TYLER, ANNE – American popular novelist & short-story writer; her stories explore the conflicts of family life & the urge to escape; wrote A Slipping-Down Life; Back When We Were Grownups; Digging to America; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; If Morning Ever Comes; Morgan’s Passing; Saint Maybe; The Accidental Tourist; The Amateur Marriage; The Clock Winder; The Tin Can Tree; Breathing Lessons; Ladder of Years & A Patchwork Planet. U UPDIKE, JOHN – American novelist, short-story writer, poet & critic; Pennsylvania born; his sympathetic & humorous stories tell of painful feelings & unfulfilled dreams; recognized as an accomplished stylist & prolific writer; wrote Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit is Rich; Rabbit at Rest; The Centaur; Couples; The Witches of Eastwick; S.; Americana & Other Poems; Collected Poems, 1953-1993; Couples: A Novel; Gertrude & Claudius; Hugging the Shore; In the Beauty of the Lilies; Mary Me; Seek My Face; Of the Farm; & Bech: A Book. URIS, LEON – American novelist & screenwriter; known for panoramic, action filled novels based on a real historical event; wrote Battle Cry; Exodus; Mila 18; Topaz; QB VIII; A God in Ruins; & Trinity. V VIDAL, GORE – American novelist, playwright, television & film scriptwriter, & essayist; writes satires about politics & politicians; master of historical fiction; wrote Burr; 1876; & The Smithsonian Institution. VONNEGUT, KURT, JR. – American fantasy, science fiction, & short-story writer; writes pessimistic satirical comical novels using fantasy & science fiction to highlight the horrors & ironies of the 20th century; wrote The Sirens of Titan; Cat’s Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before the Swine; Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade; Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday; Slapstick; Deadeye Dick; Galapagos; Bluebeard; A Man Without a Country; Hocus Pocus; Jailbird; Player Piano; Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons;Happy Birthday, Wanda June (a play); & Welcome to the Monkey House ( collection of short stories). W WALKER, ALICE – African-American contemporary novelist, poet, short-story writer & political activist; writes about feminism, civil & human rights; wrote The Color Purple; The Temple of My Familiar; Anything We Love Can Be Saved; In Love & In Trouble; In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens; Meridian; Once: Poems; The Same River Twice; The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart; & By the Light of My Father’s Smile. WARREN, ROBERT PENN – American novelist, poet, teacher, & critic; known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in the South; the first American poet laureate; focused on time & identity in fiction; wrote All the King’s Men; At Heaven’s Gate; The Cave; A Place to Come to; Being There: Poetry 1977-1980; New & Selected Poems; & World Enough & Time. WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. – American essayist, biographer, educator, & reformer; born a slave; wrote Up from Slavery; & The Life of Frederick Douglass. WELTY, EUDORA – American novelist & short-story writer; wrote realistic fiction about the South in which the female characters defy the stereotype of the “Southern Belle”; wrote Losing Battles; The Optimist’s Daughter; The Collected Works of Eudora Welty; & One Writer’s Beginnings; WEST, JESSAMYN – American novelist, short-story writer, poet & screenwriter; wrote about Quakers, the American West, & realistic characters with attention to local details; wrote Friendly Persuasion (short stories); Cress Delahanty (short stories); Except for Me & Thee; Leafy Rivers; & The Massacre of Fall Creek. WEST, NATHANIEL – American novelist & screenwriter; known for satirical novels; his work prefigured the existentialism & black humor of literature of the 1960’s; wrote The Day of the Locust; A Cool Million; & Miss Lonelyhearts. WHARTON, EDITH – American realistic novelist & short-story writer; her characters are strangled by the social codes that constitute their privileged upbringings; wrote The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome; The Custom of the Country; Summer; The Buccaneers; Selected Poems; & The Age of Innocence. WHEATLEY, PHYLLIS – African-American poet; a slave born in Africa; First African-American poet & the second American woman poet of note; many of her poems celebrated public events in the memory of a famous person; poetry in anthologies. WHITE, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) – American essayist, children’s writer, poet, journalist, & literary stylist; his writings ranged from satire to children’s fiction; wrote One Man’s Meat; The Elements of Style; Stuart Little; Charlotte’s Web; & the Trumpet of the Swan. WHITMAN, WALT – American poet, essayist, & journalist; his poetry revolutionized American literature & celebrated nature, the individual, freedom, & the kinship of humanity; regarded as America’s greatest poet; wrote Leaves of Grass; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d; Civil War Poetry & Prose; The Civil War Reader; & poetry in anthologies. WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF – American poet & abolitionist; noted for his vivid & truthful portrayals of rural New England life; used poetry to call an end to slavery; poetry in anthologies. WILDER, THORNTON NIVEN – American playwright, novelist & teacher; primarily wrote plays; wrote philosophically about human conditions; considered as one of America’s most important, versatile, & innovative writers; ranks as one of America’s top dramatists; his writings were The Bridge of San Luis Rey; The Ides of March; Theophilus North; Heaven’s My Destination; The Eighth Day; & Our Town. WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE – American dramatist, short-story writer; & poet; his plays were set in the South & examined the pained lives of isolated individuals; wrote The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Night of the Iguana & Eight Plays; Memoirs; Plays, 1937-1955. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS – American poet, physician, & socialist; his poetry was written in jazz like rhythm with themes of everyday life; believed American art should reflect the American experience; poetry in anthologies. WILSON, AUGUST – African-American playwright; known for his cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about African-American life; wrote Fences; The Piano Lesson; & Joe Turner’s Come & Gone. WISTER, OWEN – American western novelist; wrote The Virginian which helped to establish the cowboy as a folk hero & stock fictional character. WOLFE, THOMAS – American novelist, short-story writer, & playwright; his works were autobiographical & highly respected by Beat Generation writers; wrote Look Homeward Angel & You Can’t Go Home Again. WOLFE, TOM – American modern novelist, journalist & social commentator; writes about the changing economic & social seasons of American society; wrote The Bonfire of Vanities; A Man in Full; I Am Charlotte Simmons; The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake; Hooking Up; The Pump House Gang; A Man in Full; & The Right Stuff. WRIGHT, RICHARD – African-American novelist, short-story writer; & poet; his writings were controversial & reflected the historic significance of segregation & racial oppression in the U. S.; wrote Native Son; The Outsider; Rite of Passage; Early Works; & Black Boy. BIBLIOGRAPHY American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. 3 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2000. Print. Clute, John. Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. Print. Clute, John & John Grant, eds. The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1997. Print. Contemporary Novelists. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2001. Print. 501 Great Writers. New York, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 2008. Print. Lives and Works: Young Adult Authors. 7 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 1999. Print. Literary Lifelines. 10 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 1998. Print. Magill’s Survey of American Literature. 8 vols. New York, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Print. Murphy, Bruce F., The Encyclopedia of Murder & Mystery. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 1999. Print. Valade, Roger M. The Essential Black Literature Guide. New York, NY: Visible Ink Press, 1996. Print. 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