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BROWN, DORRIS ALEXANDER 'DEE'. (1908-2002) American novelist and historian. His most famous work, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (1970) details the violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism.
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SNODGRASS, WILLIAM DE WITT. (b.1926 - ) American poet and a 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner.
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GUITERMAN, ARTHUR. (1871-1943) American writer best known for his humorous poems. Beginning in 1907 and continuing for the rest of his life, he was the author of over a dozen collections of poems, including: "Betel Nuts, What They Say In Hindustan" (1907) "The Laughing Muse" (1915) "The Light Guitar" (1923) "Wildwood Fables"(1927) and "Gaily the Troubadour" (1936).
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HUBBARD, ELBERT. (1856-1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay "A Message to Garcia".
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MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD. (1892-1982) American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times.
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WREN, PERCIVAL C. (1875-1941) British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for "Beau Geste", a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.
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BARTH, JOHN SIMMONS. ( b. 1930) American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.
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FLETCHER, JOHN GOULD. (1886-1950) Pulitzer Prize winning American Imagist, poet and author.
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MOORE, MARIANNE. (1887-1972) Modernist American poet and writer.
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WIESEL, ELIE. (b 1928) Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is "Night", a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps.
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LINDGREN, ASTRID. (1907-2002) Swedish children's book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 Countries, her most famous being Pippi Longstocking.
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SANDBURG, CARL . 1878-1967). American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist.
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YERBY, FRANK G. (1916-91) American novelist who wrote romantic novels of the South, including the novel, "The Man From Dahomey" (1971).
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ZANGWILL, ISRAEL. (1864-1926) English-born humourist and writer.
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GORDIMER, NADINE. (b. 1923) South African writer, political activist and Nobel Prize recipient in Literature. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa.
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DILLON, GEORGE. (1906-68) American editor and poet. His "The Flowering Stone" won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He was the editor for Poetry Magazine from 1937 to 1949.
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BODENHEIM, MAXWELL. (1891-1954) Internationally renown American poet and novelist, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, called the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians.
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LOWELL, ROBERT. (1917-77) American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self. He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.
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RUSSELL, IRWIN. (1853-79) Viewed as an immensely talented American poet with vast potential taken too soon from life, Irwin Russell enjoyed a status among his southern contemporaries resembling that of John Keats to his fellow British Romantics. Although his literary output was limited, Russell was considered the forerunner of dialect writers such as Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris, who pointed to his work as an early influence on their own writing.
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[PUNCH Magazine] LEMON, MARK. 1809 – 1870). British writer best known as the editor the weekly paper Punch and The Field. He also wrote plays and operettas which were produced in London.
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