Authors Flashcards

(31 cards)

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Anne Sexton

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“Live or Die”
“Transformations”
(Confessional poetry)

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Sylvia Plath

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“Ariel”
“The Bell jar” (novel)
(Confessional poetry)

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Robert Lowells

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“Skulk Hour”
“Life Studies”
“For the Union Dead”
“The Dolphin”
(Confessional poetry)

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Isaac Azimov

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“Robots”
“Foudnation” (psychohistory)
(Science Fiction)

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Phillip K. Dick

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“Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep”
(Science Fiction)

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Octavia Butler

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“Kindred”
“Patternist Serie”
(Science Fiction)

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Pat Francks

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“Alas, Babylone”
(Nuclear)

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Richard Mathewson

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“I am a legend”
(Nuclear)

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Robert McCammon

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“Swan Song”
(nuclear)

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Alice Walker

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“The Color Purple”
(Afro-Americans)

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Maya Angelou

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“I known why Caged Birds Sings”
“Phenomenal”
(Afro-Americans)

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Toni Morrison

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“Beloved”
(Afro-Americans)

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Louis l’Amour

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“Hondo”
(Western)

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Cormac McCarty

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“Blood Meridian”
(Western)

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Larry McMurtry

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” Lonesome Dove”
(Western)

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Armistead Maupin

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“Tales of the city”
(HIV)

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Samuel Delany

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“The Mad Men”
(HIV)

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Larry Kramer

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“The Normal Heart”
(HIV)

19
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Chimamanda Ngozi Radiche

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“Americanah”
(9/11)

20
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Don DeLillo

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“The Falling Man”
(9/11)

21
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Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
(9/11)

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Shirley Jackson

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“The Haunting of Hills House”
“We have always lived in the castle”
(Gothic)

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Harper Lee

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“To Kill a MockingBird”
(Gothic)

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Anne Rice

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“The Vampire Chronicles”
“Interview with the Vampire”
(Gothic)

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Michal McDowell
"The Blackwater series" (Gothic)
26
Fitzgerald
"The great Gatsby" "Tender is the night" (lost generation)
27
Hemingway
"The Sun Also Rise" "A Farewell to Arms" (Lost generation)
28
Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath" "Of Mice and Men" (lost generation)
29
Kerouack
"On the Road" (Beat generation)
30
Ginsberg
"Howl, Kaddish and other poems" (Beat Generation)
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Burroughs
"Naked Lunch" (beat Generation)