Biographical One Liners
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| Known for "Rags to Riches" stories | Alger | From Arkansas, raped at 7, had a child at 17, teaches at Wake Forest | Angelou | Diappeared during Pancho Villa's revolt | Bierce
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| 1st African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize | Brooks | Played pro football | Caldwell | Wrote for McClure's Magazine | Cather
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| Son of a Methodist Minister | Crane | never used capital letters poet/artist | Cummings | only 7 over her poems were published during her lifetime; Belle of Amherst | Dickinson
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| minister of the 2nd Unitarian Church of Boston | Emerson | Was in the Royal Air Corps for Canada during WW1 because he was to small for the U.S. Military, wrote about Yoknapataphwa County | Faulkner | Writer of the Jazz Age | Fitzgerald
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| read at JFK's inauguration, won 4 Pulitzers for Poetry | Frost | "Papa", was a Red Cross Ambulance Driver during WW1, wounded during the war, comitted suicide in Ketchum, Idaho | Hemingway | dean of Harvard Medical School | Holmes
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| wrote about the conflict between European and American society, especially in "The American" | James | has a bust in Westminster Abbey, wore a bushy beard to cover facial scars obtained while helping his wife who was on fire | Longfellow | created Lake Wobegon, Minnesota | Keillor
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| graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 | Keller | had a football scholarship to Columbia University, leadrer of the Beat movement | Kerouac | first American to win Nobel Prize in Literature (1930) | Lewis
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| Took part in the Klondike Goldrush | London | A Librarian of Congress | MacLeish | Married Maralyn Monroe | Miller
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| "Poet Laureate of Light Verse" | Nash | Had Lupus | O'Connor | Born in a New York Hotel Room and Died in a Boston hotel room, won 4 Pulitzer's for Drama | O'Neill
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