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Short Story Test
Author Life Section
Question | Answer |
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wrote "the cask of amontillado" | poe |
orpaned at 2 and taken in by allens | poe |
grew up in richmond, VA | poe |
1809-1849 | poe |
married Virginia Clemm-13 yr old cousin | poe |
dropped out of U of VA (debts) | poe |
enlisted in army | poe |
expelled from West Pt (no more help from allens | poe |
was never fromally adopted | poe |
wife died at 25 of tuberculosis | poe |
struggled to support himself through writing and editing- gained control of a magazine but faild | poe |
planned every single word and detail to contribute toward wanted impression | poe |
famous for poetry and short stories | poe |
wrote "the scarlet ibis" | hurst |
grew up in north carolina | hurst |
1922-_____ | hurst |
went to NC state college | hurst |
fought in WW2 | hurst |
went to julliard school | hurst |
Studied in Rome, Italy for 3 yrs | hurst |
1951 wen to NY and started a 34 yr. carreer in Internation dep't of a large bank | hurst |
during 50's and early 60's he also wrote | hurst |
famous for short stories and a play | hurst |
"TSI" 1st appearence was in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 | hurst |
he is now retired in NC | hurst |
Wrote "a mother in manville" | rawlings |
born in washington dc | rawlings |
1896-1953 | rawlings |
U of wisconsin- worked as journalist | rawlings |
1928 bought an orange grove at Cross Creek in FL- became swamplands and backcountry setting for stories | rawlings |
1939- won Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling (about a boy and his pet fawn) | rawlings |
wrote "a summers reading" | malamud |
born in brooklyn, NY | malamud |
1914-1986 | malamud |
city college of NY | malamud |
Columbia U | malamud |
1952- 1st novel- The Natural | malamud |
"ASR" from a collection of stories called The Magic Barrel- received the National Book award for fiction in 1959 | malamud |