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Literature
| Works + Facts | Author |
|---|---|
| Long Day's Journey Into Night -about alcoholics Emperor Jones -features Paul Robeson (AA USSR/socialism advocate and activist) | Eugene O'Neill |
| Nigerian playwright and poet The Interpreters ; Death and the King's Horseman | Wole Soyinka |
| Nigerian writer famous for his trilogy: Things Fall Apart ; Arrow of God ; No Longer at Ease | Chinua Achebe |
| Canadian female writer The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood |
| Indian writer Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Norwegian playwright A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| South African writer Cry the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| South African writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature | Nadine Gordimer |
| Frankenstein and Romantic era poetry Daughter of Percy Bysshe ___?___ and Mary Wollstencraft. | Mary Shelly |
| Romantic era poet Songs of Innocence ; "The Tyger" | William Blake |
| Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
| Black, female, science fiction author Kindred | Octavia Butler |
| Earth Sea trilogy | Ursula LeGuin |
| Russian-American author Lolita ; Pale Fire (about John Shade) | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Leaves of Grass O Captain! My Captain! (about Lincoln) | Walt Whitman |
| AA writer and gay activist who moved to France Go Tell It On A Mountain ; If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin |
| Bullfighting, WWI author The Old Man and the Sea ; The Sun Also Rises ; Farewell to Arms ; For Whom the Bell Tolls | Earnest Hemingway |
| Writes about destruction of the south, especially a weird county in Mississippi. Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| WWII author Slaughterhouse Five (about German prison) | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Civil War author Red Badge of Courage ; Maggie | Stephen Crane |
| Coming of Age in Samoa | Margaret Mead |
| Catcher in the Rye Who is the author AND main character? | Author: J.D. Salinger Character: Holden Caufield |
| Russian author who writes about murder Crime and Punishment ; Brothers Karamazov ; The Idiot | Dostoeyevsky |
| Russian playwright The Cherry Orchard | Chekhov |
| Russian author Dead Souls | Gogol |
| Russian author War and Peace ; Anna Karenina (she kills herself on traintracks) | Leo Tolstoy |
| Auld Sang Lyne (New Years' poem/song) | Robert Burns |
| "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" | Emily Dickinson <3 |
| What is a satirical novel that features Major Major Major Major and a bombardier named Yossarian, and who wrote it? | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller |
| French adventure novel writer Around the World in 80 Days 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Nautilus and Captain Nemo) Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Robert Browning's wife, Elizabeth, wrote a series of love sonnets that she claimed were translated from what language? "Sonnets from the __________" | Portugese |
| This Side of Paradise The Great Gatsby His wife Zelda was also a writer | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| French Algerian author The Stranger ; The Trail ; and The Plague | Albert Camus (pronounced kah-moo) |
| Economics author supporting laissez-faire economics The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Communist Manifesto (sometimes they ask for two authors) | Karl Marx (Engels helped) |
| Canadian-American liberal economist Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith |
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