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09/26/2012

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Richard Wright
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Born on Plantation in Mississippi (1908), Black, Communist, died in Paris (some think murdered)
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Dorothy Parker
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Born early 1900s, lived in Northeast (NY/NJ), known for being sarcastic
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Ring Lardner
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Early 1900s, humorist and satirist, from Michigan, lived in Chicago
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Early 1900s, from St. Paul Minnesota, worked in Hollywood, died from drinking
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Ernest Hemingway
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20th century writer, from Illinois, european correspondent,
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Sherwood Anderson
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Late 19th century, from Sherwood, OH, served in Spanish-American War, left factory work to write, moved to Chicago
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Willa Cather
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Late 19th century, from Virginia, lived in Nebraska
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Stephen Crane
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Late 19th century, from Newark NJ, war correspondent for Cuban Revolution
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Herman Melville
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Early 19th Century, from NY, wrote some sea novels and other stories about capitalism
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Early 19th century, English, adopted by John Allan, dismissed from cadet academy, married his cousin,
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Nathaniel Hawthorn
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Early 19th century, Massachusetts, Puritan ancestors, US Consulate in England
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Washington Irving
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Late 18th century, studied law in NY, had tuburculosis (consumption), lived in France,
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Mid 19th Century, from Main, insight into culture, wrote about countryside
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