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| Maya Angelou | multi-talented female Black writer |
| Isaac Asimov | born in the Soviet Union, famous science fiction writer |
| Toni Cade Bambara - distinctive style in her fiction | combining poetic rhythm with street slang |
| Matsuo Basho | greatest poet of Japan |
| William Blake began as a painter and | engraver |
| Gwendolyn Brooks wrote | Annie Allen, which won the Pulitzer Prize |
| Yosa Buson contributed to the | haiku |
| Truman Capote | he wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Anton Chekov was one of the | world's greatest playwrights |
| Eugenia Collier | wrote Marigolds |
| In his writings e.e. cummings | got away with breaking the rules |
| Guy de Maupassant | French short story writer |
| Agnes de Mille | known for her autobiographical writings |
| Babette Deutsch | lectured in poetry at Columbia University |
| Emily Dickinson | one of the most influential of American poets |
| Daphne du Maurier wrote | Rebecca and also The Birds |
| Loren Eisely wrote over twelve | science books |
| Robert Frost wrote | The Road Less Travelled |
| William Gibson | Two for the Seesaw and The Miracle Worker |
| Ellen Goodman | writes a syndicated column |
| Eddy L. Harris is a young | African-American journalist |
| O. Henry is the pen name of | William Sidney Porter |
| Langston Hughes uses the | dialect of Harlem |
| James Hurst wrote | The Scarlet Ibis |
| Shirley Jackson | The Lottery |
| Helen Keller - the play the | Miracle Worker is about her life |
| Jack Kerouac wrote about the | "beat" generation |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | moving force behind the American civil rights movement |
| Doris Lessing wrote fiction that | focused on the changing situation for women |
| Denise Levertov | "The Sharks" |
| Jean McCord published in Seventeen | Magazine and in Best American Short Stories |
| Patrick McManus contributes to | Field & Stream and Reader's Digest |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize |
| Farley Mowat wrote | People of the Deer |
| Pablo Neruda is considered | the greatest Latin American poet |
| Andre Norton wrote historical novels | and then science fiction |
| Liam O'Flaherty | Irish writer |
| Dorothy Parker - poet and | screen writer |
| Sylvia Path | The Colossus |
| Edgar Allan Poe wrote | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | wrote The Yearling |
| Theodore Roethke | widely recognized poet |
| Carl Sandburg is known for his poetry | and his biography of Lincoln |
| Richard Selzer wrote short | stories - Rituals of Surgery |
| Wallace Stevens | an influential poet |
| Frank R. Stockton wrote | The Lady or the Tiger? |
| Adrien Stoutenburg wrote | American Tall Tales |
| Amy Tan wrote a bestseller | The Joy Luck Club |
| Hernando Tellez | Lather and Nothing Else |
| James Thurber | cartoons, essays, short stories |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Slaughterhouse Five |
| David Wagoner | American poet |
| Margaret Walker | For My People |
| Elinor Wylie | secretly wrote poetry |
