| A | B |
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| Robert Frost | recited a poem at President Kennedy's inauguration |
| Robert Frost | went to Dartmouth and Harvard but didn't earn a degree |
| Robert Frost | became famous after moving to England |
| Katherine Anne Porter | raised by grandmother after mother's death when he/she was two |
| Katherine Anne Porter | worked on assignment in Mexico during the revolution |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | given a position in the New York Customs House by Theodore Roosevelt |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | a descendant of Anne Bradstreet |
| Carl Sandburg | worked at the Chicago Daily News |
| Carl Sandburg | had to leave school for a job at age thirteen |
| Edgar Lee Masters | worked as a lawyer in Chicago |
| Langston Hughes | was discovered as a poet when working as a busboy |
| Langston Hughes | lived in Kansas for part of his childhood |
| Langston Hughes | worked as a cabin boy on a freighter |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | died of tuberculosis at age 33 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | the child of former slaves |
| T.S. Eliot | poems depicted the decay of civilization |
| T.S. Eliot | won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 |
| Ernest Hemingway | has a family history of suicide |
| Ernest Hemingway | wounded while working as an ambulance driver druing WWI |
| Ernest Hemingway | was a reporter during WWII and the Spanish civil war |
