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Greek, 620 B.C.-564 B.C.
Fables that resolved difficulties between Corinthians and Athenians and leaders
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop
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American, 1832-1888
Novels
Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, An Old-Fashioned Girl, A Strange Island
Alcott
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Native American, 1966-present day
Poetry, short stories, filmmaking, comedian
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals
Alexie
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Denmark (Danish), 1805-1875
Poems, plays, travel books, fairytales
Fairy Tales, Told for Children, The Dying Child, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Suit, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling
Andersen
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American, 1928-present day
Contemporary American poet and civil rights activist
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry (also wrote articles, short stories, TV scripts, documentaries, 5 books of essays, several books of poetry, and plays)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Angelou
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American, 1856-1919
Fantasy, poem
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Queen Zixi of Ix
Baum
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American, 1875-1950
Science fiction, adventure
Tarzan series, Barsoom series (John Carter), Pellucidar series, Venus series, Caspak series, Moon series
Burroughs
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English with Irish ties, 1832-1898
Fantasy and "literary nonsense"
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark
Carroll
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English, 1890-1976
Novels, stories, and plays on crime mystery (wrote romances under a pseudonym)
Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There were None, Towards Zero
Christie
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English, 1812-1870
Plays, fiction, picaresque style in novels (hero of low social class lives by own wisdom in a corrupt society)
The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfeld, A Tale of Two Cities, The Frozen Deep, A Christmas Carol
Dickens
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American, 1830-1886
Poetry and letters
Wild Nights, Dying, Hope is the Thing with Feathers
dickinson
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Scottish, 1859-1930
Detective mystery books
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four
Doyle
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German Jew, 1929-1945
Wrote a diary
Frank
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German, 1398-1468
Creator of printing press
Famous work was Bible
Gutenberg
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German, 1785-1863, 1786-1859
Folktales, also collected German and Scandinavian myths
Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel
Wrote a German dictionary but didn't see it finished
Grimm
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Born in India, sent to England, 1865-1936
Novels, short stories, poems
The Jungle Book, The Elephant Child, The Man Who Would be King, Gunga Din, The Five Nations, The Years Between
Kipling
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English daughter of Indian immigrants, 1967-present day
Mostly autiobiographical novels
Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth
Lahiri
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German, 1818-1883
History, sociology, philosophy
The Communit Manifesto, Das Kapital, The German ideology, On the Jewish Question
Marx
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American, 1936-present day
Fiction (westerns), biography, movie scripts
Crazy Horse: A Life (biography), Lonesome Dove, Telegraph DAys: A Novel, Rhino RAnch
McMurtry
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English, 1882-1956
Poet, novelist, editor, playwright (published essays in book form)
Lovers in London, Winne the Pooh
Milne
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American, 1862-1910
Mostly short stories that all had situational irony (twist)
The Gift of the Magi, THe Ransom of Red Chief, The Cop and the Anthem
O. Henry
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Greek, 428 or 427 B.C.-348 or 347 B.C.
Dialogues (two people talking)
The Republic, Apology, The Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, The trial and death of Socrates, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Critias
Established first "school," a school of philosophy at the academy
Plato
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American, 1809-1849
Romantic poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, gothic fiction, literary criticism
The Raven, Lenore, Annabel Lee, Tell-Tale Heart, Fall of the House of Usher, The Mosque of the Red Death
Poe
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American (parents German immigrants), died 2002
Children's literature
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, The Cat in the Hat
Seuss
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Scotland, 1850-1894Essays, travel writing, short stories, novels, romances, poetry, plays, biography (also composed for flageolet)Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, A Children's Garden of Verses
Stevenson
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Irish, 1667-1745
Fiction (lots of irony)
A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, Drapier's Letters
Swift
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American, 1835-1910
Fiction
Innocents Abroad, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain
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American, 1932-2009
Poetry, essay, fiction, criticism (critiques), short stories
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, The Complete Henry Bech, The Early Stories
Updike
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French, 1828-1905
Fiction
Five Weeks in a Balloon, From the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen
Verne
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American, 1944-present day
Poetry, essay, epistolary novels, fiction
The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Seret of Joy, Be the Light of my Father's Eyes
Walker
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