J! Literature 8/30/23- Flashcards by Jen Kennings

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True West playwright

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Sam Shepard

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Buried Child playwright

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Sam Shepard

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single-named female French author

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Colette

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Jazz female author

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Toni Morrison

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first black woman to win Nobel Prize for literature

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Toni Morrison

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Day of the Locust author

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Nathanael West

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Pirandello

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Lyrical Ballads 2 authors

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Coleridge, Wordsworth

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The Iceman Cometh

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Eugene O’Neill

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Mourning Becomes Electra

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Eugene O’Neill

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Neuromancer author

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William Gibson

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City of Bones book series

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Mortal Instruments

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Dragonriders of Pern author

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Anne McCaffrey

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Dover Beach poet

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Matthew Arnold

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Leslie Charteris book/character

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Simon Templar (The Saint)

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The Barfly novelist

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Charles Bukowski

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Tabard Inn book

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Canterbury Tales

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Robert Bolt drama about Henry VIII, Thomas More

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A Man for All Seasons

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protagonist of The Big Sleep

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Philip Marlowe

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Daisy Miller author

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Henry James

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Life of Samuel Johnson author

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James Boswell

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1600s diarist

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Samuel Pepys

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John le Carre detective

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George Smiley

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Tales of the South Pacific author

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James Michener

Khalil Gibran book

The Prophet

Thanatopsis poet

William Cullen Bryant

Pilgrim's Progress author

John Bunyan

Exodus novelist

Leon Uris

Mila 18 novelist

Leon Uris

The Beautiful and the Damned author

Fitzgerald

author of Postmortem books about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta

Patricia Cornwell

medical thriller writer of Coma; Contagion

Robin Cook

Cyrano de Bergerac author

Edmond Rostand

A Visit from the Goon Squad author

Jennifer Egan

Charlaine Harris vampire novels became HBO show

True Blood

Irish/English satirist and St. Patrick's Cathedral dean

Jonathan Swift

All the Pretty Horses author

Cormac McCarthy

The Martian

Andy Weir

Mickey Spillane detective

Mike Hammer

Laurence Sterne novel inspired by Don Quixote

Tristram Shandy

Mystic River, Shutter Island author

Dennis Lehane

Charles Dickens pseudonym

Boz

Presumed Innocent author

Scott Turow

The Natural author

Bernard Malamud

Portrait of a Lady author

Henry James

Tara Road author

Maeve Binchy

Circle of Friends author

Maeve Binchy

novel with Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise

On the Road

Wolf Hall author (book about Cromwell)

Hilary Mantel

_____ of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca

Princess Bride author

William Goldman

Flowers of Evil author

Baudelaire