Other authors of the second half of the 20th century Flashcards

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Anthony Burgess

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1899-1986

Clockwork Orange

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James Clavell

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1924-1994

Rat King

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William Gerard Golding

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1911-1993

Lord of the Flies
Free Fall
The Spire
They Pyramid

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Graham Greene

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1904-1991

The Power and the Glory
The Quiet American

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Salman Rushdie

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1947

The Satanic Verses
Midnight’s Children

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Patrick Ryan

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1919-1989

How I Won the War

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Woody Allen

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1935

Annie Hall (movie)
Without Feathers
Side Effects

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Truman Capote

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1924-1984

In Cold Blood
Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

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1931-2015

Ragtime
The Book of Daniel

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Robert Fulghum

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1937

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Uh-Oh
Words I Wish I Wrote
True Love

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Arthur Hailey

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1920-2004

Flight Into Danger
Hotel
Airport
The Final Diagnosis

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Sheila Hailey

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1927-2017

I Married a Bestseller

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Joseph Heller

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1923-1999

Catch-22
Something Happened
Good as Gold
Closing Time

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Evan Hunter = Ed McBain

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19262005

The 87th Precinct
The Blackboard Jungle

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John Irving

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1942

The World According to Garp
The Cider House Rules

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Ken Kesey

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1925-2001

He Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest

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Stephen King

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1947

It
The Shining
Pet Cemetary
Misery

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Ira Levin

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1929-2007

Rosemary’s Baby
The Stepford Wives

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Norman Mailer

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1923-2007

The Naked and the Dead
Marilyn
The Executioner’s Song
Portrait of Picasso
An American Dream
Why Are We in Vietnam?

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Anton Myrer

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1922-1996

The Last Convertible
The Big War

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Jerome David Salinger

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1919-2010

The Catcher in the Rye

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William Saroyan

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1908-1981

The Daring Man on the Flying Trapeze
Papa you’re crazy
The Human Comedy
Five Ripe Pears

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William Styron

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1925-2006

Lie Down in Darkness
Set This House on Fire
Sophie’s Choice

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John Updike

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1932-2009

Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Redux
Rabbit Is Rich
The Witches of Eastwick

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Raymond Chandler

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1888-1959 (Hardboiled literature)

The Big Sleep
The High Window
Farewell My Lovely
The Lady in the Lake

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Cormac McCarthy

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1933-2023

No Country for Old Men
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
The Road
All the Pretty Horses
Stella Maris