Who wrote what Flashcards

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Who wrote “A Description of New England” (1616)

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John Smith

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Who wrote “A Model of Christianity” (1630)

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John Winthrop

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Who wrote “Autobiography” (1771-1790)

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Benjamin Franklin

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Who wrote “Letter III: What Is an American” (1782)

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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

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Who wrote “Self reliance” (1841) and “Each and All” (1839, 1847)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who wrote “Narrative of the life of….” (1845)

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Frederick Douglass

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Who wrote “Song of Myself” (1881)

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Walt Whitman

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Who wrote “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853)

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Herman Melville

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Who wrote “359”, “591”, and “598”

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Emily Dickinson

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Who wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Who wrote “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” (1898)

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Stephen Crane

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Who wrote “The Saloonkeeper’s Daughter” (1887)

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Drude Krog Janson

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Who wrote “The Forethought” and “I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (1903)

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W. E. B. Du Bois

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Who wrote “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1923) and “Spring and All” (1923)

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William Carlos Williams

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Who wrote “The Promised Land” (1912)

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Mary Antin

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Who wrote “In a Station of the Metro” (1913, 1916)

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Who wrote “Poetry” (1921, 1935)

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Marianne Moore

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Who wrote “How It Feels to be Colored Me” (1928)

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Who wrote “The Great Gatsby” (1925)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Who wrote “Indian Camp” (1925)

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Ernest Hemingway

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Who wrote “Barn Burning” (1938)

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William Faulkner

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Who wrote “I, too” (1925, 1959) and “Harlem” (1951)

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Langston Hughes

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Who wrote “Death of a Salesman” (1949)

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Arthur Miller

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Who wrote “Supermarket in California” (1956)

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Allen Ginsberg

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Who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959)
Lorraine Hansberry
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Who wrote "Woman Hollering Creek" (1991)
Sandra Cisneros
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Who wrote "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" (1996)
George Saunders
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Who wrote "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (2006)
Alison Bechdel