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Also Known As Edward Morley Hoagland
Born December 21, 1932 (age 91) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan ” • “Cat Man” • “Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse” • “City Tales” • “Compass Points: How I Lived” • “In the Country of the Blind” • “Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia” • “Seven Rivers West” • “The Circle Home” • “The Devil’s Tub” • “The Final Fate of the Alligators” • “The Peacock’s Tail”
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Henry James
Henry James
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
American author
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian American author
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize
Annie Proulx
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Mary McCarthy
American novelist and critic
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Larry Woiwode
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Hazzard, Shirley
Shirley Hazzard
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Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland
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Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon
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William Saroyan.
William Saroyan
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Wright Morris
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Reynolds Price
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Bruce Jay Friedman
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Leonard Michaels
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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V.S. Pritchett
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Charles Dudley Warner
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