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Born April 17, 1928 (age 97) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors PEN/Nabokov Award (2008)
Notable Works “Antiquities” • “Art & Ardor” • “Bloodshed and Three Novellas” • “Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays” • “Diction: A Quartet” • “Fame & Folly” • “Foreign Bodies” • “Heir to the Glimmering World” • “Metaphor & Memory” • “Quarrel & Quandary” • “The Cannibal Galaxy” • “The Din in the Head” • “The Messiah of Stockholm” • “The Puttermesser Papers” • “Trust”
John Updike
John Updike
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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat
Haitian American author
Doctorow, E.L.
E.L. Doctorow
American author
Hazzard, Shirley
Shirley Hazzard
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Elizabeth Hardwick
American writer
Reynolds Price
American writer
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Tillie Olsen
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James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American writer and cultural critic
Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
American author
Jhumpa Lahiri, 2013
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Truman Capote
Truman Capote
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