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Born	December 5, 1856 • New Hampshire
Died	June 21, 1948 (aged 91) • Boston • Massachusetts
Movement / Style	local colour

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Mark Twain

American writer

Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Henry James

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Paul Auster

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Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

John Edgar Wideman

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Ambrose Bierce

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John Steinbeck

American novelist

Zora Neale Hurston

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Pearl S. Buck

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Mary McCarthy

American novelist and critic

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William Gilmore Simms

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Louis Auchincloss

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Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

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Anaïs Nin

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John Knowles

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Paul Bowles

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Ann Petry

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Elizabeth Hardwick

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Edward Hoagland

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