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Born	January 19, 1969 (age 55) • Port-au-Prince • Haiti
Notable Works	“Breath, Eyes, Memory” • “Brother, I’m Dying” • “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work” • “Everything Inside” • “Krik? Krak!” • “The Dew Breaker” • “The Farming of Bones” • “Untwine”

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Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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Hazzard, Shirley

Shirley Hazzard

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Reynolds Price

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

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Winner of a Pulitzer Prize

Annie Proulx

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Frederik Pohl

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Larry Woiwode

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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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Bruce Jay Friedman

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Edward Hoagland

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Leonard Michaels

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John Updike

John Updike

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John Cheever

John Cheever

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Doctorow, E.L.

E.L. Doctorow

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Cynthia Ozick

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Elizabeth Hardwick

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