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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

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9 American Countercultural Books

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

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Periods of American Literature

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6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

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Born	January 19, 1969 (age 56) • 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

American writer

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Hazzard, Shirley

Shirley Hazzard

American author

Reynolds Price

American writer

Alice Walker

Alice Walker

American writer

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize

Annie Proulx

American author

Frederik Pohl

American author

Larry Woiwode

American author

Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland

American writer

Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

American author

William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

American author

Wright Morris

American writer and photographer

Bruce Jay Friedman

American author

Edward Hoagland

American writer

Leonard Michaels

American author

John Updike

John Updike

American author

John Cheever

John Cheever

American author

Doctorow, E.L.

E.L. Doctorow

American author

Cynthia Ozick

American author

Elizabeth Hardwick

American writer