George Bannatyne

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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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Born	1545 • Scotland
Died	1608?
Notable Works	“Bannatyne Manuscript”

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Terry McMillan

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Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

Harriet Monroe

American poet

Albert Wendt

Samoan writer

David Sedaris

American humorist and essayist

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

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Scott Turow

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Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Sadeq Hedayat

Iranian author

Tobias Wolff

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Fujiwara Sadaie

Japanese poet

S.Y. Agnon

Israeli author

Sholem Aleichem

Yiddish author

Es’kia Mphahlele

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Alain Locke

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Peretz Markish

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