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Literary Bios: Jonathan Swift: An expert satirist
I remember reading A Modest Proposal at a young age and finding it funny—because our class had the background on…
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Literary Biois: F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby
We’ve been looking at a lot of the modernists lately (I’m in a bit of a mood) and so thought…
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Literary Bios: Ernest Hemingway: modernist, realist, storyteller
I read The Old Man and the Sea before I read anything else by Ernest Hemingway, and I really fell…
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Literary Bios: Maya Angelou and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Maya Angelou is an extremely well known and successful writer (even if critics slam her poetry for being “samey”), and…
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Literary Bios: H.D., The Imagists, and Oread
Just like Gertrude Stein, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in Pennsylvania (Bethlehem to be specific), and she attended Bryn…
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Literary Bios: Gertrude Stein and “The Lost Generation”
When somebody says, “The Lost Generation,” there are immediate visuals culled up from the depths of our mind. For me,…
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Building Background: The Beat Generation, authors, and their works
I think the first thing that is synonymous with these revolutionary baby boomers is that they grew up during the…
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Literary Analysis: Jaws, a tale of fear, adventure, and a man-eating shark
At the time Jaws was published, Benchley was an accomplished writer but wasn’t making enough money even though he had…
Book Reviews
- Book list: Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk
- Mark Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee’: Parental Love
- Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Halloween Tree’: A History of Death
- Book List: World War Z by Max Brooks
