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Meet the Authors Final Test
Meet the Authors
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English
9th Grade
05/19/2009

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Robert Murphy
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An American Writer From Pennsylvania, enjoyed nature, photography, hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities
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William C. Bryant
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One of the first American writers to win wide international fame, wrote "The Embargo" and "Thanatopsis"
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Corey Ford
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Born in New York City attended Columbia University and served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force during WWII
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William Cowper
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One of the most widely read English poet of his days
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Booker T Washington
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Born as a Slave in Virginia
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William Shakespeare
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A Poet and Dramatist who is widely regarded as the greatest writer of all times
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Selma Lagerlof
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A swedish novelist whose work is rooted in legend and saga first women to win Nobel Prize for literature in 1909
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James Russell Lowell
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A Harvard Law school graduate most famous work "The Biglow Papers"
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Walt Whitman
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Born into a Quaker family grew up and attended school at Brooklyn, nicknamed Good Gray Poet.
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Leo Tolstoy
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Born as Lev Tolstoi to Wealthy parents, and entered the Kazan University at age 16.
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Miguel De Cervantes
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A novelist, playwright, and poet the most important in Spanish Literature.
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Armstrong Perry
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An American writer and illustrator of children books his Book "Call it Courage" won several awards.
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James Montgomery
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A Scottish Author who is best remembered for his hymns and renderings of the Psalms into poetry.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Regarded as the Chief representative of Victorian Poetry.
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Emily Dickens
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An American Poet who was a Master of short Lyrical Poetry wrote over 1,500 Poems.
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Robert Herrick
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An English Poet during the Puritan age later became a Anglican Clergy-man
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Edward Roland Sill
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An American Essayist, Poet and professor of English, he contibuted a few essays and poems to the Atlantic Monthly.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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An American novelist and short Story writer who became one of the first great imaginative writers in the United States.
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Carl Sandburg
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An American Poet, historian, novelist and folkorist, most remembered for his poetry and for his biographical study of Abraham Lincoln.
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Guy De Maupassant
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A French writer of short Stories, Plays and Novels.
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O' Henry
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An American Author who wrote stories about extraordinary coincedences in the lives of ordinary men and women.
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Ruth Suckow
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Wrote numerous short stories and books whick are rich with the local color of Iowa's small towns and farming communities.
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Charles Dickens
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Regarded as the Greatest English Novelist of all times.
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Thomas A Kempis
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A German theologian whose books of the Imitation of Christ was famous for 600 years.
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Marth Snell Nicholson
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Influenced many through her poetry, tracts, auto biography.
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Jesse Stuart
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A writer of novels, short stories, and juville fiction.
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Lewis Carroll
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Also known as Charles Dodgson wrote his best work Alice in Wonderland.
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Edward Everett Hale
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An American clergyman and author who wrote numerous newspaper articles, historical essays, sermons, short stories and Novels.
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Mark Twain
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A humor writer wrote stories fo boyhood adventures.
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