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Literature
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| Uncle Phil | Aunt Viv |
|---|---|
| He wrote Dead Souls, The Overcoat, and The Government Inspector. | Nikolai Gogol |
| Ivanhoe was written in 1819 by | Sir Walter Scott |
| this is Shakespeare’s shortest play | MacBeth |
| His real name is Eric Arthur Blair and he wrote Animal Farm and 1984 and died in London from tuberculosis. | George Orwell |
| She is is a Canadian author who wrote The Handmaid’s Tale which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. | Margaret Atwood |
| She wrote A Century of Dishonor bout American treatment of native Americans. | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| He wrote wrote Endymion and Ode On a Grecian Urn. | Keats |
| He is a Norwegian playwright referred to as “the father of modern drama”. He wrote Peer Gynt (Grieg composed the music for it), A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. | Henrik Ibsen |
| This person had sex with Zeus and was turned into a heifer and forever chased by a gadfly and protected by Argos with 1000 eyes | Io |
| He wrote The Dharma Bums and On the Road. | Jack Kerouac |
| He wrote The Tin Drum. | Grass |
| He wrote A Clockwork Orange. It centers around Alex and his group of friends (droogs). He rapes two 10 year old girls in the beginning and is sentenced to prison. | Burgess |
| He was a British author who came up with the idea of geosynchronous orbit for satellites and worked with radar during WWII. He wrote Childhood’s End, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. | Arthur C. Clarke |
| This was published in 1847 | Jane Eyre |
| He wrote Up From Slavery. | Booker T. Washington |
| She wrote The Outsiders, Rumblefish, and Taming the Star Runner. | S.E. Hinton |
| This is is a three part poem by Allen Ginsberg published in 1956 | Howl |
| He was born in 1911 and wrote the plays The Night of the Iguana, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and The Rose Tattoo. His sister was schizophrenic. | Tennessee Williams |
| She is the mother of Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| He was a playwright and author who wrote the novel, The Pigman as well as the plays The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Amulets Against the Dragon Forces, and Ladies At the Alamo. | Paul Zindel |
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