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Also Known As	Thomas Eugene Robbins
Born	July 22, 1932 (age 92) • North Carolina
Notable Works	“Another Roadside Attraction” • “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” • “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates” • “Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas” • “Jitterbug Perfume” • “Skinny Legs and All” • “Still Life with Woodpecker” • “Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life”

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker

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Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

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Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat

Haitian American author

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize

Annie Proulx

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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion

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Diane Johnson

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Larry Woiwode

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Hazzard, Shirley

Shirley Hazzard

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Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland

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Mary Gordon

Mary Gordon

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William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

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Wright Morris

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Reynolds Price

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