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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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Praxis II Major Authors And Works
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1. Wrote The Yearling

2. Wrote Little Women; American novelist

3. Wrote Sounder

4. Wrote My Antonia; prolific during the 1920s - reputation as one of the most important post - Civil War American authors

5. Wrote The Story of My Life and The Frost King; American author - political activist - lecturer; first deafblind person to earn BA

6. Wrote Ethan Frome

7. Wrote Beloved - The Bluest Eye - and Song of Soloman; female - African - American writer - won Pulitzer Prize in 1988

8. An ex- slave is haunted by the memory of the daughter she killed; historical fiction - ghost story; characters include: Baby Suggs - Denver - Sethe

9. Wrote Leaves of Grass; celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy

10. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

11. Wrote The Hobbit

12. Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

13. Wrote Night

14. Wrote Bud Not Buddy - The Watsons Go to Birmingham

15. Wrote Hoot

16. Wrote Maniac Magee

17. Wrote Hatchet

18. A young woman (Esther Greenwood) whose talent and intelligence have brought her close to achieving her dreams must overcome suicidal tendencies

19. Wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond

20. Wrote The Pigman

21. Wrote Emma; Pride and Prejudice; Persuasion; Mansfield Park - et al.

22. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet

23. Wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 20th century Irish author

24. Wrote Shiloh

25. Wrote The Real McCoy: The Life of an American Inventor