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05-04-2004, 11:48 AM
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Same rules.
Who do you think of when you think of classic American authors? Living or dead.
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05-04-2004, 11:49 AM
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1. Mark Twain
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Edgar Allen Poe
4. William Faulkner
5. John Steinbeck
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Walt Whitman
8. Joseph Edwards
9. James Thurber
10. Henry David Thoreau
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05-04-2004, 11:59 AM
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you forgot Willa Cather |
05-04-2004, 12:34 PM
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I didn't forget her. She just wasn't one of the top ten who came to mind. Who are the first 10 who come to your mind? (and they can repeat anyone else's in the thread. I usually flip down to the quick reply in these threads and answer before looking at other people's. I'm too easily distracted!  )
It is rather interesting that not a single woman made it onto my list despite there being many fine, classic American female writers.
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05-04-2004, 06:25 PM
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1. John Steinbeck
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. William Faulkner
4. Thomas Wolfe
5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Eudora Welty
7. Washington Irving
8. Henry James
9. Thomas Pynchon
10. Edith Wharton
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05-04-2004, 07:27 PM
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1. Kate Chopin
2. Edith Wharton
3. William Dean Howells
4. Henry James
5. Herman Melville
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Zora Neale Hurston
8. Betty Smith
9. Mark Twain
10. Toni Morrison
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05-05-2004, 08:38 AM
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John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Egdar Allan Poe
William Faulkner
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Upton Sinclair
Walt Whitman
James Fenimore Cooper
Mark Twain
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05-05-2004, 09:45 AM
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John Updike
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville *ugh*
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Daniel Defoe
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
The Bronte sisters
Louisa May Alcott
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05-05-2004, 12:57 PM
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Psst! The Bronte sisters were English, and so was Defoe. 
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