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James Baldwin

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Russell Banks

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Ray Bradbury

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Willa Cather

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John Cheever

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Don Delillo

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E.L. Doctorow

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William Faulkner

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Jane Hamilton

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Dashiell Hammett

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Joseph Heller

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Ernest Hemingway

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John Irving

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Barbara Kingsolver

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Jack Kerouac

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Dennis Lehane

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David Mamet

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Bobbie Ann Mason

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Carson McCullers

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Larry McMurtry

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Herman Melville

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Arthur Miller

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Toni Morrison

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Tim O'Brien

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Mary Oliver

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Chuck Palahniuk

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Robert B. Parker

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Anne Patchett

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Jodi Picoult

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Annie Proulx

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Richard Russo

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J. D. Salinger

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Mary Sarton

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Neil Simon

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Irwin Shaw

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John Steinbeck

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William Styron

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Amy Tan

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Hunter S. Thompson

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Henry David Thoreau

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Mark Twain

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Anne Tyler

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Gore Vidal

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American Author Thesis

Now that you have written your essay, we ask that you reflect on the reading portion of the experience and write 100-150 words about your author.

Think of what you write as advice for someone next year and beyond, someone who (like you were doing last fall) is thinking about choosing your author - and maybe even the same three books - to read for the assignment.