I.
John Steinbeck---anti-
intellectualism and
social realism

II.
Gertrude Stein's writing
viewed as experimental
she was avant-garde

III.
Ernest Hemingway
the master of precise prose
later work was thin

IV.
Thomas Wolfe's works were
viewed by his critics to be
without discipline

V.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
father of roaring twenties
author of Gatsby

VI.
William Faulkner won
the Nobel Prize. He explored
stream-of-consciousness

VII.
Tennessee Williams
a poetic dramatist
who might be our best

VIII.
For John Updike, 'death'
and 'sex' are the central themes;
writes novels, stories

IX.
Horror and terror
reside in Stephen King's work
humor is there too

X.
Fine story writer---
Flannery O'Connor, from
Southern Gothic Genre

XI.
Isaac Asimov
he published three-hundred books
earned a PhD

XII.
Bernard Malamud
employed spare lyric language
coupled with humor

XIII
Joyce Carol Oates is
a writer of quite wide scope---
she is prolific!

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