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American writer Armistead Maupin was born Armistead Jones, in Washington, D.C. (1944). After he graduated from college in 1966, he worked...

The poet Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania (1879). His father was a lawyer with a strong interest in literature. Wallace we...

Song of the Open Road Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before m...

Henry David Thoreau, was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (1817). He's the author of Walden; or, Life in the Woods (18...

The novelist Salman Rushdie, was born in Bombay, India (1947). His parents sent him to school in England, where he didn't get along wit...

American poet Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, in 1868. Masters grew up in the small town of Lewiston, Illinois, in the Spoon...

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into ou...

Dorothy Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in West End, New Jersey (1893). She's remembered as one of the greatest wits of the 20th ce...

"Mrs. George Reece" by Edgar Lee Masters from Spoon River Anthology Mrs. George Reece To this generation I would say: Memori...

An unreliable narrator, a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it de...

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi (1897). He grew up listening to stories about his family, including several...

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri (1928), the author of six autobiographical volumes, including I Know Wh...

In Heaven Some little blades of grass Stood before God. “What did you do?” Then all save one of the little blades Began eagerly to re...

is is a summary of Bernard Malamud's "The Jewbird." The story is an allegory demonstrating that a homeland for Jews was a huma...

psephology\see-FAH-luh-jee\ DEFINITION noun : the scientific study of elections EXAMPLES Erin is a political science major with a particular...

SUCCESS is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host W...

Novelist Bernard Malamud, born in Brooklyn, New York (1914). He grew up in Brooklyn in a household where both Yiddish and English were sp...

Beat! Beat! Drums! Beat! beat! drums!---blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows---through doors---burst like a ruthless force, Into the...

John Updike 1932 –2009 American author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania (1932). His family moved to a farm when he wa...

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706). Books were hard to come by when he was a young apprentice in his brother's printing shop...