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Also Known As Elwyn Brooks White
Born July 11, 1899 • Mount Vernon • New York
Died October 1, 1985 (aged 86) • Maine
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize
Notable Works “Charlotte’s Web” • “Harper’s Magazine” • “Is Sex Necessary?” • “Stuart Little” • “The Trumpet of the Swan”

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Donald Barthelme.
Donald Barthelme
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Christopher Morley.
Christopher Morley
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
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David Remnick
David Remnick
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John Updike
John Updike
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Carl Sandburg
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Phyllis McGinley
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Alison Lurie
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Art Spiegelman, 2008.
Art Spiegelman
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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