TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface..............................................................................................................................................1 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WOMEN "We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks ............................................................................................46 The Color Purple, Alice Walker ....................................................................................................18 Bailey's Cafe, Gloria Naylor ............................................................................................................6 CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN, CENTRAL OR SOUTH AMERICAN WRITERS "Summer Lemons,” Derek Walcott ...............................................................................................23 The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabelle Allende .....................................................................................38 "Resurrection,” Octavio Paz ..........................................................................................................61 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER "Bread,” Gabriella Mistral .............................................................................................................22 PUBLISHED ESSAYS "Life At Forty,” Dave Barry ..........................................................................................................20 "Hunting an Elephant,” George Orwell .........................................................................................42 CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEM Silent Spring, Rachel Carson .........................................................................................................12 POEMS OF MY CHOOSING "There Is Joy In Senility,” Muddy Rivers .....................................................................................41 "Life Everlusting,” Alphonse Erotiflatus .......................................................................................43 "The Splendor That Is Amway,” I. M. Churlish ...........................................................................26 "Oh Belch, Thou Art Divine,” Leofilus Twerp .............................................................................39 "Obsessive Compulsives Beware,” I. P. Freely .............................................................................19

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78 Biographies Andersen, Hans Christian. (1805-1875). Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark. He became famous for the publishing of his book of fairy stories in 1835. Berlitz, Charles. Berlitz was born in New York City. A graduate of Yale University and the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz. He was awarded the International Prize for Nonfiction in 1976. Brooks, Gwendolyn. (1917- 2000). Brooks is an African American poet from Chicago. Her poems portray the waste and loss of the dreams of African Americans in modern society. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Casa, Giovanni della. Della Casa was denied a cardinal’s hat because he once wrote a licentious poem. He served Pope Paul IV as Secretary of State. He is most famous for writing a book of social etiquette that showed the values of the Italian Renaissance. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. (1835-1910). Clemens was the third of five children born on November 10, 1835, in Florida, Missouri. He became an apprentice printer. He traveled the Mississippi by river boat quite frequently and did a lot of world traveling later in his life. He is most famous for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which he wrote using his famous pen name, Mark Twain. Crane, Stephen. (1871-1900). Stephen Crane was an American writer born on November 1, 1871. He is most famous for his book The Red Badge of Courage, although the reason he turned to the subject of the Civil War is not clear. He died in Badenweiler, Germany. Doolittle, Hilda. (1886-1961). Hilda Doolittle was part of the literary school called Imagism. She was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is famous for Tribute to Freud that is an account of her psychoanalysis by Freud in 1933. She sought personal and universal

79 mystical experience and tried to convey this in her writing. Faulkner, William. (1897-1962). Faulkner ranks among the leading authors in American literature. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, and won two Pulitzer Prizes. He is famous for his descriptive, serious, and even tragic tones. Twain was a direct influence on him. Among his most famous works are Absalom, Absalom, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury. Gart, Murray. A contemporary American writer. He is a former correspondent for Time, the former editor of the Washington Star, and is the author of a coming book on the Middle East. More, Sir Thomas. (1478-1535). Sir Thomas More was a leading English humanist during the Renaissance. He was Chancellor to King Henry VIII, who, in a dispute with More over his support for Henry’s divorce of Anne Boleyn, had More beheaded. More wrote Utopia in 1516. Sir Thomas was canonized by the Catholic Church and is widely revered as a martyr for his faith. Robinson, Edwin Arlington. (1869-1935). Robinson was raised in Gardiner, Maine. His first volume of poetry was brought to the attention of Theodore Roosevelt, who secure him a position as customs inspector. After 1921, Robinson devoted his talents to long narrative poems and Arthurian romances. He is best known for Tristram, which brought him his third Pulitzer Prize.

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