1. Oh the stories you’ll read... A quick guide to SS authors

2. James Baldwin Media: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/19/340166953/this-fight-begins- in-the-heart-reading-james-baldwin-as-ferguson-seethes As the ex-patriot: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/travel/james-baldwins- paris.html Where is he in today’s classrooms? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/books/james-baldwin- born-90-years-ago-is-fading-in-classrooms.html Genre: Realism; human struggle for acceptance Most Famous: Go Tell it on the Mountain

3. Saul Bellow Media- Nobel Speech: http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1494 An Interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4405/the-art-of- fiction-no-37-saul-bellow Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/books/06bellow.html? _r=0 Genre: Realism; encounters with the modern world Most Famous: Looking for Mr. Green

4. Jorge Luis Borges Media: http://the-toast.net/2014/07/10/tell-jorge-luis-borges-story Reviews: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/09/books/books-of-the- times-savoring-a-borges-blend-of-imaginings.html Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/obituaries/jorge-luis- borges-a-master-of-fantasy-and-fable-is-dead.html Genre: Fantasy; philosophical lit; a precursor to magical realism Most Famous: The Congress

5. Raymond Carver Media (an audio interview): http://www.wiredforbooks.org/raymondcarver/ Stephen King on Carver: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/King- t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Genre: Realism; working life Most Famous: Cathedral

6. John Cheever The Chekhov of the suburbs Media (trailer of short film based on The Swimmer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6lvHyupiZI John Updike on Cheever: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/77068/john-updike- explains-john-cheevers-life-novels Bio: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/18/john- cheever-blake-bailey Genre: Realism; Suburban life; duality of human nature Most Famous: The Swimmer

7. Anton Chekhov Media (Kenneth Branagh reads Chekhov!) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92A3C135220A713 5 Chekhov... And love: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/01/anton- chekhov-lifetime-lovers-play Genre: Realism Most Famous: In Exile; The Lady with the Dog

8. Louise Erdrich On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louiseerdrichauthor An interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6055/the-art-of- fiction-no-208-louise-erdrich Genre: Realism; Native American; Multiple narrative voices Most Famous: Saint Marie/ The World’s Greatest Fisherman

9. William Faulkner A film review of James Franco’s rendition of As I Lay Dying: http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/cannes-film-review-as- i-lay-dying-1200484419/ Faulkner’s influence: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/magazine/how-william- faulkner-tackled-race-and-freed-the-south-from- itself.html?pagewanted=all Genre: Southern realism Most Famous: A Rose for Emily

10. Graham Greene A view of the author as journalist: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/18/classics.grahamgreene Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/04/books/greene-about-91-obit.html Video bio: http://www.pbs.org/program/dangerous-edge/ Genre:Thrillers/mystery; Realism; Christian drama Most Famous: The destructors

11. Nadine Gordimer Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/books/nadine- gordimer-novelist-and-apartheid-foe-dies-at-90.html Fact and Fiction: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/08/nadine- gordimer-south-africa-interview Genre: Realism; moral and racial issues Most Famous: Loot

12. Ernest Hemingway Audio of his Nobel prize speech: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/ 1954/hemingway-speech.html Hemingway’s cats: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/us/cats-at-hemingway- museum-draw-a-legal-battle.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Adventurous Hem: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/ernest- hemingway/reflections-on-ernest-hemingway/629/ Genre: Adventure/realism/death/ women Most Famous: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

13. Franz Kafka The Kafka project: http://www.kafka.org A martyr to his art: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/oct/24/differ ent-kafka/ The Ghost’s of Kafka: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/01/kafka_boo ks_susan_bernofsky_translation_of_the_metamorphosis_an d_jay_cantor.html Genre: Mystical/ fantasy/ oddness! Most Famous: Metamorphosis

14. Jhumpa Lahiri Book review of The Unaccustomed Earth: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Schilling er3-t.html?pagewanted=all An interview: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/unknown- territory-an-interview-with-jhumpa-lahiri Media: http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/jhumpalahiri/ Genre: Realism/ American assimilation Most Famous: The Interpreter of Maladies

15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/books/gabriel-garcia- marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html GGM’s famed Cartagena: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/travel/02cartagena.ht ml?pagewanted=all&_r=0 A review of Strange Pilgrams: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/15/books/books-of-the- times-gabriel-garcia-marquez-short-form.html Genre: Magical Realism Most Famous: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

16. Lorrie Moore Book review: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/moore- frog.html An interview: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200510/?read=intervie w_moore On Facebook: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200510/?read=intervie w_moore Genre: Realism/ Humor Most Famous: You’re ugly, too

17. Alice Munro On winning the nobel prize : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro- wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Jonathan Franzen reviews Munro: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14COVE RFR.html?pagewanted=all On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alicemunroauthor?ref=stream Genre: realism/human complexity/ regional focus Most Famous: Family Furnishings

18. Alice Munro On winning the nobel prize : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/books/alice-munro- wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Jonathan Franzen reviews Munro: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14COVE RFR.html?pagewanted=all On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alicemunroauthor?ref=stream Genre: realism/human complexity/ regional focus Most Famous: Family Furnishings

19. Vladimir Nabokov Love letters: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/03/letters-to-vera- vladimir-nabokov/ Nabokov still sparks controversy: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-turn- against-nabokov An interview: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4310/the-art-of- fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov Genre: Imaginative! Most Famous: The Aurelian

20. Joyce Carol Oates Tweet her! Genre: Realism/Crime/ violence Most Famous: Where are you going, where have you been? https://twitter.com/joycecaroloates An interview: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorin terviews/10558323/Joyce-Carol-Oates-interview- portrait-of-a-literary-powerhouse.html Stephen King review’s JCO: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/books/review/t he-accursed-by-joyce-carol- oates.html?pagewanted=all

21. Flannery O’Connor Media: http://dailyflanneryoc.tumblr.com/ Reviews: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/book s/review/Williams- t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/ 2009/apr/09/the-parables-of-flannery- oconnor/ Genre: Southern Gothic; religious/moral undertones Most Famous: A Good Man is Hard To Find

22. Virginia Woolf The Silence of Virginia Woolf: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page- turner/unsaid-silence-virginia-woolf Her ‘darkness’: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page- turner/woolfs-darkness-embracing-the- inexplicable Genre: Realism/ Stream of Consciousness Most Famous: Kew Garden