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

James Baldwin Media: in-the-heart-reading-james-baldwin-as-ferguson-seethes As the ex-patriot: paris.html Where is he in today’s classrooms? born-90-years-ago-is-fading-in-classrooms.html Genre: Realism; human struggle for acceptance Most Famous: Go Tell it on the Mountain

Saul Bellow Media- Nobel Speech: An Interview: fiction-no-37-saul-bellow Obituary: _r=0 Genre: Realism; encounters with the modern world Most Famous: Looking for Mr. Green

Jorge Luis Borges Media: Reviews: times-savoring-a-borges-blend-of-imaginings.html Obituary: borges-a-master-of-fantasy-and-fable-is-dead.html Genre: Fantasy; philosophical lit; a precursor to magical realism Most Famous: The Congress

Raymond Carver Media (an audio interview): Stephen King on Carver: t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Genre: Realism; working life Most Famous: Cathedral

John Cheever The Chekhov of the suburbs Media (trailer of short film based on The Swimmer): John Updike on Cheever: explains-john-cheevers-life-novels Bio: cheever-blake-bailey Genre: Realism; Suburban life; duality of human nature Most Famous: The Swimmer

Anton Chekhov Media (Kenneth Branagh reads Chekhov!) 5 Chekhov... And love: chekhov-lifetime-lovers-play Genre: Realism Most Famous: In Exile; The Lady with the Dog

Louise Erdrich On facebook: An interview: fiction-no-208-louise-erdrich Genre: Realism; Native American; Multiple narrative voices Most Famous: Saint Marie/ The World’s Greatest Fisherman

William Faulkner A film review of James Franco’s rendition of As I Lay Dying: i-lay-dying / Faulkner’s influence: faulkner-tackled-race-and-freed-the-south-from- itself.html?pagewanted=all Genre: Southern realism Most Famous: A Rose for Emily

Graham Greene A view of the author as journalist: Obituary: Video bio: Genre:Thrillers/mystery; Realism; Christian drama Most Famous: The destructors

Nadine Gordimer Obituary: gordimer-novelist-and-apartheid-foe-dies-at-90.html Fact and Fiction: gordimer-south-africa-interview Genre: Realism; moral and racial issues Most Famous: Loot

Ernest Hemingway Audio of his Nobel prize speech: /hemingway-speech.html Hemingway’s cats: museum-draw-a-legal-battle.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Adventurous Hem: hemingway/reflections-on-ernest-hemingway/629/ Genre: Adventure/realism/death/ women Most Famous: The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Franz Kafka The Kafka project: A martyr to his art: ent-kafka/ The Ghost’s of Kafka: ks_susan_bernofsky_translation_of_the_metamorphosis_an d_jay_cantor.html Genre: Mystical/ fantasy/ oddness! Most Famous: Metamorphosis

Jhumpa Lahiri Book review of The Unaccustomed Earth: er3-t.html?pagewanted=all An interview: territory-an-interview-with-jhumpa-lahiri Media: Genre: Realism/ American assimilation Most Famous: The Interpreter of Maladies

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Obituary: marquez-literary-pioneer-dies-at-87.html GGM’s famed Cartagena: ml?pagewanted=all&_r=0 A review of Strange Pilgrams: times-gabriel-garcia-marquez-short-form.html Genre: Magical Realism Most Famous: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Lorrie Moore Book review: frog.html An interview: w_moore On Facebook: w_moore Genre: Realism/ Humor Most Famous: You’re ugly, too

Alice Munro On winning the nobel prize : wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Jonathan Franzen reviews Munro: RFR.html?pagewanted=all On Facebook: Genre: realism/human complexity/ regional focus Most Famous: Family Furnishings

Alice Munro On winning the nobel prize : wins-nobel-prize-in-literature.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Jonathan Franzen reviews Munro: RFR.html?pagewanted=all On Facebook: Genre: realism/human complexity/ regional focus Most Famous: Family Furnishings

Vladimir Nabokov Love letters: vladimir-nabokov/ Nabokov still sparks controversy: against-nabokov An interview: fiction-no-40-vladimir-nabokov Genre: Imaginative! Most Famous: The Aurelian

Joyce Carol Oates Tweet her! Genre: Realism/Crime/ violence Most Famous: Where are you going, where have you been? An interview: terviews/ /Joyce-Carol-Oates-interview- portrait-of-a-literary-powerhouse.html Stephen King review’s JCO: he-accursed-by-joyce-carol- oates.html?pagewanted=all

Flannery O’Connor Media: Reviews: s/review/Williams- t.html?pagewanted=all&_r= /apr/09/the-parables-of-flannery- oconnor/ Genre: Southern Gothic; religious/moral undertones Most Famous: A Good Man is Hard To Find

Virginia Woolf The Silence of Virginia Woolf: turner/unsaid-silence-virginia-woolf Her ‘darkness’: turner/woolfs-darkness-embracing-the- inexplicable Genre: Realism/ Stream of Consciousness Most Famous: Kew Garden