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Author whose novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" earned him the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2001. Other works include "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," "Wonder Boys," "Werewolves in Their Youth" and the children's novel "Summerland."
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a writer and columnist for the Baltimore Sun papers and founder of the American Mercury. A prolific critic of the American bourgeoisie and democratic pretensions, his wit and observations made him one of the most prominent and influential journalists of the 1920s and 1930s.
His writings include numerous columns and autobiographic works; American Language, a seminal study and defense of American English; and Prejudices, a compilation of his views on American culture.
Author of comic novels including Practical Demonkeeping (1992), Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997), Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002), and Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (2003).
Joyce Carol Oates is a 20th century American author, writing mainly fiction. She occasionally publishes under a pseudonym, Rosamond Smith.
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Dorothy Parker was born in New Jersey August 22, 1893 and died June 7, 1967. She wrote poetry and fiction, was a critic, and was known for her wit and satire.
A Harvard-educated Easterner, Owen Wister (1860-1938) made his name romanticizing the American West of the late 19th century. With Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Buffalo Bill Cody he helped implant a mythological view of Western purity and nobility in American consciousness.
Wister is best known for his 1930 biography of Theodore Roosevelt and for his novel The Virginian, an influential cowboy romance set in Wyoming. He wrote several other books and short stories, and the journals of his travels on the frontier have been published as Owen Wister Out West.