John Steinbeck

Author: The Chrysanthemums

Zora Neale Hurston

Author: Sweat

Eudora Welty

Author: A Worn Path

Octavio Paz

Author: My Life with the Wave

Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez

Author: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez

Author: The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

John Cheever

Author: The Country Husband

Raymond Carver

Author: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

John Updike

Author: Separating

Joyce Carol Oates

Author: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

John Steinbeck

-Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature
-Most works are set in Southern and Central California
-Explored the themes of fate and injustice
-Wrote of normal people
-Went to Stanford

Zora Neale Hurston

-American folklorist, anthropologist, and author
-Grew up in Eatonville
-Wrote using African American dialect
-Lived in Harlem in the 1920s
-Went to Columbia

Eudora Welty

-American author of short stories and novels about the American South
-Born in Jackson, Mississippi
-Won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
-Themes of the paradox of human relationships, the importance of place
-Conflicting relationships between individuals and

Octavio Paz

-Combined elements of parable, of the surreal, and of the fantastic to convey realistic feelings of lovers.
-Born in Mexico City
-Fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War
-Through juxtaposition of contrasting thoughts or objects, he created

Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez

-"Conjurer of Literary Magic"
-Associated with the term "magical realism", in which the miraculous and the real converge
-Received the Nobel Prize for Literature
-Fidel Castro became such a close friend that this author showed him drafts of his unpublishe

John Cheever

-His fiction is mostly set in the suburbs, specifically the Upper East Side of Manhattan
-Wrote of the duality of human nature
-Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a vanishing way of life characterized by abiding cultural traditions and a profo

Raymond Carver

-His subject matter was often focused on blue-collar (lower-middle class people) experience, and was clearly reflective of his own life
-Main theme was the desperation and problems of ordinary people
-Had problems with alcoholism
-Married twice
-Went to U

John Updike

-Praised for his wit and precision, and for his ability to focus on common subjects
-Wrote of the American small town, Protestant middle class
-He was well recognized for his careful craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolificity
-Grew up in P

Joyce Carol Oates

-She grew up in the working-class farming community of Millersport, New York
-Used the materials of her family and childhood to create moving studies of the female experience
-Went to Syracuse and Rice