Famous Authors and Their Works

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Walt Whitman

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Romantic author who wrote Song of Myself and Leaves of Grass

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Emily Dickinson

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Poet known for short works such as 'Fame is a fickle food' and 'The Soul selects her own Society'

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist who wrote Self-Reliance and Nature

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T.S. Eliot

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Modernist who wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste Land'

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Frederick Douglass

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Freed slave who became a leading abolitionist and gave the speech 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'

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Sojourner Truth

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A speaker who gave the speech 'Ain't I a Woman?' and was an American abolitionist

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Kate Chopin

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Author who focused on women's rights and wrote 'The Story of an Hour'

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Author who wrote The Great Gatsby.