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Colson Whitehead was born in Manhattan, in 1969. He attended Harvard College, where he started working at the Village Voice, reviewing an assortment of entertainment. He wrote 5 novels before the “Under Ground Railorad”, which never took slavery on head on until now. Colson’s reason for this, was his unreadiness to write the novel. He felt that he did not know enough about slavery and the brutal accounts of the travesty and what it truly did to a slave’s mind. It took him 16 years to finally be ready. “The Underground Railroad”, won the Pulitzer’s Prize, as well as being one of New York’s Times Best Sellers.

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Alice Walker was born in 1944, in Putnam County, Georgia. She grew up as the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. Walker was blinded in one eye growing up, and her mother presented her with a type writer to fill her time in an educational manner, as she was now unfit to do chores. Walker graduated college in 1965, and moved to Mississippi where she took part in a civil rights movement. From there on, she expressed her rich African culture and her passion for civil rights in her writings. Her career took flight after moving to California and produced the famed novel, ¨The Color Purple¨. About an African American Women coming to self-realization and a culminating perspective on the world.

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The Third Life of Grange Copeland(1970)
Meridian (1976)

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Walker
https://www.biography.com/people/alice-walker-9521939

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http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/oprahs-interview-with-colson-whitehead
https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/new-page/

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The Institutionist (1999)
The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death (2014)
Sag Harbor (2009)

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I was able to contact Colson’s manager, Grace Dietshe, who was extremely kind and helpful, and asked Colson my question regarding his novel right away. I asked Grace, who then asked Colson, “Did Cora represent a strong woman in your life, in which influences with her independence and perseverance similar to Cora?” To my surprise, Grace reported back to me in Colson’s exact words, “ No one. Cora is totally made up!”

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John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California. Steinbeck attended Stanford University but, never graduated. He wrote short stories in his past time, but his career really took after writing "Tortilla Flat". Steinbeck moved on from the humorous writings of "Tortilla Flat", and began writing more serious novels. In 1939 he wrote his most popular book, "The Grapes of Wrath," winning the Pulitzer Prize for his novel and later on the Nobel Prize for literature.

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The Pearl (1947)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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https://www.biography.com/people/john-steinbeck-9493358
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/steinbeck-bio.html

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Albert Camus was born in 1913 in French, Algeria. Albert Camus focused his studies on french philosophy, politics and the philosophy of absurdism. This being the belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe. Camus wrote the Stranger in 1942 and the Plague in 1947 both focusing on existentialism.

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Plague(1947)
The Fall(1956)
The Rebel(1951)

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https://www.biography.com/people/albert-camus-9236690
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Camus

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Death and Absurdism in Camus's The Stranger by Alan Gullette

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The Stranger1 , Albert Camus gives expression to his philosophy of the absurd.The novel is a first-person account of the life of M.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England, and died in 1924. After her father died in 1852, the family turned to writing to overcome the poverty slowing approaching them. That is when her family made the courageous decision to emigrate to america. Frances started writing short stories and selling them in order to raise money for her family once, again. Burnett married, and moved to Washington D.C, where her writing career took off, after composing the short story, ¨Haworth´s¨

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frances-Hodgson-Burnett
https://www.biography.com/people/frances-hodgson-burnett-9231964

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A Little Princess (1905)
Little Lord Faunterloy (1886)
A Lady of Quality (1896)