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Hamlin Garland
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born in rural poverty, self educated
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Hamlin Garland
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Migrated to Boston in 1884
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Abraham Cahan
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prolific journalist
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Abraham Cahan
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born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Lithuania, part of the Russian Empire
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Abraham Cahan
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educated in Hebrew schools then Jewish seminary
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Abraham Cahan
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delivered the first socialist speech in the U.S. in Yiddish
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Abraham Cahan
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helped organize the first Jewish tailor's union
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Abraham Cahan
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founded the Jewish Daily Forward
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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related to Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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feminist/psychological realist
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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left husband and moved to California
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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got cancer and later committed suicide
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Edith Wharton
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first woman awarded an honorary doctorate from Yale University
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Edith Wharton
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first woman awarded the gold medal from the American Academy of Arts of Letters
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Edith Wharton
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wrote on the folly of money and patriarchy
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Edith Wharton
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In 1911, moved to France after divorce and helped with WWII efforts
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Edith Wharton
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works reveal engagement with realism, naturalism, and modernism
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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embraced African American culture
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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believed education is a right
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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first black man to get a Ph.D. from Harvard
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J.W. Johnson
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born in Florida
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J.W. Johnson
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critiques racial identity
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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dialect as poetry
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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one of the first black professional literary figures
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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praised and criticized by blacks for using uneducated dialect
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Frank Norris
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literary naturalist
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Frank Norris
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influenced by Zola and Darwinism
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Frank Norris
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advocated power for the workers
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Theodore Dreiser
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weal father and strong mother in real life; showed up as figures in his works
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Theodore Dreiser
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humans are merely a part of nature, not special or evolved
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Theodore Dreiser
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explored human motives, behavior and environment
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Theodore Dreiser
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"tell the truth"
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Jack London
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mom is unmarried from a wealthy background, later married a Civil War veteran
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Jack London
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raised by a former slave as a child
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Jack London
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was an oyster pirate/California Fish Patrol
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Jack London
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ran for mayor of Oakland twice as a socialist
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Jack London
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advocate for women's suffrage
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Jack London
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one of the first American writers to work on movies
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Jack London
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believed and wrote about how violence defines people
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Jack London
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wrote 1,000 words a day, over 17 years wrote more than 50 volumes of work
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Stephen Crane
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poet, journalist, impressionist, realist
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Stephen Crane
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shipwrecked on "The Commodore"
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Stephen Crane
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tough-minded irony and a demand for integrity
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Zitkala Sa
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women's and Native American's rights
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Zitkala Sa
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wrote during the end of manifest destiny
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Zitkala Sa
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White's Manual Institute, Quaker school
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Zitkala Sa
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refers nature to Christianity
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Zitkala Sa
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identity through autobiography
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Upton Sinclair
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Intercollegiate Socialist Society with Jack London
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Upton Sinclair
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Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
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Upton Sinclair
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Helicon Hall- uptopian society in New Jersey
