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Flannery O’Connor
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Gary Snyder
Susan Sontag
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Jean Stafford
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Wallace Stevens
Robert Stone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
May Swenson
Booth Tarkington
Peter Taylor
Virgil Thomson
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurber
Alexis de Tocqueville
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