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Flannery O’Connor
“[T]he phrase ‘like something out of Flannery O’Connor’ is now accepted shorthand, like ‘Kafkaesque’ before it, for nailing many a funny, dark, or askew moment.”—Brad Gooch
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W.E.B. Du Bois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jonathan Edwards
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manny Farber
James T. Farrell
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost in 1943. (Eric Schaal/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Robert Frost
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller
Ernest J. Gaines
Ernest J. Gaines
John Kenneth Galbraith
Allen Ginsberg
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