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John Guare
John Guare
“His plays, with an original combination of realism, dream state, psychopathology, vision, delusion, humor, compassion, grief, and terror, map out the landscape of what life feels like in the here and now.”—Tony Kushner
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David Foster Wallace
George Washington
Eudora Welty
Nathanael West
Edith Wharton
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thornton Wilder
John Williams
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
Edmund Wilson
Edward O. Wilson
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Richard Wright
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