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John Dos Passos was born in a hotel in Chicago and referred to himself as a "hotel child." He attended Harvard where he studied architecture and wrote for the school newspaper. During World War I, Dos Passos served as an ambulance driver and kept journals that he later used for his novels. He is best known for his trilogy U.S.A., published in the 1930s, which portrayed the corruption of modern American society through experimental literary techniques.
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This document provides brief biographies of 12 famous dramatists, poets, and novelists:
- William Shakespeare, the renowned English playwright and poet
- Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina
- Charles Dickens, the iconic English novelist considered one of the greatest of the Victorian era
- Mark Twain, the American author and humorist who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Richard Wright was born in 1908 in Mississippi to a sharecropper father and schoolteacher mother. Poverty forced the family to move frequently, including to Memphis and Jackson. Wright showed an early talent for writing and had his first story published at age 16. He worked menial jobs and read widely before moving to Chicago in 1927. There, he became involved in communist politics and continued writing and publishing stories. He eventually moved to New York, where he wrote his acclaimed novel Native Son in 1940, chronicling the story of an African American man accused of murder. Wright later broke with the Communist Party and moved to Paris in 1946, where he continued writing until his death in 1960.
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This document summarizes and provides quotes from several famous American writers, including Jack London, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It provides biographical details and highlights some of their most notable works. For Jack London, it discusses his life, career returning from the Klondike and working as a journalist, and popular novels including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Martin Eden. For the other writers, it briefly outlines their lives and important works like Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and works by Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Stephen Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist born in 1909 in London. He was educated at Oxford University where he met W.H. Auden. Spender left university without a degree and went to Berlin in 1930. He took an interest in politics and declared himself a socialist and pacifist. During World War II, he enlisted in the London Fire Service. Spender worked for several organizations including Unesco and the British Council throughout his career. He became a Professor of English at University College London and died in 1995.
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