Authorial Accolades
This playwright received a Roger L. Steven Award and a Jeff Award for Spinning into Butter
Who is Rebecca Gilman?
This memorable speaker fills his unusual love song with reflections on his bald spot and his crippling indecision.
Who is J. Alfred Prufrock?
This author was born in Eatonville, Georgia in 1944 to a family of sharecroppers.
Who is Alice Walker?
Written in 1983 but set in the late 1970s, this novel uses multiple points of view to tell the story of a single day.
What is A Gathering of Old Men?
This short story includes the following quotation: "The farthest [she] had ever been was to the Bahamas once when she was a child. She searched but couldn't find it on the glass panels."
What is "Sexy"?
This famous short-story writer and novelist was most well-known for his depiction of the Jazz Age in such works as "Winter Dreams" and "Babylon Revisited."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This character eagerly seeks American citizenship, despite legal hurdles and his cousin's apparent cynicism.
Who is Consorcio?
Though identifying as a New Englander, this author was born in California.
Who is Robert Frost?
This novella explores such themes such as innocence and exuberance within the context of the Gilded Age in the New World.
What is Daisy Miller?
This short story includes the following passage: "Ahm ol enourgh to hava gun. Ahm seventeen. Almost a man."
What is "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"?
This author is often considered the most prominent voice in the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
Who is Sherman Alexie?
This character continues to share his stories with unwilling listeners, despite the fact that his storytelling renders him an outcast.
Who is Thomas Builds-the-Fire?
T. S. Eliot coined this term to mean a set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events that evokes a particular emotion.
What is "objective correlative"?
Set in Paris, this short story features a man who desperately wants to reclaim custody of his daughter.
What is “Babylon Revisited”?
This poem ends with the question, "Or does it explode?"
What is "Harlem"?
This Pulitzer Prize-winning author wrote the first half of his masterpiece in just 24 hours.
Who is Arthur Miller?
This reflective character laments that her husband taught her to sign her name.
Who is Ayah?
Joyce Carol Oates modeled the character of Arnold Friend after this real-life serial killer.
Who is Charles "Smitty" Schmid?
This short story features non-linear, collective narration and a twisted romance.
What is "A Rose for Emily?"
This short story includes the following quotation: "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name..."
What is "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"?
Our Norton editors suggest that this author's influential autobiography helped earn him the nickname, "The Moses of his race."
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This "short stocky fellow with...hair to his navel" accompanies Dee/Wangero to visit Mama and Maggie.
Who is Hakim-a-barber?
Born in London in 1967, this author was raised in the state of Rhode Island.
Who is Jhumpa Lahiri?
A child suffers from lye poisoning in this short story.
What is "A Worn Path"?
This short story includes the following line: "And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, 'OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an!'"
What is "Why I Live at the P. O."?