Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott died of this common but serious disease that restricts blood to the brain, often resulting in a drooping in the face as a visible symptom.
What is a stroke?
Margaret Atwood retold several poems and plays, one of which was famously from the wife of the hero's perspective from this Homeric epic poem of ancient Greece.
What is the Odyssey?
Toni Morrison graduated in 1953 from this prestigious HBCU in Washington DC whose other famous alumni include Vice President Kamala Harris, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and late actor Chadwick Boseman.
What is Howard?
Stein and her family moved in 1878 from Paris to this California port city about 12 miles east of San Francisco which is home to the professional baseball team, the A's.
What is Oakland?
Ayn Rand and her accompanying philosophy of objectivism often promoted a hands-off approach to government intervention in the economy which is embodied in this French phrase literally meaning "allow to do."
What is laissez-faire?
Louisa May Alcott's first book was a collection of these types of stories featuring talking animals attempting to teach children about the importance of right and wrong in their actions.
What is a fable?
Margaret Atwood, like everyone else, has a favorite food; hers being a muffin flavored with poppy seeds and this type of sour
fruit.
What is lemon?
Morrison was honored with the highest level of civilian award in the US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by this sitting president on May 29, 2012.
Who is Barack Obama?
Despite vocally expressing her lack of interest in a career in medicine, Stein was nonetheless persuaded to enroll at this prestigious teaching hospital and medical school in Baltimore.
What is Johns Hopkins?
This political party and philosophy in the United States, which is defined by its belief that the small amount of government presence in one's life is the optimal approach to governance, has often claimed Ayn Rand as an intellectual ally.
What is libretarianism?
Eden's Outcasts, a biography of Louisa May Alcott which wrote about Alcott's likely gender dysphoria throughout her life, won this important American literary award for its author, John Matteson.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
For the title of Margaret Atwood’s novel Maddaddam, she used this type of literary device which allows a word to be read the same, spelled both forwards or backwards.
What is a palindrome?
Despite being born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Toni Morrison took her nickname Toni after her baptism to honor Anthony of Padua, who holds this status in the Catholic Church.
What is a saint/sainthood?
Among her favorite works of art to collect, Stein sought out paintings by Paul Cezanne, an artist who is grouped among Van Gogh and Edouard Manet in this movement emphasizing symbolic qualities of images over realistic depictions.
What is impressionism?
Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1905, which is only outranked by Russian capial city in terms of population.
What is Moscow?
Among other aliases, Alcott would sometimes go by A. M. Barnard as her nom de plume, which roughly translates to this phrase in English.
What is a pen name?
Margaret Atwood began writing at a very early age, her first novel being about this insect that is commonly known to be able to lift 20 times its body weight.
What is an ant?
Morrison's first venture into writing for the stage was the play Dreaming Emmett, which dramatized the lynching of this Black teenager in 1955 by White men in Mississippi.
Who is Emmett Till?
Now a word often associated with beauty or hair, Stein held many of these types of gatherings in her home in Paris which included guests like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway debating the importance of writing and art in society.
What is a salon?
Despite opposing many government services and levels of government assistance, Rand enrolled in this US government federal health insurance program for the elderly.
What is Medicare?
Upon reading Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of this celebrated Victorian author, Alcott saw herself in this person as they both had highly artistic and literary sisters they were close to throughout their lives.
Who is Charlotte Bronte?
Margaret Atwood dabbled in music writing, having composed a rock song titled after this scientist’s famous monster featured in a novel by fellow famous female author Mary Shelley!
What is Frankenstein?
Despite being published in 1970 as Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye suddenly sold 800,000 copies in 2000 when it was featured as part of this talk show host's popular "Book Club" segment.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Upon returning to the United States in 1934 after a 30 year absence, an electric sign in this busy, famous part of midtown Manhattan dramatically announced "Gertrude Stein Has Arrived."
What is Times Square?
Perhaps due to her seeming love of capitalism, her funeral included a six foot tall floral arrangment shaped into this economic symbol.
What is $?