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This civil rights author and poet is best known for her work, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" published in 1969

Who is Maya Angelou

100

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Who is Frederick Douglass

100

The Translation of Dr. Apelles is this author's most famous work, which won him many awards in the book's 2006 publication

Who is David Treuer

100

This literary theorist is known for his ideal of an "oriental" viewpoint of culture; the West's depiction of the East

Who is Edward Said

100

Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award

Who is Yoko Ogawa

200

Known for being the prominent leader of the Harlem Renaissance, this author was the one of the earliest innovators of "jazz poetry". 

Who is Langston Hughes

200

The Joy Luck Club

Who is Amy Tan

200

His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. His name contains this citrus fruit.

Who is Tommy Orange

200

Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher, his ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century

Who is Ferdinand de Saussure

200

Her work frequently deals with Korean and Korean American topics. She is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko

Who is Min Jin Lee

300

The first African American Woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which as awarded for her novel, The Color Purple

Who is Alice Walker

300

The Round House

Who is Louise Erdrich

300

This Canadian writer published a series of Indigenous literature books, including Green Grass, Running Water

Who is Thomas King

300

German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital

Who is Karl Marx?

300

Korean American poet, writer, consultant, and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for her collection of poems, The Wet Hex

Who is Sun Yung Shin

400

The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award to this author

Who is Toni Morrison

400

House Made of Dawn

M. Scott Momaday

400

This author served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms

Who is Joy Harjo

400

French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits

Who is Jacques Lacan

400

Poet, professor, editor, organizer, and public speaker. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn

Who is Tina Chang

500

Author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers

Who is Alex Haley

500

Being Brought From Africa to America

Who is Phillis Wheatley

500

This author was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement

Who is Vine Deloria Jr.

500

This author coins this theory of dialogism suggested that an individual's speech is shaped in continuous interaction with others' utterances through the experience of assimi- lating others' words.

Who is Mikhail Bakhtin

500

Japanese writer; she has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.

Who is Sayaka Murata

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