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1 David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2008) Amy Berke; Robert Bleil; Jordan Cofer; and Doug Davis David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2006) David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, but was raised in Urbana, Illinois. The son of two academics, his father, James Donald Wallace, was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois, while his mother, Mary Jean Foster, was an English professor at Parkland College. During his youth, Wallace was a regionally ranked junior tennis player (an interest tha

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• 1 David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2008)
• 2 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 – )
• 4 Reading and Review Questions
• 12 “Oh Captain! My Captain!” – 1865
• 13 Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
• 16 “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” – 1890
• 17 Realism Introduction
• 21 Bret Harte (1836-1902)
• 22 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” – 1869
• 27 Henry James (1843 – 1916)
• 37 Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 – 1932)
• 42 Frank Norris (1870 – 1902)
• 43 “A Plea for Romantic Fiction” – 1901
• 46 Jack London (1876 – 1916)
• 47 “To Build a Fire” – 1908
• 52 Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
• 57 William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963)
• 59 Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)
• 62 “Poetry” – 1919
• 63 T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)
• 64 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – 1915
• 68 e.e. Cummings (1894 – 1962)
• 70 F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
• 71 “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” – 1920
• 72 “Winter Dreams” – 1922
• 73 Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
• 74 Arthur Miller (1915 – 2005)
• 77 “Dare’s Gift” – 1917
• 78 Eudora Alice Welty (1909 – 2001)
• 80 “Sleeper Awakes” – 1921
• 82 Countee Cullen (1903 – 1946)
• 83 “Heritage” – 1925
• 84 “Yet Do I Marvel” – 1925
• 85 Flannery O’Connor (1925 – 1964)
• 91 Adrienne Rich (1929 – 2012)
• 92 Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019)
• 93 Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963)
• 94 Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997)

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