This author was a cynic who was called “the wickedest man in San Francisco” because of the harsh critiques he wrote as a journalist. Many think he was killed in Mexico during the war.

Match the quote to its author.

Which of the following was an author whose works influenced Modernist writers?

Who does Ginsberg describe as “destroyed by madness, starving / hysterical naked” (l. 1)?

In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” why does Robert, the blind man in the story, visit the narrator’s home?

Match the author to the statement that is true of him or her.

Which author wrote a set of two poems focusing on adolescence, served as poet laureate of the U.S. from 1993 to 1995, and is considered one of the most indispensable American poets writing today?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper” to draw attention to her experiences with schizophrenia.

Some noteworthy realist authors chose to focus their literary relism on the interior psychological states of their fictional characters.

Some noteworthy realist authors chose to focus their literary relism on the interior psychological states of their fictional characters.