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Grew up in

Philadelphia, his son and brother are both in prison, won the Pann Faulkner award twice.

John Edgar Wideman, Wideman won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice (Sent for You Yesterday, 1983;

Philadelphia Fire, 1990); his memoir Brothers and Keepers (1984) details his brother Robert's life imprisonment for murder, and his son Jamila's conviction for involuntary manslaughter (note Wideman grew up in Pittsburgh but has strong ties to Philadelphia through his career and writing).

Won the Pulitzer Prize inan once. The Rabbit series were his most famous works, often written about the struggles/conventions of the middle class. He went to Harvard.

John Updike

Updike won Pulitzers for Rabbit is Rich

(1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1991); the Rabbit tetralogy is his signature work exploring middle-class American life: he attended Harvard University,

French Naturat

author who led a wild life, loved to row on the Spine in Paris, contracted syphilis which eventually drove lift being kind

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Guy de

Maupassant

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Naturallet writer known for his Dohamian Ilfeutyle In Paris, Including rowing on the Beine; he constructed syphilis in 1937, funding to paranoia and hallucinations before his canth in 1893.

Author who fought for equal rights and was part of the Hariero menelestance movement.

Toni Cade Bambara, Bambara was a civil rights activist and feminist writer advocating for Black equality: grew up in Hertom, deeply Influenced by the Renaissance through her mother's involvement and the era's cultural legacy, which shaped her work like Gorilla, My Lovo (1972).

A banker by trade, this author wanted to be an opera singer when he was young. He lived most of life in North Card

James Hurst, Hurst worked as a banker in North Carolina after serving in WWIl; he studied opera singing in Italy post-war but gave it up for banking: born und based in Jacksonville, NC, where he wrote The Scariet Ibis (1960),

Dark Romanticism author who was resented by other authors, married his

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Edgar Allen Poe

Poe, a Dark Romantio, married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm in

1836; he faced literary rivalries and resentment (e.g., from Rutus Griswold): his death in 1849 is widely attributed to alcoholism amid poverty and illness.

Suffered from postpartum depression, feminist, story stopped the practice of the rest cure depression in won

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gilman endured severe post-partum depression after her daughter's 1885 birth, leading to the "rest cure" prescribed by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell; her feminist story "The Yellow Wallpaper"

(1892) exposed its harms, influencing its decline as a treatment.