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Charles Richard Johnson (born April 23, 1948) [1] is an American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays, most often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has directly addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage .
This story, told in the third person, focuses on Petey Shropshrire, a friend of Johnny Rivers who wrestles junior varsity for Coho High School in Coho, Montana. The beginning of the story centers around a wrestling team meeting, in which Petey and Johnny's coach needs someone to wrestle Chris Byers, the best wrestler at the 119 weight class at ...
Inspired by some of Franco's own teenage memories, [1] [2] and memories written and submitted by high school students at Palo Alto Senior High School, [3] the stories describe life in Palo Alto as experienced by a series of teenagers who spend most of their time indulging in driving drunk, using drugs and taking part in unplanned acts of ...
"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.
Ben Loory (born July 11, 1971) is an American short fiction writer. He is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011) and Tales of Falling and Flying (Penguin, 2017), as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015).
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, ... 1995 answers by Mason to Kentucky high school students;
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.
Diane A. Oliver (July 28, 1943 – May 21, 1966) was an American short fiction writer. [1] She published four short stories in her lifetime and a further ten posthumously, eight of those only seeing print nearly 58 years after her death. [2]