Top Five US Literary Giants who have Died Recently
by Ernie on 02/02/10 at 9:50 am
5. J.D. Salinger
4. John Updike
3. Norman Mailer
2. Erich Segal (Just kidding!)
The real number 2: David Foster Wallace
1. Kurt Vonnegut
Plus five non-fiction writers with very great influence.
Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss
Historian Howard Zinn
Feminist Mary Daly
Autobiographer Frank McCourt
And the subject of one non-fiction work: Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank from the Nazis.
Hang on, Harper Lee!
Elizabeth
Feb 3rd, 2010
Dear Sirs:
Grace Paley
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Ernie Reply:
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Yes! Of course. I somehow thought she was still alive. Fine addition.
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