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Can you name the authors whose works are included in the Library of America?
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Library of America catalog
Does not include groupings such as "various" and "American Sonnets". Sorted in alphabetic order by surname. Think of notable or historic writers, politicians, etc. Current as of March 2011.
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Library of America Authors Quiz
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DragonNo4
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 19:46 GMT
6 points
Hard to believe they excluded Hemingway from such a large list.
johnlk
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 22:27 GMT
3 points
Ashbery is spelled wrong. I would imagine Hemingway is an issue of getting the rights, since his stuff is all still under copyright. Notice that for Fitzgerald, who's also published by Scribner, they've only published his public domain stuff - no Great Gatsby. I assume Scribner must be fairly unfriendly to the Library of America project.
MRL
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Mar 14th, 2011 at 22:36 GMT
1 point
@johnlk: Thanks for the Ashbery correction; it's fixed now.
ndkchk
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Mar 15th, 2011 at 02:37 GMT
2 points
Can it also accept 'Dos Passos' for John Dos Passos?
MRL
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Mar 15th, 2011 at 13:51 GMT
1 point
Good catch.
Athena13
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Mar 21st, 2011 at 09:18 GMT
1 point
Yeah, I googled 'Hemingway' and 'Dickinson' to see if maybe I was misspelling them. I mean, I'm not a huge Dickinson fan myself, but there've been about a million editions of her poems published, so I always figured that other people must think she's pretty great.
jmpatison003
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May 6th, 2011 at 04:26 GMT
1 point
Did you just forget Kurt Vonnegut, or has he been added since you published this?
MRL
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May 26th, 2011 at 00:08 GMT
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jmpatison003
: Looking around, it seems like he was added just this month. I've updated the quiz. Thanks for the heads up!
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