1. Sylvia Plath
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From The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
2. Oscar Wilde
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From De Profundis.
3. Toni Morrison
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From Sula.
4. Jonathan Franzen
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From Freedom.
5. William Faulkner
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From Soldiers' Pay.
6. Margaret Atwood
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From The Robber Bride.
7. James Baldwin
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Hear it from the man himself.
8. Jeffrey Eugenides
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From The Marriage Plot.
9. Norman Rush
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From Mating.
10. W. Somerset Maugham
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From The Summing Up.
11. Lorrie Moore
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From A Gate at the Stairs.
12. Gabriel García Márquez
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From Collected Stories.
13. Virginia Woolf
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From A Room of One's Own.
14. Samuel Johnson
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From The Life of Samuel Johnson.
15. Stephen King
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From Hearts in Atlantis.