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Famous authors Unit 5

A. Complete the table below with the authors in the box. Go online if you need to do
some research.
Michael Cunningham (A Home at the End of the World)
Complaint)
Ian Flemming (The Man with the Golden Gun) • Philip Roth (Portnoy’s
)
William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) • Carrie Fisher (Shockaholic
John Milton (Paradise Lost) • Emily Dickinson (The Poems)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) • David Lodge (Small World)
Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) • Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels)
rer’s Stone)
Herman Melville (Moby Dick) • J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorce
Charles Dickens (Hard Times) • John Updike (Rabbit, Run)
and the Fury)
Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) • William Faulkner (The Sound
in Time)
Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express) • Ian McEwan (The Child
Nick Hornby (About a Boy)

CLASSIC BRITISH AUTHORS CLASSIC AMERICAN AUTHORS

CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AUTHORS CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS

B. There are many famous prizes that authors can win every year. A good example is
the Pulitzer Prize. In 2014 the prize was won by Donna Tartt.
Read and choose a synonym in the box for the highlighted words.

ling and delightful

involvement • brilliant and remarkable • adult • avoided • very appea

For (1) distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing

with American life, ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Awarded to “The Goldfinch”, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown), a beautifully
written (2) coming-of-age novel with (3) exquisitely drawn characters that
follows a grieving boy’s (4) entanglement with a small famous painting that
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has (5) eluded destruction, a book that stimulates the mind and touches the
heart.

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