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• Works by Carson McCullers


  • The Member of the Wedding
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• The Member of the Wedding

  • Frankie Addams wants to accompany her brother on his honeymoon
  • Cousin John Henry gets sick
  • Black cook Berenice Sadie Brown
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter(by Carson McCuller)

  • Eccentric tomboy Mick Kelly
  • Goodhearted Biff Brannon
  • Drunken Jake Blount
  • Black intellectual Dr. Benedict Copeland admire deaf mute Singer, who commits suicide
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe


  • Amelia Evans rejects her husband Marvin Macy
  • Turns her general store into a cafe when her cousin Lymon comes
  • 6 years later Lymon loves Marvin and they torment
• Works by Truman Capote


  • Other Voices Other Rooms
  • In Cold Blood
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Other Voices Other Rooms

  • Joel Knox meets Randolph, Jesus Fever, and dad at Skully's Landing
  • Achieves self-awareness at Cloud Hotel
• Works by Eudora Welty

  • The Ponder Heart
  • The Optimist's Daughter
  • The Wide Net
  • The Delta Wedding
• Works by Flannery O'Connor

  • The Violent Bear It Away
• Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology (deceased people from Spoon River narrate biographies from cemetery)
• Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems, Abraham Lincoln (The Prairie Years, The War Years), The People Yes, Rootabaga Stories
• Vachel Lindsay - The Congo, The Santa Fe Trail A Humoresque (contrasts industrial civilization with Rachel-Jane bird)
•   Jack Kerouac - On the Road (Sal Paradise [Kerouac] hitch-hikes across US with Carlo}, Marx [Ginsberg] and Dean Moriarity [Cassady])
•  Allen Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (elegy for mom Naomi)
•  Lawrence Ferlingheti - Pictures from the World Gone Wild
•   William Burroughs - The Naked Lunch
•  Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (history professor George and wife Martha invite new instructor and barren wife for a drink; all get drunk and become sadistic), Seascape, Tiny Alice, Three Tall Women, The Zoo Story (bum Jerry accosts Peter in Central Park and stabs himself)
• Maxwell Anderson - Winterset (based on Saccho and Vanzetti; Mio, whose Italian radical father was executed for murder he didn't commit, loves Miriamne; both killed by gangsters), Gods of the Lightning, Night Over Taos, What Price Glory? (written with Laurence Stallings; Capt. Flag and Sgt. Quirt compete for French girl in WWI)
• Georges Kaufman - You Can't Take It with You (written with Moss Hart; happy but bizarre NY Vanderhof family), Of Thee I Sing (Presidential candidate John Wintergreen campaigns on love platform and marries Atlantic City beauty contest winner)
• Arthur Ashur Miller - The Crucible (1692 Salem: John and Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft, Mary Warren also makes accusations, Giles Corey), Death of a Salesman (salesman Willy Loman considers himself a failure and commits suicide; other characters include wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy)
• Eugene O Neill: Emperor Jones (Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter, sets himself up as a West Indian island dictator but is killed in revolt),The Great God Brown (successful businessman takes the mask of artist Dion Anthony),The Iceman Cometh (NYC: salesman Theodore Hickman in End of the Line Cafe bar tells about killing his wife), Lazarus Laughed (Lazarus preaches new religion of laughter after being raised by Jesus; Caligula stabs Lazarus)
• Eugene O Neil: Long Day's Journey Into Night (autobiographical story of actor Edmund Tyrone and family, including drunk son and servant Cathlen), Marco Millions (Kublai Khan's daughter loves Marco Polo but he only wants money)
• Eugene O Neill: A Moon for the Misbegotten (unfulfilled love of alcoholic and farm woman), Mourning Becomes Electra (trilogy based on Oresteia by Aeschylus, set in post Civil War NE; General Ezra Mannon's [ Agamemnon] wife Christine [Clytemnestra] has affair with Adam Brant [Aegisthus], and daughter Lavinia [Electra] persuades her brother Orin [Orestes] to shoot him), Strange Interlude (Nina Leeds' fiancee dies in WWI; she marries Sam Evans but aborts their child but has baby from affair with Dr. Darrell), The Hairy Ape (ship stoker Yank rejected by IWW and crushed by gorilla at NYC zoo)
• Eugene O'Neill - Ah, Wilderness (July 4 1906: adolescent Tommy Miller in adult world) All God's Chillun Got Wings (Ella Downey marries lawyer Jim Harris, becomes racist to feel superior) Anna Chrisitie (Christopher Christopherson, a Swedish-American barge captain, sends daughter Anna Chrisite to St. Paul where she becomes a prostitute; she loves Mat Burke), Beyond the Horizon (brothers Robert and Andrew Mayo love same woman), Desire Under the Elms (elderly father Ephraim Cabot marries Abbie, who seduces his son Eban)
• Tony Kushner - Angels in America
•  William Saroyan - The Human Comedy, The Time of Your Life (lovable eccentrics and Detective Blick of the Vice Squad meet in waterfront saloon)
• Robert Sherwood - Idiot's Delight, Road to Rome, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, The Petrified Forest (Alan Squier, hitchhiking NE author, gets gangster to kill him so his insurance money can save lunchroom owner's daughter), There Shall Be No Night
• Neil Simon - Biloxi Blues, Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, Broadway Bound, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost in Yonkers
• Thornton Wilder: Our Town (Grover's Corners, NH: Stage Manager talks to audience; Professor Willard and Editor Webb comment on daily life; daughter Emily marries George Gibbs; Emily dies in childbirth),

  The Skin of Our Teeth (George Antrobus, his family, and temptress maid Sabina survive world upheavals throughout history, including Ice Age, Deluge, and WWII), The Matchmaker, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1714 Peru: Brother Juniper investigates death of 5 travelers on bridge),  Theophilus North
•   Tennessee Williams -

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Big Daddy Pollitt is dying of cancer on MS Delta; son Gooper wants inheritance; other son Brick accuses his wife Maggie of causing his friend's death; Maggie says she is pregnant to help Brick get inheritance)
• Tennesee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (St. Louis: Tom Wingfield narrates; mother Amanda asks Tom to bring a gentleman caller for crippled sister Laura, who has withdrawn to private universe of her glass animals; Laura temporarily emerges into real world when the horn of the glass unicorn breaks)
• Tennesee Williams:  A Streetcar Named Desire (New Orleans: faded belle Blanche DuBois comes to live with sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski, who warns a friend not to marry Blanche and then rapes her; streetcars Desire and Cemetery run on same track), The Rose Tattoo (dressmaker Serafina Delle Rose's truckdriver husband is killed; 3 years later she marries truckdriver with tattoo on chest like husband did)
• • Amy Lowell - Men Women and Ghosts, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
• • Wallace Stevens - Peter Quince at the Clavier (Susanna in the Apocrypha), Sunday Morning, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, The Necessary Angel
• • Robert Lowell - Life Studies (confessional; travel poems, childhood, tributes to Crane Schwartz Sntayana and Ford, family portraits)
• • Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely (Los Angeles: Philip Marlowe searches for missing woman and serves as bodyguard for man looking for a stolen necklace)
• • Hamlin Garland - Main-Travelled Roads (stories about Iowa and Dakota farmers, includes Under the Lion's Paw), A Son of the Middle Border (autobiography)'
• • Robinson Jeffers - Roan Stallion, Tamar (Monterey coast girl based on King David's daughter), The Tower Beyond Tragedy (based on Agamemnon), Thurso's Landing
  • Sylvia Plath - (committed suicide) Ariel (love songs to death; dehumanize people as mannequins and paper figures), The Bell Jar (schoolgirl prodigy Esther Greenwood has mental breakdowns)
• • Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Gloria Naylor - The Woman of Brewster Place
  • Harriot Monroe - edited Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
  • Amy Lowell - Men Women and Ghosts, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
  • Wallace Stevens - Peter Quince at the Clavier (Susanna in the Apocrypha), Sunday Morning, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, The Necessary Angel
• • Robert Lowell - Life Studies (confessional; travel poems, childhood, tributes to Crane Schwartz Sntayana and Ford, family portraits)
  • Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely (Los Angeles: Philip Marlowe searches for missing woman and serves as bodyguard for man looking for a stolen necklace)
  • John Ashbery - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
• • Hamlin Garland - Main-Travelled Roads (stories about Iowa and Dakota farmers, includes Under the Lion's Paw), A Son of the Middle Border (autobiography)
  • Robinson Jeffers - Roan Stallion, Tamar (Monterey coast girl based on King David's daughter), The Tower Beyond Tragedy (based on Agamemnon), Thurso's Landing
  • Sylvia Plath - (committed suicide) Ariel (love songs to death; dehumanize people as mannequins and paper figures), The Bell Jar (schoolgirl prodigy Esther Greenwood has mental breakdowns)
  • Anne Sexton - Live or Die, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, The Death Notebooks