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Walter Dean Myers--Fallen Angels

"The sense of isolation I felt as a young person is now relieved by the connecting links of my stories." Biography

Tim O'Brien--"The Things They Carried" and "Speaking of Courage"

In defiance of some editors and critics, who suggest he should move on from Vietnam, O'Brien will in all likelihood continue to write about the war. "All writers revisit terrain. Shakespeare did it with kings, and Conrad did it with the ocean, and Faulkner did it with the South. It's an emotional and geographical terrain that's given to us by life. Vietnam is there the way childhood is for me. There's a line from Michael Herr: `Vietnam's what we had instead of happy childhoods.' A funny, weird line, but there's some truth in it." Biography

John Updike--"Son" Biography

Amy Tan--"Rules of the Game" from The Joy Luck Club Biography

Richard Wright-- "Black Boy"

Science Fiction

Science Fiction serves two functions:

1. to speculate on the technological advances that may be possible in the future.
2. to provide a warning, sometimes through satire, about the future consequences of current behavior.

Isaac Asimov--"The Singing Bells" Biography

Kurt Vonnegut--"Harrison Bergeron" Biography

Ray Bradbury--"April 2005: Usher II" Biography