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January 1998 Issue
A young black woman describes her experience teaching freed slaves during the Civil War.
May 1864 Issue
“I remember saying to myself, when the book was done: ‘I don’t yet know how to write a novel; but I know how to find out how to.’”
April 1933 Issue
A report on the veterans of Vietnam—and on the often disgraceful treatment they have received from their countrymen.
March 1978 Issue
“There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.”
January 1888 Issue
“If there are such things as ghosts, why don’t they haunt the Americans?”
October 1946 Issue
An escaped slave tells his story—including his account of his violent showdown with slave-catchers in Pennsylvania.
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Woolf was a novelist and a pioneer of literary modernism.
Before writing Silent Spring, Carson made her mark as an environmental journalist with the Atlantic essay “Undersea.”
White was an essayist, a novelist, and a grammarian. His Atlantic essay “Death of a Pig” was a nonfiction prototype for Charlotte’s Web.
West’s reporting on her travels through the Balkans, published in The Atlantic in 1941, was compiled in the book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
One of the most popular writers of his time, Dickens was the author of works including A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities.
Smith is an Atlantic contributing writer, a playwright, and an actor.
Auden published his first poem for The Atlantic in 1939, the year he emigrated from England to the United States.
Vonnegut was the author of 14 novels, as well as numerous short-story collections, plays, and works of nonfiction.
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