NORTH AMERICA AUTHORS

21st Century Literature

Notable Writers of North America

THE TEAM

Miki P. Bustamante

Julliene Felice N. Grospe

Lou Kate V. Gatus

Jethro N. Cinense

Grachel Nicka R. Quesada

Roxanne Q. Sangalang

Micaela Ruth M. Bulanadi

Martyn James P. Soon

Ma. Necita Nicole R. Mercado

Lian Joy N. Ronquillo

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Lesson 1Representative Texts and Authors

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Jonathan Safran Foer

• Birthday : February 21, 1977• Country of Birth : Washington, D.C., United States

• Education : Attended Georgetown Day School then went on to go to Princeton University. At Princeton, author Joyce Carol Oates inspired Foer to begin a writing career. As a senior, Jonathan Foer wrote a thesis about his grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, and won Princeton’s Senior Creative Writing Thesis Prize. This thesis soon after became the topic of Foer's first novel. Foer graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy. • Writer of both fiction and nonfiction

Jonathan Safran Foer

• Birthday: June 26, 1969
• Country of birth: Vancouver, Canada
• She is a writer of fiction
• Education: Sara attendend Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she studied English literature and creative writing.

Sara Gruen

• Birthday: July 10, 1893
• Country of birth: Glasgow, Kentucky
• Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics".

Margaret Atwood

Valeria Luiselli

• Birthday: August 16, 1983
• Country of Birth: Mexico
• Education: Columbia University
• Writer of both fiction and nonfiction

Carmen Boullosa

• Birthday: September 4, 1954.
• Country of Birth: Mexico City
• Writer of both Fiction and Nonfiction
• Education: She attended Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxic (UNAM) for four years.
• She published almost continuously after graduating from college, starting an amazing run of literary.

IT'S TIME FOR SOME GAMES

THANK YOU

(some of them)

• Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
• Here I Am (2016)

non-fiction works

• Eating Animals (2009)
• We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019)

Awards and Achievements

• The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Cat's Eye (1988)
• The Robber Bride (1993)
• Alias Grace (1996)

Her Legacy:

• Atwood's feminist perspective has significantly impacted contemporary literature and inspired countless writers to explore similar themes in their own work.

Awards and Achievements

(some of them)

• Lost Children Archive (2019).

- Nominated for Women’s Prize in Fiction (forthcoming).

• Tell Me How It Ends (2017).

- Winner of the American Book Award.More about her:

• Luiselli devotes much of her time to activism: She and her niece teach creative writing to detained youth at a migrant center in upstate New York.

Works, Awards and Achievements

(some of them)

• When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays ( 2015 )
• •Cleopatra Dismounts ( 2003 )
• •Heavens on Earth ( 1997 )

More on her:

• Her writing primarily addresses gender roles and feminism in Latin America.
• In addition to teaching at City College of New York, she has held faculty positions at Georgetown, Columbia, NYU, SDSU, and Clermont Ferrand At CUNY's Macaulay Honors College, she currently holds the position of Distinguished Lecturer.

Works and Achievements

(some of them)

• BookSense #1 pick for June 2006
• The Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Fiction 2007.
• The Cosmo Fun Fearless Fiction Award 2007.

Contributions:

• Gruen's contribution lies in her ability to craft compelling narratives that transport readers to different times and places, offering both entertainment and insights into human experiences.

Awards and Achievements

(some of them)