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Historical Literary

Literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood, usually but not always told from the protagonist's perspective

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1

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Winston Groom

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Lois Lowry

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Author

100% (3 of 3 votes)

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Jonathan Franzen

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Frank Herbert

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

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Thomas Wolfe

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Daniel Defoe

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Horatio Alger, Jr.

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Anthony Trollope

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Laurence Sterne

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Jay McInerney

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Ida B. Wells

Advocate

100% (1 of 1 votes)

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Adolf Hitler

World Leader

70.86% (766 of 1081 votes)

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Roald Dahl

Author

69.84% (44 of 63 votes)

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J.D. Salinger

Author

69.49% (41 of 59 votes)

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Barack Obama

U.S. President

69.40% (8562 of 12338 votes)

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Theodore Dreiser

Author

69.23% (81 of 117 votes)

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Richard Wright (Novelist)

Author

68.97% (100 of 145 votes)

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Upton Sinclair

Author

67.77% (82 of 121 votes)

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Emma Goldman

Anarchist

67.74% (21 of 31 votes)

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Doris Lessing

Author

67.69% (88 of 130 votes)

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Mother Jones

Advocate

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

24

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Advocate

63.24% (86 of 136 votes)

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Malcolm X

Advocate

62.30% (38 of 61 votes)

26

Jack Kerouac

Author

57.14% (4 of 7 votes)

27

Frederick Douglass

Advocate

57.14% (40 of 70 votes)

28

J.K. Rowling

Author

56.30% (76 of 135 votes)

29

James Baldwin

Author

55.56% (20 of 36 votes)

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Katharine Hepburn

Actress

55.42% (46 of 83 votes)

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Compton Mackenzie

Author

53.85% (7 of 13 votes)

32

Jeff Kinney

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

33

James Boswell

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

34

Cressida Cowell

Author

50.0% (5 of 10 votes)

35

Jack London

Author

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

36

D.H. Lawrence

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

37

Kate Chopin

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

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Lewis Carroll

Author

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

39

Benjamin Franklin

Patriot

48.95% (234 of 478 votes)

40

Sojourner Truth

Advocate

48.33% (58 of 120 votes)

41

Jane Addams

Advocate

48.17% (105 of 218 votes)

42

Maya Angelou

Poet

47.74% (74 of 155 votes)

43

Charles Dickens

Author

45.71% (16 of 35 votes)

44

Rudyard Kipling

Author

42.86% (3 of 7 votes)

45

Judy Blume

Author

38.46% (5 of 13 votes)

46

James Joyce

Poet

37.50% (3 of 8 votes)

47

John Steinbeck

Author

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

48

Voltaire

Philosopher

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

49

Zora Neale Hurston

Author

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

50

Orson Scott Card

Author

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

51

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

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Alice Walker

Author

25.00% (1 of 4 votes)

53

Philip Roth

Author

20.0% (1 of 5 votes)

54

Ernest Hemingway

Author

18.75% (3 of 16 votes)

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L. Frank Baum

Author

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

56

Mark Twain

Author

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

57

Shirley Temple Black

Actress

5.26% (1 of 19 votes)

58

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Carson McCullers

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

60

Mary Shelley

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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George Eliot

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

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John Knowles

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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William Makepeace Thackeray

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Thomas Carlyle

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Thomas Hardy (Writer)

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

66

Miguel De Cervantes

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

67

Henry James

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

68

Jean Shepherd

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

69

Thomas Mann

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

70

Stendhal

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

71

Winston Churchill (American novelist)

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

Emily Bronte

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

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John Cleland

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

74

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

75

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

77

Ursula K. Le Guin

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Louisa May Alcott

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Booker T. Washington

Author

0% (0 of 10 votes)

80

Robert Louis Stevenson

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Charlotte Bronte

Author

0% (0 of 7 votes)

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Stephen Crane

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Elie Wiesel

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Henry Fielding

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

85

Harper Lee

Author

0% (0 of 6 votes)

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Willa Cather

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Black Hawk

Native American Icon

0% (0 of 0 votes)

88

Oliver Goldsmith

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Samuel Richardson

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Ralph Ellison

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Advocate

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Gustave Flaubert

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Avi

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Beverly Cleary

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Albert Camus

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Carl Sandburg

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Ethel Waters

Vocalist

0% (0 of 3 votes)

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Joseph Conrad

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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S.E. Hinton

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

100

Emile Zola

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Author

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Amy Tan

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Toni Morrison

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Sherman Alexie

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Aphra Behn

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Margaret Fuller

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

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Madame de Stael

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

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Julia Alvarez

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

110

T.H. White

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)