Questions & Author Bios

Questions &

Author Biographies

(downloads)

Alphabetized by Author's Last Name

Prose

A-D

Adler.........................................................“How to Mark a Book”
Buechner..................................................“The Dwarves in the Stable”
Carver...................................................... “Cathedral”
Ciardi.........................................................“Another School Year, Why?”
Colette.......................................................“The Other Wife”
Douglass................................................... from The Life of Frederick Douglass

E-H

Fink............................................................ “How I Found Religion at a Baseball Game”
Forster........................................................“My Wood”
Frazier........................................................"Laws Concerning Food and Drink”
Frost...........................................................“The Figure a Poem Makes”
Gilman.......................................................“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Helprin.......................................................“Statesmanship and Its Betrayal”
Hughes.......................................................“Salvation”
Hurston......................................................“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

I-M

Ibsen...........................................................“A Doll’s House”
Joyce..........................................................“Araby”
Keillor........................................................."Letter from Jim"
King............................................................“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Lewis..........................................................“Theology”
.....................................................................“What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?”
Lindbergh..................................................“The Channeled Whelk”
Malcolm X..................................................“Freedom through Learning to Read”
Maupassant...............................................“Clair de Lune”
Merton........................................................“Pray for Your Own Discovery” (pgs. 37-46)

N-S

Newman.................................................... from “The Idea of a University”
Nouwen......................................................“Adam’s Peace”
O’Connor, Frank......................................“First Confession”
O’Connor, Flannery.................................“Letter to Alfred Corn”
......................................................................."Revelation"
Orwell.........................................................."Shooting an Elephant"
Peretz...........................................................“If Not Higher”
Sanger.........................................................“The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery”
Sayers..........................................................“The Dogma Is the Drama”
Shakespeare.............................................. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene 5, lines 94-113
Swift..............................................................“A Modest Proposal”

T-Z

Thoreau.......................................................“Where I Lived and What I Lived for” from Walden
Tolstoy..........................................................“How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
Twain............................................................“Jim” (ch. XXXI) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
.......................................................................“The Grangerfords” (ch. XVIII) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Updike...........................................................“Pigeon Feathers”
Veith...............................................................“Arenas of Service”
Wakefield......................................................“Returning to Church”
Walker............................................................“The Welcome Table”
Wiman............................................................“Love Bade Me Welcome”
Poetry
Arnold..............................................................“Dover Beach”
Bonhoeffer.....................................................“Who Am I?”
Cummings......................................................“next to of course god America I”
Dickinson........................................................“I’m Nobody Who Are You?”
......................................................................... “Success Is Counted Sweetest”
......................................................................... “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”
Donne..............................................................“Holy Sonnet XIV”
Frost.................................................................“The Road Not Taken”
Harjo................................................................“Eagle Poem”
Hayden............................................................“Those Winter Sundays”
Herbert............................................................“The Collar”
..........................................................................“The Pulley”
Hopkins...........................................................“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
.......................................................................... “God’s Grandeur”
...........................................................................“Pied Beauty”
...........................................................................“The Windover”
Jonson.............................................................“On My First Son”
...........................................................................“On My First Daughter”
Kinnell..............................................................“St. Francis and the Sow”
McDonald........................................................“Faith is a Radical Master”
Nims..................................................................“Love Poem”
Nye.....................................................................“Famous”
Oliver.................................................................“Morning Poem”
............................................................................“The Kingfisher”
Owen.................................................................“Dulce et Decorum Est“
Roethke.............................................................“My Papa’s Waltz”
Shakespeare....................................................“Sonnet 73”
Shelley...............................................................“Ozymandias”

Questions &

Author Biographies

(downloads)

Adler.........................................................“How to Mark a Book”

Buechner..................................................“The Dwarves in the Stable”

Carver...................................................... “Cathedral”

Ciardi.........................................................“Another School Year, Why?”

Colette.......................................................“The Other Wife”

Douglass................................................... from The Life of Frederick Douglass

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E-H

Fink............................................................ “How I Found Religion at a Baseball Game”

Forster........................................................“My Wood”

Frazier........................................................"Laws Concerning Food and Drink”

Frost...........................................................“The Figure a Poem Makes”

Gilman.......................................................“The Yellow Wallpaper”

Helprin.......................................................“Statesmanship and Its Betrayal”

Hughes.......................................................“Salvation”

Hurston......................................................“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

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I-M

Ibsen...........................................................“A Doll’s House”

Joyce..........................................................“Araby”

Keillor........................................................."Letter from Jim"

King............................................................“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Lewis..........................................................“Theology”

.....................................................................“What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?”

Lindbergh..................................................“The Channeled Whelk”

Malcolm X..................................................“Freedom through Learning to Read”

Maupassant...............................................“Clair de Lune”

Merton........................................................“Pray for Your Own Discovery” (pgs. 37-46)

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N-S

Newman.................................................... from “The Idea of a University”

Nouwen......................................................“Adam’s Peace”

O’Connor, Frank......................................“First Confession”

O’Connor, Flannery.................................“Letter to Alfred Corn”

......................................................................."Revelation"

Orwell.........................................................."Shooting an Elephant"

Peretz...........................................................“If Not Higher”

Sanger.........................................................“The Turbid Ebb and Flow of Misery”

Sayers..........................................................“The Dogma Is the Drama”

Shakespeare.............................................. Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene 5, lines 94-113

Swift..............................................................“A Modest Proposal”

​

T-Z

Thoreau.......................................................“Where I Lived and What I Lived for” from Walden

Tolstoy..........................................................“How Much Land Does a Man Need?”

Twain............................................................“Jim” (ch. XXXI) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

.......................................................................“The Grangerfords” (ch. XVIII) from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Updike...........................................................“Pigeon Feathers”

Veith...............................................................“Arenas of Service”

Wakefield......................................................“Returning to Church”

Walker............................................................“The Welcome Table”​

Wiman............................................................“Love Bade Me Welcome”

Poetry

Arnold..............................................................“Dover Beach”

Bonhoeffer.....................................................“Who Am I?”

Cummings......................................................“next to of course god America I”

Dickinson........................................................“I’m Nobody Who Are You?”

......................................................................... “Success Is Counted Sweetest”

......................................................................... “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!”

Donne..............................................................“Holy Sonnet XIV”

Frost.................................................................“The Road Not Taken”

Harjo................................................................“Eagle Poem”

Hayden............................................................“Those Winter Sundays”

Herbert............................................................“The Collar”

..........................................................................“The Pulley”

Hopkins...........................................................“As Kingfishers Catch Fire”

.......................................................................... “God’s Grandeur”

...........................................................................“Pied Beauty”

...........................................................................“The Windover”

Jonson.............................................................“On My First Son”

...........................................................................“On My First Daughter”

Kinnell..............................................................“St. Francis and the Sow”

McDonald........................................................“Faith is a Radical Master”

Nims..................................................................“Love Poem”

Nye.....................................................................“Famous”

Oliver.................................................................“Morning Poem”

............................................................................“The Kingfisher”

Walker............................................................“The Welcome Table”