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Possibilities for Writing

• Maya Angelou: Graduation
  
  
• Gloria Anzaldúa: How to Tame a Wild Tongue
  
  
• Francis Bacon: Of Studies
  
  
• Russell Baker: Growing Up
  
  
• James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son
  
  
• Dave Barry: Road Warrior
  
  
• Mary Catherine Bateson: Attending a World
  
  
• Sven Birkerts: Into the Electronic Millennium
  
  
• Judy Brady: I Want a Wife
  
  
• Susan Brownmiller: Femininity
  
  
• Jane Brox: Influenza 1918
  
  
• Angela Carter: The Wound in the Face
  
  
• Judith Ortiz Cofer: Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
  
  
• K. C. Cole: Calculated Risks
  
  
• Bernard Cooper: Burl’s
  
  
• Aaron Copland: How We Listen
  
  
• William Cronon: The Trouble with Wilderness
  
  
• Charles Darwin: Natural Selection
  
  
• Guy Davenport: The Geography of the Imagination
  
  
• Joan Didion
  
  
• Annie Dillard
  
  
• John Donne: No Man Is an Island
  
  
• Frederick Douglass: Learning to Read and Write
  
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois: Of Our Spiritual Striving
  
  
• Gretel Ehrlich: About Men
  
  
• Queen Elizabeth I: Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
  
  
• Ralph Ellison: Living with Music
  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
  
  
• Anne Fadiman: Never Do That to a Book
  
  
• Benjamin Franklin: Arriving at Perfection
  
  
• Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams
  
  
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: In the Kitchen
  
  
• Atul Gawande: Crimson Tide
  
  
• Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
  
  
• Ellen Goodman: The Company Man
  
  
• Mary Gordon: More than Just a Shrine—Ellis Island
  
  
• Stephen Jay Gould: Women’s Brains
  
  
• William Hazlitt: On the Pleasure of Hating
  
  
• Edward Hoagland: The Courage of Turtles
  
  
• Barbara Holland: Naps
  
  
• Langston Hughes: Salvation
  
  
• Zora Neale Hurston: How It Feels to Be Colored Me
  
  
• Pico Iyer: Nowhere Man
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence (Draft and Final Version)
  
  
• Jamaica Kincaid: On Seeing England for the First Time
  
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
  
• Barbara Kingsolver: Stone Soup
  
  
• Maxine Hong Kingston: On Discovery
  
  
• Robin Tolmach Lakoff: You Are What You Say
  
  
• Charles Lamb: A Bachelor’s Complaint
  
  
• D.H. Lawrence: On Ben Franklin’s Virtues
  
  
• Chang-Rae Lee: Coming Home Again
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
  
  
• Barry Lopez: The Stone Horse
  
  
• Niccolò Machiavelli: The Morals of the Prince
  
  
• Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple
  
  
• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
  
  
• John McPhee: From The Encircled River
  
  
• H.L. Mencken: Portrait of an Ideal World
  
  
• Howard Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
  
  
• N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain
  
  
• Michel de Montaigne: Of Smells
  
  
• George Orwell
  
  
• Cynthia Ozick: The Seam of the Snail
  
  
• Alexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp
  
  
• Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
  
  
• Katherine Anne Porter: The Necessary Enemy
  
  
• Anna Quindlen: Between the Sexes, A Great Divide
  
  
• Richard Rodriguez: Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
  
  
• Scott Russell Sanders: Under the Influence
  
  
• Luc Sante: What Secrets Tell
  
  
• Chief Seattle: Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott
  
  
• Richard Selzer: The Masked Marvel’s Last Toehold
  
  
• Leonard Shlain: Nonverbal/Verbal
  
  
• Leslie Marmon Silko: Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination
  
  
• Susan Sontag: A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?
  
  
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
  
  
• Brent Staples: Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
  
  
• Shelby Steele: On Being Black and Middle Class
  
  
• Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
  
  
• Margaret Talbot: Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart
  
  
• Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
  
  
• Lewis Thomas: The Corner of the Eye
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau: Why I Went to the Woods
  
  
• James Thurber: University Days
  
  
• Sojourner Truth: Aren’t I a Woman?
  
  
• Mark Twain: Reading the River
  
  
• Alice Walker: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
  
  
• Eudora Welty: From Listening
  
  
• E. B. White
  
  
• Tom Wolfe: Only One Life
  
  
• Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  
  
• Virginia Woolf
  
  
• Richard Wright: Writing and Reading
  
  

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