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All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class. ↗

— Brian Lumley

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I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Anne Rice

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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

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