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Certified teacher, Rhode Island. Member of the New England Library Association, Rhode Island Library Association, and the Rhode Island Educational Media Association.  \nChristopher Maloney: Head Reference Librarian, Ocean City Free Public Library, Ocean City, New Jersey. Member of the American Library Association and the New Jersey Library Association. Board member of the South Jersey Library Cooperative.  \nKathleen Preston: Head of Reference, New City Library, New City, New York. Member of the American Library Association. Received B.A. and M.L.S. from University of Albany.  \nPatricia Sarles: Library Media Specialist, Canarsie  \nHigh School, Brooklyn, New York. Expert Guide in Biography/Memoir for the website [About.com](About.com) ([http://biography.about](http://biography.about). com). Author of short stories and book reviews. Received B.A. , M.A. (anthropology), and M.L.S. from Rutgers University.  \nHeidi Stohs: Instructor in Language Arts, grades 10–12, Solomon High School, Solomon, Kansas. Received B.S. from Kansas State University; M.A. from Fort Hays State University.  \nBarbara Wencl: Library Media Specialist, Como Park Senior High School, St. Paul, Minnesota. Teacher of secondary social studies and history, St. Paul, Minnesota. Received B.S. and M.Ed. from University of Minnesota; received media certification from University of Wisconsin. Educator and media specialist with over 30 years experience.  \nTable of Contents  \nGuest Foreword  \n“Why Study Literature At All?”Thomas E. Barden ........ vii  \nIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . ix  \nLiterary Chronology . . . . . . xiii  \nAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . xv  \nContributors . . . . . . . . . xvii  \nAfricans  \nSheila Kohler . . . . . . . . . . 1  \nBecause My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi  \nHendrix Play ‘‘The Star-Spangled Banner’’ at Woodstock Sherman Alexie ......... 18  \nBrazzaville Teen-ager Bruce Jay Friedman ........ 40  \nThe Conversion of the Jews Philip Roth ........... 57  \nThe Far and the Near Thomas Wolfe .......... 78  \nThe Half-Skinned Steer E. Annie Proulx ......... 92  \n‘‘If I Forget Thee, O Earth ... ’’Arthur C. Clarke ........ 108  \nJourney into a Dark Heart Peter Høeg .......... 123  \nThe Legend of the Christmas Rose Selma Lagerlöf ........ 141  \nMammon and the Archer O. 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