Deadly Sins

Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize. In 2008, The Times named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Source: [A. S. Byatt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt) on Wikipedia.

Prof. John Updike, American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Mary Gordon is the author behind the Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum series. Her work focuses on literature education, making classic and contemporary texts accessible to students.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), [The Crying of Lot 49](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2636665W) (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973),...

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