Only two American writers have been honored by the US Post Office with two stamps. Can you name the two?
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Perryman
ANSWERS: 2
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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman?
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The US Post Office has honored at least 21 authors since 1979 with their Literary Arts series of stamps. Year Author 1979 J Steinbeck 1980 E Wharton 1983 N Hawthorne 1984 H Melville 1986 T S Eliot 1987 W Faulkner 1989 E Hemingway 1990 M Moore 1991 W Saroyan 1992 D Parker 1994 J Thurber 1995 T Williams 1996 F S Fitzgerald 1997 T Wilder 1998 S V Benet 1999 A Rand 2000 T Wolfe 2002 O Nash 2003 Z N Hurston 2004 J Baldwin 2005 R P Warren Of those, John Steinbeck, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Thomas Stearns Eliot (born American), William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thornton Wilder, Stephen Vincent Benét, Thomas Wolfe, Ogden Nash, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, and Robert Penn Warren were at least born in the United States even if they didn't live here their entire lives. Ayn Rand immigrated when she was 21. Source: http://alphabetilately.com/Series1.html
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