<writer>
	<item>
	<name>Mark Twain</name>
	<birthplace>Florida Missouri</birthplace>
	<dob>Nov 30 1895</dob>
	<died>April 21 1910 </died>
	<awards>Hall of Fame</awards>
	<realname>Samuel Clemens</realname>
	<literarymov>Realism</literarymov>
	<book>Huckleberry Finn</book>
	</item>
	<item>
	<name>Booker Washington</name>
	<birthplace>Westlake Corner VA</birthplace>
	<dob>April 5 1915</dob>
	<died>November 14 1915</died>
	<awards>Pulitzer </awards>
	<realname>Booker Talieferro</realname>
	<literarymov>Contemporary Black Elite</literarymov>
	<book>Up from Slavery</book>
	</item>
	<item>
	<name>William Du Bois</name>
	<birthplace>Great Barrington MA</birthplace>
	<dob>Febr 23 1868</dob>
	<died> August 27 1963 </died>
	<awards> Lenin Peace Price </awards>
	<realname>William Edward Burghardt Du Bois</realname>
	<literarymov>Afican American Literature</literarymov>
	<book>The Souls of Black Folk</book>
	</item>
	<item>
	<name>Kate Chopin</name>
	<birthplace>St. Louis MO</birthplace>
	<dob>Febr 8 1850</dob>
	<died>August 22 1904 </died>
	<awards>none </awards>
	<realname>Katherine O'Flaherty</realname>
	<literarymov>Realism</literarymov>
	<book>The Awakening</book>
	</item>
	<item>
	<name>Charles Chestnutt</name>
	<birthplace>Cleveland OH</birthplace>
	<dob>June 20 1858</dob>
	<die> November 15 1932 </die>
	<awards>Spingarn Medal </awards>
	<realname> Charles Waddell Chesnutt </realname>
	<literarymov>Colorism</literarymov>
	<book>The wife of his youth</book>
	</item>
</writer>