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Salinger, Fitzgerald, Miller, Hughes, Frost, Hurston, Steinbeck, Hansberry, Hinton, Krakauer, Dickinson, Thoreau and Harper Lee. These are the authors, playwrights and poets who have most shaped my teaching and tutoring philosophies. Some of them have also shaped my life philosophies. In class, whether we're at the time reading their words or not, I constantly look to the morals of Atticus Finch, the struggles and confusion of Holden Caulfield, the determ...