these famous people and prose authors. It was a pleasure to share the work of these folks with users of my textbooks.
Shirley Jackson, Woody Allen, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Morley Callaghan, Emily Carr, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Chief Dan George, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Ellen Goodman, Samuel Johnson, Albert Schweitzer, Margaret Laurence, David Suzuki, Wallace Stegner, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, William Saroyan, Gabrielle Roy, Roald Dahl, Alice Munro, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saki, Doris Lessing, Sinclair Ross, Ernest Buckler, Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Terry Fox, Helen Keller, Jane Goodall, W.O. Mitchell, Mother Teresa, Rick Hansen, Bruce Springsteen, Brian Wilson, Gwynne Dyer, Daphne du Maurier, James Thurber, W. Somerset Maugham, Wayson Choy, Albert Camus, Nadime Gordimer, Graham Greene, Anne Tyler, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas King, Wendell Berry, Robertson Davies, Dave Barry, Nelson Mandela, Jane Rule, Gloria Steinem, Roberta Bondar, Christie Blatchford, Bertrand Russell, Vladimir Nabokov, Sinclair Ross, Rosa Parks, Tom Jackson, Jack London, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rod Serling, Roger Ebert, Stephen Spielberg, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pele, Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby, Tomson Highway, Anton Chekhov, Tobias Wolff, Chris Hadfield, Rex Murphy, Alistair MacLeod, Drew Hayden Taylor, John Collier, Christopher Reeve, Jane Urquhart, Ann Beattie, Arthur C. Clarke.
Questions:
Which of these people are still alive?
Which of these people are still remembered and read?
How many of them would get taught in Canadian and Alberta high schools today?
Alternately, what are the names of those who are taught today?