To Play: “Middlemarch” Madness Literary Championship Bracket 16 16 1 16 William Shakespeare J.K. Rowling/ Philip K. Dick 8 9 12 5 4 Emily Bronte Langston Hughes Henry James Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra Dante Alighieri 13 Lord Byron 6 Franz Kafka Georg Eliot 11 1 Walt Whitman 14 H.G. Wells Anton Chekhov 10 Oscar Wilde 7 2 15 John Milton Robert Browning MW 9 John Donne Johann Wolfgong Von Goethe Emily Dickinson 12 Zadie Smith 5 4 13 6 11 Vladimir Nabokov 1 13 6 3 William Shakespeare MIDWEST Franz Kafka 2 15 11 Alfred Lord Tennyson 6 Stephen King/ 11 The Beowulf Poet 14 Toni Morrison 3 William Butler Yeats 14 Mark Twain 7 Mark Twain 7 Sylvia Plath 10 Herman Melville 2 Herman Melville Milan Kundera Charles Dickens 1 Charles Dickens 1 Edward Abbey/ 16 Orson Scott Card J.M. Coetzee 11 WEST Emily Dickinson Virginia Woolf 6 Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe University of Utah student winner(s) will share a $150 gift card to the campus bookstore! 5 William Blake 5 T.S. Eliot 12 J.M. Coetzee 13 William Faulkner 4 J.M. Coetzee 13 Virginia Woolf Jack Kerouac 6 6 11 6 F. Scott Fitzgerald Virginia Woolf 8 9 William Blake Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf Gabriel Garcia Marquez Jorge Luis Borges Thomas Pynchon 13 SOUTH Gabriel Garcia Marquez 11 7 5 8 1 Emily Dickinson 2 15 1 Jorge Luis Borges Ursula K. Le Guin James Joyce William Butler Yeats 6 Charles Dickens 12 2 Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson 5 Nathanial Hawthorne 2 John Donne Gabriel Garcia Marquez Margaret Atwood Virginia Woolf John Steinbeck 9 The Beowulf Poet John Donne 11 2 1 William Shakespeare 8 Joseph Conrad 4 Henry David Thoreau 13 Kurt Vonnegut Ernest Hemingway Gabriel Garcia Marquez/ Chinua Achebe James Joyce William Shakespeare Jack London Vladimir Nabokov 4 11 Herman Melville 1 16 Joseph Conrad John Milton 5 7 Herman Melville Walt Whitman John Milton Maya Angelou J.R.R. Tolkien 12 4 EAST Oscar Wilde 13 Edgar Allen Poe 9 The Beowulf Poet 5 14 Vladimir Nabokov William Shakespeare Walt Whitman 8 8 1 Walt Whitman Homer Maya Angelou 7 10 16 9 Lord Byron 2 2 Nathanial Hawthorne Joseph Conrad 3 10 9 9 Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra 5 Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra 5 Jane Austen Italo Calvino 1 Vladimir Nabokov Emily Dickinson 14 Stephen King 11 The Beowulf Poet 11 E Vladimir Nabokov Emily Bronte 8 5 Marcel Proust Ursula K. Le Guin 3 Edward Abbey 16 Orson Scott Card 16 William Shakespeare 1 1 8 S Jane Austen 1 Leo Tolstoy 16 Kurt Vonnegut Gabriel Garcia Marquez W 11 Chinua Achebe 11 William Shakespeare 3 3 First Four (Play-in Games) J.K. Rowling Philip K. Dick 3 F. Scott Fitzgerald 3 J.D. Salinger 14 6 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2 Charlotte Bronte 7 Charlotte Bronte Geoffrey Chaucer Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2 James Baldwin 15 7 10
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