The grooving years of the 1970’s didn’t only focus on it’s dancing and prancing but also focused on their literature. Many books published in the 70's revolved around a general theme of man's alienation from his spiritual roots. Many of these books became famous and well known up to now.  
Love Story is one of the best sellers of Erich Segal. Love Story revolves around the lives of two young college students, whose love for each other was immortal. Oliver Barrett, heir to the Barrett fortune and legacy and Jennifer Cavilleri, daughter of a poor baker who does not own a huge bank account but have lots of love. Oliver was expected to follow in his father's huge footsteps, Jennifer, music major was to go on and study in Paris. But when they met, the sparks flew, and we get involved with them as their love grows deep and strong. Oliver turns his back on his family and fortune to marry Jenny. Jenny gives up her dreams of Paris and being a musician. They are happy with each other in their lives and the stable flow of income that is enough to sustain them. But life can be cruel and Jenny is diagnosed with leukemia. With just a few days to live, the novel speaks about the emotional pain they both go through.  
The most famous journalists in the 20th century appeared in the first half of 1970s. Robert Upshur Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters of the Washington Post, investigated the Watergate break-in and first cracked the Watergate scandal in August 1972, which led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. They both published the book All the President’s Men. This was published in June 1974, two years after the Watergate break-in and two months before Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men chronicled Woodward and Bernstein's struggles, failures, and eventual success in uncovering the Watergate story. Drawing on the notes and research accumulated while writing their stories for The Washington Post, the book revealed for the first time the existence of Woodward's highly placed and highly secretive source "Deep Throat," promoting wide speculation on his identity. The book remained on best-seller lists for six months and was later turned into a hugely successful 1976 movie, forever linking Woodward and Bernstein's names with investigative journalism and Nixon's fall. 

Also, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a creative and genre-bending American novelist who wrote the novel Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday in 1973. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok. Kurt Vonnegut explored the loneliness of contemporary society and the power hungry materialism that pass it. 
Other famous writers are John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Rod McKuen, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Christopher Durang, and Neil Simon. Each of these writers has a unique view on the world and expresses it through their writing. Literature is a gift in a way that it gives you knowledge on how the worldÕs doing then and now. Literature can simply feed your mind with imagination and knowledge beyond you even know. 

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