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2_CicelyMaryBarker
june february english illustrator best known series fantasy illustrations depicting flowers art education began correspondence courses instruction earliest professional work included cards juvenile magazine illustrations book flower spring published similar books published following decades devout anglican donated artw...
Cicely Mary Barker
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210_GertrudeBarrowsBennett
major female writer fantasy science fiction united_states publishing stories pseudonym bennett wrote number highly acclaimed fantasies called woman invented dark fantasy famous books include claimed letter called compelling science fantasy novels read lost world novel citadel fear bennett wrote early novel heads life b...
Gertrude Barrows Bennett
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470_MeraldaWarren
junior warren born june artist poet remote british overseas territory works english island distinctive language book written island children written published english artist works cloth tradition published featuring cuisine warren served island nurse police officer radio operator member territory governing council role...
Meralda Warren
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588_WilhelmBusch
christian april january german poet illustrator painter published comic illustrated tales achieving notable works 1870s illustrations wood later drew contemporary city life catholicism strict religious morality comic text colourful entertaining figures speech led work banned authorities influential poetry illustration ...
Wilhelm Busch
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743_GabrielGarcíaMárquez
american spanish march april novelist short story writer screenwriter journalist known latin_america considered significant authors 20th century best spanish language awarded international prize literature nobel prize literature pursued self directed education resulted leaving law school career journalism early showed ...
Gabriel García Márquez
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803_FujiwaranoTeika
better known september japanese poet critic novelist scholar late early periods influence enormous counted greatest japanese poets greatest master form ancient poetic form consisting lines total syllables critical ideas composing poetry extremely influential studied late era member poetic clan born noted poet coming at...
Fujiwara no Teika
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1005_AnnaAkhmatova
june june march better known pen russian russian modernist poet acclaimed writers russian canon work ranges short lyric poems structured cycles requiem tragic masterpiece terror style characterised economy emotional restraint original distinctive contemporaries strong clear leading female voice struck new chord russian...
Anna Akhmatova
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1023_JonathanLethem
born february american novelist short story writer novel gun genre work mixed elements science fiction detective fiction published followed science fiction novels published winning novel achieved mainstream success published fortress received early life born brooklyn new_york political activist avant garde painter elde...
Jonathan Lethem
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1243_JohnGardner(Britishwriter)
british writer confused american writer november august english spy thriller novelist best known james_bond continuation novels series books continuation novels containing sir fictional villain professor royal marine commando worked period anglican priest lost faith left church short time battle alcohol addiction wrote...
John Gardner (British writer)
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1432_MilutinBojić
serbian november october serbian poet theatre critic playwright soldier native belgrade began writing poetry early age published number literary reviews pseudonym teenager rose prominence balkan wars writing experiences territories newly ottoman_empire outbreak world war interrupted studies forced postpone marrying gir...
Milutin Bojić
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1558_MarcoKartodikromo
march known pen indonesian journalist writer born low ranking noble family dutch_east_indies employment national railway disgusted racism shown moved found work journalist following year moved worked publications soon began write pieces critical dutch colonial government led arrest period correspondent netherlands cont...
Marco Kartodikromo
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2024_AriwaranoNarihira
japanese poet early period named poetic thirty poetic poems included collection known poems attributed court dubious poems exceptionally ambiguous 10th century treated relatively long renowned love affairs exerted profound influence later japanese culture legends held affairs high poet fathered emperor love affairs ins...
Ariwara no Narihira
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2680_HonoraSneyd
née eighteenth century english writer mainly known associations literary figures day particularly work children education born bath following death mother raised wife elizabeth returned father house formed close friendship daughter having romantic engagement having declined hand thomas day married second wife living fa...
Honora Sneyd
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3025_AbrahamGoldfaden
born romanian spelling common july january new_york_city russian born jewish poet playwright stage director actor languages hebrew author plays considered father jewish modern theatre founded romania generally credited world professional language theater troupe responsible hebrew language play performed united_states f...
Abraham Goldfaden
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3222_JuliaBaird
née born march younger half sister english musician john_lennon eldest daughter john bobby december march july older half sister younger sister born october started visiting house death julia appointed guardians julia ignoring legally married mother invited sisters visit success beatles living wife married moved belfas...
Julia Baird
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3686_MikeBullen
born january english screenwriter grew attending later college cambridge left degree history art radio producer unhappy quality british television targeted people age took course developed comedy drama television led commissioning cold feet multiple award winning comedy drama aired itv network series won writer year aw...
Mike Bullen
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3846_GeoffreyA.Landis
born american scientist working nasa exploration propulsion solar power holds patents primarily field improvements solar cells devices given presentations commentary possibilities travel construction bases moon mars venus supported scientific background writes hard science fiction writings won award hugo awards award a...
Geoffrey A. Landis
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4088_EliasAbuShabaki
spelled arabic january writer poet editor translator literary critic founders literary league considered leading figures born family interested poetry young age son merchant left youth experience mark earlier works worked teacher translator addition publishing volumes poetry journalist writing arabic newspapers literar...
Elias Abu Shabaki
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4454_RobertKeable
march december british novelist missionary priest church_of_england resigned ministry following experiences world war caused scandal novel tale priest wartime affair young nurse book sold copies 1920s referenced great cited double murder investigation united_states critically received moved continued write producing no...
Robert Keable
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5229_ArthurAdams(comics)
comics people named page arthur art adams born april american comic book artist writer broke american comic book industry miniseries subsequent interior comics work includes number marvel major books including men factor fantastic hulk ultimate books publishers authority adams illustrated books featuring characters per...
Arthur Adams (comics)
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5279_W.H.Auden
february september english poet later american citizen best known love poems funeral blues poems political social themes september shield poems cultural psychological themes poems religious themes time born york grew near birmingham professional middle class family attended english independent public schools studied en...
W. H. Auden
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5504_BernardLevin
august august english journalist author broadcaster described times famous journalist day son poor jewish family london won scholarship independent school christ hospital went graduating short spell job bbc selecting press use programmes secured post junior member editorial staff weekly periodical truth reviewed televi...
Bernard Levin
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5705_JuliuszSłowacki
polish pronunciation ski september april polish romantic poet considered polish literature major figure polish romantic period father modern polish drama works feature elements slavic pagan traditions polish history style includes employment irony primary genre drama wrote lyric poetry popular works include dramas poem...
Juliusz Słowacki
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5864_AugustoRoaBastos
june april novelist short story writer teenager fought war later worked journalist screenwriter professor best known complex novel supreme winning spanish literature prestigious prize explores inner thoughts ruled iron fist little death life writing marked experience military regimes forced exile argentina fled buenos_...
Augusto Roa Bastos
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5899_JackCoggins
july january artist author illustrator known united_states oil paintings focused predominantly marine subjects known books space travel authored illustrated works provided illustrations advertisements magazine covers articles world war served artist correspondent magazine capturing conveying wartime scenes lines course...
Jack Coggins
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6355_SandraCisneros
born december american writer best known acclaimed novel subsequent short story collection woman creek stories work experiments literary forms investigates emerging subject positions attributes growing context cultural economic inequality endowed unique stories tell recipient numerous awards including regarded key figu...
Sandra Cisneros
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6588_IonCreangă
romanian pronunciation known march june december born romanian writer main figure 19th century romanian literature best known volume short stories anecdotes main contribution fantasy children literature includes narratives structured eponymous protagonists stan fairy tales conventional forms story pig goat kids mother ...
Ion Creangă
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7035_YoaniSánchez
born september cuban blogger achieved international fame multiple international awards critical portrayal life cuba current government attended primary school affluent time soviet_union providing considerable aid cuba high school university education coincided loss financial aid cuba following soviet_union collapse cre...
Yoani Sánchez
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7260_JosephDennie
august january american author journalist foremost men letters best remembered series essays entitled lay preacher founding editor port journal classical republican values highly regarded successful literary publication time important political literary journal united_states referred father early life career born augus...
Joseph Dennie
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7716_WaltWhitman
march american poet journalist transition realism incorporating views works influential poets american canon called father free verse work controversial time particularly poetry collection leaves grass described overt sexuality born long_island worked journalist teacher government clerk addition publishing poetry volun...
Walt Whitman
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7945_WashingtonIrving
washington april november american short story writer biographer historian diplomat early 19th century best known short stories legend hollow appear book sketch book historical works include biographies george_washington muhammad histories 15th century spain dealing subjects served ambassador spain literary debut serie...
Washington Irving
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8010_AdamMickiewicz
mit december november polish poet publicist translator professor slavic literature political activist regarded national poet poland lithuania principal figure polish counted poland widely regarded poland greatest poet considered greatest slavic european poets dubbed slavic leading romantic compared poland europe known ...
Adam Mickiewicz
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8178_MateiuCaragiale
romanian credited version march march january romanian poet prose writer best known novel portrays descendants world war style associated symbolism movement fin early original element romanian literature interwar period late contributions pioneered detective fiction locally disagreement work field produced complete nar...
Mateiu Caragiale
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8349_StanisławLem
polish pronunciation september march polish writer science fiction philosophy satire trained physician books translated languages sold million copies 1950s 2000s published books science fiction philosophical best known author novel feature film times wrote widely read science fiction writer world works explore philosop...
Stanisław Lem
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8603_OscarWilde
october november irish playwright novelist poet writing different forms 1880s london popular early 1890s remembered novel picture gray plays circumstances imprisonment early death parents successful intellectuals son fluent french german early life university read proved outstanding dublin oxford known involvement risi...
Oscar Wilde
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8831_JamesWhitcombRiley
october july american writer poet best selling author lifetime known poet children poet dialect works children poetry respectively poems tended humorous sentimental approximately thousand poems riley authored majority dialect famous works include little annie man riley began career writing verses sign maker submitting ...
James Whitcomb Riley
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8897_ConstantinAl.Ionescu-Caion
romanian pronunciation born commonly known november december romanian journalist poet primarily remembered legal dispute disciple militant leading opponent literary tradition scattered work comprises essays short stories prose poetry noted cultural references little impact romanian literature journalist scandals accusi...
Constantin Al. Ionescu-Caion
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9043_JaneAusten
december july english novelist known primarily major novels interpret critique comment life british landed gentry end 18th century highly praised novel lifetime pride prejudice second published novel plots explore dependence women marriage pursuit favorable social standing economic security author major novels rarely p...
Jane Austen
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9059_Sophocles
greek winter ancient greek plays survived plays written later earlier contemporary wrote plays course life seven survived complete form years celebrated playwright dramatic competitions city state athens took place religious festivals competed competitions won judged lower second place won competitions defeated won com...
Sophocles
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9634_PJHaarsma
commonly known canadian born science fiction author best known creation universe encompasses series books created free online role playing game called set universe book series game target young reluctant readers attempt encourage rewarding reading developed school presentation program discusses books astronomy science ...
PJ Haarsma
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9910_VilayetPrintingHouse(Sarajevo)
originally named printing house official printing house bosnia april occupation province austria-hungary august second printing house operated territory present day founded years printing house ceased activity founder publisher printer sold establishment government bosnia october foundation happened context reforms ott...
Vilayet Printing House (Sarajevo)
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10494_WilliamHenryLeonardPoe
referred january august sailor amateur poet older brother death parents children split henry lived family baltimore maryland cared different families richmond virginia age henry traveled globe sea returning baltimore published poet author works pirate fictionalized account brother relationship richmond henry died tuber...
William Henry Leonard Poe
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11316_TerryPratchett
sir april march english author fantasy novels especially comical works best known series novels novel published novel colour magic published wrote books year average novel time release fastest selling adult readership novel records began selling copies days final novel shepherd crown published august months death milli...
Terry Pratchett
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11675_BillyDeBeck
april november better known american cartoonist famous creator comic strip later retitled smith strip especially popular 1920s 1930s featured number known characters including title character race horse merchandising phenomenon called 1920s drew line big foot style characters giant feet strips reflected love sports ina...
Billy DeBeck
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11879_RobertofCricklade
robert robert died medieval english writer prior oxford native taught wrote number theological works lost biography murdered archbishop_of_canterbury life robert wiltshire anglo saxon descent point taught schools called master learning canon abbey prior oxford office occupied end attested office appearance prior went r...
Robert of Cricklade
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11982_JosephStaten
american writer served director studio games including halo series write mission scripts movie dialogue titles involved managing expansion halo franchise game studios producers including published author previously books approached write fifth halo novelization halo contact harvest released novel reached new_york_times...
Joseph Staten
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12010_AnnElizaBleecker
october november american poet correspondent following new_york upbringing married lawyer encouraged writings helped publish periodical containing works american revolution saw john join ann fled daughters continued write remained family returned following surrender affected deaths numerous family members years died pa...
Ann Eliza Bleecker
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12195_ChoKi-chon
korean november july russian born north korean poet regarded founding father north korean poetry distinct soviet influenced style lyrical epic poetry socialist genre important feature north korean literature nicknamed korea writer works influence implied breaking literature old society commitment communist values remar...
Cho Ki-chon
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12251_VangjelMeksi
physician writer translator time personal physician 19th century ruler produced translation help sponsorship british foreign bible society live work publication supervised athens member secret society purpose establish independent greek state joined greeks siege war independence ottoman_empire died shortly value christ...
Vangjel Meksi
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12287_JaneWilliams
née january november british woman best known association romantic poet jane raised england india marrying naval officer settling london soon left military officer edward left england italy acquainted romantic relationship near end life deeply addressed poems perished boating accident lived close friend children rest l...
Jane Williams
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12336_A.ScottBerg
born december pulitzer prize winning american biographer graduating princeton_university expanded senior thesis editor length biography editor genius won national book award second book biography published book highly anticipated biography aviator published winning pulitzer prize biography autobiography published biogr...
A. Scott Berg
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12411_TristanTzara
french romanian born known april april december romanian french avant garde poet performance artist active journalist playwright literary art critic composer film director known best founders central figures anti establishment movement influence adolescent interested symbolism founded magazine wrote experimental poetry...
Tristan Tzara
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12543_IonAgârbiceanu
september austro hungarian born romanian writer journalist politician theologian greek catholic priest native graduated ordained initially assigned parish form backdrop fiction achieved literary fame work disputed rival schools committed social cultural activism spent 1910s near break world war eventually took deep ukr...
Ion Agârbiceanu
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12558_JohnR.Tunis
december february inventor modern sports story american writer broadcaster known juvenile sports novels wrote short stories non fiction including weekly sports column new_yorker magazine commentator sports cast broadcast tennis tournament united_states graduating harvard serving army world war began writing career amer...
John R. Tunis
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13324_PoetLaureateofNewJersey
poet new_jersey poet new jersey known new_jersey merit honor presented governor new_jersey distinguished new_jersey poet created position existed years abolished legislature effective july created position bill provided specifically creation award named honor twentieth century poet physician resided new_jersey legislat...
Poet Laureate of New Jersey
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13378_DylanThomas
thomas october november welsh poet writer works include poems gentle good night death shall dominion play voices stories radio broadcasts wales portrait artist young dog widely popular lifetime remained premature death age new_york_city acquired reputation encouraged drunken doomed poet thomas born wales pupil left sch...
Dylan Thomas
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13485_KlausEbner
august austrian writer poet translator born raised vienna began writing early age started submitting stories magazines 1980s published articles books software topics poetry written german translates french literature german member austrian writers associations including works include cultural essays topics stories deal...
Klaus Ebner
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13892_AlgonquinRoundTable
celebrated group new_york_city writers critics actors gathering initially practical joke members vicious circle dubbed met lunch day hotel roughly engaged newspaper columns members country daily association outside inspired members circle collaborate creatively entire group worked successfully create revue called helpe...
Algonquin Round Table
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14339_Hergé
french march known pen belgian cartoonist best known creating series comic albums considered popular european comics 20th century responsible known series works executed distinct claire drawing style born lower middle class family brussels began career contributing illustrations scouting magazines developing comic seri...
Hergé
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14532_JamesWhite(author)
author april august northern irish author science fiction short stories novels born belfast returned spending early years canada years working clothing industry worked aircraft company based belfast taking early retirement result diabetes white married science fiction fan couple children died stroke fan science fiction...
James White (author)
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14536_AnneRice
born october american author gothic fiction christian literature best known popular influential series novels revolving central character books vampire chronicles subject film adaptations interview vampire queen damned born new_orleans rice spent early life moving texas later san_francisco raised catholic family young ...
Anne Rice
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14914_ElizabethF.Ellet
elizabeth october june american writer historian poet writer record lives women contributed american revolutionary war born elizabeth new_york published book poems translated original married chemist couple moved south_carolina published books contributed multiple journals moved new_york took place literary scene invol...
Elizabeth F. Ellet
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15471_JohnWilsonBengough
april october canada editor publisher writer poet entertainer politician best remembered political cartoons grip satirical magazine published edited modelled british humour magazine punch published cartoons pen born toronto scottish irish immigrants grew graduating high school began career newspapers political cartoons...
John Wilson Bengough
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15527_MaryanaMarrash
arabic known syrian writer poet movement arabic renaissance revived tradition literary middle_east syrian woman publish collection poetry woman write arab daily newspapers life background education born city ottoman syria present day syria old family merchants known literary interests having earned wealth standing 18th...
Maryana Marrash
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15661_ThomasHolleyChivers
october december american doctor turned poet state georgia best known friendship controversial defense poet death born wealthy georgia family interested poetry young age wife separated received medical degree focused energy publishing medicine addition submitting poems magazines journals published volumes poetry includ...
Thomas Holley Chivers
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15719_GailGodwin
born june american novelist short story writer written novels short story collections non fiction books primary literary accomplishments novels included best sellers finalists national book award books realistic fiction novels follow character psychological intellectual development based themes taken life born birmingh...
Gail Godwin
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15786_AlfredDöblin
august june german novelist doctor best known novel prolific writer spans half century wide variety literary movements styles important figures german literary complete works comprise dozen novels ranging genre historical novels science fiction novels modern metropolis dramas radio plays true crime story travel account...
Alfred Döblin
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16073_ThomasTraherne
september english poet clergyman theologian religious writer little information known life intense scholarly spirituality writings led commemorated parts october anniversary burial september work best known today centuries collection short reflects christian life ministry philosophy happiness desire childhood published...
Thomas Traherne
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16282_BolesławPrus
pronounced august born leading figure history polish literature philosophy distinctive voice world literature year old joined polish uprising shortly 16th birthday suffered severe battle injuries months later imprisoned uprising early experiences precipitated panic disorder dog life shaped opposition attempting regain ...
Bolesław Prus
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16316_JackCoggins
july january artist author illustrator known united_states oil paintings focused predominantly marine subjects known books space travel authored illustrated works provided illustrations advertisements magazine covers articles world war served artist correspondent magazine capturing conveying wartime scenes lines course...
Jack Coggins
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16636_DomingoFaustinoSarmiento
domingo domingo february september argentine activist intellectual writer statesman seventh president argentina writing spanned wide range genres topics journalism autobiography political philosophy history member group intellectuals known great influence nineteenth century argentina particularly concerned educational ...
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
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16863_RichardHenrySavage
june october american military officer author wrote books adventure mystery based loosely experiences savage witty daring life inspiration pulp novel character youth san_francisco savage studied engineering law graduated years surveying work savage went rome envoy following sailed egypt serve stint returning home savag...
Richard Henry Savage
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17065_PanaitCerna
bulgarian born august september march romanian poet philosopher literary critic translator native speaker bulgarian nonetheless wrote romanian developed style connected praised conservative literary society promoted leader disciples group main representative decline contributing major magazines contributed pieces magaz...
Panait Cerna
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17088_LorenaHickok
march american journalist known close relationship lady born wisconsin dairy farmer unhappy childhood marked isolation abuse mother death fourteen left home worked completed high school help cousin went journalism failing college soon successful reporter associated_press achieving american women journalists nation best...
Lorena Hickok
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17691_StevePurcell
born american cartoonist animator director game designer widely known creator independent comic book series pair anthropomorphic animal private investigators received comic series grown incorporate animated television series video games graduate craft began career creating comic strips college newsletter performed free...
Steve Purcell
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17702_MahLaqaBai
april born referred indian 18th century poet philanthropist based female poet collection poems work compilation named published posthumously lived period version making transition highly literary contributions provide insight linguistic southern india influential female ruler appointed highest nobility close affiliate ...
Mah Laqa Bai
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17716_SharonKayPenman
born august american historical novelist published best known welsh princes trilogy series addition written medieval mysteries queen man finalist best mystery novels mysteries set england france wales english welsh royalty middle ages book stand novel king england wars roses manuscript stolen started rewrote book work ...
Sharon Kay Penman
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17977_AlexandruBogdan-Pitești
romanian pronunciation born known june romanian poet art literary critic known journalist left wing political wealthy landowner invested fortune patronage art collecting main local promoters modern art sponsor romanian movement cultural figures established romanian associations dedicated promoting avant garde independe...
Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești
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18222_AynRand
born russian february january march russian born american novelist philosopher playwright screenwriter known best selling novels developing philosophical system called educated russia moved united_states play produced broadway early novels initially unsuccessful america achieved fame novel published best known work nov...
Ayn Rand
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18394_MatsuoBashō
born famous poet period japan lifetime recognized works collaborative form today centuries commentary recognized greatest master called poetry internationally renowned japan poems reproduced monuments traditional sites famous west believed best work lay leading participating quoted saying followers write linking verses...
Matsuo Bashō
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18457_KhachaturAbovian
armenian october october april april disappeared armenian writer national public figure early 19th century mysteriously vanished eventually presumed dead educator poet advocate modernization reputed father modern armenian literature best remembered novel wounds armenia written published posthumously novel published mod...
Khachatur Abovian
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18814_MichaelChabon
born american novelist short story writer novel mysteries pittsburgh published followed second novel short story collections published amazing adventures novel review later novel called received pulitzer prize fiction literature novel alternate history mystery novel published won hugo awards serialized novel gentlemen ...
Michael Chabon
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18871_JohannPeterHebel
september german short story writer poet evangelical theologian famous collection lyric poems german tales des treasure chest family friend rhine born entered primary school joined latin school years later visited schools summer respectively nearby winter death mother remained school graduating help friends gymnasium g...
Johann Peter Hebel
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19884_JohnW.Campbell
june july american science fiction writer editor editor later called late death generally credited shaping golden age science fiction called campbell powerful force science fiction years dominated field completely writer campbell published super science space opera moody stories primary famous pseudonym campbell wrote ...
John W. Campbell
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20103_ThomasJeffersonHogg
august british writer best known friendship romantic poet raised county durham spent life london friends studying oxford remained close death time oxford collaborated literary projects culminating joint expulsion following publication controversial treatise remained good friends relationship strained attraction women r...
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
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20462_InaCoolbrith
march february american poet writer librarian prominent figure literary community called sweet singer california california poet poet american state born niece day saint movement founder left community child enter teens los_angeles california began publish poetry terminated youthful failed marriage home san_francisco m...
Ina Coolbrith
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21119_MelissaRosenberg
born august american screenwriter worked film television nominated emmy awards writers guild america awards won award joining involved strike captain writers guild america strike supports female founded worked television series joining writing staff eventually leaving write film step served head writer showtime series ...
Melissa Rosenberg
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21306_AndreaDworkin
september april american radical feminist writer best known criticism pornography argued linked rape forms violence women radical said need liberals widely criticized liberal time maintained dialogue political conservatives wrote related book right wing women suffering abuse husband introduced radical feminist literatu...
Andrea Dworkin
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22291_JanuszZajdel
august july prominent polish science fiction author second popularity poland major genres social science fiction main recurring theme involved prospects space environment mankind carried ideas habits red space heroes desperately try find meaning world novels recognized classics science fiction poland famous works socia...
Janusz Zajdel
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22534_HenrykSienkiewicz
polish known pseudonym november polish journalist novelist nobel prize best remembered historical novels especially internationally known best seller born impoverished polish noble family russian ruled congress poland late 1860s began publishing literary pieces late 1870s traveled united_states sending travel essays wo...
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22770_SoemanHs
perfected spelling better known pen indonesian author recognized pioneering detective fiction short story writing country literature born dutch family farmers studied teacher author writer began working language teacher completing normal school time began writing publishing novel years published novels short story coll...
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23059_HelenC.White
november june professor english white twice served english department chair woman professor university woman elected president president white wrote novels numerous books articles white raised boston roman catholic household kept faith rest life graduated girls high school college completing master degree taught years ...
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23093_IvoAndrić
serbian pronounced born october march yugoslav novelist poet short story writer won nobel prize literature writings dealt mainly life native bosnia ottoman rule born austrian occupied bosnia attended high school active member national youth organizations following assassination june arrested imprisoned austro hungarian...
Ivo Andrić
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23588_JuliaAlvarez
julia born march dominican american poet novelist rose prominence novels girls lost accents time butterflies publications poet include homecoming woman kept autobiographical compilation declare literary critics regard significant writers achieved critical commercial success international scale born new_york spent years...
Julia Alvarez
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23916_OctaveUzanne
september october 19th century french writer publisher journalist noted literary research authors 18th century published previously unpublished works authors including founded president research produced considerable literary output frequent publications newspapers echo france paris topics research focused discussion f...
Octave Uzanne
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24110_RexShelley
november august author graduate singapore cambridge trained engineering economics managed business worked member years service conferred additional bar year started writing fiction late life publishing novel shrimp people age substantial work writer community singapore highly commended won award books people pear tree ...
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24399_PhilipLarkin
august december english poet novelist librarian book poetry published followed novels girl winter came prominence publication second collection poems followed high windows contributed daily_telegraph jazz critic articles gathered jazz record diary edited oxford book twentieth century english verse honours include queen...
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24662_JamesPlanché
february british officer arms period approximately years wrote adapted collaborated plays wide range genres including comedy melodrama opera responsible introducing historically accurate costume nineteenth century british theatre subsequently acknowledged expert historical costume publishing number works topic interest...
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24672_JoyceKilmer
born december july american writer poet mainly remembered short poem titled trees published collection trees poems prolific poet works celebrated common beauty natural world roman catholic religious faith journalist literary critic lecturer editor works largely unknown select poems remain popular published frequently c...
Joyce Kilmer
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24687_SusannaClarke
born november english author best known debut novel hugo award winning alternative history clarke began worked spare time decade published short stories strange universe bought manuscript began work publication novel best seller years later published collection short stories clarke novel short stories set magical engla...
Susanna Clarke
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