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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein's wor...

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 186...

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.

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Aisha Tyler

Aisha Tyler is an American talk show host, actress, comedian, author, producer, writer, and director.

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.A career scientist turned statesman, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswa...

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a...

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell.

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in...

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Bruce Lee

Lee Jun-fan, known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet ...

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Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer, OM was a French-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician. He was born in the German province of Alsace-Lorraine and although t...

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one...

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Famous for playing comic "dumb blonde" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s...

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright.

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A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, prima...

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A. R. Rahman

Allah-Rakha Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist.

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer, cartoonist, animator, book publisher, and artist best known for authoring children's books under the pen name Dr. S...

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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, an...

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Fuhrer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945...

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influenc...

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.

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Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, entrepreneur, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, he and Paul Allen co-founded Micros...

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and radical feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half o...

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C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologi...

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Jalaluddin Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi more popularly known simply as Rumi , was a 13th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mys...

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A.J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin, MBChB, MD, DPH, MRCP was a Scottish novelist and physician. His best-known novel was The Citadel, about a doctor in a Welsh mining vill...

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Julia Child

Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut...

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of A...

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Agostinho da Silva

George Agostinho Baptista da Silva, GCSE was a Portuguese philosopher, essayist, and writer. His thought combines elements of pantheism and millenarism, an ethi...

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambie...

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-centur...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th ...

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Confucius

Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

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J.K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE, FRSL, pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of ...

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular mu...

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Lauren Conrad

Lauren Katherine Tell is an American television personality, fashion designer, and author. Born and raised in Laguna Beach, California, she attended Laguna Beac...

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa MC, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, th...

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author and a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts.

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Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Muhammad ﷺ the Apostle of God was a religious leader. Muslim religious belief holds that he is the Seal of the prophets, and that the Qur'an is the message of G...

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic d...

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and activist. After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from tw...

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Winston S. Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC DL FRS RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and ag...

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley, OM was a Jamaican singer-songwriter, musician and guitarist who achieved international fame and acclaim, blending mostly reggae, ska ...

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C. JoyBell C.

C. JoyBell C. is the most frequently quoted Author on Goodreads, is a leading female Thinker and Writer in our world today, and is a Mentor to many modern-day L...

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George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. Carlin was noted for his black comedy and his thoughts on politi...

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent drama...

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Alex Haley

Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

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Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin was an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba, but lived most of her...

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of...

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Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Ec...

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Alan W. Watts

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.

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Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter and producer. He has published eighteen novels and two non-fiction books.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing storie...

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post fro...

Primary DisciplineFormer First Lady of the United States
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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry Marx, known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian, film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely...

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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, FRSL, known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best kno...

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Mae West

Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advance...

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Pitt is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Glo...

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Anglo-Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, c...

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Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work being translated into 50 la...

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Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarri...

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most o...

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

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Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its commun...

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more...

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to...

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Plato

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

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Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan, also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality. Referred to in the media as the "Baadshah of Bollywood", "King ...

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Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, ...

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Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to be elected to tha...

Primary Discipline44th U.S. President
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Bill Watterson

William Boyd "Bill" Watterson II is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

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Cassandra Clare

Judith Rumelt, better known by her pen name Cassandra Clare, is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her bestselling series The Mortal Inst...

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Dalai Lama XIV

The 14th Dalai Lama is the current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are important monks of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism which is nominally hea...

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E.E. Cummings

Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often stylized as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 po...

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and t...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French Canadian descent born in New England. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. ...

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John Green

John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is one half ...

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Lao Tzu

Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is known as the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism, and as a dei...

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Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler. Snicket is the author of several children's books, also serving as the narrator of A Series ...

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Socrates

Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts o...

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her ...

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41...

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Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth is an American novelist and short story writer known for her debut New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, consisting of Divergent, Insurgen...

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Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt ...

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Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American actor, author, filmmaker, comedian, playwright, and musician, whose career spans more than six decades.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.

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Anne Frank

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born diarist and writer. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously following the...

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Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz, nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts.

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Elie Wiesel

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.

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Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. Degeneres starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and...

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, composer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, actor, and filmmaker whose work is characterized by nonconformity, free...

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George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin, often referred to as GRRM, is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, scr...

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in...

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpabl...

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Johnny Depp

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is an American actor, producer, and musician. He has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting...

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author. Widely known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 as well as...

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Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and novelist, best known as the author of The New York Times best selling series The Underland Chronicles and T...

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the ...

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the ...

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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she ...

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Annie Proulx

Edna Ann Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Anni...

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Sh...

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Ben Okri

Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and ha...

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a renowned polymath and a leading author, printer, political theorist, poli...

Primary DisciplineFounding Father of the United States
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C. G. Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in ...

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an American poet, writer, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the great...

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film.

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Christopher Paolini

Christopher James Paolini is an American author. He is best known as the author of the Inheritance Cycle, which consists of the books Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr a...

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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories seldom feature a co...

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Douglas Adams

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Edith Sitwell

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Edward Abbey

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Gautama Buddha

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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George Orwell

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H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Henry Ford

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Henry James

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Hunter S. Thompson

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Jay-Z

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

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Jim Morrison

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Jodi Picoult

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Joseph Campbell

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Judy Blume

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Langston Hughes

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Marcel Proust

French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobio...

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Nora Ephron

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Pablo Neruda

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Philip Pullman

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Phyllis Diller

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Rihanna

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Rita Mae Brown

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of...

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Rodney Dangerfield

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal...

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T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets"

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Trisha Yearwood

Patricia Lynn "Trisha" Yearwood is an American country music singer, author, and actress. She is known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a femal...

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Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers.

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Walt Whitman

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Will Rogers

William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commenta...

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays...

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Alfred Tennyson

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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of...

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Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Awar...

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Allen Saunders

Allen Saunders was an American writer, journalist and cartoonist who wrote the comic strips Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, ary Worth and Kerry Drake.

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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U....

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Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist. She has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. Her best known work is The Joy Luck Club. I...

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Anita Desai

Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Ann Richards

Dorothy Ann Willis Richards was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Texas. A Democrat, she first came to national attention as the state treasurer o...

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Anna Quindlen

Anna Marie Quindlen is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist. Her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the ulitzer Prize for Commentar...

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Anne Lamott

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Anne Rice

Anne Rice is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica. She is perhaps best known for her popular and influential series of novels...

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinn...

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess was an English writer and composer.

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's opera...

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal w...

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Ashleigh Brilliant

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant is an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude t...

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Beatrix Potter

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as t...

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS was a British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Benjamin Franklin Wade

Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade was a United States Senator during Civil War reconstruction known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans.

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Benjamin Spock

Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the best-sellers of all time. Its message to mot...

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activ...

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history.

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Bil Keane

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Bill Cosby

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Bill Nye

William Sanford "Bill" Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax co...

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his mo...

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Bob Newhart

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, ife...

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistan...

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Brigham Young

Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church of J...

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C.J. Cherryh

Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy an...

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Carlos Castaneda

Carlos Castaneda was an American author with a Ph.D. in anthropology. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968, astaneda wrote a series of books that des...

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Cat Cora

Catherine Ann "Cat" Cora is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on the Food Network television show Iron Chef Ameri...

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Cathy Guisewite

Cathy Lee Guisewite is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy, which had a 34-year run.

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Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris Schulz is an American New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississ...

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with hi...

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Chris Abani

Christopher "Chris" Abani is a Nigerian and American author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking...

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Chris Rock

Christopher Julius Rock III is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director. After working as a standup comic and appearing in small film roles, ...

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major amba...

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Colette

Colette, in full Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, outstanding French writer of the first half of the 20th century whose best novels, largely concerned with the pains ...

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Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, and television producer. He is best known for hosting several late-night talk shows; since 2...

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Corrie ten Boom

Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust ...

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Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Shoshana Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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D.H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards "D. H." Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called ComedIa and later christene...

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

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David Byrne

David Byrne is a Scottish-born American musician who was the founding member, principal songwriter, and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band ...

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Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an American author, public speaker, alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement. Through his books and videos...

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Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam, was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theolog...

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CH is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apart...

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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.

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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Eleme...

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E.L. Doctorow

Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow was an American novelist, editor, and professor, best known internationally for his works of historical fiction. He has been des...

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Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart olle is a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he wa...

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 192...

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a m...

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Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and A Delicate Balance...

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Eleanor H. Porter

Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist.

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Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. She popularized the concept...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

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Elizabeth Peters

Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also wrote as Barbara Michaels as well as her own name. Born and brought up in Illinois, she earned her Ph....

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong is an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towa...

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Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood."

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurists, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney Ge...

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Frank Herbert

Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr. was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.

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François Mauriac

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Fred Rogers

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Frida Kahlo

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Gabriel Garcia

Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito th...

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Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine is an American author of young adult books. Her first novel, Ella Enchanted, received a Newbery Honor in 1998.

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Galileo Galilei

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Galway Kinnell

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George Burns

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George Gordon Byron

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George Harrison

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George S. Patton Jr.

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George Washington

George Washington was an American soldier and statesman who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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Gillian Anderson

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Golda Meir

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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal was an American writer and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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Guy de Maupassant

Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of wri...

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H.G. Wells

Herbert George Wells known as H. G. Wells was a prolific English writer in many genres, including the novel, history, politics, social commentary, and textbooks...

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H.L. Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.

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H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction. His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplay...

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Harvey Fierstein

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Harvey Pekar

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Hayley Williams

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Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which...

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Henry Miller

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee, a romantic accoun...

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game.

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Hillary Clinton

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Horace Mann

Horace Mann was an American politician and educational reformer. A Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization, he served in the Massachusetts State legislat...

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels.

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Irina Dunn

Patricia Irene Dunn is an Australian writer, social activist and filmmaker, who served in the Australian Senate between 1988 and 1990. Born in Shanghai, Dunn gr...

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Isabel Allende

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Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman...

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in...

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Jack London

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of com...

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James Burke

James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television serie...

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and im...

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Jane Goodall

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Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine was a famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.

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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson, OBE is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel...

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Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

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Jerry Seinfeld

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and director who is best known for portraying a semifictional version of himself ...

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Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher is an American author best known for his contemporary fantasy book series The Dresden Files. He is also the author of the Codex Alera series, and th...

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Jim Henson

James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, film director and producer who achieved international fame as th...

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Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford was an American film and television actress who began her career as a dancer and stage showgirl. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawf...

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John Cheever

John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs".

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John F. Kennedy

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John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman CO was a Catholic cardinal and theologian who was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known na...

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John Locke

John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Fat...

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John Updike

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.

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John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to f...

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Johnny Cash

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Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels. His writings on psychology i...

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Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and for his non-fi...

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

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Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled f...

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Joseph Joubert

Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensees, which was published posthumously. From the age of fourteen Joubert ...

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novella...

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Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux is an American author who is well known for her historical romances. As of 2016, more than 40 of her novels have been on The New York Times Best S...

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Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, nee Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French...

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Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty, was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist a...

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Katharine Graham

Katharine Meyer Graham was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous per...

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Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist.

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Kathleen Winsor

Kathleen Winsor was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber.

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 w...

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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician. After graduating from college, he worked as a doctor in California, an occupation that he lik...

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician, artist, songwriter, guitarist and poet. Born in Aberdeen, Washington, Cobain formed the band Nirvana with Krist Nov...

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L. Frank Baum

Lyman Frank Baum, better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard o...

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L.M. Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery OBE, was the pen name of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. ...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American writer known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 which were based on ...

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathi...

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Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Chudley Alexander was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults.

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Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expe...

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Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books. She has won two Newbery Medals, for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in ...

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Lou Holtz

Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz is a former American football player, coach, and analyst. He served as the head football coach at The College of William & Mary, North Car...

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he rema...

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She achieved popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in ma...

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer who captained the Indian team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.

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Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American tr...

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Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell also wrote under pseudonym Peggy Mitchell was an American author and journalist.

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Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago. Her notable works include the award-winning ...

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker.

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Marianne Moore

Marianne Craig Moore was an American Modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit.

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Marie Lu

Marie Lu is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Legend series, novels set in a dystopian and militarized future. The novels form the basis...

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Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Marjorie Pay Hinckley, wife of President Gordon B. Hinckley, passed away at home at 5:05 p.m. on 6 April 2004. President Hinckley and other family members were ...

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chairman, chief executive officer and co-founder of social networ...

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Markus Zusak

Markus Frank Zusak is an Australian writer. He is best known for The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels for young adults which have been international bes...

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Marvin Bell

Marvin Bell is an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Bell was raised in Center Moriches, Long Island. He served in ...

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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's be...

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Matt Groening

Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, animator, and voice actor. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell and the ...

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first publishe...

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Max Lucado

Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and writer and preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas.

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1...

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May Sarton

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist.

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Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton was an American best-selling author, screenwriter, film director, producer, and former physician best known for his work in the science fi...

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist.

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Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American retired professional basketball player. He is also a businessman, and principal owner and...

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.

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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981.

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Mitch Albom

Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold ove...

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Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during th...

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Nelson DeMille

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include Plum Island, The Charm School, and The Gold Coast.

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Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and c...

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Nick Hornby

Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornby is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and novels High Fide...

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Nicolas Chamfort

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas, also known as Chamfort, was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister, an...

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Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received t...

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.

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Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts is an American bestselling author of more than 213 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series, and has also written under the...

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Norman Rush

Norman Rush is an American writer whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He won the U.S. National Book Award and the 199...

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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P.C. Cast

Phyllis Christine Cast is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast, as well as her own ...

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P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a...

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Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer, known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfu...

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Paula Poundstone

Paula Poundstone is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour...

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China.

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Phyllis McGinley

Phyllis McGinley was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor,...

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Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global env...

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short-story writer and poet. Carver contributed to the revitalization of the American short story in literature durin...

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Richard Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum e...

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.

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Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best known as the ...

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Robert Jordan

James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the Wheel of Time series, whi...

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Robert Orben

Robert Orben is best known as an American professional comedy writer, though he also worked as a speechwriter for Gerald R. Ford and as a magician.

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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Countess Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist and socialite. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish Catholic community ...

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Rose Wilder Lane

Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist, and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many shor...

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Ruth Westheimer

Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. The New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne trained ...

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S.E. Hinton

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer best known for her young-adult novels set in Oklahoma, especially The Outsiders, which she wrote during high school.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in bot...

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Scott Adams

Scott Raymond Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculatio...

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Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

Abusa'id Abolkhayr also known as Sheikh Abusaeid or Abu Sa'eed, was a famous Persian Sufi and poet who contributed extensively to the evolution of Sufi traditio...

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Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg is a New York Times Best selling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West. In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation...

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Sheng Wang

Sheng Wang is a Taiwanese American stand-up comic. Wang earned a Bachelor of Science in Business at the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2002 and...

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Shmuley Boteach

Shmuel "Shmuley" Boteach is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, TV host and public speaker. Boteach is the author of 30 books, including Kosher Sex: A Re...

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient a...

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Sophocles

Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or co...

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Stanislaw Lem

Stanislaw Herman Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy, and satire, and a trained physician. Lem's books have been translated into forty-one la...

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Stanley Fish

Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Pro...

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Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, nicknamed "Woz", is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE OMRI is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as ...

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Sue Grafton

Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigato...

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Susan Faludi

Susan Charlotte Faludi is an American journalist and author. She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991, for a report on the leveraged buyout o...

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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964.

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Temple Grandin

Mary Temple Grandin is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, world-renowned autism spokesperson and consultant to the livestock ...

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Theophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

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Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels.

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Thomas Szasz

Thomas Stephen Szasz was an American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State Universi...

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Tim Burton

Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton is an American film director, producer, artist, writer and animator. He is known for his dark, gothic, eccentric and quirky fantasy ...

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Tim O'Brien

William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien is an American novelist best known for his work of fiction, The Things They Carried (1990), a critically acclaimed collection of s...

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Tom Bodett

Thomas Edward "Tom" Bodett is an American author, politician, voice actor, and radio host. Since 1986 he has been the spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, end...

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Tom Robbins

Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"), often wildly poetic stories wit...

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and r...

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized li...

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also w...

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, and he achieved international prominence...

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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham CH, better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular write...

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W.C. Fields

William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

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W.E.B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

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W.P. Kinsella

William Patrick "W.P." Kinsella, OC, OBC was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the movie Fiel...

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years.

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Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis was an American novelist and short story writer. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and T...

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire is a London-based Somali writer, poet, editor and teacher. She has received the Brunel University's African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist o...

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr. is an American actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywoo...

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William Arthur Ward

William Arthur Ward is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims. More than 100 articles, poems and meditations written by Ward have been pub...

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William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of...

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William G.T. Shedd

William Greenough Thayer Shedd, son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer, was an American Presbyterian theologian born in Acton, Massachusetts.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of ...

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer.

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William Saroyan

William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy A...

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William Styron

William Clark Styron Jr. was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

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William W. Purkey

William Watson Purkey is professor emeritus of counselor education at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and co-founder of The International Alliance f...

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint...

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.

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Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald was an American socialite and novelist, and the wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose work she strongly influenced.

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Zig Ziglar

"Zig" Ziglar was an American author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stori...

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Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best-known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of...

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Andre Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist ...

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