Gabriel García Márquez (born March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia – died April 17, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist, short...
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Read MoreLord Byron (born January 22, 1788, in London, England – died April 19, 1824, Missolonghi, Greece), in full George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron,...
Read MoreJoseph Rudyard Kipling (born December 30, 1865, Bombay, British India – died January 18, 1936, London, England) was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist,...
Read MorePhilip Kindred Dick (born December 16, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. – died March 2, 1982, Santa Ana, California, U.S.) was an American writer known...
Read MoreWilliam Blake (born November 28, 1757, London, England – died August 12, 1827, London, England) was an English writer and artist, regarded as one...
Read MoreThomas Stearns Eliot, known as T. S. Eliot, (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. – died January 4, 1965, London, England) was...
Read MoreAgatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England – died January 12, 1976, Winterbrook,...
Read MoreJean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland – died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, political theorist, and composer....
Read MoreSamuel Beckett, in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, (born April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland – died December 22, 1989, Paris, France) was an Irish...
Read MoreThomas Lanier Williams, known as Tennessee Williams, (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. – died February 25, 1983, New York, New York, U.S.)...
Read MoreDr. Seuss (born March 2, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. – died September 24, 1991, La Jolla, California, U.S.), pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel, was...
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