Philip Kindred Dick (born December 16, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. – died March 2, 1982, Santa Ana, California, U.S.) was an American writer known...
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William Blake (born November 28, 1757, London, England – died August 12, 1827, London, England) was an English writer, artist, and one of the...
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (born September 26, 1888, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. – died January 4, 1965, London, England), known as T. S. Eliot, was...
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Agatha Christie, in full Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, née Miller, (born September 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England – died January 12, 1976, Winterbrook,...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland – died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, political theorist, and composer....
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Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906, Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland – died December 22, 1989, Paris, France), in full Samuel Barclay Beckett, was an Irish...
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Thomas Lanier Williams (born March 26, 1911, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S. – died February 25, 1983, New York, New York, U.S.), known as Tennessee Williams,...
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Dr. 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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Anton Chekhov (born January 29, 1860, Taganrog, Russia – died July 15, 1904, Badenweiler, Germany), in full Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, was a Russian playwright...
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (baptized January 15, 1622, Paris, France – died February 17, 1673, Paris, France), known by his pseudonym Molière, was a French playwright...
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Sylvia Plath (born October 27, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. – died February 11, 1963, London, England), pseudonym Victoria Lucas, was an American poet, novelist,...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. – died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California, U.S.), full name Francis Scott Key...
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