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Donald Grady Davidson (August 8, 1893, Campbellsville in Giles County, Tennessee - April 25, 1968, Nashville, Tennessee) was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville, Ten...
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Agatha Christie

09/15/1890 - 01/12/1976

Dame Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels...
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Ann Lane Petry

10/12/1908 - 04/28/1997

Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American author who became the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street.

Ed Kemmer

10/29/1921 - 11/09/2004

Ed Kemmer (October 29, 1921-November 9, 2004) was an American motion picture and television actor.

Edgar Allan Poe

01/19/1809 - 10/07/1849

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the ea...
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Adeline Virginia Woolf

01/25/1882 - 03/28/1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar pe...
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Louisa May Alcott

11/29/1832 - 03/06/1888

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, and published in 1868. This novel is loosel...
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Edgar Rice Burroughs

09/01/1875 - 03/19/1950

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he produced works in many genres.

Elwyn Brooks White

07/11/1899 - 10/01/1985

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985), usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the po...
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Frank McCourt (Francis McCourt)

08/19/1930 - 07/19/2009

Francis "Frank" McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes. His brothers Malachy McCourt and Alphie McCourt are al...
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Richard the Lionheart

09/08/1157 - 04/06/1199

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He was known as Cœur de Lion, or Richard the Lionheart, even before his accession, because of his reputation as a great military leader a...
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George Herbert

04/03/1593 - 03/01/1633

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

Roy Bean

//1825 - 03/16/1903

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825 – March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court i...
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven ( /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt.hoʊvən/; German pronunciation: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A cruc...
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Roger Joseph Zelazny

05/13/1937 - 06/14/1995

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nomi...
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