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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01/01/1919 - 01/27/2010
Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last int...
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01/01/1949 - 01/15/2004
Olivia Goldsmith (January 1, 1949 - January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel The First Wives Club (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996).
06/20/1955 - 07/23/2009
Everette "E." Lynn Harris (June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) was an American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books to...
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01/25/1919 - 08/13/2010
Edwin Harold Newman (January 25, 1919 – August 13, 2010) was an American newscaster, journalist and author.
10/16/1854 - 11/30/1900
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Tod...
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06/16/1937 - 01/17/2010
Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a ma...
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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.
11/07/1914 - 03/18/2002
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of...
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05/29/1952 - 10/21/2009
Louise Cooper (29 May 1952 - 21 October 2009) was a British fantasy writer who lived in Cornwall with her husband, Cas Sandall.
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nationa...
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11/16/1917 - 03/19/2008
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor,and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in parallel with the script for the eponymous film, co-written...
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04/22/1918 - 04/20/2004
Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 – April 20, 2004) was a liberal American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list...
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06/12/1892 - 06/18/1892
Djuna Barnes (12 June 1892 – 18 June 1982) was an American writer who played an important part in the development of 20th century English language modernist writing and was one of the key figures in 1920s and 30s bohemian Paris after filling...
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03/14/1916 - 03/04/2009
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film...
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