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Authors, poets and writers

Douglas Adams • Hans Christian Andersen • Isaac Asimov • Jane Austen • James Baldwin • Alfred Bester • The Big Bopper • William F. Buckley • Lewis Carroll • Willa Cather • Geoffrey Chaucer • Agatha Christie • E. E. Cummings • Simone de Beauvoir • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Fyodor Dostoevsky • Amelia Earhart • P. D. Eastman • Nora Ephron • William Faulkner • Anne Frank • Robert Frost • Allen Ginsberg • Che Guevara • Lillian Hellman • Ernest Hemingway • Gerard Manley Hopkins • L. Ron Hubbard • Shirley Jackson • James Joyce • Helen Keller • Jack Kerouac • Francis Scott Key • Rudyard Kipling • Ada Lovelace • Margaret Mitchell • Mary Norton • Boris Pasternak • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Chaim Potok • Alexander Pushkin • Ayn Rand • J. D. Salinger • Sappho of Lesbos • George Bernard Shaw • Mary Shelley • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Susan Sontag • Gertrude Stein • John Steinbeck • Hunter S. Thompson • Leo Tolstoy • Ivan Turgenev • Mark Twain • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • H. G. Wells • Oscar Wilde • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Tennessee Williams • Virginia Woolf