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Also Known As Wang Renshu • Pa Jen
Born October 19, 1901 • Fenghua • China
Died July 25, 1972 (aged 70) • Fenghua • China
Political Affiliation Chinese Communist Party
Can Xue
Can Xue
Chinese writer
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Qian Zhongshu
Chinese scholar and author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Riccardo Bacchelli
Italian author
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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
Egyptian author
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
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José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
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Rosario Ferré
Puerto Rican writer
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John Wain
British critic and writer
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
American author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
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Dezső Kosztolányi
Hungarian author
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Satō Haruo
Japanese author

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