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Flourished c.1101 - c.1200 • Navarra • Spain
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela
Spanish writer
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Carmen Laforet
Spanish author
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Ibn Jubayr
Spanish Muslim author
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Alonso Carrió de Lavandera
Spanish colonial official
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Ruy González de Clavijo
Spanish diplomat
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
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Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
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Jean Tharaud
French writer
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Jérôme Tharaud
French writer
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Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
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Ilya Ilf
Soviet humorist
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Marco Polo
Marco Polo
Italian explorer
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
Stendhal
French author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]