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Also Known As Celia Laighton
Born June 29, 1835 • Portsmouth • New Hampshire
Died August 26, 1894 (aged 59) • New Hampshire
Notable Works “St. Nicholas”
Harte
Bret Harte
American writer
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Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer
American writer and critic
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American physician and writer
Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler
Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton
American writer, critic and hostess
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Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
American author
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Donald Davidson
American author
L.H. Sigourney.
L.H. Sigourney
American author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
August Wilson, 2003
August Wilson
American dramatist
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Richard Brautigan
American author
John Cheever
John Cheever
American author
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Anna Louise Strong
American journalist and scholar
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
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Robert Bly
American author
American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher Charlotte Perkins Gilman, c. 1900
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer

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