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Born 1952
Died August 18, 1987 (aged 35) • Harare • Zimbabwe
Notable Works “The House of Hunger”
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Solomon M. Mutswairo
Zimbabwean author
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Concha Espina de Serna
Spanish author
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Elizabeth Coatsworth
American author
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John Banim
Irish author
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Alice Cary
American poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian-German poet
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
Portrait of Thomas Hardy in profile, showing an older man with a bald head, bushy mustache, and formal suit.
Thomas Hardy
British writer
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Tillie Olsen
American author

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