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Born March 19, 1824 • London • England
Died April 6, 1901 (aged 77) • England
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Jared Sparks
American publisher
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Charles Edward Russell
American writer
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
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Evert Augustus Duyckinck
American literary critic
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Lockhart, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1830
John Gibson Lockhart
Scottish biographer
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Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
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Louis A. Godey
American publisher
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John Cowles
American publisher
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Joseph Medill McCormick
United States senator
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Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
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John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
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Aruna Asaf Ali
Indian political activist
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Conrad Black smiling and wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie at a formal event.
Conrad Black
Canadian-born British businessman
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Sarah Josepha Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale
American author