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Born 1939 (age 87) • Cameroon
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Samuel Beckett, 1965
Samuel Beckett
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Portrait of Alan Alexander Milne, circa 1920, wearing a light suit and bow tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.
A.A. Milne
British author
P.G. Wodehouse sits at a desk with a typewriter, holding a pipe and looking at papers, in his Paris home in 1945.
P.G. Wodehouse
British author
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René Philombe
Cameroonian author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Portrait painting of French dramatist Moliere, shown with long curly hair, a mustache, and wearing a richly detailed robe, by Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse after Pierre Mignard.
Molière
French dramatist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English 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 Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Ukrainian-born writer
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
British author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
British author