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Also Known As	Harold Edward Porter
Born	February 16, 1911 • Australia
Died	September 29, 1984 (aged 73) • Melbourne • Australia
Notable Works	“The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony”

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David Malouf

Australian author

Ethel Robertson

Henry Handel Richardson

Australian novelist

Vance Palmer.

Vance Palmer

Australian author

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Thea Astley

Australian author

Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert

Australian author

Steele Rudd

Steele Rudd

Australian writer

Katharine Susannah Prichard.

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Australian author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

John G. Neihardt

John G. Neihardt

American poet

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

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Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

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Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry