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Also Known As William Hervey Allen, Jr.
Born December 8, 1889 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died December 28, 1949 (aged 60) • Florida
Notable Works “Anthony Adverse”
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
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Sarah Josepha Hale.
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Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
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Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters
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June Jordan.
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Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville
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William Faulkner
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Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
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