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Born September 12, 1922 • Chicago • Illinois
Died December 8, 2004 (aged 82) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “The Marrying Maiden” • “Verdurous Sanguinaria”
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
American poet, songwriter, and singer
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Steve Martin, wearing glasses and a black tuxedo with a bow tie, smiles while posing at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills.
Steve Martin
American actor and writer
The man who owned Broadway
George M. Cohan
American composer and dramatist
Archie Shepp, 1982
Archie Shepp
American musician and educator
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author
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Sonia Sanchez
American poet, playwright, and educator
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Richard Wilbur
American poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Bengali author
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William Cornysh
English musician, author and actor
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Portrait of Shel Silverstein with a bald head and beard, leaning forward with hands clasped and a thoughtful expression.
Shel Silverstein
American illustrator and author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Solange
Solange
American singer, songwriter and actress
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
James McBride
James McBride
American author and musician

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