Jacques Rivière: Quick Facts


Facts

Born July 15, 1886 • Bordeaux • France
Died February 14, 1925 (aged 38) • Paris • France

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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English 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
H. L. Mencken stands on a staircase at his Baltimore home, holding a cigar and leaning on the banister, with framed pictures covering the wall behind him.
H.L. Mencken
American writer
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Arthur Young
English writer
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Italo Calvino
Italian author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
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John Crowe Ransom
American poet and critic
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Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
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Remy de Gourmont
French author
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Hélène Cixous
French author
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
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Anatole Le Braz
Breton folklorist and author
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Jean-Richard Bloch
French writer
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Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Wilhelm Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist