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Flourished c.1601 - c.1650
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Sarah Winnemucca
Native American educator, author and lecturer
Moses Coit Tyler, 1872
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American historian
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John Munonye
Nigerian educator and novelist
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Onuora Nzekwu
Nigerian author and educator
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Ian Maclaren
Scottish author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left.
Robert Burns
Scottish poet
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
British writer
Portrait of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle seated and looking slightly to the side, wearing a suit with a vest and watch chain.
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Mary Somerville.
Mary Somerville
British science writer
James Herriot
James Herriot
British veterinarian and writer
Scottish poet Allan Ramsay
Allan Ramsay
Scottish poet
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William Dunbar
Scottish poet
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Douglas Dunn
British writer and critic
Andrew Melville, engraving
Andrew Melville
Scottish clergyman and scholar
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Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet