José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão: Quick Facts


Facts

Born November 24, 1836 • Porto • Portugal
Died September 27, 1915 (aged 78) • Lisbon • Portugal
Notable Works “A Holanda”

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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
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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Sterling Brown
American educator, literary critic and poet
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Miguel Torga
Portuguese poet and diarist
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Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portuguese author
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
David Remnick
David Remnick
American journalist
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
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Arthur Young
English writer
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy
American novelist and critic
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
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Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
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E.B. White
American writer