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Also Known As Julia Ward
Born May 27, 1819 • New York City • New York
Died October 17, 1910 (aged 91) • Newport • Rhode Island
Founder “Woman’s Journal”
Notable Works “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Notable Family Members daughter Laura E. Richards

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T.S. Eliot
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Dorothy Parker
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Wallace Shawn
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American author and critic
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Diane di Prima
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Robert E. Sherwood
American playwright
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Robert Duncan
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Ridgely Torrence
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Padraic Colum
Irish-born American poet
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Shel Silverstein
American illustrator and author
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Sylvia Plath
American author
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Frank O'Hara
Frank O’Hara
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Ishmael Reed
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August Wilson
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