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Born September 21, 1906 • Hungary
Died October 15, 1980 (aged 74) • New York City • New York
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Marchette Chute
American author
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Edmund White
Edmund White
American author
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff
Canadian political leader
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Georges Duby
French scholar
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Garry Wills
American historian, journalist, and author
Izaak Walton, detail of an oil painting by Jacob Huysmans, c. 1675; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Izaak Walton
English biographer
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman
American author
Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648
John Evelyn
English author
Ivan Klíma, 2009
Ivan Klíma
Czech author
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Sean O’Faolain
Irish author
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Wallace Stegner
American author
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Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley
American author
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
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Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
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Floyd Dell
American novelist and journalist
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Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
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Margaret Walker
American author and poet
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Brendan Gill
American writer