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Born June 13, 1881 • Russia
Died May 15, 1949 (aged 67) • New York
Notable Works “The Promised Land”
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Quentin Reynolds
American journalist and writer
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Ariel Durant
American author
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Will Durant
American author
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist, orator, publisher, and author
Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.
Jack Kerouac
American writer
James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
The Pope of Trash
John Waters
American director and author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
American sociologist, historian, and activist
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
American novelist
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
American poet and educator
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
American writer and cultural critic
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Kenneth Rexroth and his daughter
Kenneth Rexroth
American poet and painter
Dr. Maya Angelou sits and smiles, wearing a black outfit, in a wooden chair at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist, and actress
John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Joyce Carol Oates, 2012
Joyce Carol Oates
American author

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