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Born	May 27, 1884 • Prague • Austria-Hungary
Died	December 20, 1968 (aged 84) • Tel Aviv–Yafo • Israel

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Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

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Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

British writer

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Peter Ackroyd

British author, biographer, critic and scholar

Bertha, baroness von Suttner.

Bertha, baroness von Suttner

Austrian author

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Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer

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Albert Steffen

Swiss writer

Ivan Klíma, 2009

Ivan Klíma

Czech author

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

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Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

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

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study

Khushwant Singh

Indian writer

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa smiling, shown in a close-up portrait with gray hair, wearing a suit and tie.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

American author

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John Oliver Killens

American writer and activist

Edmund White

Edmund White

American author