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Born January 28, 1940 (age 86) • Havana • Cuba
Notable Works “Biography of a Runaway Slave” • “Rachel’s Song”
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese-American author
Lezama Lima, José
José Lezama Lima
Cuban author
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Severo Sarduy
Cuban writer
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Heberto Padilla
Cuban poet
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Antonio Benítez Rojo
Cuban writer
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuban author
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Virgilio Piñera
Cuban writer
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Daína Chaviano
Cuban author
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Reinaldo Arenas
Cuban writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
American poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
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Janet Frame
New Zealand writer

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