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Also Known As	Kath Walker • Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska
Born	November 3, 1920 • Australia
Died	September 16, 1993 (aged 72) • Brisbane • Australia
Notable Works	“We Are Going”

David Unaipon

Australian inventor, writer, and activist

Judith Wright

Australian poet

Robert Louis Stevenson

British author

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

Enid Blyton

British author

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Joan Aiken

British author

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghanaian writer

Efua Sutherland

Ghanaian author

Walter de la Mare

British author

David Malouf

Australian author

Randolph Stow

Australian writer

Vance Palmer

Australian author

Thea Astley

Australian author

Henry Lawson

Australian writer

Katharine Susannah Prichard

Australian author

Hal Porter

Australian author

William Baylebridge

Australian writer

John Banim

Irish author

Book Jacket of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by American children's author illustrator Eric Carle (born 1929)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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