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Also Known As Widow Knight • Madame Knight
Born April 19, 1666 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died September 25, 1727 (aged 61) • New London • Connecticut
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator
Patricia Highsmith sits in a wooden chair beside a desk with a typewriter and papers at her home in Locarno, Switzerland.
Patricia Highsmith
American writer
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
American writer
William Byrd of Westover
William Byrd of Westover
American colonial diarist
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles
American politician
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Susan Shelby Magoffin
American diarist
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
French author
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John Woolman
American religious leader
Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
American Confederate spy
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Christopher Gist
American colonial explorer
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Samuel Sewall
British colonial merchant
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Harry Crosby
American poet and publisher
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Konrad Kujau
German author
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Jules Goncourt
French author
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Edmond Goncourt
French author
Diarist Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
English diarist and naval administrator
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer