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Born October 26, 1897 • Winterthur • Switzerland
Died January 12, 1992 (aged 94) • Zürich • Switzerland
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
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Jean Leclerc
encyclopaedist and biblical scholar
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Swiss author
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Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
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Clark Howell
American journalist
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Gardner Cowles, Jr.
American editor
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Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
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John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
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Giovanni Guareschi
Italian journalist and novelist
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Andrew Breitbart
American blogger
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Victoria Ocampo
Argentine editor and publisher
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Robert Adam Gottlieb
American editor
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Maria Jolas
American editor
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Eugene Jolas
American editor
Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
American abolitionist, orator, publisher, and author
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author