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British prime minister Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare

Albanian writer

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Anne Rice in 2016, with gray bobbed hair, wearing a dark top and a beaded necklace, looking at the camera against a dark background.

Anne Rice

American author

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

American novelist

Hilary Mantel smiles while signing a copy of her book The Mirror & the Light at a table, with a Waterstones Piccadilly backdrop behind her.

Hilary Mantel

British writer

Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace

American author, soldier, and diplomat

Portrait of Sholem Asch around 1957, showing him with gray hair, a mustache, and wearing a suit and bow tie.

Sholem Asch

American writer

Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

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James Blish

American author and critic

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Alejo Carpentier

Cuban author

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Alexandre Herculano

Portuguese historian

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Robert Graves

British writer

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish author

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David Mitchell

English author

Nobel prize-winning American author, Pearl S. Buck, at her home, Green Hills Farm, near Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1962. (Pearl Buck)

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