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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
prime minister of United Kingdom
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Portrait of Georges Clemenceau wearing a suit and a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the left with a serious expression.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
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Paul de Man
American literary critic
Nikol Pashinyan
Nikol Pashinyan
prime minister of Armenia
Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee
Korean American author and journalist
Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.
Daniel Defoe
English author
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Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Nepali journalist and politician
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Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist
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Afrânio Coutinho
Brazilian writer and literary critic
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Louis Rukeyser
American author and television personality
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Shamsur Rahman
Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate
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Clark Howell
American journalist
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Herb Caen
American journalist
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Giovanni Guareschi
Italian journalist and novelist
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Harry Reasoner
American broadcast journalist