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Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

German composer

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

British writer

Umeki, Miyoshi; Buttons, Red: Sayonara

Joshua Logan

American director and producer

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Russel Crouse

American dramatist

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Joseph Stein

American librettist

Stephen Sondheim smiling at the camera, wearing a light blue shirt and a brown plaid jacket at the Paramount Theatre.

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and lyricist

David Henry Hwang, 2008

David Henry Hwang

American playwright

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

Pietro Metastasio.

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian composer

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

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W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

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