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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
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
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
American author
Harte
Bret Harte
American writer
James Thurber, 1955.
James Thurber
American writer and cartoonist
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Caroline Howard Gilman
American writer and publisher
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett
American writer
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Ann Sophia Stephens
American editor and author
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Juan José Arreola
Mexican writer
Hale, Lucretia Peabody
Lucretia Peabody Hale
American author
Canadian author Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock
Canadian author
Palma, Ricardo
Ricardo Palma
Peruvian writer
Reyes, Alfonso
Alfonso Reyes
Mexican writer
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian writer
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Saki
Scottish writer
Mary Russell Mitford, drawing by John Lucas, 1852; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Mary Russell Mitford
British writer
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Alice Cary
American poet
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Anna Kavan
British author