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Yevgeny Petrov
Soviet humorist
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
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Sidney Poitier
Bahamanian American actor
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Arthur Ransome
English author
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Mari Evans
American author
Patricia Highsmith sits in a wooden chair beside a desk with a typewriter and papers at her home in Locarno, Switzerland.
Patricia Highsmith
American writer
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
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Leon Edel
American critic and biographer
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E.B. White
American writer

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