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Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild (born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, and lecturer.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.
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Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter.
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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and academic.
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Alex Haley
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers.
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Alexander Nehamas
Alexander Nehamas (Αλέξανδρος Νεχαμάς; born 22 March 1946) is Professor of Philosophy and Edmund N. Carpenter, II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1990, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.
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Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front (lit) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
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Almeida Garrett
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett, Viscount of Almeida Garrett (4 February 1799 – 9 December 1854) was a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician.
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Andre Braugher
Andre Keith Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is an American actor.
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Anne K. Mellor
Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (born July 15, 1941) is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at UCLA; she specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies.
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotica.
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Anthony Clare
Anthony Ward Clare (24 December 1942 – 28 October 2007) was an Irish psychiatrist well known in the UK and Ireland as a presenter of radio and TV programmes.
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Anthony Papa
Anthony Papa (born June 6, 1960, in New York City) is an artist, author, advocate against the war on drugs and co-founder of the Mothers of the New York Disappeared.
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Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.
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Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011) was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.
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Art Buchwald
Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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Arthur Waldron
Arthur Waldron (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian.
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Asher Edelman
Asher Barry Edelman (born November 26, 1939) is an American financier.
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Attallah Shabazz
Attallah Shabazz (born November 16, 1958) is the eldest daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz.
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Bernard Crick
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views can be summarised as "politics is ethics done in public".
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Betty T. Bennett
Betty T. Bennett (1935–2006) was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) at American University.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Bill Cook and Ron Herzman
Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook are both Distinguished Teaching Professors at the State University of New York at Geneseo, and are collaborators on numerous intellectual projects about Medieval and Renaissance literature, history, and culture.
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Bill Mauldin
William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist.
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Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus or, simply, Exodus (from ἔξοδος, éxodos, meaning "going out"; וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמוֹת, we'elleh shəmōṯ, "These are the names", the beginning words of the text: "These are the names of the sons of Israel" וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמֹות בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל), is the second book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) immediately following Genesis.
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Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek "", meaning "Origin"; בְּרֵאשִׁית, "Bərēšīṯ", "In beginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE (18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer and anthologies editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.
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Brian O. Murdoch
Brian O. Murdoch is Emeritus professor of German at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding.
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Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco,1st Viscount of Correia Botelho (16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays).
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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist.
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Catch-22
Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller.
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Cedric Robinson
Cedric Robinson (November 5, 1940 – June 5, 2016) was a professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
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Charles Curran (theologian)
Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is a Roman Catholic priest and moral theologian.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Chin Ning Chu
Chin-Ning Chu (朱津寧, pinyin: Zhū Jīnníng, 1947– December 10, 2009) was a Chinese American business consultant, and a bestselling business management author in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
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Christian Slater
Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and producer.
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Chuck Yeager
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (born, 1923) is a former United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot.
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Colin Dayan
Colin Dayan (also known as Joan Dayan), is the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches American Studies, comparative literature, and the religious and legal history of the Americas.
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (Pre-reform Russian: Преступленіе и наказаніе; post-reform prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲɪje ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲɪje) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Curtis Sliwa
Curtis Sliwa (born March 26, 1954) is an American anti-crime activist, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, radio talk show host, media personality, and chairman of the Reform Party of New York State.
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Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.
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David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.
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David C. Smith (historian)
David C. Smith (1929–2009) was Bird and Bird Professor of History at University of Maine, Orono.
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David J. Skal
David John Skal (born June 21, 1952 in Garfield Heights, Ohio) is an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films and horror literature.
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David Zane Mairowitz
David Zane Mairowitz (born 1943 in New York City, United States), is a writer.
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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo) is a 1632 Italian-language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system.
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Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.
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Discovery World (TV channel)
Discovery World is a European television channel which features programming in the fields of travel, culture and history.
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Dominick LaCapra
Dominick LaCapra (born 1939) is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies.
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Don Quixote
The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha (El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha), or just Don Quixote (Oxford English Dictionary, ""), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades.
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Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
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Edith Lank
Edith Lank is an author and advice columnist and blogger living in Rochester, New York.
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Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying.
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Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
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Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director.
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Eugene Sledge
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.
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Fatema Mernissi
Fatema Mernissi (فاطمة مرنيسي; 27 September 1940 – 30 November 2015) was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
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Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE FRSL (born 22 September 1931) is an English author, essayist, feminist and playwright.
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Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935), commonly known as Fernando Pessoa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.
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Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto (c.1509 – 8 July 1583) was a Portuguese explorer and writer.
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Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (born Forrest James Ackerman; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom, a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films, and acknowledged as the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.
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Frank Pittman
Frank Smith Pittman, III, M.D. (1935 – November 24, 2012) was an American psychiatrist and author.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.
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Fred Ward
Freddie Joe "Fred" Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American character actor, producer and model.
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Frederick I. Ordway III
Frederick Ira Ordway III (April 4, 1927 – July 1, 2014) was an American space scientist and author of visionary books on spaceflight.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564Drake (1978, p. 1). The date of Galileo's birth is given according to the Julian calendar, which was then in force throughout Christendom. In 1582 it was replaced in Italy and several other Catholic countries with the Gregorian calendar. Unless otherwise indicated, dates in this article are given according to the Gregorian calendar. – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath.
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Gary Hart
Gary Warren Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence; November 28, 1936) is an American politician, diplomat, and lawyer.
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Gary Oldman
Gary Leonard OldmanBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005. (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker who has performed in theatre, film and television.
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Gavin Scott
Gavin Duncan Scott (born 1950) is an English novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series The Mists of Avalon, Small Soldiers, The Borrowers and Legend of Earthsea.
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Geoffrey Ashe
Geoffrey Thomas Leslie Ashe (born 29 March 1923) is a British cultural historian and lecturer, known for his focus on King Arthur.
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George Coyne
George V. Coyne, S.J. (born January 19, 1933) is a Jesuit priest, astronomer, and former director of the Vatican Observatory and head of the observatory's research group which is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
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George Garrett (poet)
George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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George W. Haley
George Williford Boyce Haley (August 28, 1925 – May 13, 2015) was an American attorney, diplomat and policy expert having served under seven presidential administrations.
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Gina Gershon
Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American actress, singer, and author.
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Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004), (Col, USAF), was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States.
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Grace Slick
Grace Barnett Slick (born October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, artist, and former model, widely known in rock and roll history for her role in San Francisco's burgeoning psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s.
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Graham Robb
Graham Macdonald Robb FRSL (born Manchester) is a British author and French literary critic.
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.
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Guy Gardner (astronaut)
Guy Spence Gardner (born January 6, 1948) is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray (born October 25, 1930) is an American historian of Renaissance and Reformation political thought and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Chicago.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow.
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Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love.
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Henry Allen (journalist)
Henry Southworth Allen (b. 1941 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American journalist, poet, artist, and critic.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is an American statesman, political scientist, diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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Hershel Parker
Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.
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Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha (born November 1, 1949) is an Indian English scholar and critical theorist.
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Howard E. Koch
Howard E. Koch (December 12, 1901 – August 17, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
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Inferno (Dante)
Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.
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International Literacy Day
September 8 was declared International Literacy Day by UNESCO on October 26, 1966 at 14th session of UNESCO's General conference.
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Irene Papas
Irene Papas or Irene Pappas (Ειρήνη Παππά; born 3 September 1926) is a retired Greek actress and occasional singer, who has starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years.
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Jack Miles
John R. "Jack" Miles (born July 30, 1942) is an American author.
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James Moore (biographer)
James Moore, historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.
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James V. Hart
James V. "Jim" Hart (born 1950 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American screenwriter and author.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
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Jann Wenner
Jann Simon Wenner (born January 7, 1946) is the co-founder and publisher of the popular culture biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and former owner of Men's Journal magazine.
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Jay Winter
Jay Murray Winter (born 28 May 1945) is an American historian.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau
Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer.
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Jeff Goldblum
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an American actor.
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Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist.
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Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist.
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Jim Belushi
James Adam Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and musician.
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Jim Lovell
James Arthur Lovell Jr. (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut, Naval Aviator, and retired Navy captain.
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John Cullen Murphy
John Cullen Murphy (May 3, 1919 – July 2, 2004) was an American illustrator best known for his three decades of work on the Prince Valiant comic strip.
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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941) is an American writer, professor emeritus at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.
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John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.
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John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
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John Milius
John Frederick Milius (born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Jonathan Ward (actor)
Jonathan Ward (born February 24, 1970) is a retired American actor.
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Jorge de Sena
Jorge Cândido Alves Rodrigues Telles Grilo Raposo de Abreu de Sena (2 November 1919 - 4 June 1978) was a Portuguese-born poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor who spent the latter portion of his life in the United States.
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José Maria de Eça de Queirós
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (25 November 1845 – 16 August 1900) is generally considered to have been the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style.
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.
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Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays.
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Joseph P. Allen
Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV, Ph.D. (born June 27, 1937) is a former NASA astronaut.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Julie Gilbert
Julie Gilbert is a French and Swiss screenwriter, born August 8, 1974.
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Justin A. Frank
Justin A. Frank M.D. is an author who practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Washington, DC where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center.
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Justin Kaplan
Justin Daniel "Joe" Kaplan (September 5, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City – March 2, 2014 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American writer and editor.
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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.
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Ken Babbs
Ken Babbs (born January 14, 1936) is a famous Merry Prankster who became one of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960s.
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Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure.
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Kenneth Silverman
Kenneth Eugene Silverman (February 5, 1936 – July 7, 2017) was an American biographer and educator.
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Kirk Bloodsworth
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing.
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known as L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels.
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Lawrence Buell
Lawrence Buell (born 1939) is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, specialist on antebellum American literature and a pioneer of Ecocriticism.
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015) was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter.
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Leonard Wolf
Leonard Wolf is a poet, author, teacher, and the father of Naomi Wolf.
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.
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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding.
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Louise Fletcher
Estelle Louise Fletcher (born July 22, 1934) is an American actress.
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Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões (sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns (e.g. by Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers),; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.
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M. Thomas Inge
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.
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Margaret Drabble
Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, DBE, FRSL (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer, and critic.
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Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer.
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Marilyn Butler
Marilyn Speers Butler, Lady Butler, FRSA, FRSL, FBA (née Evans; 11 February 1937 – 11 March 2014) was a British literary critic.
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Mario Cuomo
Mario Matthew Cuomo (June 15, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.
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Marita Golden
Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) is a novelist, nonfiction writer, teacher of writing and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.
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Mark Musa
Mark Louis Musa (1934–December 31, 2014) was a translator and scholar of Italian literature.
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Mark Russell
Mark Russell (born August 23, 1932), is an American political satirist and comedian best known for his parody music, which he performs while accompanying himself on piano.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
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Martha Nussbaum
Martha Craven Nussbaum (born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the Law School and the Philosophy department.
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Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor of Spanish/Irish descent who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999-2006).
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).
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Michael Coren
Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian columnist, author, public speaker, radio host and television talk show host.
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Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda (born 1948) is a book critic for the Washington Post.
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) an academic, author, preacher, and radio host.
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Michael Foote
Michael J. Foote (born 1963) is a paleontologist and co-author, with Arnold I. Miller, of Principles of Paleontology (2006).
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Michael Madsen
Michael Søren Madsen (born September 25, 1957) is an American actor, producer, director, writer, poet and photographer.
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Michael Savage
Michael Alan Weiner (born March 31, 1942), better known by his professional name Michael Savage, is an American radio host, author, activist, nutritionist, and conservative political commentator.
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky; November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014) was an American film and theater director, producer, actor, and comedian.
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Mike Wallace
Myron Leon "Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.
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Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor who, until 1968, lived and worked primarily in the former Czechoslovakia.
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
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Morley Safer
Morley Safer (November 8, 1931 – May 19, 2016) was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News.
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Morton N. Cohen
Morton Norton Cohen (27 February 1921 – 12 June 2017).
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Nat Hentoff
Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.
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Native Son
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright.
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New Journalism
New Journalism is a style of news writing and journalism, developed in the 1960s and 1970s, which uses literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period.
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Nick McArdle
Nick McArdle is an Australian TV sports presenter with a career spanning 20 years in the media industry.
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Nina Auerbach
Nina Auerbach (born May 24, 1943 in New York City, died February 4, 2017) was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Nina Baym
Nina Baym (1936–2018) was an American literary critic and literary historian.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.
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Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
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Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.
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Norman Sherry
Norman Sherry FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English born American novelist, biographer, and educator who was most well known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker.
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On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species (or more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life),The book's full original title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (ʾAlf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis (born Raiford Chatman Davis; December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American film, television and Broadway actor, director, poet, playwright, author, and civil rights activist.
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Owen Gingerich
Owen Jay Gingerich (born 1930) is professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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Pat Oliphant
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-American editorial cartoonist whose career spans more than fifty years.
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Patrick Reilly
Sir Patrick Reilly, GCMG (17 March 1909 – 6 October 1999) was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to the USSR and France.
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Peter Benchley
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Peter D. Kramer
Peter D. Kramer (born October 22, 1948), is an American psychiatrist and faculty member of Brown Medical School specializing in the area of clinical depression.
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Peter Green (historian)
Peter Morris Green (born 22 December 1924), Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series.
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Peter Swales (historian)
Peter J. Swales (born 1948) is a Welsh "guerilla historian of psychoanalysis", and former assistant to the Rolling Stones, who has written essays and letters about Sigmund Freud.
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Philip Caputo
Philip Caputo (born June 10, 1941) is an American author and journalist.
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Plato
Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Poppy Z. Brite
Billy Martin (born May 25, 1967), known professionally as Poppy Z. Brite, is an American author.
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Ray Kurzweil
Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist.
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Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man.
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Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch (born April 18, 1945) is an American novelist and short story writer, and Professor in the Writing Program at Chapman University in Orange, California.
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.
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Richard Ellis (biologist)
Richard Ellis (born April 2, 1938) is an American marine biologist, author, and illustrator.
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Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat.
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Richard Thomas (actor)
Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Robert D. Richardson
Robert D. Richardson (born 1934 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American historian, and biographer.
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Robert Hariman
Robert Hariman (born June 17, 1951) is an American scholar of rhetoric and public culture.
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Robert Irwin (writer)
Robert Graham Irwin (born 23 August 1946) is a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
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Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics.
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Roger Law
Roger Law (born 6 September 1941, Ely) is a caricaturist and one half of Luck and Flaw (with Peter Fluck), creators of the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.
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Roger Masters
Roger Davis Masters (born June 8, 1933) studied at Harvard (A.B. 1955, Summa cum Laude), served in the U.S. Army (1955-57) and completed his M.A. (1958) and Ph.D. (1961) at the University of Chicago.
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Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt (born 1940) is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist.
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Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is an English-French film director who is known for the Oscar-winning movies The Killing Fields and The Mission.
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Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer.
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Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus (born October 31, 1955) is an American historian, biographer, and journalist.
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Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director.
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Saul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz (February 28, 1921January 3, 2014) was an American film producer and record company executive.
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Sergei Khrushchev
Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev (Серге́й Ники́тич Хрущёв, born July 2, 1935) is the son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
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Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (November 6, 1919 in Porto – July 2, 2004 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese poet and writer.
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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Steven M. Wise
Steven M. Wise (born 1952, age 65) is an American legal scholar who specializes in animal protection issues, primatology, and animal intelligence.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886.
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Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi; 孫子) was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China.
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Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout (born February 6, 1956) is an American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist.
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The Art of War
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Spring and Autumn period.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between human rights activist Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley.
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) is an 1899 book by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex.
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The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968).
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915.
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The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer.
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The Prince
The Prince (Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).
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The Right Stuff (book)
The Right Stuff is a 1979 book by Tom Wolfe about the pilots engaged in U.S. postwar research with experimental rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft as well as documenting the stories of the first Project Mercury astronauts selected for the NASA space program.
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, an 1850 novel, is a work of historical fiction written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900.
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Thomas Cahill
Thomas Cahill (born 1940 in New York City) is an American scholar and writer.
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Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1415 – 14 March 1471) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur (originally titled, The Whole Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round table).
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Thomas Pangle
Thomas Lee Pangle, (born 1944) is an American political scientist.
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Thomas Thornton
Thomas Thornton the rigamortis tortouise if you will (c.1541-1629) D.D. was an English Church of England clergyman and academic administraahor.
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TLC (TV network)
TLC (originally an initialism for The Learning Channel) is an American basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. Initially focused on educational and learning content, by the late 1990s, the network began to primarily focus towards reality series involving lifestyles, family life, and personal stories.
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Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing.
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Tom Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World") is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.
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Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress and model.
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
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Võ Nguyên Giáp
Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general in the Vietnam People's Army and a politician.
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Vergílio Ferreira
Vergílio António Ferreira, JOSE (Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 – Lisbon, 1 March 1996) was a Portuguese writer, essayist, professor and a key figure in Portuguese-language literature.
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Victor Brombert
Victor Henri Brombert (born, November 11, 1923) is an American scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, the Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University.
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Victor Griffin
The Very Reverend Victor Gilbert Benjamin Griffin (Dean Griffin), (24 May 1924 – 11 January 2017) was a Church of Ireland (Anglican) priest, theologian and author.
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Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.
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Vitorino Nemésio
Vitorino Nemésio Mendes Pinheiro da Silva (Praia da Vitória, December 19, 1901 – Lisbon, February 20, 1978) was a poet, author and intellectual from Terceira, Azores, best known for his novel Mau Tempo No Canal, as well as being a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon and member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.
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Walden
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
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Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).
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Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Nanton Romney, May 15, 1936) is an American entertainer and activist for peace, best known for his hippie appearance, personality and countercultural beliefs.
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Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, writer, producer, and actor.
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William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
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William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
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William McKeen
William McKeen is an American author and educator.
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William Shatner
William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director.
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William Westmoreland
William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was a United States Army general, who most notably commanded U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".
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Zainab Bahrani
Zainab Bahrani (زينب البحرانى) (born 1962) is an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Learning_Channel's_Great_Books
