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Brooklyn-born novelist Joseph
Heller (1923), who wrote Catch-22
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Italian writer and statesman, Niccolo
Machiavelli (1469), author of The Prince
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Seattle native David
Guterson (1956), who wrote Snow Falling on
Cedars and East of the
Mountains
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Karl
Marx (1818), founder of modern Communism and author of Das
Kapital and The Communist Manifesto
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British poet Robert
Browning (1812), husband of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
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Scottish novelist and playwright J.
M. Barrie (1860), author of Peter Pan and
subject of the recent movie, Finding Neverland
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Russian-born songwriter Irving
Berlin (1888), who wrote “God Bless America” and
“White Christmas,” among others
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Canadian nature writer Farley
Mowat (1921), author of Never Cry Wolf and Woman
in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey
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British novelist Daphne
Du Maurier (1907), author of Rebecca (1939); British travel
writer and novelist Bruce
Chatwin (1940), author of In Patagonia; San-Francisco
Chronicle columnist and novelist Armistead
Maupin (1944), who wrote Tales of the City and Night
Listener
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Wizard of Oz creator L.
Frank Baum (1856); young adult writer Paul
Zindel (1936)
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Oral historian and Bronx-native Louis
“Studs” Terkel (1912); Baltimore-born feminist poet Adrienne
Rich (1929); Syracuse-born author Bruce Coville
(1950), who wrote I Was Sixth Grade Alien, Armageddon Summer,
and Into the Land of the Unicorns, among many others
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Author Gary Paulsen
(1939), author of Dogsong (1985) and Hatchet
(1987), among others
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Chicago-born African-American playwright Lorraine
Hansberry (1930), famous for Raisin in the Sun (1959)
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French novelist Honoré
de Balzac (1799), who wrote The Human Comedy
in 80 volumes
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Italian poet Dante
Alighieri (1265), author of The Divine Comedy
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Sherlock Holmes-creator, Scottish-born physician and novelist Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859); NYC-born writer Peter
Matthiessen (1927), who wrote The Snow Leopard and At Play
in the Fields of the Lord
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Los Angeles-born Newbery Medal winner Scott
O'Dell (1898), author of The Island Of The Blue Dolphin;
children’s author Margaret
Wise Brown (1910) (remember Goodnight Moon?)
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American
(Boston born) transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803); NYC-born spy thriller novelist Robert
Ludlum (1927), author of the Jason Bourne series;
American novelist (born Antigua), essayist, and short story writer Jamaica
Kincaid (1949)
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Oklahoman mystery writer Tony
Hillerman (1925), whose books are set in the American
southwest; young adult author M.E.
Kerr (1932); biologist and environmentalist writer Rachel
Carson (1907), author of Silent Spring
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James Bond creator Ian
Fleming (1908); Southern novelist Walker
Percy (1916), whose works include The Moviegoer
and The Last Gentleman
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American poet Walt Whitman,
whose works include Song of Myself and Leaves
of Grass

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