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Jane Austen. Born 12/16/1775. Died 7/18/1817. English novelist. Famous for her contemporary life stories with a focus on love and…
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America’s sweetheart poet, Emily Dickinson is also one my favorites. Emily Dickinson. Born 12/10/1830. Died 1886. Emily Dickinson is an…
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Rainer Maria Rilke. Born 12/4/1875. Died 12/29/1926. Austrian poet, famous for “letters to a Young Poet.” Also, “The Notebooks of…
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George Eliot. Born 11/22/1819. Died 12/22/1880. Her birth name was Mary Ann Evans, but she wrote and published under a…
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Robert Louis Stevenson. Born 11/13/1859. Died 1894. Scottish author (novelist and poet) who gave us classics like TREASUER ISLAND, THE…
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Colson Whitehead. Born 11/6/1969. The first Black author to win not one, but TWO Pulitzer Prizes. Famous for novels THE…
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Dylan Thomas. Born 10/27/1914. Died 11/9/1953. This notable Welsh poet worked as a journalist and book reviewer before establishing him…
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Ann Lane Petry. Born 10/12/1908. Died 1997. Ann Lane Petry was a Connecticut native and the first black woman in…
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Vaclav Havel. Born 10/5/1936. Died 12/18/2011. Havel was a Czech author, poet, playwright, and dissident statesmen who eventually led the…
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Sitting on my To-Be-Read shelf is the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library’s copy of TEACHER MAN by Frank McCourt. He was born…