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Mark Twain
male, deceased - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted...
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Gertrude Stein
female, deceased - Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern...
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Malcolm X
male, deceased - Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
male, deceased - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
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Margery Kempe
female - Margery Kempe is known for writing "The Book of Margery Kempe", a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language....
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Mahatma Gandhi
male, deceased - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In India, he is recognized as the "Father of the Nation" and October 2nd, his birthday, is commemorated each year as...
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Frank McCourt
male - Francis "Frank" McCourt (born August 19, 1930) is an Irish-American teacher and author.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
male, deceased - Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective...
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Jim Carroll
male - Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer,
and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978...
