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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
33 ? château de Miromesnil, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, FR
1850(08/05) - 1893(07/06)
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
44S ? Edinburgh, Scotland, GB
1850(11/13) - 1894(12/03)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
? ? Dublin, IE
1854(10/16) - 1900(11/30)
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
33 ? Charleville, FR
1854(10/20) - 1891(11/10)
Lyman Frank Baum
1 ? Chittenango, NY
1856(05/15) - 1919(05/06)
George Bernard Shaw
? ? Dublin, IE
1856(07/26) - 1950(11/02)
Timothy Thomas Fortune
1 32446? Marianna, FL
1856(10/03) - 1928(06/02)
Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski
380 ? Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, UA
1857(12/03) - 1924(08/03)
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
1 ? Cleveland, OH
1858(06/20) - 1932(11/17)
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich
380 ? Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, UA
1859(03/02) - 1916(05/13)
Alfred Edward Housman
44 ? Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, GB
1859(03/28) - 1936(04/30)
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
44S ? 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, GB
1859(05/22) - 1930(07/07)
Knud Pedersen
? ? Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway
1859(08/04) - 1952(02/19)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
7 ? Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia, SU
1860(01/29) - 1904(07/15)
James Matthew Barrie
44S ? Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, GB
1860(05/09) - 1937(06/19)
Rabindranath Tagore
? ? Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Kolkata, IN
1861(05/07) - 1941(08/07)
William Sydney Porter
1 27420? Greensboro, NC
1862(09/11) - 1910(06/05)
Constantine Petrou Cavafy
20 ? Alexandria, EG
1863(04/29) - 1933(03/29)
Gabriele d'Annunzio
39 ? Pescara, Abruzzo, IT
1863(03/12) - 1938(03/01)
William Butler Yeats
? ? Sandymount, County Dublin, IE
1865(06/13) - 1939(01/28)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
? ? Mumbai, IN
1865(12/20) - 1936(01/18)
Romain Rolland
33 ? Clamecy, Nièvre, FR
1866(01/29) - 1944(12/30)
Herbert George Wells
44 ? Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent, England, GB
1866(09/21) - 1946(08/13)
Luigi Pirendello
39 ? Agrigento, Sicily, IT
1867(06/28) - 1936(12/10)
John Galsworthy
44 ? Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, GB
1867(08/14) - 1933(01/31)
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
7 ? Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, SU
1868(03/28) - 1936(06/18)
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand
33 ? Marseille, FR
1868(04/01) - 1918(12/02)
Edgar Lee Masters
1 66032 Garnett, KS
1868(08/23) - 1950(03/05)
Newton Booth Tarkington
1 46206? Indianapolis, IN
1869(07/29) - 1946(05/19)
André Paul Guillaume Gide
33 ? Paris, FR
1869(11/22) - 1951(02/19)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
1 04535 Alna, Lincoln County, Maine
1869(12/22) - 1935(04/06)
Benjamin Franklin Norris
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1870(03/05) - 1902(10/25)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
33 ? La Celle-Saint-Cloud, FR
1870(07/27) - 1953(07/16)
Edmund John Millington Synge
? ? Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, IE
1871(04/16) - 1909(03/24)
James Weldon Johnson
1 ? Jacksonville, FL
1871(06/17) - 1938(06/26)
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
33 ? Auteuil, FR
1871(07/10) - 1922(11/18)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
1 47808? Terre Haute, IN
1871(08/27) - 1945(12/28)
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry
33 ? Sète, Hérault, FR
1871(10/30) - 1945(07/20)
Stephen Crane
1 07102? Newark, NJ
1871(11/01) - 1900(06/05)
Pearl Zane Grey
1 ? Zanesville, OH
1872(01/31) - 1939(10/23)
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
1 45401? 311 Howard Street, Dayton, OH
1872(06/27) - 1906(02/09)
Ford Hermann Hueffer
44 ? Merton, England, GB
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William Somerset Maugham
33 ? UK Embassy, Paris, FR
1874(01/25) - 1965(12/16)
Robert Lee Frost
1 94142? San Francisco, CA
1874(03/26) - 1963(01/29)
Clarence Shepard Day
1 10001? New York, NY
1874(11/18) - 1935(12/28)
Paul Thomas Mann
49 ? Lübeck, DE
1875(06/06) - 1955(08/12)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1875(09/01) - 1950(03/19)
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
? ? Prague, Czech Republic
1875(12/04) - 1926(12/29)
John Griffith Chaney
1 ? San Francisco, CA
1876(01/12) - 1916(11/22)
Sherwood Anderson
1 45311 Camden, OH
1876(09/13) - 1941(03/08)
Hermann Hesse
49 ? Calw, Württemberg, DE
1877(07/02) - 1962(08/09)
Carl Sandburg
1 61401? Galesburg, IL
1878(01/06) - 1967(07/22)
Ferenc Molnár
? Budapest, Hungary
1878(01/12) - 1952(04/01)
John Edward Masefield
44 ? Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, GB
1878(06/01) - 1967(05/12)
Upton Beall Sinclair
1 ? Baltimore, MD
1878(09/20) - 1968(11/25)
Edward Morgan Forster
44 ? Marylebone, London, England, GB
1879(01/01) - 1970(06/07)
Wallace Stevens
1 19612? Reading, PA
1879(10/02) - 1955(08/02)
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
1 62703? Springfield, IL
1879(11/10) - 1931(12/05)
Giles Lytton Strachey
44 ? London, England, GB
1880(03/01) - 1932(01/21)
John Casey
? ? Dublin, Ireland
1880(03/30) - 1964(09/18)
Henry Louis Mencken
1 21203? Baltimore, MD
1880(09/12) - 1956(01/29)
Alfred Damon Runyan
1 ? Manhattan, KS
1880(10/04) - 1946(12/10)
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
7 ? Saint Petersburg, Russia, SU
1880(11/28) - 1921(08/07)
Edgar Albert Guest
44 ? Birmingham, England, GB
1881(08/20) - 1959(08/05)
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
44 ? Guildford, Surrey, England, GB
1881(10/15) - 1975(02/14)
Alan Alexander Milne
44 ? Kilburn, London, England, GB
1882(01/18) - 1956(01/31)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
? ? Rathgar, Ireland
1882(02/02) - 1941(01/13)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
33 ? Bellac, Haute-Vienne, FR
1882(10/29) - 1944(01/31)
Jubran Khalil Jubran
? ? Bsharri, Lebanon
1883(01/06) - 1931(04/10)
Nikos Kazantzakis
? ? Heraklion, Crete, Greece
1883(02/18) - 1957(10/26)
Jaroslav Hašek
? ? Prague, Czech Republic
1883(04/30) - 1923(01/03)
Franz Kafka
? ? Prague, Czech Republic
1883(07/03) - 1924(06/03)
William Carlos Williams
1 07070 Rutherford, NJ
1883(09/17) - 1963(03/04)
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
1 10001? New York, NY
1884(09/20) - 1947(06/17)
Harry Sinclair Lewis
1 56378 Sauk Centre, MN
1885(02/07) - 1951(01/10)
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
1 ? Niles, MI
1885(03/06) - 1933(09/25)
David Herbert Lawrence
44 ? Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, GB
1885(09/11) - 1930(03/02)
François Charles Mauriac
33 ? Bordeaux, FR
1885(10/11) - 1970(09/01)
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
1 ? Hailey, ID
1885(10/30) - 1972(11/01)
Rex Todhunter Stout
1 ? Noblesville, IN
1886(12/01) - 1975(10/27)
Alfred Joyce Kilmer
1 ? New Brunswick, NJ
1886(12/06) - 1918(07/30)
John Robinson Jeffers
1 ? Allegheny, PA
1887(01/10) - 1970(01/20)
Alexander Woollcott
1 07701? Red Bank, NJ
1887(01/19) - 1943(01/23)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
380 ? Buchach, UA
1888(07/17) - 1970(02/17)
Raymond Thornton Chandler
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1888(07/23) - 1959(03/26)
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1 ? Saint Louis, MO
1888(09/26) - 1965(01/04)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1 100364015 1500 Broadway, New York, NY
1888(10/16) - 1953(11/27)
James Maxwell Anderson
1 16111 Atlantic, PA
1888(12/15) - 1959(02/28)
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
33 ? Maisons-Laffitte, FR
1889(07/05) - 1963(10/11)
Erle Stanley Gardner
1 ? Malden, MA
1889(07/17) - 1970(03/11)
Conrad Potter Aiken
1 ? Savannah, GA
1889(08/05) - 1973(08/17)
Robert Charles Benchley
1 01613? Worcester, MA
1889(09/15) - 1945(11/21)
Festus Claudius McKay
1 ? 876 Clarendon, JM
1889(09/15) - 1948(05/22)
George Simon Kaufman
1 ? Pittsburgh, PA
1889(11/16) - 1961(06/02)
Karel Capek
? ? Malé Svatonovice, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
1890(01/09) - 1938(12/25)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
7 ? Moscow, Russia, SU
1890(02/10) - 1960(05/30)
Christopher Morley
1 19041 Haverford, PA
1890(05/05) - 1957(03/28)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
1 ? Providence, RI
1890(08/20) - 1937(03/15)
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam
? ? Warsaw, Poland
1891(01/15) - 1938(12/27)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg
380 ? Kiev, UA
1892(01/27) - 1967(08/31)
Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov
380 ? Kiev, UA
1891(05/15) - 1940(03/10)
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
? ? Växjö, Sweden
1891(05/23) - 1974(07/11)
Henry Valentine Miller
1 10001? Yorkville, Manhattan, NY
1891(12/26) - 1980(06/07)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
27 ? Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, ZA
1892(01/03) - 1973(09/02)
Archibald MacLeish
1 ? Glencoe, IL
1892(05/07) - 1982(04/20)
Louis Bromfield
1 44901? Mansfield, OH
1892(12/27) - 1956(03/18)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
44 ? Oswestry, Shropshire, England, GB
1893(03/18) - 1918(11/04)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
? ? Baghdati, Imereti, Georgia
1893(07/19) - 1930(04/14)
Dashiell Hammett
1 20650 Saint Marys County, MD
1894(05/27) - 1961(01/10)
Mark Van Doren
1 62060 Hope, Vermilion Country, IL
1894(06/13) - 1972(12/10)
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel
380 ? Odessa, UA
1894(07/13) - 1940(01/27)
Aldous Leonard Huxley
44 ? Godalming, Surrey, England, GB
1894(07/26) - 1963(11/22)
John Boynton Priestley
44 ? Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
1894(09/13) - 1984(08/14)
Edward Estlin Cummings
1 02139? Cambridge, MA
1894(10/14) - 1962(09/02)
James Grover Thurber
1 43216? Columbus, OH
1894(12/08) - 1961(11/02)
Edmund Wilson
1 07701? Red Bank, NJ
1895(05/08) - 1972(06/12)
Robert von Ranke Graves
44 ? Wimbledon, London, England, GB
1895(07/24) - 1985(12/07)
Ernst Jünger
49 ? Heidelberg, DE
1895(03/29) - 1998(02/17)
John Roderigo Dos Passos
1 60607? Chicago, IL
1896(01/14) - 1970(09/28)
Robert Emmet Sherwood
1 ? New Rochelle, NY
1896(04/04) - 1955(11/04)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
1 55101? Saint Paul, MN
1896(09/24) - 1940(12/21)
Eugenio Montale
39 ? Genoa, IT
1896(10/12) - 1981(09/12)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
39 ? Palermo, IT
1896(12/23) - 1957(07/23)
Thornton Niven Wilder
1 53714? Madison, WI
1897(04/17) - 1975(12/07)
William Cuthbert Falkner
1 38652 New Albany, MS
1897(09/25) - 1962(07/06)
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
49 ? Augsburg, Bavaria, DE
1898(02/10) - 1956(08/14)
Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo
34 ? Seville, ES
1898(04/26) - 1984(12/14)
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca
34 ? Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Andalusia, ES
1898(06/05) - 1936(08/19)
Erich Paul Remark
49 ? Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, DE
1898(06/22) - 1970(09/25)
Stephen Vincent Benét
1 ? Bethlehem, PA
1898(07/22) - 1943(03/13)
Owen Barfield
44 ? London, England, GB
1898(11/09) - 1997(12/14)
Clive Staples Lewis
44N ? Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB
1898(11/29) - 1963(11/22)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
7 ? Saint Petersburg, Russia, SU
1899(04/22) - 1977(07/02)
Yasunari Kawabata
? ? Osaka, Japan
1899(06/14) - 1972(04/16)
Elwyn Brooks White
1 ? Mount Vernon, NY
1899(07/11) - 1985(10/01)
Harold Hart Crane
1 ? Garrettsville, OH
1899(07/21) - 1932(04/27)
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1 60303? Oak Park, IL
1899(07/21) - 1961(07/02)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo
? ? Buenos Aires, Argentina
1899(08/24) -1986(06/14)
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith
20 ? Cairo, EG
1899(08/27) - 1966(04/02)
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales
? ? Guatemala City, Guatemala
1899(10/19) - 1974(06/09)
Edwin DuBose Heyward1 29402? Charleston, SC1885(08/31) - 1940(07/16)
Hugh John Lofting44 ? Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, GB1886(01/14) - 1947(09/26)
John Phillips Marquand1 19899? Wilmington, DE1893(11/10) - 1960(06/16)

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