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| Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant 33 76217? ? Château de Miromesnil, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime(FRD22), NOR, FR 1850(08/05) - 1893(07/06) | Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson 44S EH 131 Edinburgh, Scotland, GB 1850(11/13) - 1894(12/03) | Lyman Frank Baum 1 13037 315? Chittenango, Madison County, NY 1856(05/15) - 1919(05/06) | ||
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| George Bernard Shaw(NPL1925) 353 D01 1 Dublin, D, IE 1856(07/26) - 1950(11/02) | Henrik Pontoppidan(NPL1917) 45 7000 72 Fredericia, DK 1857(07/24) – 1943(08/21) | Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski 380 13309 ? Berdychiv, UA 1857(12/03) - 1924(08/03) | ||
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| Charles Waddell Chesnutt 1 44101? 216? Cleveland(CLEV), Cuyahoga County, OH 1858(06/20) - 1932(11/17) | Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich 380 08400 4567 Pereiaslav, UA 1859(03/02) - 1916(05/13) | Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 44S EH13JT 131 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, GB 1859(05/22) - 1930(07/07) | Knud Pedersen(NPL1920) 47 2683? ? Lom, NO 1859(08/04) - 1952(02/19) | Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 7 347990 8634 Taganrog, ROS, RU 1860(01/29) - 1904(07/15) |
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| James Matthew Barrie 44S DD8 1575 Kirriemuir, Scotland, GB 1860(05/09) - 1937(06/19) | Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck(NPL1911) 32 9000 9 Ghent, VOV, BE 1862(08/29) – 1949(05/06) | William Sydney Porter 1 27420? 336? Greensboro(GNBO), Guilford County, NC 1862(09/11) - 1910(06/05) | Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann(NPL1912) 48 58310 74 Szczawno-Zdrój, PL 1862(11/15) – 1946(06/06) | Romain Rolland(NPL1915) 33 58079 ? Clamecy, Ničvre(FRC12), BFC, FR 1866(01/29) - 1944(12/30) |
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| Jacinto Benavente y Martínez(NPL1922) 34 28001 911 Madrid, MD, ES 1866(08/12) – 1954(07/14) | Herbert George Wells 44 BR 20 Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, England, GB 1866(09/21) - 1946(08/13) | Władysław Stanisław Reymont(NPL1924) 48 97500 ? Kobiele Wielkie, Radomsko, PL 1867(05/07) – 1925(12/05) | Luigi Pirendello(NPL1934) 39 92100 922 Agrigento, AG, IT 1867(06/28) - 1936(12/10) | John Galsworthy(NPL1932) 44 KT 20 Kingston upon Thames, England, GB 1867(08/14) - 1933(01/31) |
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| Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 7 603000 831 Nizhny Novgorod, NIZ, RU 1868(03/28) - 1936(06/18) | Newton Booth Tarkington 1 46206? 317? Indianapolis(IPLS), Marion County, IN 1869(07/29) - 1946(05/19) | André Paul Guillaume Gide(NPL1947) 33 75 01? Paris(FR101), IDF, FR 1869(11/22) - 1951(02/19) | Hector Munro Chadwick 44 WF12 1924 Thornhill Lees, Thornhill, England, GB 1870(10/22) – 1947(01/02) | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin(NPL1933) 7 394000? 473 Voronezh, VOR, RU 1870(10/22) – 1953(11/08) |
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| Hector Hugh Munro 95 ? 42 Sittwe, MM 1870(12/18) – 1916(11/14) | Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc 33 78126 ? La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines(FR103), IDF, FR 1870(07/27) - 1953(07/16) | Edmund John Millington Synge 353 D14? 1 Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, Dublin, D, IE 1871(04/16) - 1909(03/24) | James Weldon Johnson 1 32203? 904? Jacksonville(JCVL), Duval County, FL 1871(06/17) - 1938(06/26) | Valentin Louis Georges Eugčne Marcel Proust 33 75 01? Auteuil, Paris(FR101), IDF, FR 1871(07/10) - 1922(11/18) |
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| Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser 1 47808? 812? Terre Haute(TRRH), Vigo County, IN 1871(08/27) - 1945(12/28) | Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry 33 34301? ? Sčte, Hérault(FRJ13), OCC, FR 1871(10/30) - 1945(07/20) | Stephen Crane 1 07102? 973? Newark(NWRK), Essex County, NJ 1871(11/01) - 1900(06/05) | Pearl Zane Grey 1 43701? 740280,450,2,3,4,5,586,8,674,97,754,844,9,72 Zanesville(ZNVL), Muskingum County, OH 1872(01/31) - 1939(10/23) | Johannes Vilhelm Jensen(NPL1944) 45 9640 ? Farsř, DK 1873(01/20) – 1950(11/25) |
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| Ford Hermann Hueffer 44 ? ? Merton, England, GB 1873(12/17) - 1939(06/26) | William Somerset Maugham 33 75383 144513100 UK Embassy, 35, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris(FR101), IDF, FR 1874(01/25) - 1965(12/16) | Robert Lee Frost 1 94142? 415? San Francisco(SNRF), CA 1874(03/26) - 1963(01/29) | Clarence Shepard Day 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1874(11/18) - 1935(12/28) | Paul Thomas Mann(NPL1929) 49 23501? 0451 Lübeck, SH, DE 1875(06/06) - 1955(08/12) |
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| Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL 1875(09/01) - 1950(03/19) | René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke 420 10000 2 Prague, CZ 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) | Carl Sandburg 1 61401? 309? Galesburg(GLBG), Knox County, IL 1878(01/06) - 1967(07/22) |
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| Ferenc Molnár 36 1011 1 Budapest, BU, HU 1878(01/12) - 1952(04/01) | John Edward Masefield 44 HR8 1531 Ledbury, England, GB 1878(06/01) - 1967(05/12) | Upton Beall Sinclair 1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD 1878(09/20) - 1968(11/25) | Edward Morgan Forster 44 NW1 20 Marylebone, London, England, GB 1879(01/01) - 1970(06/07) | Wallace Stevens 1 19612? 610? Reading(RDNG), Berks County, PA 1879(10/02) - 1955(08/02) |
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| Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 1 62703? 217? Springfield(SPFD), Sangamon County, IL 1879(11/10) - 1931(12/05) | Giles Lytton Strachey 44 ? 20 London, England, GB 1880(03/01) - 1932(01/21) | John Casey 353 D01 1 Dublin, D, IE 1880(03/30) - 1964(09/18) | Henry Louis Mencken 1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD 1880(09/12) - 1956(01/29) | Alfred Damon Runyan 1 66502? 785? Manhattan(MNHT), Riley County, KS 1880(10/04) - 1946(12/10) |
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| Alexander Alexandrovich Blok 7 190? 812 Saint Petersburg, SPE, RU 1880(11/28) - 1921(08/07) | Roger Martin du Gard(NPL1937) 33 92051? ? Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine(FR105), IDF, FR 1881(03/23) – 1958(08/22) | Edgar Albert Guest 44 B 121 Birmingham, England, GB 1881(08/20) - 1959(08/05) | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse 44 GU 1483 Guildford, England, GB 1881(10/15) - 1975(02/14) | Alan Alexander Milne 44 NW6 20 Kilburn, London, England, GB 1882(01/18) - 1956(01/31) |
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| James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 353 D06 ? Rathgar, Dublin, D, IE 1882(02/02) - 1941(01/13) | Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux 33 87011 ? Haute-Vienne(FRI23), NAQ, FR 1882(10/29) - 1944(01/31) | Jubran Khalil Jubran 961 ? ? Bsharri, LB 1883(01/06) - 1931(04/10) | Nikos Kazantzakis 30 70000 281 Heraklion, M, GR 1883(02/18) - 1957(10/26) | Jaroslav Hašek 420 10000 2 Prague, CZ 1883(04/30) - 1923(01/03) |
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| Franz Kafka 420 10000 2 Prague, CZ 1883(07/03) - 1924(06/03) | William Carlos Williams 1 07070 201372,438,60,507,31,635,72,91, 728,9,804,42,72,96,933,5,9,64 Rutherford(RTFR), Bergen County, NJ 1883(09/17) - 1963(03/04) | Earl Derr Biggers 1 44481 330? Warren(WRRN), Trumbull County, OH 1884(08/26) - 1933(04/05) | William Maxwell Evarts Perkins 1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY 1884(09/20) - 1947(06/17) | Harry Sinclair Lewis(NPL1930) 1 56378 320? Sauk Centre(SKCT), Stearns County, MN 1885(02/07) - 1951(01/10) |
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| Ringgold Wilmer Lardner 1 49120? 269? Niles(NILS), Berrien County, MI 1885(03/06) - 1933(09/25) | Edwin DuBose Heyward 1 29402? 843? Charleston(CHTN), SC 1885(08/31) - 1940(07/16) | David Herbert Lawrence 44 NG16 1773 Eastwood, England, GB 1885(09/11) - 1930(03/02) | François Charles Mauriac(NPL1952) 33 33063 ? Bordeaux, Gironde(FRI12), NAQ, FR 1885(10/11) - 1970(09/01) | Hugh John Lofting 44 SL6 1628 Maidenhead, England GB 1886(01/14) - 1947(09/26) |
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| Rex Todhunter Stout 1 46060? 317? Noblesville(NBVL), Hamilton County, IN 1886(12/01) - 1975(10/27) | Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1 08901? 732? New Brunswick(NBWK), Middlesex County, NJ 1886(12/06) - 1918(07/30) | Alexander Woollcott 1 07701? 732? Red Bank(RDBK), Monmouth County, NJ 1887(01/19) - 1943(01/23) | Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes(NPL1966) 380 48400? 3544 Buchach, UA 1887(08/08) - 1970(02/17) | Raymond Thornton Chandler 1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL 1888(07/23) - 1959(03/26) |
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| Frans Eemil Sillanpää(NPL1939) 358 39100 ? Hämeenkyrö, FI 1888(09/16) – 1964(06/03) | Eugene Gladstone O'Neill(NPL1936) 1 100364015 212? Barrett House, 1500 Broadway, New York, NY 1888(10/16) - 1953(11/27) | James Maxwell Anderson 1 16111 814? Atlantic, Crawford County, PA 1888(12/15) - 1959(02/28) | Erle Stanley Gardner 1 02148 781? Malden(MLDN), Middlesex County, MA 1889(07/17) - 1970(03/11) | Conrad Potter Aiken 1 31402? 912? Savannah(SVNH), Chatham County, GA 1889(08/05) - 1973(08/17) |
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| Festus Claudius McKay 1J ? 876? Nairne Castle, James Hill, Clarendon Parish, JM 1889(09/15) - 1948(05/22) | George Simon Kaufman 1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA 1889(11/16) - 1961(06/02) | Karel Čapek 420 54234 ? Malé Svatoňovice, KR, CZ 1890(01/09) - 1938(12/25) | Howard Phillips Lovecraft 1 02904? 401 Providence(PRVD), RI 1890(08/20) - 1937(03/15) | Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg 380 01000 44 Kyiv, UA 1892(01/27) - 1967(08/31) |
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| Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov 380 01000 44 Kyiv, UA 1891(05/15) - 1940(03/10) | Pär Fabian Lagerkvist 46 35000 47 Växjö, SE 1891(05/23) - 1974(07/11) | Henry Valentine Miller 1 100286337 212? 450 E. 85th Street, Yorkville, Manhattan(NYCM), NY 1891(12/26) - 1980(06/07) | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 27 9300? 51 Bloemfontein, FS, ZA 1892(01/03) - 1973(09/02) | Ivo Andrić(NPL1961) 387 72278 ? Dolac, BA 1892(10/09) – 1975(03/13) |
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| Louis Bromfield 1 44901? 419? Mansfield(MNFD), Richland County, OH 1892(12/27) - 1956(03/18) | John Phillips Marquand 1 19899? 302 Wilmington(WLMG), New Castle County, DE 1893(11/10) - 1960(06/16) | Dashiell Hammett 1 20620 301? Great Mills, Saint Marys County, MD 1894(05/27) - 1961(01/10) | Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel 380 65000 48 Odesa, UA 1894(07/13) - 1940(01/27) | Aldous Leonard Huxley 44 GU7 1483 Godalming, England, GB 1894(07/26) - 1963(11/22) |
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| John Boynton Priestley 44 BD 1274 Bradford, England, GB 1894(09/13) - 1984(08/14) | Edmund Wilson 1 07701? 732? Red Bank(RDBK), Monmouth County, NJ 1895(05/08) - 1972(06/12) | Ernst Jünger 49 69115? 6221 Heidelberg, BW, 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 10802? 914? New Rochelle(NWRC), Westchester County, NY 1896(04/04) - 1955(11/04) |
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| Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 1 55101? 651? Saint Paul(STPL), Ramsey County, MN 1896(09/24) - 1940(12/21) | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 39 90100 91 Palermo, PA, IT 1896(12/23) - 1957(07/23) | Thornton Niven Wilder 1 53714? 608? Madison(MDSN), Dane County, WI 1897(04/17) - 1975(12/07) | William Cuthbert Falkner(NPL1949) 1 38652 662? New Albany, Union County, MS 1897(09/25) - 1962(07/06) | Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht 49 86150? 821 Augsburg, BY, DE 1898(02/10) - 1956(08/14) |
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| Erich Paul Remark 49 49074? 541 Osnabrück, NI, DE 1898(06/22) - 1970(09/25) | Clive Staples Lewis 44N BT 28 Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB 1898(11/29) - 1963(11/22) | Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov 7 190? 812 Saint Petersburg, SPE, RU 1899(04/22) - 1977(07/02) | Yasunari Kawabata(NPL1968) 81 5300000 6 Osaka, JP 1899(06/11) - 1972(04/16) | |
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| Elwyn Brooks White 1 10551? 914363,459,520,85 Mount Vernon(MTVR), Westchester County, NY 1899(07/11) - 1985(10/01) | Ernest Miller Hemingway(NPL1954) 1 60303? 708? Oak Park(OKPK), Cook County, IL 1899(07/21) - 1961(07/02) | Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo 54 C1420 11 Buenos Aires, AR 1899(08/24) - 1986(06/14) | Cecil Louis Troughton Smith 20 11? 2 Cairo, C, EG 1899(08/27) - 1966(04/02) |