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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) | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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) |
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| 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) | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Ford Hermann Hueffer 44 ? Merton, England, GB y | 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) | |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 Heyward | 1 29402? Charleston, SC | 1885(08/31) - 1940(07/16)
| Hugh John Lofting | 44 ? Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, GB | 1886(01/14) - 1947(09/26)
| John Phillips Marquand | 1 19899? Wilmington, DE | 1893(11/10) - 1960(06/16)
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