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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon

Greek historian

Aleksandr Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair

American novelist

Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace

American author, soldier, and diplomat

Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

British writer

Ismail Kadare

Albanian writer

Anne Rice

Anne Rice

American author

Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

James Blish

American author and critic

Alejo Carpentier

Cuban author

Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch

American writer

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish author

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Ludwig Tieck

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Robert Graves

British writer

Alexandre Herculano

Portuguese historian

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Nobel prize-winning American author, Pearl S. Buck, at her home, Green Hills Farm, near Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1962. (Pearl Buck)

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