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Erskine Caldwell (1903–2007, United States); Italo Calvino (1923–1985, Italy); Albert Camus (1913–1960, Algeria); Rafael Cansinos Assens (1882–1964, Spain); Orson Scott Card (born 1951, United States)
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Library of the World's Best Literature. Signature Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain , with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today .
"who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts" [81] poetry, novel, essay 1981: Elias Canetti (1905–1994) United Kingdom Bulgaria: German "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power" [82] novel, drama, memoirs, essay 1982: Gabriel García Márquez ...
Hamilton Wright Mabie was born at Cold Spring, New York on December 13, 1846. [2] He was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were Scots-Dutch.
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era , he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy.
House of the Mann family in Lübeck ("Buddenbrookhaus"), where Thomas Mann grew up; now a family museum. Paul Thomas Mann was born to a hanseatic family in Lübeck, the second son of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann (a senator and a grain merchant) and his wife Júlia da Silva Bruhns, a Brazilian woman of German, Portuguese and Native Brazilian ancestry, who emigrated to Germany with her family ...
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, [1] [2] placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.
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