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  2. List of centenarians (authors, editors, poets and journalists)

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    Lebanese writer and poet [5] Roger Angell: 1920–2022: 101: American essayist, writer and poet [6] Ruth Nanda Anshen: 1900–2003: 103: American author and editor. [7] Jaime Ardila Casamitjana: 1919–2019: 100: Colombian writer [8] Diana Athill: 1917–2019: 101: British literary editor, novelist and memoirist [9] Francisco Ayala: 1906–2009 ...

  3. Lyndall Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Lyndall Gordon (born 4 November 1941) [1] is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford .

  4. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Sir Terry Pratchett, a writer of science fiction, fantasy and children's books, is quoted as saying "I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did." Julio Cortázar was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom.

  5. Detection Club - Wikipedia

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    This began to change when Eric Ambler, known for his thrillers and spy novels, was elected in 1952. [4] Several notable detective writers including Philip MacDonald and Josephine Tey were never invited to join the club, while Georgette Heyer who wrote detective stories alongside her better-known regency novels turned down an invitation.

  6. Dorothy West - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s ...

  7. BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Novels - Wikipedia

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    [4] [6] The CBC characterized the panel as composed of "writers, curators and critics". [4] According to The Guardian, the list commemorated the publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719), 300 years earlier – "widely seen as the progenitor of the English-language novel". [6] The panel broke their list into ten categories of ten items. [1]

  8. Heartwarming Stories of Teachers Who Changed Their ... - AOL

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    The woman’s name was Tamora Pierce, the same as a precocious young writer my mom had taught nearly four decades before. In a recent e-mail, Pierce remembered clearly that my mom gave her the ...

  9. Fred J. Cook - Wikipedia

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    Fred James Cook (March 8, 1911 – April 4, 2003) was an American investigative journalist, author and historian who has been published extensively in The Nation, the Asbury Park Press and The New York Times.