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Also Known As Carlo Lorenzini
Born November 24, 1826 • Florence • Tuscany
Died October 26, 1890 (aged 63) • Florence • Italy
Notable Works “The Adventures of Pinocchio”
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
Pellico, detail of an oil painting by Luigi Norfini
Silvio Pellico
Italian author
Matilde Serao
Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist
De Amicis, Edmondo
Edmondo De Amicis
Italian author
John Cowles
American publisher
Charles Edward Russell
American writer
Joseph Medill McCormick
United States senator
Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
Louis A. Godey
American publisher
John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Black, Conrad
Conrad Black
Canadian-born British businessman
Hearst, William Randolph
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
Eleanor Medill Patterson.
Eleanor Medill Patterson
American publisher
Arthur Ransome
English author

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