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Also Known As Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner
Born January 20, 1910 • Austria-Hungary
Died January 3, 1980 (aged 69) • Kenya
Founder Elsa Conservation Trust
Notable Works “The Story of Elsa”

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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan writer
Grace Ogot
Kenyan author
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Juliana Ewing
British author
Arthur Hailey
Canadian writer
George Douglas Howard Cole
British economist
Mary Novello Clarke
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John Banim
Irish author
Michael Banim
Irish author
Martha Ostenso
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Ian Maclaren
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Poet John Milton
John Milton
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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