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Born August 27, 1892 • Ohio
Died January 27, 1980 (aged 87) • Saint Petersburg • Florida
Notable Works “American Freedom and Catholic Power”
Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Albion W. Tourgée
American lawyer, judge, journalist, and novelist
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
American poet
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
American writer
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
American writer
Tillie Olsen
American author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis
American author
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American author
Adams, Henry
Henry Adams
American historian
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Professional wit Fran Lebowitz, 2016
Fran Lebowitz
American writer, raconteur, and cultural critic
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
American author

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