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Born May 28, 1535 • London • England
Died 1601?
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
English statesman and author
Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of
Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
English translator
Florio, engraving by William Hole, 1611
John Florio
English lexicographer
Josuah Sylvester
English writer
John Langhorne
English poet
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Elisabeth Marbury
American theatrical and literary agent
Mary Louise Booth.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
Nina Berberova
Russian-American writer
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Isabel Florence Hapgood
American translator
Amyot, Jacques
Jacques Amyot
French scholar
Allan Bloom
American philosopher and author
Richard Howard
American author
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Sir Thomas Urquhart
Scottish writer