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Born October 26, 1897 • Winterthur • Switzerland
Died January 12, 1992 (aged 94) • Zürich • Switzerland
Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Jean Leclerc
encyclopaedist and biblical scholar
Élie Ducommun
Swiss author
Gardner Cowles, Jr.
American editor
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
George Plimpton
American writer
Robert Adam Gottlieb
American editor
Giovanni Guareschi
Italian journalist and novelist
Victoria Ocampo
Argentine editor and publisher
John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
Eugene Jolas
American editor
Maria Jolas
American editor
Clark Howell
American journalist
Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author