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Umberto Eco

Italian novelist

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Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. Wikipedia

Born: January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Italy

Died: February 19, 2016, Milan, Italy

 

Anna Sewell

English novelist

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Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children ever written, although it was intended at the time for an adult audience. Wikipedia

Born: March 30, 1820, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom

Died: April 25, 1878, Old Catton, Norwich, United Kingdom

 

 

 

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author

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Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Wikipedia

Born: November 30, 1874, New London, Canada

Died: April 24, 1942, Toronto, Canada

 

 

 

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Benjamin Spock

American pediatrician

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Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care is one of the best-selling volumes in history. The book's premise to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do." Wikipedia

Born: May 2, 1903, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Died: March 15, 1998, La Jolla, California, United States

 

 

 

 

Johanna Spyri

Swiss author of novels

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Johanna Louise Spyri was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Wikipedia

Born: June 12, 1827, Hirzel, Switzerland

Died: July 7, 1901, Zürich, Switzerland

 

 

 

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Vladimir Nabokov

Novelist

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were written in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945. Wikipedia

Born: April 22, 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Died: July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

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Gabriel García Márquez

Novelist

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Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Wikipedia

Born: March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia

Died: April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico

 

 

 

 

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Louise Hay

American author

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Louise Lynn Hay was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life. Wikipedia

Born: October 8, 1926, Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: August 30, 2017, San Diego, California, United States

 

 

 

 

 

Lew Wallace

American lawyer

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Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Wikipedia

Born: April 10, 1827, Brookville, Indiana, United States

Died: February 15, 1905, Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States

 

 

 

				Bulgakov in 1928
Born	Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	10 March 1940 (aged 48) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

 

More images Robert James Waller American author Description Robert James Waller was an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He was also a photographer and musician. Wikipedia Born: August 1, 1939, Rockford, Iowa, United States Died: March 10, 2017, Fredericksburg, Texas, United States   J. R. R. Tolkien CBE FRSL Tolkien as a second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers (in 1916, aged 24) Born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 3 January 1892 Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (modern-day South Africa) Died 2 September 1973 (aged 81) Bournemouth, England         Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse, 1933 Born Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupéry 29 June 1900 Lyon, France Died Presumed 31 July 1944 (aged 44) South of Marseille, France     Paulo Coelho Coelho during the World Economic Forum (2007) Born Paulo Coelho de Souza 24 August 1947 (age 72) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   J. D. Salinger Salinger in 1950 Born Jerome David Salinger January 1, 1919 Manhattan, New York Died January 27, 2010 (aged 91) Cornish, New Hampshire   J. K. Rowling CH OBE HonFRSE FRCPE FRSL Rowling in April 2010 Born Joanne Rowling 31 July 1965 (age 54) Yate, Gloucestershire, England

Dan Brown Brown in 2007 Born Daniel Gerhard Brown[1] June 22, 1964 (age 55) Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.

Ved Prakash Sharma Born 10 June 1955 Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India Died 17 February 2017 (aged 61) Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India       Carlo Collodi Born Carlo Lorenzini 24 November 1826 Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany Died 26 October 1890 (aged 63) Florence, Kingdom of Italy H. Rider Haggard KBE Born Henry Rider Haggard 22 June 1856 Bradenham, Norfolk, England Died 14 May 1925 (aged 68) Marylebone, London, England C. S. Lewis Lewis, age 48 Born Clive Staples Lewis 29 November 1898 Belfast, Ireland Died 22 November 1963 (aged 64) Oxford, England Cao Xueqin Statue of Cao Xueqin in Beijing Born 1715 or 1724 Nanjing, China Died 1763 or 1764 Beijing

Dame Agatha Christie Lady Mallowan DBE Agatha Christie in 1925 Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller 15 September 1890 Torquay, Devon, England Died 12 January 1976 (aged 85) Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, Oxfordshire, England[1]

The Reverend Lewis Carroll
Carroll in 1855
Born	Charles Lutwidge Dodgson 27 January 1832 Daresbury, Cheshire, England
Died	14 January 1898 (aged 65) Guildford, Surrey, England