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| x MC Paul Barman |
MC Paul Barman (born October 30, 1974, in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a Jewish American emcee from Ridgewood, New Jersey, who attended Brown University.
"Enter Pan-Man," from his self-produced 7-inch Postgraduate Work (Househusband Records, 1998),...
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| x Greg Graffin |
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Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D. (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is the lead vocalist, songwriter and co-founder of the punk band Bad Religion, as well as a life sciences and paleontology lecturer at UCLA.
In 1980, at the age of fifteen,...
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| x David Rovics |
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David Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an indie singer/songwriter and grassroots political protestor from the United States. His music is most accurately described as protest-folk and concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti...
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| x Paul Heaton |
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Paul Heaton (born Paul David Heaton, 9 May 1962, Bromborough, Merseyside, England) is an English singer-songwriter. He was a member of The Beautiful South, who disbanded in 2007, and a member of The Housemartins, who disbanded in 1988. He is...
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M-1, aka Mutulu Olugabala is a rapper, activist and author known for his work as one half of the political hip hop duo Dead Prez along with his life long friend Stic.man aka Clayton Gavin. His choice of the name "M-1" is likely a reference to the...
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| x Leonid Hambro |
Leonid Hambro (June 26, 1920, Chicago – October 23, 2006, New York City) was an American concert pianist and composer.
He was the son of immigrant Russian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films.
He studied at the Juilliard School,...
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| x Greydon Square |
Greydon Square (born Eddie Collins on September 28, 1981) is an American hip hop artist. He is a veteran of the Iraq War and an outspoken atheist who promotes discussion on philosophical issues, as well as studying physics full time.
Collins, grew...
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| x Noam Chomsky |
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Noam Chomsky is a widely known intellectual, political activist, and critic of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments. Noam Chomsky describes himself as a libertarian socialist, a sympathizer of anarcho-syndicalism and is...
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| x Joss Whedon |
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Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon (pronounced /ˈhwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the television programs Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Dollhouse. He...
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| x Dario Fo |
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Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. In 2007 he was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The Telegraph's list of 100...
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Nick Currie (born February 11, 1960 in Paisley, Scotland), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, blogger and former journalist for Wired. Most of his songs are self-referential or...
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| x Ian Fraser Kilmister |
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Ian Fraser Kilmister (born on 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England), better known by the stage name Lemmy, is an English singer and bass guitarist. He is best known as the founding member of the rock band Motörhead. His appearance,...
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| x Gary Numan |
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Gary Numan (born Gary Webb on 8 March 1958) is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart...
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| x Jessica Fodera |
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Jessicka Addams (born Jessica Fodera on October 23, 1975) is an American singer and artist. Best known by her stage name Jessicka, she fronts two bands, Jack Off Jill and Scarling.
Jessicka grew up in the town of Sunrise, Florida. She was raised as...
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| x Marilyn Manson |
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Marilyn Manson (born January 5, 1969 as Brian Hugh Warner), is an American musician and artist known for his controversial stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band. His stage name was formed from the names of actress Marilyn...
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| x Tim Kasher |
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Tim Kasher (born August 19, 1974) is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and The Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha based record label Saddle Creek Records. Prior to those bands, Kasher was in a...
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| x Art Alexakis |
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Arthur Paul "Art" Alexakis (born April 12, 1962) is the American singer, lead guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Everclear.
Alexakis was born in Los Angeles, California. Alexakis' father walked out on the family, leaving Alexakis, his mother,...
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| x David Vincent |
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David Alexander Vincent (born April 22, 1965) aka Evil D is an American musician and is currently the lead vocalist and bassist for the seminal death metal band Morbid Angel as well as the bassist for Genitorturers. He cites the original Alice...
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| x Bjorn "Speed" Strid |
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Björn Ove Ingemar "Speed" Strid (born September 10, 1978) is a vocalist with a resume that includes work in bands such as Highball Shooters, Disarmonia Mundi, Terror 2000, Coldseed, and most notably Soilwork. He also provided vocals for Darkane on...
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| x Gregor Mackintosh |
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Gregor Mackintosh (born June 20, 1970) is a British guitar player. He is the main composer and lead guitarist in the metal band Paradise Lost, which he founded in 1988 together with singer Nick Holmes, rhythm guitarist Aaron Aedy, and bassist Steve...
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| x Mustis |
Mustis, is the pseudonym of Øyvind Johan Mustaparta, born September 10, 1979, who is a Norwegian keyboardist best known for his work in the symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir. Mustis joined Dimmu Borgir in 1998 and contributed to their...
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| x Randy Newman |
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Randall Stuart “Randy” Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of...
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| x Steve Jocz |
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Stephen Martin Jocz (nicknamed Stevo32 or Stevo) was born on July 23, 1981, and is best known as the drummer for Canadian pop punk band Sum 41.
Jocz (pronounced YOTCH) is of Polish descent. He was born in Ajax, Ontario, to Marg and Phil Jocz, and...
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| x Ani DiFranco |
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Ani DiFranco (pronounced /ˈɑːniː/) (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over twenty albums and is widely celebrated as a...
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| x Lalla Ward |
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Sarah Ward (born 28 June 1951), self-described and often known as Lalla Ward, is an English actress, author and illustrator. As an actress, she is best known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She...
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| x Eddie Izzard |
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Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a two-time Emmy winning British stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's works include standup sets...
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| x Stanisław Grzesiuk |
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Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918-1963) was a Polish writer, poet, singer, and comedian. He is notable as one of the few public figures to use and promote the singing style and dialect of pre-war Warsaw after their near extinction in the aftermath of the...
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| x Irvine Welsh |
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Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.
Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, a port...
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| x Pirro Çako |
Pirro Çako is an Albanian artist born in Tirana to Gaqo and Luiza Çako, tenor and soprano respectively. He is known as a composer and singer, and is the husband of opera soprano Inva Mula.
He graduated from Academy of Arts at Tirana and later went...
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| x Jamie Oliver |
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Jamie Oliver (born Richard James Oliver, July 16, 1975) is primarily the keyboardist for the Welsh rock band Lostprophets, although he additionally does backing vocals and samples. He was the only one to attend a different school from that of his...
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| x Richey James Edwards |
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Richard James Edwards (born 22 December 1967, presumed deceased on or after 1 February 1995) was rhythm guitarist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, from Blackwood, Wales. He was known for his politicized and...
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| x Stian Arnesen |
Nagash or Lex Icon (born Stian Arnesen, May 7, 1978 ) is a Norwegian black metal musician. He plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
He began writing music in 1992, together with Fafnir and Glaurung for a project called Troll. Fafnir and Glaurung...
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| x John Lydon |
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John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known as Johnny Rotten, is a British rock musician and lyricist, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock group Sex Pistols during the 1970s and 2000s, and also as the vocalist of post punk...
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| x Todd Kowalski |
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Todd "The Rod" Kowalski (b. May 27, 1973, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian electric bassist and singer, currently a member of hardcore punk band Propagandhi. Along with his band, he lives a vegan lifestyle and supports animal rights.
In...
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| x Roy Bailey |
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Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, London), is a British socialist folk singer. Roy began his singing career in a skiffle group in 1958.
Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo said Bailey represents "the very soul of folk's working class ideals......
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| x Jacques Brel |
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Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French pronunciation: [ʒak bʀɛl] in French) (8 April 1929–9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly...
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| x Jodie Foster |
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Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as...
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| x Christopher Guest |
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Nigel Tufnel (1948-) is the fictional lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap featured in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. He is played by actor Christopher Guest.
Nigel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy...
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| x Daniel Handler |
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Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
Handler was born in San Francisco, California. He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert...
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| x Tim Minchin |
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Tim Minchin (born 7 October 1975 in Northampton, UK) is a British born Australian comedian, actor and musician. He is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in three CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has...
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| x H. L. Mencken |
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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of...
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| x Richard Feynman |
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Richard Phillips Feynman (pronounced /ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of...
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| x Isaac Asimov |
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Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
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| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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| x Michael Crichton |
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John Michael Crichton or Michael Crichton pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/ (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer, director, screenwriter, and medical school graduate, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical...
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| x H. G. Wells |
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social...
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| x Albert Camus |
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Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the...
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| x Kurt Vonnegut |
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction including Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
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| x Witold Gombrowicz |
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Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological...
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| x Ayn Rand |
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Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for...
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| x Edmund Cooper |
Edmund Cooper (April 30, 1926 - March 11, 1982) was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, and other genres including children books, essays and one detective novel, published under his own name and several pen names.
Born in...
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| x Joseph Conrad |
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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born British novelist, who in 1886 became a British subject.
He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English though he did not speak the...
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| x Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade |
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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) (French pronunciation: [maʁki də sad]) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his...
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| x Philip Pullman |
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Philip Pullman CBE (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials (a trilogy of fantasy novels), and a number of other books.
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK, to Royal Air...
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| x Sinclair Lewis |
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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of...
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| x Jorge Amado |
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Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 – August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 30 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona...
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| x Marghanita Laski |
Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist: she also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories.
Marghanita was born in Manchester, England, to a prominent family of Jewish...
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| x Pär Lagerkvist |
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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (May 23, 1891—July 11, 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early...
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| x Pierre Berton |
Pierre Francis De Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.
An accomplished...
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| x Fredric Brown |
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Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906, Cincinnati – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.
He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown (October 7, 1932 - June 15, 2008).
He is perhaps best known for his use of humor...
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