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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (c.1659 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is even...
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound conscientiousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism,...
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November, 1667 – 19 October, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (born Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist, essayist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century...
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John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee (English pronunciation: /kʊtˈsiː/) (born 9 February 1940) is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in South Australia. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee...
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Tracy Quan
Tracy Quan is an American writer and former call girl. She is best known for her Nancy Chan novels. In addition, Quan writes a regular column for The Guardian website on pop culture, sex and politics and is involved in the prostitutes' rights...
Mitch Alison
Mitch Alison (born 9 May 1974) is an award winning integrated Writer and Creative Director from South Africa (now an Australian Permanent Resident living in Sydney).
Mitch Alison was born in JHB, South Africa on 9 May 1974 to South African parents....
