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Authors, poets and writers

Douglas Adams • Hans Christian Andersen • Isaac Asimov • Jane Austen • James Baldwin • Alfred Bester • William F. Buckley • Albert Camus • Lewis Carroll • Willa Cather • Geoffrey Chaucer • Agatha Christie • E. E. Cummings • Honoré de Balzac • Simone de Beauvoir • Robbie Burns • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Joan Didion • Walt Disney • Fyodor Dostoevsky • P. D. Eastman • Nora Ephron • William Faulkner • Anne Frank • Robert Frost • W.S. Gilbert • Allen Ginsberg • Jacob Grimm • Wilhelm Grimm • Lillian Hellman • Ernest Hemingway • Homer • Gerard Manley Hopkins • L. Ron Hubbard • Shirley Jackson • James Joyce • Franz Kafka • Helen Keller • Jack Kerouac • Francis Scott Key • Rudyard Kipling • Niccolò Machiavelli • Herman Melville • Margaret Mitchell • Toni Morrison • Pablo Neruda • Mary Norton • Boris Pasternak • Sylvia Plath • Edgar Allan Poe • Chaim Potok • Alexander Pushkin • Ayn Rand • Barry Sadler • J. D. Salinger • Sappho of Lesbos • Jean-Paul Sartre • Mary Shelley • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • Susan Sontag • Gertrude Stein • John Steinbeck • Robert Louis Stevenson • Hunter S. Thompson • Leo Tolstoy • Ivan Turgenev • Mark Twain • Sun Tzu • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Kurt Vonnegut • David Foster Wallace • H. G. Wells • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • Laura Ingalls Wilder • Virginia Woolf • Frank Lloyd Wright • Émile Zola