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- William Shakespeare's Colorful Life
- William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. Alre...
- Victor Hugo
- Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only se...
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- Biography of Woody Allen
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Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg is an American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from intense dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living America...
- Biography of Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Biography of Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou, (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a...
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- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The ...
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- Biography of Ayn Rand
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Ayn Rand (1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system calle...
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- William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare was a playwright during the Renaissance. Throughout his career, he produced 37 plays and 154 sonnets.
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