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Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure ...
Date of birth: 24 May 1941
Nationality: American
Occupation: Musician
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister ...
Date of birth: 30 November 1874
Date of death: 24 January 1965
Nationality: British
Occupation: Head of State
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong ...
Date of birth: 21 July 1899
Date of death: 2 July 1961
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
Height: 6' (183 cm)
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Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central ...
Date of birth: 26 September 1888
Date of death: 4 January 1965
Nationality: British
Occupation: Poet
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do ...
Date of birth: 27 February 1902
Date of death: 20 December 1968
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 6' (183 cm)
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William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays ...
Date of birth: 25 September 1897
Date of death: 6 July 1962
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, his work has sold over ...
Date of birth: 7 June 1952
Nationality: Turkish
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first ...
Date of birth: 18 February 1931
Date of death: 5 August 2019
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Female
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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre ...
Date of birth: 26 July 1856
Date of death: 2 November 1950
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)
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Hermann Karl Hesse ( 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which ...
Date of birth: 2 July 1877
Date of death: 8 August 1962
Nationality: German
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama ...
Date of birth: 16 October 1888
Date of death: 27 November 1953
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult ...
Date of birth: 13 April 1906
Date of death: 22 December 1989
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Playwright
Gender: Male
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Paul Thomas Mann ( MAN, MAHN; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly ...
Date of birth: 6 June 1875
Date of death: 12 August 1955
Nationality: German
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Male
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (), is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor ...
Date of birth: 28 March 1936
Nationality: Peruvian
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Male
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Albert Camus
French philosopher, journalist, and writer (1913–1960)
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Albert Camus ( kam-OO, kə-MOO; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest ...
Date of birth: 7 November 1913
Date of death: 4 January 1960
Nationality: French
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
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Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( ; born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941; sobriquet Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) was an Indian polymath - poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social ...
Date of birth: 6 May 1861
Date of death: 7 August 1941
Nationality: Indian
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, US also ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one ...
Date of birth: 21 June 1905
Date of death: 15 April 1980
Nationality: French
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Male
Height: 5' (152 cm)
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Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942) is a Nobel laureate novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter from Austria. Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.
Date of birth: 6 December 1942
Nationality: Austrian
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found ...
Date of birth: 13 June 1865
Date of death: 28 January 1939
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Poet
Gender: Male
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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive ...
Date of birth: 7 February 1885
Date of death: 10 January 1951
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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