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Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories ...
Date of birth: 30 September 1924
Date of death: 25 August 1984
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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Oscar Wilde
Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854–1900)
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular ...
Date of birth: 16 October 1854
Date of death: 29 November 1900
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies ...
Date of birth: 21 September 1947
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)
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Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th ...
Date of birth: 16 December 1775
Date of death: 18 July 1817
Nationality: English
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Female
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Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales ...
Date of birth: 19 January 1809
Date of death: 7 October 1849
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright.
Date of birth: 13 May 1907
Date of death: 19 April 1989
Nationality: British
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Female
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Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, and dramatist (1802–1885)
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Victor-Marie Hugo ( 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years ...
Date of birth: 26 February 1802
Date of death: 22 May 1885
Nationality: French
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor ...
Date of birth: 8 October 1943
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) ...
Date of birth: 29 November 1832
Date of death: 6 March 1888
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Gender: Female
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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography ...
Date of birth: 21 September 1866
Date of death: 13 August 1946
Nationality: British
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern ...
Date of birth: 28 April 1926
Date of death: 19 February 2016
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Female
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Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature ...
Date of birth: 21 April 1816
Date of death: 31 March 1855
Nationality: English
Occupation: Novelist
Gender: Female
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Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the ...
Date of birth: 7 February 1812
Date of death: 9 June 1870
Nationality: English
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including ...
Date of birth: 22 August 1920
Date of death: 5 June 2012
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos.
Date of birth: 20 August 1890
Date of death: 15 March 1937
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series ...
Date of birth: 4 October 1941
Date of death: 11 December 2021
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language ...
Date of birth: 4 August 1792
Date of death: 8 July 1822
Nationality: British
Occupation: Poet
Gender: Male
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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordi ...
Date of birth: 8 February 1828
Date of death: 24 March 1905
Nationality: French
Occupation: Author
Gender: Male
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
Date of birth: 4 July 1804
Date of death: 19 May 1864
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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Henry James OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author who became a British citizen in the last year of his life. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism ...
Date of birth: 15 April 1843
Date of death: 28 February 1916
Nationality: American
Occupation: Writer
Gender: Male
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