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Biography of Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, columnist, author, and intellectual. He is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and is also a columnist for The New York Times, writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000.

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The Life of Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist. Gore served in the United States House of Representatives (1977–85) and the United States Senate (1985–93) representing Tennessee. From 1993 to 2001, he was the forty-fifth Vice P...

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Biography of James Joyce
[Picture: James Joyce] James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its highly controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as t...

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Biography of JRR Tolkien
[Picture: JRR Tolkien] John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Prof...

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Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Just the events in her life.

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Nobel Prize for literature winners
[Picture: Nobel medal] The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" (original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det...

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Biography of George Orwell
[Picture: George Orwell] George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) who was an English writer and journalist well-noted as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture. George Orwell is one of the most admired English-language essayis...

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Biography of Langston Hughes
[Photo: Langston Hughes] 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 Agatha Christie
[Photo: Agatha Christie] Agatha Christie was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theater plays. Her works, particularly featuring detectiv...

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Biography of Ayn Rand
[Photo: Ayn Rand] 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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