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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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Emily Dickinson
Although virtually unknown in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson, together with Walt Whitman, has come to be regarded, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. Noted for her unconventional broken rhyming meter and use of dashes and random capitalization as well as her creative...

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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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Timeline of Harry Potter Series
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels by English author J. K. Rowling about a teenage boy named Harry Potter. The story is mostly set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for young wizards, and focuses on Harry Potter's fight against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who ...

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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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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for ...

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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and his numerous literary awards pla...

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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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