Gaius Valerius Catullus
Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes
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Bruce Chatwin
English travel writer, novelist and journalist
John Cheever
American novelist and short story writer
Paul Bowles
American expatriate composer, author, and translator
Margaret Wise Brown
American writer of children’s books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd
Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, socialist, and social theorist
Alan Bennett
English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter
Elizabeth Bowen
Irish – British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the “big house” of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish author