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John Updike

American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner

Sylvia Townsend Warner

English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.

Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time

James Thurber

American cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit