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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (English: ; Russian: , tr. Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, IPA: [lksandr sre(j)vt pukn] (listen); 6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern …

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Jean Rhys

British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica

Anne Rice

American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature

Dorothy Parker

American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles

Alice Munro

Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro’s work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time