Whitman, Walt
1819 - 1892

Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village on Long Island, New York, as the second child of nine to Walter, a house...

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Rubinstein, Gillian
1942 -

Gillian Rubinstein was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, but she spent her teenage years in Nigeria and at...

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Gautier, Théophile
1811 - 1872

French author and critic born in Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, to a family originally from Provence. His father was a minor g...

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Zelazny, Roger
1937 - 1995

An American sci-fi and fantasy author, regarded as one of the foremost representatives for what is called the ‘new wave’ of t...

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