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  • Victor Hugo
    Feb 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885
    Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his...
  • Aldous Huxley
    Jul 26, 1894 – Nov 22, 1963
    Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
  • Walter Isaacson
    May 20, 1952 –
    Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and ...
  • Shirley Jackson
    Dec 14, 1916 – Aug 8, 1965
    Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer, known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. **Source**: [Shirley Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson) on Wikipedia.
  • Henry James
    Apr 15, 1843 – Feb 28, 1916
    Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Sourc...
  • Maureen Johnson
    1973 –
    Author of children's literature.
  • Robert Jordan
    Oct 17, 1948 – Sep 16, 2007
    James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for The Wheel of Time series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of the several writers who have writt...
  • James Joyce
    Feb 2, 1882 – Jan 13, 1941
    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark w...
  • Franz Kafka
    Jul 3, 1883 – Jun 3, 1924
    Franz Kafka is one of the most important and influential fiction writers of the early 20th century; a novelist and writer of short stories whose works, only after his death, came to be regarded as one of the major achievements of 20th century literat...