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Dan Brown
Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for the controversial 2003 best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code.

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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1659/1661 ? – April 24 ?, 1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain.

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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres.

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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa," he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation," as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast.

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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature.

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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist, critic , political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century.

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Harry Harrison
Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, March 12, 1925) is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and the novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966), the basis for the film Soylent Green (1973).

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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime.

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Ira Levin
Ira Levin (born August 27, 1929 in New York) is a Jewish-American novelist, playwright and songwriter.

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Jack London
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and over fifty other books.

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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction.

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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 — April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, and television producer. His best-known works are techno-thriller novels, films and television programs.

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Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Coelho has sold over 86 million books in over 150 countries worldwide and his works have been translated into 56 languages. He has received numerous literary awards from a variety of countries.

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Paulo Coelho (Blog)
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for The Martian Chronicles, a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.

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Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his bestselling horror novels.

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T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

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Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett (born 28 April 1948) is an English fantasy author, best known for his Discworld series.

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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 23 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and as the world's preeminent dramatist.

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