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Aaron Bernstein
Aaron Bernstein (1841–1912) was a Galicia-born Christian minister and writer who had been raised in a Jewish family and studied the Talmud in his youth. He is best known for Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, a 1909 collection of biographical accounts of Jewish converts to Christianity.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States and led the country during the Civil War. He delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863 at the dedication of a national cemetery in Pennsylvania.
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Adela Florence Nicolson
Violet Nicolson, otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (1865–1904), was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. Adela Florence Nicolson's notable works include India's Love Lyrics.
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright. Alexandre Dumas held public roles including president of the Société des gens de lettres. Alexandre Dumas's credited works include The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–1914) was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction.
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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) was an English novelist and teacher. Many of the plots of her stories are laid in Scotland and England. The scenes are from her girlhood recollection of surroundings.
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Andy Dufresne
Andy Dufresne is the fictional banker imprisoned for murder in The Shawshank Redemption. During his years at Shawshank, he forms a friendship with Red and quietly preserves his hope and sense of agency.
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Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) and her fifth novel, The Italian (1797).
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Anthony Veiller
Anthony Veiller (1903–1965) was an American screenwriter and film producer, who wrote for 41 films between 1934 and 1964. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Stage Door (1937) and The Killers (1946).
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Antoine François Prévost
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words.
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Arrian
Arrian (89–175), also known as Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander, and philosopher of the Roman period. Arrian held public roles including ancient Roman senator, eponymous archon, and Roman consul.
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Arthur Cheney Train
Arthur Cheney Train (1875–1945), also called Arthur Chesney Train, was an American lawyer and writer of legal thrillers, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr. Ephraim Tutt. Arthur Cheney Train's career also included work as lawyer, novelist, and science fiction writer.
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Arthur J Rees
Arthur John Rees (1872–1942) was an Australian-born journalist and mystery writer. Arthur J Rees's career also included work as crime fiction writer. Arthur J Rees's credited works include The Hand in the Dark.
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Arthur Machen
Arthur Llewellyn Jones, known by his pen name Arthur Machen (1863–1947), was a Welsh author and mystic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.
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Arthur Stringer
Arthur John Stringer (1874–1950) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States. Arthur Stringer's career also included work as poet. Arthur Stringer's credited works include The Prairie Wife.
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Audrey Jr.
Audrey Jr. is the strange carnivorous plant raised by Seymour Krelborn in The Little Shop of Horrors. Named after Seymour's coworker Audrey, the plant brings attention to the flower shop while its appetite for human flesh drives the film's dark comedy and horror.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also well-known as Saint Augustine, was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in the history of the Western world, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach.
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Charles B. Griffith
Charles Byron Griffith (1930–2007) was an American screenwriter, actor, and film director. He was best known for writing Roger Corman productions such as A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), and Death Race 2000 (1975).
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English novelist and social critic whose fiction often portrayed poverty, class, and urban life. His historical novel A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris around the French Revolution.
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Charles Lederer
Charles Davies Lederer (1906–1976) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, actress and mistress to newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst.
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Clotilde Graves
Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves, also known as Clo. Graves (1863–1932), was an Irish author who wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan, becoming a successful playwright in London and New York City.
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Criswell
Jeron Criswell King (1907–1982), known professionally as Criswell or the Amazing Criswell, was an American entertainer and self-styled psychic famous for flamboyant predictions on television and radio. He appeared as himself and narrated Plan 9 from Outer Space, becoming closely associated with the films of Ed Wood.
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