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Biography

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Last Name

Birth Date

A
Dante Alighieri

1265 - 1321
Jane Austen

1775 - 1817
B
Harriet Beecher Stowe

1811 - 1896
Lord Byron

1788 - 1824
C
Lewis Carroll

1832 - 1898
Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 - 1400
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 - 1834
D
Charles Dickens

1812 - 1870
Emily Dickinson

1830 - 1886
E
Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955
George Eliot

1819 - 1880
T.S. Eliot

1888 - 1965
Ralph Ellison

1913 - 1994
Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 - 1882
F
William Faulkner

1897 - 1962
F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 - 1948
Robert Frost

1874 - 1963
H
Nathaniel Hawthorne

1804 - 1864
Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961
Langston Hughes

1902 - 1967
Zora Neale Hurston

1891 - 1960
J
Thomas Jefferson

1743 - 1826
K
Franz Kafka

1883 - 1924
John Keats

1795 - 1821
John F. Kennedy

1917 - 1963
L
Harper Lee

1926 -
M
Herman Melville

1819 - 1891
Arthur Miller

1915 - 2005
John Milton

1608 - 1674
Toni Morrison

1931 -
O
Flannery O'Connor

1925 - 1964
George Orwell

1903 - 1950
P
Edgar Allan Poe

1809 - 1849
R
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

1882 - 1945
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

1858 - 1919
S
J.D. Salinger

1919 - 2010
Martin Scorsese

1942 -
William Shakespeare

1564 - 1616
Mary Shelley

1797 - 1851
Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 - 1822
John Steinbeck

1902 - 1968
T
Henry David Thoreau

1817 - 1862
Mark Twain

1835 - 1910
W
George Washington

1732 - 1799
Walt Whitman

1819 - 1892
Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900
Tennessee Williams

1911 - 1983
Mary Wollstonecraft

1759 - 1797
Virginia Woolf

1882 - 1941
William Wordsworth

1770 - 1850