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Was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Je

Was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work.[1] He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso and teacher. Although early in his life he was socially active and good friends with prominent musicians and artists including Eugène Delacroix, Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin, he gradually withdrew from the concert platform after 1848, and he lived as a recluse in Paris until his death.

Is an American TV interviewer and journalist.

Is an American TV interviewer and journalist.

Was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become stan

Was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Brontë, who used the pen name Currer Bell, is best known for Jane Eyre, one of the most famous of English novels.

One of the best and most singular authors of the suspense era[citation needed], she wrote only nine

One of the best and most singular authors of the suspense era[citation needed], she wrote only nine crime books, but their unorthodoxy secured her a high place in Mystery Hall of Fame.Jay was Hall's maiden name and it was under the name Charlotte Jay that she wrote most of the crime fiction novels for which she is most well known. She also wrote novels under her married name.

Was an African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator.Forten was born in Philadelphia, P

Was an African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and educator.Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mary Woods and Robert Bridges Forten, members of the prominent black Forten-Purvis families of Philadelphia. Robert Forten and his brother-i

Was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.In 1894, Mew s

Was an English poet, whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.In 1894, Mew succeeded in getting a short story into The Yellow Book, but wrote very little poetry at this time. Her first collection of poetry, The Farmer's Bride, was

Was an English poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen, Willia

Was an English poet and novelist whose works have been credited with influencing Jane Austen, William Wordsworth and particularly Charles Dickens. Charlotte Turner Smith was both a poet and an author whose works fall under the Romantic genre. Smith was in

Is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children.She has been published

Is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children.She has been published by more than 20 different houses (many of which she has outlasted). She was an editor, and later publisher, at Harper & Row, which was called Harper & Brothers when she began to work there and is now known as HarperCollins.

Was an Australian writer and essayist during the mid 20th century. She was the second wife of Austra

Was an Australian writer and essayist during the mid 20th century. She was the second wife of Australian journalist George Johnston.Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales. She married Johnston in 1947. They had three children, the eldest of which was the poet Martin Johnston. After Clift and Johnston's collaboration, "High Valley" (1949), won them recognition as writers, they left Australia with their young family, working in London before relocating to the Greek Islands to try living by the pen. Johnston returned to Australia to receive the accolades of his Miles Franklin Award Winner, "My Brother Jack". Clift moved back to Sydney with their children in 1964, after which her novels "Mermaid Singing", "Peel Me a Lotus," and "Honour's Mimic" became successes. She was also well-known for her essays in Sydney and Melbourne newspapers, which included "Images in Aspic" and "The World of Charmian Clift." In the meantime, Clift and Johnston's marriage was disintegrating under the pressures of their drinking habits and the problems their children had settling into life in Sydney.

A Thai writer.He first came to prominence with the publication of his novel Khamphiphaksa (The Judgm

A Thai writer.He first came to prominence with the publication of his novel Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment) in 1981. Named as Book of the Year by Thailand's Literature Council, the book won him the S.E.A. Write Award. He received a second S.E.A. Write Award in 1994 for Wela (Time). He was named a National Artist in Literature in 2004, and was among the honorees of the inaugural Silpathorn Award, given to Thai contemporary artists.

Is a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor

Is a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature. Rosenfarb began writing poetry as young as eight. After surviving the Lódz ghetto (known as Ghetto Litzmannstadt), Rosenfarb was deported to Auschwitz, where her father died, and then sent to a work camp at Sasel (subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp), where she built houses for the bombed out Germans of Hamburg. At the end of the war she was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she fell ill with nearly-fatal Typhus Fever in April 1945. After the end of the war, Rosenfarb married the future nationally-famous Canadian abortion activist Henry Morgentaler (the two divorced in 1975). She had published three volumes of poetry by 1950. The same year, Morgentaler and Rosenfarb, pregnant with Goldie, their daughter, emigrated from Europe to Canada, landing in Montréal in the winter of 1950, to a reception of Yiddish writers at Windsor Station.

Is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize winning novel L'aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventu

Is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize winning novel L'aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures. Its hero is a Fulani boy who goes to study in France. There, he loses touch with his Islamic fa

Is a Chinese writer, known by the pen name Wan Zhi (??). He has written mostly short stories, and ha

Is a Chinese writer, known by the pen name Wan Zhi (??). He has written mostly short stories, and has also translated literature from English and Swedish to Chinese.

Is a Chinese writer.Avant-garde writer, most of her works appeared in the 1990's.

Is a Chinese writer.Avant-garde writer, most of her works appeared in the 1990's.

Born in Nanchong, Sichuan, was the author of the Records of Three Kingdoms, a historical account of

Born in Nanchong, Sichuan, was the author of the Records of Three Kingdoms, a historical account of the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was once an officer from the Shu of Three Kingdoms. His (supposed) father, Chen Shi (as there is no account of his father's name), was also an officer of Shu, and once had his beard shaved off as a penalty by order of Zhuge Liang after a campaign that failed due to a shortsighted strategy of his commander, Ma Su. After the fall of the Shu in 263, he served as an officer under the Jin Dynasty, under which he later wrote the Records of Three Kingdoms.

Was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. A native of Shehong county (??) in what is today Suining Sic

Was a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. A native of Shehong county (??) in what is today Suining Sichuan, he completed the Jinshi level of the Imperial Examination at age twenty-four. As an important advisor (???) to the Empress Wu Zetian, Chen was a firm advocate of poetry reflecting real life, and thus with his active interest in politics, much of his work has undertones of social commentary. Some[1] have suggested that it was his work that was the reason he suffered persecution at the hands of Wu Sansi; he died in 702 having been in and out of prison.

Cheng taught poetry and art in several leading colleges in Beijing and Shanghai and was a successful

Cheng taught poetry and art in several leading colleges in Beijing and Shanghai and was a successful artist. At the age of nineteen, he was a professor of poetry at an esteemed art school in Beijing. Later in Shanghai, he became acquainted with influential figures including Wu Changshi, Cai Yuanpei, Zheng Xiaoxu, Xu Beihong, and Zhang Daqian.

Is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. He was educated at the University of South Africa and t

Is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. He was educated at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe, and has worked as an educator and journalist. A critic of the recent policies of the Mugabe government, he currently lives in exile as the International Writers Project fellow in residence at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

Was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm nee Lockett.Cherry Wild

Was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm nee Lockett.Cherry Wilder was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She attended Nelson Girls High in Nelson, NZ and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, NZ before first moving to Australia and then, in 1976 to Langen/Hessen Germany. She chose the pseudonym "Wilder" when she began writing science fiction stories in 1974. She published over fifty short stories and novels.

Was a famous African American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Har

Was a famous African American writer. His works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels

An Indian English language author. He is the author of three bestsellers: Five Point Someone - What

An Indian English language author. He is the author of three bestsellers: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT, One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life. He is also the scriptwriter for 'Hello', the Bollywood movie based on One Night @ the Call Center.His first book, Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT (May 2004) is a novel about three boys who join IIT Delhi and try to cope with the notoriously heavy workload of the institute. This book has continued to stay on the India Today bestseller list ever since its publication (190 weeks in January 2008). It won him the Society Young Achiever's award in 2004 and the Publisher's Recognition award in 2005. Rajkumar Hirani has based his upcoming film '3 Idiots' on the script of Five Point Someone; the film has Aamir Khan in one of the key roles.

Was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.From 1933 to 1935 he taught Chinese at the Univ

Was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.From 1933 to 1935 he taught Chinese at the University of London, and 1938 to 1940 worked at the Wellcome Museum of Anatomy and Pathology. During this period, he wrote a well-received series of books entitled The Silent Traveller in..... His first was The Silent Traveller: a Chinese Artist in Lakeland, written from a journal of a fortnight in the English Lake District in August 1936). Others followed: The Silent Traveller in London, the Yorkshire Dales, and Oxford. Despite paper shortages and rationing, these books were kept in print. He wrote The Silent Traveller in Wartime, and, after World War II ended, the series gradually ventured further afield, to Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, San Francisco, and Boston, concluding in 1972 with Japan.

Was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a

Was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a process known as Automatic writing.was the most popular and prolific medium in 20th century Brazil's Spiritism movement. He was born in the city of Pedro Leopoldo, State of Minas Gerais and is popularly known as "Chico Xavier" (Chico is the Brazilian nickname for Francisco). Throughout his life he wrote more than 400 books, using a process known as psychography, where his hand was said to be guided by spirits that wanted to leave a written message, or sometimes entire books.

A Japanese author and anthropologist.

A Japanese author and anthropologist.

Was an American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and

Was an American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer.