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GABORIAU, Emile
Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. |
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GALE, Zona
Zona Gale (1874-1938) was an American author and playwright. |
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GALIANA, Michel
MICHEL GALIANA (1933-1999) was a French novelist, who also wrote poetry, essays, and criticism. |
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GALLUN, Raymond Z.
Raymond Zinke Gallun (1911-1994) was an American science fiction writer. |
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GALSWORTHY, John
John Galsworthy OM (1867–1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. |
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GARIS, Howard R.
Howard Roger Garis (1873–1962) was an American author, best known for the Uncle Wiggily books. Garis and his wife were prolific children's authors of the early 20th century. |
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GARLAND, Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. |
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GARNETT, Richard
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. |
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GARRETT, Randall
Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer are two science fiction authors who write under the joint pseudonym Mark Phillips. |
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GARVICE, Charles
Charles Garvice (c.1850-1921) was a prolific and popular author of romance novels in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. |
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GASKELL, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. |
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GAUTIER, Theophile
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. |
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GERNSBACK, Hugo
Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, including publishing the first science fiction magazine. He is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, the annual Science Fiction Achievement awards are named the "Hugos." |
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GIBBS, George
George Gibbs (1870-1942) was a prolific writer of adventure stories. |
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GILBERT, Henry
Henry Gilbert (1868–1937) was a popular children's author, best known for his interpretation of the Robin Hood story. |
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GILBERT, William S.
Sir William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) collaborated on a series of popular operettas, many of which are still performed today. |
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GLASPELL, Susan
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) was a bestselling novelist and a Pulitzer prize winning playwright. |
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GOETHE
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a German writer, artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. |
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GOLDBERG, D.G.K.
Diane Gail Kelly Goldberg, who wrote horror and science fiction as d.g.k. goldberg, died in 2005. |
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) was an Irish writer, poet, and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield. |
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GONCHAROV, Ivan
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian writer. |
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GONZALES, Ambrose E.
Ambrose E. Gonzales (1857-1926) grew up speaking the Gullah language with slaves working on his family's South Carolina plantations, and he authored several books of Gullah dialect writings, including "The Black Border" (1922) and "With Aesop Along the Black Border" (1924). |
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GOODWIN, Maud Wilder
Maud Wilder Goodwin (1856-1935) was a U.S. author who wrote historical nonfiction and fiction. |
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GORKI, Maxim
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (1868–1936), who wrote as Maxim Gorki, was a Russian author and political activist. |
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GRAHAM, Chris
Chris Graham (1893-1932) wrote and played the character of Uncle Wip on a children's radio program. |
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GRAHAME, Kenneth
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was a British writer, most famous for "The Wind in the Willows" (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. |
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GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant, (1822–1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. |
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GRAS, Felix
Félix Gras (1844-1901) was a Provençal poet and novelist. |
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GRAY, Harold
Harold Lincoln Gray (1894-1968) was an American newspaper artist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of Little Orphan Annie. |
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GRAYDON, W. M. Murray
William Murray Graydon (1864-1946) was a prolific American writer for the juvenile market. |
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GREEN, Anna Katharine
Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. |
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GREEN, Julian
Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green, (1900-1998) was a French born American who wrote several novels. |
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GREGORY, Lady
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) was an Irish dramatist and folklorist. |
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GREY, Zane
Zane Grey (1872-1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. |
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GRIFFIN, Gerald
Gerald Griffin (1803-1840) was an Irish novelist, poet and playwright. |
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GRIFFITH, George
George Chetwyn Griffith-Jones (1857 – 1906), who wrote as George Griffith, was a British science fiction writer and noted explorer. |
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GUEST, Edgar A.
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959) was a prolific American poet who became known as the People's Poet. |
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