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HAGGARD, H. Rider
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) was an English writer of adventure novels, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. |
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HALE, Edward Everett
Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman. |
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HALEVY, Ludovic
Ludovic Halvy (1834-1908) was a French author and playwright. |
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HALL, Leland
Leland Hall (1883-1957) was the author of "Sinister House" and "They Seldom Speak." |
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HALTER, Paul
Paul Halter is a writer of crime fiction known for his locked room mysteries. |
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HAMILTON, Alexander
Alexander Hamilton "of Heuvel" (1815-1907) was a playwright and grandson of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. |
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HAMILTON, Edmond
Edmond Moore Hamilton (1904-1977) was an American author of science fiction stories and novels. |
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HAMMURABI
Hammurabi (died c. 1750 BC) was the sixth king of Babylon, from 1792 BC to 1750 BC |
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HANSHEW, Mary E.
Mary E. Hanshew was an American author, who co-wrote with her husband, Thomas. |
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HANSHEW, Thomas W.
Thomas W. Hanshew (1857-1914) was an American actor and writer, who co-wrote with wife, Mary. |
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HARBEN, Will N.
William Nathaniel Harben (1858-1919) was best known as a Southern writer. |
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HARBOU, Thea Von
Thea Gabriele von Harbou (1888-1954) was a German actress and author. |
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HARDT, Ernst
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt (1876-1947), born Ernst Stckhardt, was a German novelist, playwright, and poet. |
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HARDY, Thomas
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. |
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HARLAND, Henry
Henry Harland (1861-1905) wrote novels set in the immigrant Jewish neighborhoods of New York City under the pen name "Sidney Luska." Born a Protestant in Connecticut, "Luska" claimed to be from St. Petersburg and ironically was called "the first Jewish-American novelist." |
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HARMON, Jim
James Judson Harmon (1933-2010), better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio. |
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HARRIS, Joel Chandler
Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. |
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HARRISON, Harry
Harry Harrison is an American science fiction author best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat. |
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HARTE, Bret
Francis Bret Harte (1837-1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. |
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HASTINGS, Milo
Milo Milton Hastings (1884-1957) was an American inventor, author, and nutritionist. |
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HAWTHORNE, Julian
Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) followed in the footsteps of his father, the famous novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, and became a prolific American author and journalist. |
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. |
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HAY, Ian
Ian Hay (1876-1952) was an English writer. |
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HEARD, H.F.
Henry Fitzgerald Heard (1889-1971) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. |
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HEARN, Lafcadio
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer, best known for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories. |
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HEINE, Heinrich
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He was also a journalist, essayist, and literary critic. |
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HEINLEIN, Robert
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of science fiction writers." |
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HELLER, Joseph
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. |
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HEMING, Arthur
Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1870-1940) was a Canadian painter and novelist known as the "chronicler of the North" for his paintings, sketches, essays and books about Canada's North. |
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HENRY, O.
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) wrote under the pen name O. Henry, and was best known for his charming short stories with clever twist endings. |
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HENTY, G. A.
George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), was a prolific English novelist best known for his historical adventure stories. |
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HERGESHEIMER, Joseph
Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was a prominent American writer of the early 20th century. |
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HERMAN, Paul
Paul Herman is one of the foremost researchers into the life and career of Robert E. Howard. In addition to a comprehensive bibliography of Howard's work, he is also the series editor of Wildside's 10-volume "Weird Works of Robert E. Howard" series. |
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HERNE, James A.
James A. Herne (1839-1901) is considered by some critics to be the "American Ibsen." |
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HERON, E. and H.
Hesketh V. Pritchard (1876-1922) and his mother Kate collaborated under the pseudonyms E. and H. Heron, producing a number of classic supernatural tales. |
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HERRICK, Robert W.
Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) was an American author best known for his novels featuring the themes of social discontent and personal isolation. |
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HERSEY, John
John Richard Hersey (1914-1993) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and Mew Journalist. |
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HERZL, Theodor
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), born Benjamin Zeev Herzl, was an Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism. |
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HESSE, Herman
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. |
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HEWLETT, Maurice
Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. |
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HICHENS, Robert
Robert Smythe Hichens (1864-1950) was an English journalist and novelist. |
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HOBBES, Thomas
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. |
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HOCKING, Joseph
Joseph Hocking (1860-1937) was a minister as well as an English novelist. |
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HOHMAN, John George
John George Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer in the early 19th century. |
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HOLLAND, J. G.
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) was a novelist and poet. |
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HOLMES, Mary J.
Mary Jane Holmes (1828-1907) was a popular American author. |
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HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (1809-1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer. |
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HOMER
Homer composed epic poetry in Classical Greece. Homer may not be an individual, but an amalgam of many poets. |
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HOPE, Anthony
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (1863-1933), was an English novelist and playwright. |
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HOPE, Laura Lee
Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels. |
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HORNE, Richard Hengist
Richard Hengist Horne (1802-1884) was and English poet and critic most famous for his poem "Orion."
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HORNUNG, E.W.
Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was an English novelist, most famous for creating the character Raffles. He was the brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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HOUDINI, Harry
Harry Houdini was born Erik Weisz (1874-1926). He was most famous for his sensational escape acts, but was also a skeptic who exposed supernatural frauds. |
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HOWARD, Keble
John Howard Keble (1875-1928) was a British writer. |
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HOWARD, Robert E.
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp author best known for his character Conan the Barbarian. He's regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. |
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HOWE, Maud
Maud Howe Elliot (1854-1948) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sister, Laura E. Richards, on their mother's biography "The Life of Julia Ward Howe" (1916). |
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HOWELLS, William Dean
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. |
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HUDSON, W.H.
William Henry Hudson (1841-1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. |
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HUGHES, Rupert
Rupert Hughes (1872-1956) was a historian, novelist, film director, and composer. |
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HUGHES, Thomas
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896) was an English lawyer and author, most famous for writing Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School. |
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HUGO, Victor
Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. |
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HULL, E.M.
Edith Maude Hull (1880-1947) is more commonly known as E. M. Hull. Her most famous novel was "The Sheik," published in 1919. |
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HUME, David
David Hume (1711-1776) was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, considered among the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. |
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HUME, Fergus
Fergusson Wright Hume, known as Fergus Hume (1859-1932) was an English novelist. |
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HUNT, Helen
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American writer and activist. |
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HUYSMANS, J. K.
Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (1848-1907) was a French novelist who published under the pen name Joris-Karl Huysmans. |
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HYNE, C. J. Cutcliffe
Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1866-1944), also known by the pen name Weatherby Chesney, was a novelist best remembered for his early fantasy novel "The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis." |
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IBANEZ, Vicente Blasco
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was an influential Spanish screenwriter, film director, and novelist. |
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IBSEN, Henrik
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. |
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INGELOW, Jean
Jean Ingelow (1820-1897), was an English poet and novelist. |
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INGOLDSBY, Thomas
Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) was an English minister, novelist, and humorous poet. He was known better as Thomas Ingoldsby. |
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IRVING, Washington
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was best known for his short stories, but he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. |
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ISAACS, Jorge
Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician, and soldier. |
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ISHAM, Frederic S.
Frederic Stewart Isham (1865-1922) was a notable screenwriter and playwright. He also wrote a number of popular novels. |
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