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JACKSON, Helen
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American writer best known as the author of "Ramona," a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California. |
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JACOBS, W. W.
William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. |
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JACQUES-DALCROZE, Emile
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950), was a Swiss composer, musician and music educator who developed eurhythmics, a method of learning and experiencing music through movement. |
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JAMES, Henry
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born writer who lived most of his life in England. |
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JAMES, William
William James (1842-1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote about psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. |
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JANVIER, Thomas A.
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian. |
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JEMISON, Mary
Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age. |
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JENKINS, Will F.
William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975) was an award-winning American writer of science fiction. He often wrote under the pen name Murray Leinster. |
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JEPSON, Edgar
Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) was an English writer, principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction, but also of fantasy and supernatural stories. |
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JEROME, Jerome K.
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author best known for the humorous travelogue "Three Men in a Boat." |
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JERROLD, Douglas
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was an English dramatist and writer. |
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JESKE-CHOINSKI, Theodore
Teodor Jeske-Choinski (1854-1920) was a Polish intellectual, writer and historian, literature critic, and one of the leading theorists and exponents of Anti-Semitism in Poland.
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JESSE, John Heneage
John Heneage Jesse (1815-1874) was an English historian and a clerk in the secretary's department of the admiralty. |
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JOHNSON, Owen
Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) was an American writer best remembered for his stories and novels cataloguing the educational and personal growth of the fictional character Dink Stover. |
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JOHNSON, Samuel
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. |
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JOHNSTON, Annie Fellows
Annie Fellows Johnston (1863-1931) was a celebrated author of children's and juvenile fiction. |
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JOHNSTON, Harold Whetstone
Harold Whetstone Johnston (1859-1912) was a professor of Latin at Indiana University, and a classical historian. |
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JOHNSTON, Mary
Mary Johnston (1870-1936) was a popular American novelist. |
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JOHNSTON, Sir Harry
Sir Henry "Harry" Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927) was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator. |
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JOKAI, Maurus
Maurus Jokai (1825-1904) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. |
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JONES, H. Bedford
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887-1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy and science fiction writer who wrote over 100 novels, earning the nickname "King of the Pulps." |
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JONES, Henry Arthur
Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) was a successful English playwright and commentator on "all forms of dramatic art." |
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JONES, Raymond F.
Raymond Fisher Jones (1915-1994) was an American science fiction author. |
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JONSON, Ben
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English dramatist, poet and actor. |
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JOSEPHINE, Empress
Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. |
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JUNIUS
Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, from January 21, 1769 to January 21, 1772. |
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KABIR
Kabir (1440-1518) was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. |
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KAISER, Georg
Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, called Georg Kaiser, (1878-1945) was a German dramatist. |
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KEABLE, Robert
Robert Keable (1887-1927) was a former Church of England minister and author. |
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KELLER, Helen
Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer, known for overcoming deafness and blindness at an early age. |
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KESTER, Vaughan
Vaughan or Vaughn Kester (1869-1911) was an American novelist and journalist. |
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KING, Frank
Frank King (1883-1969) is best known for his long-running comic strip Gasoline Alley. |
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KING, Grace E.
Grace Elizabeth King (1851-1932) was an American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, and a leader in historical and literary activities. |
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KING, Stephen
Stephen Edwin King is a wildly popular American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. |
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KINGSLEY, Charles
Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. |
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KINGSTON, Charles
Charles Cameron Kingston (1850-1908) was an Australian politician and author. |
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KIPLING, Rudyard
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. |
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KLEIN, Charles
Charles Klein (1867-1915) was an English-born playwright and actor. |
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KLINE, Otis Adelbert
Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an American adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. |
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KOONTZ, Dean
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author best known for his suspense novels. |
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KORNBLUTH, C. M.
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was an American science fiction author. |
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KURTZ, Katherine
Katherine (Irene) Kurtz is the author of numerous fantasy novels, most notably the Deryni novels. |
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KUTTNER, Henry
Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. |
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KYNE, Peter B.
Peter B. Kyne (1880-1957) was a novelist and prolific short story writer. |
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