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NESBIT, E.
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was a prolific children's author, publishing more than forty novels or collections of stories. |
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NEVILL, Ralph
Ralph Nevill (1865-1930) was an English writer who wrote about London, fashion, Paris, horses, art and other subjects. |
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NEVILLE, Kris
Kris Neville (1925-1980) was an American science fiction writer. |
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NEW, Clarence Herbert
Clarence Herbert New, a prolific early 20th Century magazine writers (he penned 396 stories for "The Blue Book" magazine alone) popularized the espionage genre. |
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NEWBOLT, Henry
Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938) was an English poet. |
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NICHOLSON, Meredith
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling American author, a politician, and a diplomat. |
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, poet, composer and philologist. |
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NORRIS, Frank
In his novels, Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870-1902) often explored the pain and suffering of the individual at the hands of greedy and corrupt corporate monopolies. His work influenced Upton Sinclair and other social reformers. |
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NORRIS, Kathleen
Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966) was the most highly paid woman novelist of her time. She wrote popular romances. |
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NORTON, Andre
Andre Alice Norton (1912–2005) was an influential American science fiction and fantasy author. |
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NOURSE, Alan E.
Alan Edward Nourse (1928–1992) was an American science fiction author and physician. |
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NOWLAN, Philip F.
Philip Francis Nowlan (1888–1940) was an American science fiction author, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers. |
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OLIPHANT, Margaret
Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. |
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O'NEILL, Rose Cecil
Rose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) was the first female illustrator of Puck magazine and the creator of the enormously successful Kewpies comics. |
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ONIONS, Oliver
George Oliver Onions (1873-1961) was a significant English novelist. |
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OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips
Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction. |
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ORCZY, Baroness
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist, best known as the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel. |
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O'REILLY, John Boyle
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) poet and novelist, had belonged to the Irish Republican Brotherhood in youth. He was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for Irish sentiment and culture. |
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O'RELL, Max
Max O'Rell was the pseudonym of Léon Paul Blouet (1848-1903). His John Bull series of social commentary was immensely popular in England and France. |
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ORZESZKO, Eliza
Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910) was a gifted Polish novelist, whose works garnered world-wide acclaim. |
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OSBORNE, William Hamilton
William Hamilton Osborne (1873-1942) wrote such books as "The Red Mouse," "The Running Fight," and "Neal of the Navy" (which became a motion picture serial). |
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OSBOURNE, Lloyd
Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947) was an American author and the step-son of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. |
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OUIDA
Ouida was the pseudonym of English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908). |
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OXENHAM, John
John Oxenham was one of the pseudonyms of William Arthur Dunkerley (1852-1941), a British novelist, journalist and poet. |
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PACKARD, Frank L.
Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942), a Canadian Novelist and railway engineer, wrote the Jimmie Dale mysteries and other works. |
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PAGE, Thomas Nelson
Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was an American lawyer and writer who popularized the plantation tradition genre of Southern writing, which told of an idealized version of life before the Civil War. |
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PAINE, Albert Bigelow
Albert Bigelow Paine (1861–1937) was an American author and biographer, best known for his works on Mark Twain. |
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PAINE, Thomas
Thomas "Tom" Paine (1737–1809) was an English author, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. |
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PALFREY, F. W.
Brevet Brigadier General Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831-1889) was an historian as well as a soldier. |
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PANGBORN, Edgar
Edgar Pangborn (1909–1976) was an American author best known for his histories, mysteries, and science fiction stories. |
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PANTON, Jane Ellen
Jane Ellen Panton (1847-1923) was the daughter of the artist William Powell Frith. |
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PARKER, Gilbert
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker (1862-1932) was a Canadian author and politician. |
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PATTEN, Lewis B.
Lewis Byford Patten (1915–1981) was a prolific author of American Western novels. |
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PECK, George W.
George Wilbur Peck (1840–1916) was an American writer and politician who served as the 17th Governor of Wisconsin. |
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PEMBERTON, Max
Sir Max Pemberton (1863-1950) was a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. |
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PENN, William
William Penn (1644-1718), the founder of Pennsylvania, was influential in the Quaker movement. |
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PETRARCH, Francesco
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. |
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PETROVA, Olga
Olga Petrova (1884-1977) was an American actress and screenwriter. |
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PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (nee Mary Gray Phelps, 1844-1911) was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets. |
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PHILLPOTTS, Eden
Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) was an English author, poet and dramatist. |
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PHOENIX, John
George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) was an early California humorist. Derby used the pseudonyms "John P. Squibob," "John Phoenix," and "Squibob." |
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PINERO, Arthur W.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. |
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PINSKI, David
David Pinski (1872-1959) was a Yiddish-language writer, best known as a playwright. |
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PIPER, H. Beam
Henry (or possibly Horace) Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. |
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PLATO
Plato (ca. 424 – 348 BCE) was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, and student of Socrates. |
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PLAUTUS
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254-184 BCE), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright. |
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PLINY the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (61– ca. 112), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. |
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PLUTARCH
Plutarch (c. 46 – 120 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist who became a Roman citizen. |
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POE, Edgar Allan
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. |
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POND, George E.
George Edward Pond (1837-1899) served in the Army during the Civil War, and was later associate editor of the Army and Navy Journal. |
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POPE, Alexander
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet who also translated Homer. |
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PORTER, Horace
Horace Porter (1837-1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
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PORTER, Jane
Jane Porter (1776-1850) was a Scottish historical writer. |
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POST, Emily
Emily Post (1873-1960) was an American author, best known for promoting proper etiquette. |
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POST, Melville Davisson
Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) was an American author whose best-known creation was Uncle Abner, a character who solved mysteries in 19th-century backwoods Virginia community. |
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POWELL, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer, and director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. |
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PRATT, Fletcher
Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897–1956) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and history. |
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PREEDY, George
Mrs Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long (1885-1952) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography using the pseudonym George Preedy. |
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PREST, Thomas Preskett
Thomas Preskett Prest (ca. 1810-1859) was a British writer of penny dreadfuls, as well as a journalist and musician. With James Malcolm Rymer, he created the character Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber.' He may also have created Varney the Vampire. |
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PREVOST, Marcel
Eugene Marcel Prévost (1862-1941) was a French author and dramatist. |
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PREVOST, The Abb
Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist. |
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PRICE, E. Hoffmann
Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price (1898–1988) was an American writer of pulp fiction. |
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PRYDE, Anthony
Anthony Pryde was the pseudonym of Agnes Russell Weekes (1880-1940). |
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PRYOR, Sara
Sara Rice Pryor (1830-1912) was an American writer. |
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PYLE, Howard
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. |
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