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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a Scottish physician and author who is most famous for his Sherlock Holmes novels and the adventure novel 'The Lost World'.
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An English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer.
His most famous novels include: 'Brideshead Revisited', 'A Handful Of Dust', 'Scoop', 'Bright Young Things', 'The Loved One' and 'Decline and Fall'.
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An American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
His most well known works include: 'The Raven', 'The Masque of the Red Death', 'Spirits of the Dead', 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'Witchfinder General', 'The Premature Burial', 'Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Black Cat', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Living Dead', 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mummy Lives'.
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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales.
His most well known stories include: 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Snow Queen', 'Thumbelina', 'The Wild Swans', 'The Little Matchgirl', 'The Ugly Duckling', 'The Princess and the Pea', 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'The Emperor's New Clothes'.
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Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
Her other well known books include: 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin', 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny', 'The Tale of Two Bad Mice', 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle', 'The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher', 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck', 'The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies', 'The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse', 'The Tale of Mr. Toad', 'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse' and 'The Tale of Little Pig Robinson'.
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A Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author who is best known as the author of the 'Moomin' books for children.
Her most well known books include: 'The Moomins and the Great Flood', 'Comet in Moominland', 'Finn Family Moomintroll', 'Moominland Midwinter', 'The Exploits of Moominpappa', Moominsummer Madness', Tales from Moominvalley, 'Moominpappa at Sea' and 'Moominvalley in November'.
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An English author, publisher, editor, English teacher and education consultant.
He is most well known for his Penny Dreadful series of children's books: 'Twelve Minutes to Midnight', 'Shadows of the Silver Screen' and 'The Black Crow Conspiracy'; 'I-Ssassins' in the Heroes series of books which encourage reading for pleasure in children; and for the supernatural thrillers: 'The Dead Ways' and 'Army of the Dead'.
His non-fiction books are 'How To Make Money', a funny financial guide for young readers, and the biography 'Shackelton - A Beginners Guide'.
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An American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry.
Her best known poem is 'Renascence', written when she was 20 years old.
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Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of ten novels for adults, seven books for children, seven plays and screenplays and dozens of short stories.
His best known works include: 'The Commitments', 'The Van', 'The Snapper', 'When Brendan Met Trudy', 'New Boy' and 'Family'.
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An American writer who won acclaim early in life which led to him becoming reclusive.
His best known works include: the novels 'The Catcher in the Rye', the novellas ' Franny and Zooey', 'Raise High the Roof Beam', 'Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction' and 'Hapworth', the short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' and the short story collection 'Nine Stories'.
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An American satirical novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and playwright.
His best known novel is 'Catch-22' which entered the English lexicon to refer to a vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a certainty.
He also wrote the screenplays for the films 'Casino Royale', 'Sex and the Single Girl' and 'Dirty Dingus Magee'.
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Maya Angelou is an American author and poet. She has published seven autobiographies, five books of essays, several books of poetry and is credited with a list of plays, movies and television shows spanning more than fifty years.
Her best known works include: 'I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings', 'And Still I Rise', 'Phenomenal Woman', 'Letter To My Daughter' and 'The Heart of a Woman'.
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Elizabeth Kim is a Korean writer, award-winning reporter and newspaper editor best known for her first book, the memoir 'Ten Thousand Sorrows' which has been critically acclaimed, controversial and translated into 23 languages.
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A German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the "Third Reich" and National Socialism, but also about other topics such as Stalinism.
His books include: 'Hitler's Holocaust', 'Hitler's Henchmen', 'Hitler's Hitmen', 'Hitler's Women' and 'Hitler's Children'.
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Laurence Rees is an English historian, documentary film-maker and author of several books on war.
His books include: 'The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler: Leading Millions into the Abyss', 'World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West', 'Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII',
'Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution', 'Horror in the East: The Japanese at War 1931–1945', 'The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin' and 'The Nazis: A Warning from History'.
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An Austrian-born British biographer, historian and investigative journalist whose writing focuses mainly on the Holocaust and child abuse.
She came to be known for her interviews and profiles of controversial figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.
She was the author of several books, including: 'The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered', 'Into That Darkness: from Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, a study of Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka', The Invisible Children: Child Prostitution in America, West Germany and Great Britain', 'Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth' and 'The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections'.
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