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::<big>1. [[Edwin A. Abbott]]</big>
Edwin A. Abbott was an English schoolmaster and theologian and best known for his mathematical satire Flatland (1884).
::<big>2. [[ Aesop]] Aesop (also spelled Æsop) is the name by which many famous fables are known. The works date from the mid-6th century BCE in Greece,…</big>
::<big>3. [[Captain Quincy Allen]]
Captain Quincy Allen is a pseudonym listed as the author of the Outdoor Chums series, including The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf, The Outdoor…</big>
::<big>4. [[ Robert Gordon Anderson]]
Robert Gordon Anderson is best known for his Marmaduke adventures including Seven O’Clock Stories and Half-Past Seven Stories.</big>
::<big>5. [[Susan B. Anthony]]
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure…</big>
::<big>6. [[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]]
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scientist. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813-1882) were collectors of Norwegian folklore, working so closely together…</big>
::<big>7. [[Emily Paret Atwater]]
Emily Paret Atwater published several children’s novels including How Sammy Went to Coral-Land, Tommy’s Adventures, Trixsey’s Travels, and In Ocean Land.</big>
::<big>8. [[ John Adams]]
John Adams was an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States (1797 - 1801), after being the first…</big>
::<big>9. [[Louisa May Alcott]]
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. This novel is loosely based…</big>
::<big>10. [[Hans Christian Andersen]]
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He became famous for his fairy tales, although he also published poems and novels,…</big>
::<big>11. [[Sherwood Anderson]]
Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer. His most enduring work is the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio.</big>
::<big>12. [[Aristotle]]
Aristotle was one of the most influential Greek philosophers of the ancient world, and his work along with that of Socrates and Plato forms…</big>
::<big>13. [[ Asheville Postcard Company]]
The Asheville Postcard Company published scenic postcards of Florida in the early 20th century, some of which included poetry.</big>
::<big>14. [[Jane Austen]]
Jane Austen was born in 1775 at the rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She never married and remained at Steventon for the majority of…</big>
::<big>15. [[Mary Hunter Austin]]
Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. A 1950 edition of her work The Land of Little Rain and a…</big>
::'''<big>B</big>'''
::<big>16. [[Arthur Scott Bailey]]
Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children’s books and the syndicated comic strip "Animal Whys." He was known for setting…</big>
::<big>17. [[W.W. Rouse Ball]] Walter William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician, lawyer, and professor.</big>
::<big>18. [[ James Baldwin]]
James Baldwin was born in Indiana and made a career as an educator and administrator there starting at the age of 24. After a…</big>
::<big>19. [[Honoré de Balzac]]
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright and is considered to be one of the originators of literary realism. His most ambitious…</big>
::<big>20. [[Rachel M. Barker]]
Rachel M. Barker wrote informational public documents for the United States Geological Survey.</big>
::<big>21. [[J.M. Barrie]]
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of the literary character Peter…</big>
::<big>22. [[ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]]
Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Bécquer, was a Spanish writer of poetry and short stories. He is now considered one of the…</big>
::<big>23. [[William Blake]]
William Blake was an English mystic, poet, painter, and printmaker. He was mostly unknown during his lifetime, but his work is now considered seminal…</big>
::<big>24. [[ Charlotte Brontë]]
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become classics of English literature: Charlotte's Jane…</big>
::<big>25. [[Anne Brontë]]
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and the youngest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become classics of English literature: Anne's Agnes…</big>
::<big>26. [[William Wells Brown]]
William Wells Brown was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the…</big>
::<big>27. [[Sara Cone Bryant]]
Sara Cone Bryant was the author of various children's book in the early 20th century, including How to Tell Stories To Children, Stories To…</big>
::<big>28. [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]]
Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children’s stories,…</big>
::<big>29. [[ Lord George Gordon Byron]]
Lord George Gordon Byron was a British Romantic poet known as much for his wild ways as for his poetry. He enjoyed living extravagantly,…</big>
::<big>30. [[ M.L. Barber]]
M.L. Barber wrote descriptions of Florida for tourists from other states.</big>
::<big>31. [[Richard Barnum]]
Richard Barnum is a pseudonym listed as the author of the Kneetime Animal Stories series, including T mischievous adventures of Squinty, the Comical Pig;…</big>
::<big>32. [[L. Frank Baum]]
Lyman Frank Baum was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one…</big>
::<big>33. [[George Berkeley]]
George Berkeley was an Irish philosopher known for the philosophical theory "subjective idealism," stated by Berkeley as "Esse est percipi" (“To be is to…</big>
::<big>34. [[ Mary Everest Boole]]
Mary Everest Boole was an English mathematician and progressive educator. She worked as a librarian at Queen's College and authored The Preparation of the…</big>
::<big>35.[[ Emily Brontë]]
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the middle Brontë sister of the trio whose novels are classics of English literature: Emily's Wuthering…</big>
::<big>36. [[John Brown]]
John Brown was a Scottish physician and essayist. He is best known for the essay collections Horae Subsecivae (“Leisure Hours”) (1858, 1861), John Leech…</big>
::<big>37. [[William Jennings Bryan]]
William Jennings Bryan was an American politician, orator and lawyer. He was a three-time Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. One…</big>
::<big>38. [[Thornton W. Burgess]]
Thornton Waldo Burgess was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was a conservationist and wrote many children’s stories featuring the wildlife, with characters such…</big>
::<big>39. [[Ellis Parker Butler]]
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000…</big>
::'''<big>C</big>'''
::<big>40. [[Will Carleton]]
American poet Will Carleton was born in Michigan in 1845. From the late 1800s until his death, he was a nationally-known poet, publishing work…</big>
::<big>41. [[Francis James Child]]
Francis James Child was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the Child Ballads.</big>
::<big>42. [[Wilkie Collins]]
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels,…</big>
::<big>43. [[Joseph Conrad]]
Joseph Conrad was an English novelist who was born in the Russian Empire in what is today Poland. He spent most of his adult…</big>
::<big>44. [[Maria Dinah Mulock Craik]]
Maria Dinah Mulock Craik, also known as Miss Mulock, was an English novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel John Halifax,…</big>
::<big>45. [[ Lewis Carroll]]
The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer. His…</big>
::<big>46. [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was one of the founders of…</big>
::<big>47. [[ Levi Leonard Conant, Ph. D.]]
Levi Leonard Conant, Ph. D., was an American mathematician specializing in trigonometry.</big>
::<big>48. [[James Fenimore Cooper]]
James Fenimore Cooper was an American author best known for his adventure stories. His most popular work is The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper…</big>
::<big>49. [[Stephen Crane]]
Stephen Crane was an American journalist, novelist, and poet credited with the introduction of realism into American literature. His first novel, Maggie, A Girl…</big>
:: '''<big>D</big>'''
::<big>50. [[Comtesse d'Aulnoy]]
The Comtesse d'Aulnoy was born in Barneville, France in 1666. She married a Parisian thirty years her senior, Fran-ois de la Motte, the Baron…</big>
::<big>51.[[ Charles Dickens]]
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist of the Victorian era. During his lifetime Dickens was very popular, his works serialized in weekly…</big>
::<big>52. [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer and essayist, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.</big>
::<big>53. [[Frederick Douglass]]
Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is…</big>
::<big>54. [[W. E. B. Du Bois]]
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D. from Harvard.…</big>
::<big>55. [[Paul Laurence Dunbar]]
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 book…</big>
::<big>56. [[Clarence Darrow]]
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold…</big>
::<big>57. [[ Emily Dickinson]]
Emily Dickinson was a prolific American poet, although fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.</big>
::<big>58. [[Stephen Douglas]]
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860.…</big>
::<big>59. [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author who found fame writing about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer who also…</big>
::<big>60. [[Alexandre Dumas, pére]]
Alexandre Dumas, pére (French for “father”, akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870)…</big>
::'''<big>E</big>'''
::<big>61. [[Maria Edgeworth]]
Maria Edgeworth was an English writer who, thanks to a family estate in Ireland, became intimately concerned with the country and its people. Her…</big>
::<big>62. [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American author, poet, philosopher, and orator. Known for his non-fiction essays and crowd-drawing speeches, his work greatly influenced his…</big>
::<big>63. [[ George Eliot]]
Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the…</big>
::'''<big>F</big>'''
::<big>64. [[FCIT]]
FCIT has compiled several collections of short stories, traditional tales, and poetry for the Lit2Go library. Established in 1982, the Florida Center for Instructional…</big>
::<big>65. [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest American…</big>
::<big>66. [[Timothy Thomas Fortune]]
Timothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. Fortune started his education at Marianna's first school for African…</big>
::<big>67. [[Benjamin Franklin]]
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political…</big>
::<big>68.[[ Nikolaus von Fuss]]
Nikolaus von Fuss, secretary of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, wrote the eulogy of famed mathemetician Leonhard Euler. Fuss was also Euler's son-in-law.</big>
::<big>69. [[Ellen Robena Field]]
Ellen Robena Field is best know for her Buttercup Gold stories, which brought her critical acclaim in the late 19th century.</big>
::<big>70. [[Henry O. Flipper]]
Henry Ossian Flipper was an American soldier and the first black American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy (West Point).</big>
::<big>71. [[Frances Margaret Fox]]
Frances Margaret Fox is best known for her "Little Bear" stories for children. She wrote fifty-one books and many magazine articles over the course…</big>
::<big>72. [[Robert Frost]]
Robert Lee Frost was a popular American poet. He received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.</big>
::'''<big>G</big>'''
::<big>73. [[Howard R. Garis]]
Howard Roger Garis was an American author most famous under his own name for the children’s book series Uncle Wiggily. Garis was a very…</big>
::<big>74.[[ Archibald Geikie]]
Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 28th December 1835. He was a reknowned geologist of the Victorian era and served as President…</big>
::<big>75. [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American short story and non-fiction writer, novelist, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer. She is mainly known today…</big>
::<big>76. [[Wilbur F. Gordy]]
Wilbur F. Gordy of Hartford, Connecticut wrote several books on American history including Stories of Early American History, Stories of Later American History, American…</big>
::<big>77. [[Grimm Brothers]]
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm were born in 1785 and 1786, respectively, near Frankfurt. They were known for their collections of…</big>
::<big>78. [[Karl H. Grismer]]
Karl H. Grismer was a newspaper and magazine editor. He authored histories of several cities in Florida, including his first book, The History of St. Petersburg (1924).…</big>
::<big>79. [[William Lloyd Garrison]]
William Lloyd Garrison was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts and was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the…</big>
::<big>80. [[John Clayton Gifford]]
An expert on tropical woods, John Clayton Gifford was a Professor of Tropical Forestry at the University of Miami. He had previously served as Assistant…</big>
::<big>81. [[F.H. Glover]]
F.H. Glover contributed to a work entitled "The Greatest Men in Florida".</big>
::<big>82. [[Kenneth Grahame]]
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He began his career writing short stories for London periodicals and published three collections of short stories. Grahame…</big>
::<big>83. [[George Bird Grinnell]]
George Bird Grinnell was an American anthropologist, ornithologist, publisher, naturalist, and conservationist. He had a great interest in Native Americans and their culture. The…</big>
::<big>84. [[Francis Barton Gummere]]
Frances B. Gummere was Professor of English at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was a scholar of poetry and a translator of classical works.…</big>
::'''<big>H</big>'''
::<big>85. [[Will Wallace Harney]]
Will Wallace Harney, originally from Indiana, moved to Florida in 1869 where he wrote several poems and articles about his new home.</big>
::<big>86. [[ Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer and one of the major contributors to the development of American literature.…</big>
::<big>87. [[Patrick Henry]]
Patrick Henry was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.…</big>
::<big>88. [[Florence Holbrook]]
Florence Holbrook was an educator in Chicago schools for more than 50 years and an author involved in the peace movement during the early…</big>
::<big>89.[[ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]]
Oliver Wendell Holmes was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of…</big>
::<big>90. [[Laura Lee Hope]]
"Laura Lee Hope" is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children’s novels. Many writers…</big>
::<big>91. [[Joel Chandler Harris]]
Joel Chandler Harris was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia, best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories: Uncle Remus: His Songs…</big>
::<big>92.[[ J.T. Headley]]
J.T. Headley was a historian, newspaper editor, and clergyman. He served as Secretary of State of New York.</big>
::<big>93. [[O. Henry]]
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). Porter's 400 short stories are…</big>
::<big>94. [[Emily Holder]]
Emily Holder led a very singular life on one of the most out-of-the-way places imaginable in the 1860s: Fort Jefferson, a military fort in…</big>
::<big>95. [[Homer]]
Homer (ca. 8th Century B.C.E.) is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad…</big>
::<big>96. [[Victor Hugo]]
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.</big>
::'''<big>I</big>'''
<big>97. [[Washington Irving]]
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. He is perhaps best known for his short stories, his most famous being…</big>
::'''<big>J</big>'''
::<big>98. [[Joseph Jacobs]]
Joseph Jacobs was born in Sydney in 1854, but soon emigrated to England and USA. He was a preminent scholar and literary critic, and…</big>
::<big>99. [[ Edward Anthony Jenner]]
Edward Jenner was an English medical doctor and scientist whose discoveries contributed to widespread smallpox vaccination. He was a member of the Royal Society…</big>
::<big>100. [[Clifton Johnson]]
Massachusetts native Clifton Johnson was the author of several travel books, including his Highways and Byways of America.</big>
::<big>101. [[Thomas Jefferson]]
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the…</big>
::<big>102.[[ James Weldon Johnson]]
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, poet, civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He was also one of the…</big>
::<big>103. [[Jubilee Singers]]
Jubilee Singers of Fisk University were a group of African American singers in the 1870s. Their repertoire centered on spirituals, but also included some…</big>
::'''<big>K</big>'''
::<big>104.[[ Ross Kay]]
Ross Kay is the author of numerous books for boys including The Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat, The Go Ahead Boys on…</big>
::<big>105. [[Elizabeth Keckley]]
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was a former slave turned successful seamstress who is most notably known as being Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante,</big>
::<big>106. [[Rudyard Kipling]]
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a British author best known for his children’s books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just…</big>
::<big>107. [[John Keats]]
John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from…</big>
::<big>108. [[W.H.G. Kingston]]
William Henry Giles Kingston was an English novelist known for his many books for boys. Kingston was born in London, but spent much of his…</big>
::'''<big>L</big>'''
::<big>109. [[Andrew Lang]]
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, literary critic, and folklorist. In addition to his Fairy Books, Lang wrote about anthropology, Scottish history, and translated…</big>
::<big>110. [[Lucy Larcom]]
Lucy Larcom was a Massachusetts native who had a significant impact on societal views of women and childhood. Born in 1824, Larcom left home…</big>
::<big>111. [[Richard Le Gallienne]]
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne was an English man of letters, a part of London's literary world in the 1890s.</big>
::<big>112.[[ Sinclair Lewis]]
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize…</big>
::<big>113. [[Hugh Lofting]]
Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle—one of the classics of children's…</big>
::<big>114. [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet among whose works were "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline".…</big>
::<big>115. [[Sidney Lanier]]
Sidney Lanier was an American musician, author, and poet.</big>
::<big>116. [[Emma Lazarus]]
Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883;…</big>
::<big>117. [[Edward Lear]]
Edward Lear was a British artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularized. In 1846…</big>
::<big>118. [[Abraham Lincoln]]
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician who served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865). He is best known for…</big>
::<big>119. [[Jack London]]
Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular…</big>
::'''<big>M</big>'''
::<big>120. [[George MacDonald]]
George MacDonald was a Scottish author and poet. Though no longer a household name, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have…</big>
::<big>121. [[Niccolo Machiavelli]]
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and…</big>
::<big>122.[[ Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall]]
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall was born in Bo'ness, Scotland, and her father was John Marshall JP, an earthenware manufacturer. She was educated at a girls'…</big>
::<big>123. [[Seumas McManus]]
Noted Irish storyteller Seumus Mcmanus published his first of several books in 1893. He also edited a prominent Irish literary magazine and frequently contributed…</big>
::<big>124. [[John Willis Menard]]
John Willis Menard was the first African-American elected to the U.S. Congress, in 1868. However, he was denied his seat. He was born on…</big>
::<big>125. [[Olive Thorne Miller]]
Harriet Mann Miller was a naturalist, ornithologist and children’s writer. She was the wife of Watts Todd Miller and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym…</big>
::<big>126. [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]]
Lucy Maud Montgomery, publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of…</big>
::<big>127. [[Kirk Munroe]]
Kirk Munroe was an American author who wrote books of adventure for children. Born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, he became familiar with Native…</big>
::<big>128. [[Alexander MacFarlane]]
Alexander Macfarlane was a Scottish-Canadian logician, physicist, and mathematician. Macfarlane, the inventor of hyperbolic quaternions, was very active in research and education. His resume…</big>
::<big>129. [[James Madison]]
James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809 - 1817) and is…</big>
::<big>130. [[Charles Robert Maturin]]
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin, was a Irish clergyman and writer. He struggled throughout his life to make a living from…</big>
::<big>131. [[Herman Melville]]
Herman Melville was an American novelist, essayist and poet. During his lifetime, his early novels were popular, but his popularity declined later in his…</big>
::<big>132. [[George E. Merrick]]
George Edgar Merrick was a real estate developer who is best known as the planner and builder of the city of Coral Gables, Florida…</big>
::<big>133.[[ William Miller]]
Scottish poet William Miller is best known for writing the beloved children’s poem, “Wee Willie Winkie.”</big>
<big>134. [[Clement Clarke Moore]]
Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863) was an American professor of Greek and Oriental Literature at Columbia College. He is the credited author of…</big>
::'''<big>N</big>'''
::<big>135. [[William L. Newman]]
Dr. William Newman is an American geologist. He has published extensively on the geology of the American northeast.</big>
::<big>136.[[ Helen Nicolay]]
Hele Nicolay was born in Paris in 1866, while her father, John George Nicolay, was serving there as the United States Consul. She was…</big>
::<big>137. [[Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce]]
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt…</big>
::'''<big>O</big>'''
::<big>138. [[Oliver Optic]]
William Taylor Adams was a popular American author better known by his pseudonym Oliver Optic. His works include Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; the popular…</big>
::<big>139. [[Yei Theodora Ozaki]]
Yei Theodora Ozaki was an early 20th century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but popular, and…</big>
::<big>140. [[Ovid]]
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE - CE 17), a Roman poet known as Ovid, is ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the…</big>
::'''<big>P</big>'''
::<big>141. [[Winthrop Packard]]
Winthrop Packard is best known for his novels of the nature genre. His works include: Old Plymouth Trails, Wild Pastures, Florida Trails, Woodland Paths,…</big>
::<big>142. [[Josephine Preston Peabody]]
Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. In 1909 she won the Stratford-on-Avon prize for drama for her work The Piper.</big>
::<big>143. [[Henry Edward Perrine]]
Henry Perrine was a horticulturalist who promoted the cultivation of tropical plant species. He served as United States Consul in Campeche, Mexico. He lived in…</big>
::<big>144.[[Lucy E. Edwards and John Pojeta, Jr.]]</big>
::<big>145. [[Beatrix Potter]]
Beatrix Potter was an English children’s book author and illustrator, most famous for the character "Peter Rabbit." Although she struggled in the beginning to…</big>
::<big>146. [[Thomas Paine]]
Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, USA) was a pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, liberal and intellectual. Born…</big>
::<big>147. [[Charles Perrault]]
Charles Perrault was French writer born in 1628 whose work laid the foundation for the genre of "fairy tale." At the age of 69…</big>
::<big>148. [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet and short story writer. Best known for his tales of the macabre, Poe was one of the…</big>
::<big>149. [[John Polidori]]
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the…</big>
::'''<big>R</big>'''
::<big>150.[[ Ann Radcliffe]]
Ann Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in Holborn, London, England and married William Radcliffe, an editor, in 1788. She published the Gothic The Castles…</big>
::<big>151. [[Laura Richards]]
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. During her life, she wrote over 90 books,…</big>
::<big>152. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband,…</big>
::<big>153. [[Christina Rossetti]]
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet. Although she began writing at an early age, her poetry didn't garner attention until Goblin Market and…</big>
::<big>154. [[Carveth Read, M.A.]]
Carveth Read, M.A., was a 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. He was professor of philosophy of mind, and logic at the…</big>
::<big>155. [[Frank Rinder]]
Frank Rinder, a scholar of art and art history, edited and retold a collection of traditional stories, Tales of Old World Japan: Legends of…</big>
::<big>156. [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He was also governor of New York, a historian,…</big>
::<big>157.[[ John Ruskin]]
John Ruskin is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist…</big>
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::<big>158. [[Dr. C.W. Saleeby]]
Dr. C.S. Saleeby was a medical doctor and writer. He was an editor and contributor to Arhur Mee and Holland Thompson's Book of Knowledge.</big>
::<big>159. [[John Stevens Schlee]]
John S. Schlee is a geologist who wrote public information reports for the United States Geological Survey.</big>
::<big>160. [[Chief Seattle]]
Chief Seattle was a Duwamish chief, also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth, and a leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American…</big>
::<big>161. [[William Shakespeare]]
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist.…</big>
::<big>162. [[Mary Shelley]]
Mary Shelley was an English novelist. She was married to the notable Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in…</big>
::<big>163. [[Upton Sinclair]]
Upton Sinclair Jr. was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of…</big>
::<big>164. [[George Otis Smith]]
American geologist George Otis Smith was the director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1907 to 1930.</big>
::<big>165. [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the…</big>
::<big>166. [[Wallace Stevens]]
Wallace Stevens was a Modernist poet who lived in New York and Hartford, Connecticut. He was also an insurance executive for many years. He…</big>
::<big>167. [[George William Joseph Stock, M.A.]]
George William Joseph Stock, M.A. (1850 - ?) is the author of the math treatise Deductive Logic, which was first published in 1889.</big>
::<big>168. [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an was an American abolitionist and novelist best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin</big>
::<big>169. [[Jonathan Swift]]
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to…</big>
::<big>170. [[Thomas E. Sanders]]
Thomas E. Sanders wrote about the needs and requirements of schooling and teachers. He advocated raising standards for the teaching profession. He is the…</big>
::<big>171. [[Clinton Scollard]]
Clinton Scollard was an American poet and professor of English Literature. Born in New York in 1860, he graduated at Hamilton College in 1881…</big>
::<big>172. [[Anna Sewell]]
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.</big>
::<big>173. [[George Bernard Shaw]]
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly…</big>
::<big>174. [[Rev. Albert E. Sims]]
The Reverend Albert E. Sims is well known for his children’s stories.</big>
::<big>175. [[David Eugene Smith]]
David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American mathematician and educator. A lawyer for the first part of his career, he then became a…</big>
::<big>176. [[Robert Southey]]
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, one of the so-called “Lake Poets,” and Poet Laureate. He is considered one of the major writers…</big>
::<big>177.[[ R.E.C. Stearns]]
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns was a naturalist and the editor of Pacific Methodist. In 1862 he served as Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court…</big>
::<big>178.[[ Robert Louis Stevenson]]
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a contributor to both children's and adult literature.</big>
::<big>179. [[Bram Stoker]]
Bram Stoker was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. He was the acting manager of the…</big>
::<big>180.[[ Frank Sweet]]
Frank Sweet was an American poet. He published a collection of poetry in 1882 under the title, Poems.</big>
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::<big>181. [[Ann and Jane Taylor]]
Ann Taylor (1782 - 1866), later Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, was an English poet and children’s author. She is best known as the sister and…</big>
::<big>182. [[Ernest Lawrence Thayer]]
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat". Thayer was…</big>
::<big>183. [[Isaac Todhunter]]
Isaac Todhunter was a mathematician trained at London University, University College London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he taught for several years. He…</big>
::<big>184.[[ Traditional]]
Many poems and stories of old come to us through an oral tradition and the original authors have not been recorded.</big>
::<big>185. [[Mark Twain]]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, novelist, writer, and lecturer best known for the…</big>
::<big>186. [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait…</big>
::<big>187. [[Henry David Thoreau]]
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic,…</big>
::<big>188. [[Bradford Torrey]]
Bradford Torrey was an American essayist in the 1800's. He devoted much time to the study of birds, their habits, peculiarities, and domestic traits.…</big>
::<big>189. [[Sojourner Truth]]
Sojourner Truth (1797 - November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth…</big>
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::<big>190. [[Jules Verne]]
Jules G. Verne was a French writer known as one of the earliest science fiction authors. He came from a sea-faring family, hence the…</big>
::<big>192. [[Voltaire]]
François-Marie Arouet was a French historian, philosopher, and writer better known by his pen name, Voltaire. He wrote plays, poetry, essays, scientific work, histories,…</big>
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::<big>193. [[ W.J. Harris Company]]
The W.J. Harris Company published post cards and souvenir information books in the early 1900s</big>
::<big>194. [[ Horace Walpole]]
Horace Walpole is known mostly as the inventor of the Gothic literary novel. He was a politician, writer, and architectural innovator, as well as…</big>
::<big>195. [[George Washington]]
George Washington (February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as…</big>
::<big>196. [[Ida B. Wells]]
Ida B. Wells (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931), aka Ida B. Wells-Barnett, was an African American civil rights advocate and an early…</big>
::<big>197. [[Phillis Wheatley]]
Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first female African American poet to be published in the United States. Her book Poems…</big>
::<big>198. [[John Greenleaf Whittier]]
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.</big>
::<big>199. [[Oscar Wilde]]
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. Known for his barbed and clever wit, he was one…</big>
::<big>200. [[Margery Williams]]
Margery Williams Bianco (July 22, 1881 - September 4, 1944) was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the…</big>
::<big>201. [[A. H. Wratislaw, M.A.]]
Albert Henry Wratislaw was a scholar of Slavonic literature and history. His final work was Sixty Folk-Tales from exclusively Slavonic Sources (1889).</big>
::<big>202. [[W. M. Walker]]
Walker contributed to a work entitled, The Greatest Men of Florida.</big>
::<big>203. [[Booker T. Washington]]
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. He was…</big>
::<big>204. [[H.G. Wells]]
Herbert George Wells was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The…</big>
::<big>205.[[ Edith Wharton]]
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.</big>
::<big>206. [[Walt Whitman]]
Walter “Walt” Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist; his most well-known work is Leaves of Grass. His work formed the basis…</big>
::<big>207. [[Kate Douglas Wiggin]]
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 - August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator.</big>
::<big>208. [[Richard Henry Wilde]]
Richard Henry Wilde (September 24, 1789 - September 10, 1847) was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia. After losing a re-election bid…</big>
::<big>209. [[ Constance Fenimore Woolson]]
Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Constance Fenimore Woolson was an American writer who first published fiction and essays in magazines such as The Atlantic…
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1. [[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]] by [[Mark Twain]] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a first person narrative told by the title character, Huckleberry Finn, as he accompanies a runaway slave…
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