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Also Known As Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner
Born January 20, 1910 • Austria-Hungary
Died January 3, 1980 (aged 69) • Kenya
Founder Elsa Conservation Trust
Notable Works “The Story of Elsa”

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan writer
Grace Ogot
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Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Juliana Ewing
British author
Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
Arthur Hailey
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Michael Banim
Irish author
George Douglas Howard Cole
British economist
John Banim
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Mary Novello Clarke
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Martha Ostenso
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Ian Maclaren
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Poet John Milton
John Milton
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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William Blake
William Blake
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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