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Also Known As H. H. Munro • Hector Hugh Munro
Born December 18, 1870 • Sittwe • Myanmar
Died November 14, 1916 (aged 45) • France
Notable Works “The Chronicles of Clovis” • “The Open Window” • “The Unbearable Bassington” • “Tobermory”
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
British writer
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy
Irish author
Sir Angus Wilson
British author
Frederick Forsyth
British author
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Canadian journalist and novelist
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Jack Ludwig
Canadian author
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
James Crerar Reaney
Canadian writer
Anna Kavan
British author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Barrie, 1893
J.M. Barrie
Scottish author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
British author
Neil Miller Gunn
Scottish author
George Mackay Brown
Scottish writer

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