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Born July 6, 1913 • Wales
Died April 14, 1981 (aged 67) • Cardiff • Wales
Notable Works “All Things Betray Thee” • “The Dark Philosophers”
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
Emlyn Williams
Welsh actor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Witi Ihimaera
New Zealand author
Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
American writer
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
McCullers, Carson
Carson McCullers
American author
Valentin Katayev
Soviet writer
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
American playwright
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
English playwright, actor, and composer
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
American writer