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Born October 26, 1897 • Winterthur • Switzerland
Died January 12, 1992 (aged 94) • Zürich • Switzerland
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Maria Jolas
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
Jean Leclerc
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Élie Ducommun
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Helen Archibald Clarke
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Gardner Cowles, Jr.
American editor
Victoria Ocampo
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John Brown Russwurm
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Robert Adam Gottlieb
American editor
George Plimpton
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Harvey Kurtzman
American cartoonist
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
United States official and diplomat
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
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