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Also Known As Báró Zsigmond Kemény
Born June 12, 1814? • Romania
Died December 22, 1875 • Romania
Notable Works “Férj és nő”
Károly Eötvös
Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician
Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Argentine novelist, journalist, and educator
E.W. Howe
American writer
Kálmán Mikszáth
Hungarian author
Lajos Kassák
Hungarian writer
Clark Howell
American journalist
Giovanni Guareschi
Italian journalist and novelist
Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Charlotta Spears Bass
Charlotta Spears Bass
American editor and activist
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Tim O'Brien
Tim O’Brien
American author
Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson
American journalist
Ernesto Sábato, 1985.
Ernesto Sábato
Argentine writer
Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith
president of Dáil Éireann
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
Dana, Charles A.
Charles A. Dana
American journalist
Viktor Rydberg
Swedish author
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Ita Buttrose
Ita Buttrose
Australian journalist, editor, and businesswoman