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The English essayist, poet, playwright and politician, Joseph Addison was a leading contributor a...

The English poet and dramatist, George Chapman, whose translation of Homer long remained the stan...

France's answer to Shakespeare, the seventeenth century playwright Moliere wrote comedies, farces...

Affectionately known as the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore was also a celebrated novelist, s...

The greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Donatello produced both marble and bronze maste...

The avant-garde American writer, Gertrude Stein hosted a Paris salon for the leading artists and ...

A man of unusually complex character, Julian the Apostate was a military commander, philosopher, ...

Although little known today, the English novelist J. S. Fletcher was one of the highest selling w...

The English novelist Sir Hugh Walpole was a bestselling author of the 1920's and 1930's, supporte...

A giant of eighteenth century literature, William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of ...

The first great artist of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance, Masaccio would have...