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William Wordsworth

English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads .
Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times

Richard Wright

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Andrea Wulf

German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.

John Wyndham

English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes

Tim Wynne-Jones

EnglishCanadian author of children’s literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children’s musical and an opera libretto.For his contribution as a children’s writer he was Canada’s nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012.

Malcolm X

African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement

Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist born in Brussels, Belgium, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Acadmie franaise, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy seat 3.

A. Zee

Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara

Emile Zola

French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism