Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West
Creator
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (UK: , US: ,French: [ɛdmɔ̃ ʁɔstɑ̃]; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918), a French poet and dramatist associated with neo-romanticism, became best-known for his 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand’s romantic plays contrasted with the naturalistic theatre popular during the late-nineteenth century. Another of Rostand’s works, Les Romanesques (1894), was …
Erik Larson
American journalist and author of mostly nonfiction books
Lynne Olson
American author, historian and journalist