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Solomon Northup

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Han Yu

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Kim Stanley Robinson

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Joan Didion

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W.J. McGee

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Carolina Maria de Jesus

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Loren Eiseley

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Aristotle

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Wilfred Thesiger

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Cyrus Thomas

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Lucian

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David Grann

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Elias Khoury

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Decimus Magnus Ausonius

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Jonathan Watts

François-René de Chateaubriand

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Sarah Ruden

Gregory of Nyssa

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Rabindranath Tagore

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James G. Frazer

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Francis Bacon

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Annalee Jacoby

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

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Nicolas Pelham

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Annie Dillard

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Theodore H. White

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C.A. Davids

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Wu Cheng’en

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Alexis Wright

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Joseph Brodsky

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Anna Lenzer

Robert Towne

W.B. Yeats

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William Faulkner

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Alexander von Humboldt

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Henry Pollack

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Carmina Burana

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Mary Austin

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Michel Foucault

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Mark Twain

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Anna Jameson

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Rachel Carson

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Donovan Hohn

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