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                    Al-Kindi                
                                    
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                    Louisa May Alcott                
                                    
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                    Jean-Dominique Bauby                
                                    
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                    Andrew Blackbird                
                                    
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                    Elizabeth Blackwell                
                                    
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                    Anatole Broyard                
                                    
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                    Mikhail Bulgakov                
                                    
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                    Fanny Burney                
                                    
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                    Thomas De Quincey                
                                    
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                    Daniel Defoe                
                                    
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                    Emily Dickinson                
                                    
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                    Fyodor Dostoevsky                
                                    
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