William Gaddis was an American novelist and satirist. Mr. Gaddis is known for his novel, The Recognitions which was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 best novels
Muriel Rukeyser was an American writer, biographer, and political activist. She is know for her poems on social justice, Judaism, equality, and feminism
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian politician, poet and novelist. He is considered to be one of the four great Norwegian writers
Thomas Paine was an American philosopher, writer, and political activist & theorist known for Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783)
As an editor for St. Nicholas Magazine, Mrs. Mapes was in charge of it becoming one of the most successful children magazines in the late 1800s
Guy de Maupassant (5 August, 1859 – 6 July, 1893), who wrote under several pseudonyms, was a French writer and a master of short stories.
Victor Hugo was a French author best known for his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He was also a human rights activist
The end of the original scroll is a ragged edge where Kerouac wrote “Ate by Patchkee, a dog”, so no one really knows the original ending.
Franklin Pierce Adams (15 November, 1881 – 23 March, 1960) was a writer and columnist as well as a radio personality, who wrote under the nom de plume: F.P.A.
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie is considered to be one of the Four Greats of Norwegian literature of the 19th Century. Mr Lie was a writer, a poet, novelist.