Famous Writers
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Who is the writer who authored the following titles: Notes from Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868–1869), Demons (1871–1872), The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), A Writer's Diary (1873–1881)?
Who published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, and credited it not to himself, but only to “a Bostonian”?
Guinness World Records lists this author as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, with novels having sold more than two billion copies — including Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Death on the Nile, The Murder at the Vicarage, and Partners in Crime. Who is this author?
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under what pen name? Works include The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, Down and Out in Paris and London, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). In France, he is also renowned for poetry collections such as Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles, and he stood at the forefront of the Romantic literary movement. Who is this writer?
Famous Persons Referenced
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