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[
{
"name": "Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)",
"birth": "1819-11-22",
"death": "1880-12-22",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot"
},
{
"name": "Ann Brontë",
"birth": "1820-01-17",
"death": "1849-05-28",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Brontë"
},
{
"name": "Jules Verne",
"birth": "1828-02-08",
"death": "1905-03-24",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne"
},
{
"name": "Leo Tolstoy",
"birth": "1828-09-09",
"death": "1910-11-20",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy"
},
{
"name": "Emily Dickinson",
"birth": "1830-12-10",
"death": "1886-05-15",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson"
},
{
"name": "Lewis Carroll",
"birth": "1832-01-27",
"death": "1898-01-14",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll"
},
{
"name": "Louisa May Alcott",
"birth": "1832-11-29",
"death": "1888-03-06",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott"
},
{
"name": "Mark Twain",
"birth": "1835-11-30",
"death": "1910-04-21",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain"
},
{
"name": "Thomas Hardy",
"birth": "1840-06-02",
"death": "1928-01-11",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy"
},
{
"name": "William Wordsworth",
"birth": "1770-04-07",
"death": "1850-04-23",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth"
},
{
"name": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge",
"birth": "1772-10-21",
"death": "1834-07-25",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge"
},
{
"name": "Charlotte Brontë",
"birth": "1816-04-21",
"death": "1855-03-31",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Brontë"
},
{
"name": "Henry David Thoreau",
"birth": "1817-07-12",
"death": "1862-05-06",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau"
},
{
"name": "Emily Brontë",
"birth": "1818-07-30",
"death": "1848-12-19",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Brontë"
},
{
"name": "Herman Melville",
"birth": "1819-08-01",
"death": "1891-09-28",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville"
},
{
"name": "Henry James",
"birth": "1843-04-15",
"death": "1916-02-28",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James"
},
{
"name": "Oscar Wilde",
"birth": "1854-10-16",
"death": "1900-11-30",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde"
},
{
"name": "George Bernard Shaw",
"birth": "1856-07-26",
"death": "1950-11-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"
},
{
"name": "Joseph Conrad",
"birth": "1857-12-03",
"death": "1924-08-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad"
},
{
"name": "Kenneth Grahame",
"birth": "1859-03-08",
"death": "1932-07-06",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Grahame"
},
{
"name": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
"birth": "1859-05-22",
"death": "1930-07-07",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"
},
{
"name": "Edith Wharton",
"birth": "1862-01-24",
"death": "1937-08-11",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton"
},
{
"name": "W.B. Yeats",
"birth": "1865-06-13",
"death": "1939-11-25",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats"
},
{
"name": "Rudyard Kipling",
"birth": "1865-12-30",
"death": "1936-01-18",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling"
},
{
"name": "H.G. Wells",
"birth": "1866-09-21",
"death": "1946-08-13",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells"
},
{
"name": "Marcel Proust",
"birth": "1871-07-10",
"death": "1922-11-18",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust"
},
{
"name": "Bertrand Russell",
"birth": "1872-05-18",
"death": "1970-02-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell"
},
{
"name": "W. Somerset Maugham",
"birth": "1874-01-25",
"death": "1965-12-16",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham"
},
{
"name": "Gertrude Stein",
"birth": "1874-02-03",
"death": "1946-07-27",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein"
},
{
"name": "Robert Frost",
"birth": "1874-03-26",
"death": "1963-01-29",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost"
},
{
"name": "Upton Sinclair",
"birth": "1878-09-20",
"death": "1968-11-25",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair"
},
{
"name": "A. A. Milne",
"birth": "1882-01-18",
"death": "1956-01-31",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne"
},
{
"name": "Virginia Woolfe",
"birth": "1882-01-25",
"death": "1941-03-28",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolfe"
},
{
"name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
"birth": "1892-01-03",
"death": "1973-09-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien"
},
{
"name": "Aldous Huxley",
"birth": "1894-07-26",
"death": "1963-11-22",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley"
},
{
"name": "E.E. Cummings",
"birth": "1894-10-14",
"death": "1962-09-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings"
},
{
"name": "F.Scott Fitzgerald",
"birth": "1896-09-24",
"death": "1940-12-21",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald"
},
{
"name": "William Faulkner",
"birth": "1897-09-25",
"death": "1962-07-06",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner"
},
{
"name": "C.S.Lewis",
"birth": "1898-11-29",
"death": "1963-11-22",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis"
},
{
"name": "Vladimir Nabokov",
"birth": "1899-04-22",
"death": "1977-07-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov"
},
{
"name": "Ernest Hemingway",
"birth": "1899-07-21",
"death": "1961-07-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway"
},
{
"name": "Noël Coward",
"birth": "1899-12-16",
"death": "1973-03-26",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noël_Coward"
},
{
"name": "John Steinbeck",
"birth": "1902-02-27",
"death": "1968-12-20",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck"
},
{
"name": "George Orwell",
"birth": "1903-06-25",
"death": "1950-01-21",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell"
},
{
"name": "Evelyn Waugh",
"birth": "1903-10-28",
"death": "1966-04-10",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh"
},
{
"name": "Theodor Seuss Geisel",
"birth": "1904-03-02",
"death": "1991-09-24",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Seuss_Geisel"
},
{
"name": "Graham Greene",
"birth": "1904-10-02",
"death": "1991-04-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Greene"
},
{
"name": "Samuel Beckett",
"birth": "1906-04-13",
"death": "1989-12-22",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett"
},
{
"name": "Hergé",
"birth": "1907-05-22",
"death": "1983-03-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hergé"
},
{
"name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
"birth": "1907-07-07",
"death": "1988-05-08",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein"
},
{
"name": "Ian Fleming",
"birth": "1908-05-28",
"death": "1964-08-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming"
},
{
"name": "William S. Burroughs",
"birth": "1914-02-05",
"death": "1997-08-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs"
},
{
"name": "Dylan Thomas",
"birth": "1914-10-27",
"death": "1953-11-09",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas"
},
{
"name": "Bob Kane",
"birth": "1915-10-24",
"death": "1998-11-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kane"
},
{
"name": "Roald Dahl",
"birth": "1916-09-13",
"death": "1990-11-23",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl"
},
{
"name": "Arthur C. Clarke",
"birth": "1917-12-16",
"death": "2008-03-19",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke"
},
{
"name": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn",
"birth": "1918-12-11",
"death": "2008-08-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn"
},
{
"name": "Isaac Asimov",
"birth": "1920-01-02",
"death": "1992-04-06",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov"
},
{
"name": "Ray Bradbury",
"birth": "1920-08-22",
"death": "2012-06-05",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury"
},
{
"name": "Jack Kerouac",
"birth": "1922-03-12",
"death": "1969-10-21",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac"
},
{
"name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
"birth": "1922-11-11",
"death": "2007-04-11",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut"
},
{
"name": "Charles M. Schultz",
"birth": "1922-11-26",
"death": "2000-02-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schultz"
},
{
"name": "Stan Lee",
"birth": "1922-12-28",
"death": "2018-11-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee"
},
{
"name": "Truman Capote",
"birth": "1924-09-30",
"death": "1984-08-25",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote"
},
{
"name": "Harper Lee",
"birth": "1926-04-28",
"death": "2016-02-19",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee"
},
{
"name": "René Goscinny",
"birth": "1926-08-14",
"death": "1977-11-05",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Goscinny"
},
{
"name": "Albert Uderzo",
"birth": "1927-04-25",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Uderzo"
},
{
"name": "Hunter S. Thompson",
"birth": "1937-07-18",
"death": "2005-02-20",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson"
},
{
"name": "Margaret Atwood",
"birth": "1939-11-18",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood"
},
{
"name": "Jim Davis",
"birth": "1945-07-28",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis"
},
{
"name": "James Patterson",
"birth": "1947-03-22",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Patterson"
},
{
"name": "Salman Rushdie",
"birth": "1947-06-19",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie"
},
{
"name": "Paulo Coelho",
"birth": "1947-08-24",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho"
},
{
"name": "Stephen King",
"birth": "1947-09-21",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King"
},
{
"name": "William Gibson",
"birth": "1948-03-17",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson"
},
{
"name": "Terry Prachett",
"birth": "1948-04-28",
"death": "2015-03-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Prachett"
},
{
"name": "George R.R. Martin",
"birth": "1948-09-20",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._R._Martin"
},
{
"name": "Haruki Murakami",
"birth": "1949-01-12",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami"
},
{
"name": "Gary Larson",
"birth": "1950-08-14",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson"
},
{
"name": "Douglas Adams",
"birth": "1952-03-11",
"death": "2001-05-11",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams"
},
{
"name": "Bill Watterson",
"birth": "1958-07-05",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson"
},
{
"name": "Neal Stephenson",
"birth": "1959-10-31",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson"
},
{
"name": "Neil Gaiman",
"birth": "1960-11-10",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman"
},
{
"name": "Arundhati Roy",
"birth": "1961-11-01",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy"
},
{
"name": "David Foster Wallace",
"birth": "1962-02-21",
"death": "2008-09-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace"
},
{
"name": "Bret Easton Ellis",
"birth": "1964-03-07",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Easton_Ellis"
},
{
"name": "J.K. Rowling",
"birth": "1965-07-31",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling"
},
{
"name": "Jane Austen",
"birth": "1775-12-16",
"death": "1817-07-18",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen"
},
{
"name": "Lord Byron",
"birth": "1788-01-22",
"death": "1824-04-19",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron"
},
{
"name": "Percey Bysshe Shelley",
"birth": "1792-08-04",
"death": "1822-07-08",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percey_Bysshe_Shelley"
},
{
"name": "John Keats",
"birth": "1795-10-31",
"death": "1821-02-23",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats"
},
{
"name": "Mary Shelley",
"birth": "1797-08-30",
"death": "1851-02-01",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley"
},
{
"name": "Victor Hugo",
"birth": "1802-02-26",
"death": "1885-05-22",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo"
},
{
"name": "Alexandre Dumas",
"birth": "1802-07-24",
"death": "1870-12-05",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas"
},
{
"name": "Hans Christian Andersen",
"birth": "1805-04-02",
"death": "1875-08-04",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen"
},
{
"name": "Edgar Allan Poe",
"birth": "1809-01-19",
"death": "1849-10-07",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe"
},
{
"name": "Charles Dickens",
"birth": "1812-02-07",
"death": "1870-06-09",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens"
},
{
"name": "James Joyce",
"birth": "1882-02-02",
"death": "1941-01-13",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce"
},
{
"name": "Franz Kafka",
"birth": "1883-07-03",
"death": "1924-06-03",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka"
},
{
"name": "D. H. Lawrence",
"birth": "1885-09-11",
"death": "1930-03-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence"
},
{
"name": "Ezra Pound",
"birth": "1885-10-30",
"death": "1972-11-01",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound"
},
{
"name": "T. S. Eliot",
"birth": "1888-09-26",
"death": "1965-01-04",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot"
},
{
"name": "Agatha Christie",
"birth": "1890-09-15",
"death": "1976-01-12",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie"
},
{
"name": "Maya Angelou",
"birth": "1928-04-04",
"death": "2014-05-28",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou"
},
{
"name": "Philip K. Dick",
"birth": "1928-12-16",
"death": "1982-03-02",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick"
},
{
"name": "Shel Silverstein",
"birth": "1930-09-25",
"death": "1999-05-10",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein"
},
{
"name": "John le Carré",
"birth": "1931-10-19",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carré"
},
{
"name": "Umberto Eco",
"birth": "1932-01-05",
"death": "2016-02-19",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco"
},
{
"name": "Sylvia Plath",
"birth": "1932-10-27",
"death": "1963-10-27",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath"
},
{
"name": "Thomas Pynchon",
"birth": "1937-05-08",
"death": "",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon"
},
{
"name": "H.P. Lovecraft",
"birth": "1890-08-20",
"death": "1937-03-15",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft"
}
]
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