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Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) is, in the estimation of many, the greatest American poet of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets writing in English in the 20th century. Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes.
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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868).
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Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612 - September 16, 1672), colonial American woman, was the first published American woman writer.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though almost unknown and nearly unpublished in her own lifetime, Dickinson has since come to be regarded along with Walt Whitman as one of the two great American poets of the 19th century.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American
essayist and one of America's most influential thinkers and writers.
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson, April 4, 1928 St. Louis, MO) is considered one of the most eminent authors and poets, and has long been one of the strongest voices for civil rights activism in America.
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Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American writer Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey.
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Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914- presumed dead July 18, 1955) was an American poet, critic, novelist and short story writer.
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Edgar Lee Masters (1868 -1950) was a United States American poet, biographer and dramatist.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 - February 9, 1906) was a seminal African-American poet in the late 19th and early 20th century. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life. Born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who had escaped from slavery, Dunbar died from tuberculosis at 34.
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