19th Century Authors

Abraham Lincoln

1809 - 1865

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassinati...

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Ada Lovelace

1815 - 1852

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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and...

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Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955

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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of rela...

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Albert Schweitzer

1875 - 1965

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Albert Schweitzer was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning polymath, physician, and philosopher whose profoun...

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Aldous Huxley

1894 – 1963

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Brave New World is his most influential work, depicting a chillingly controlled, technological dysto...

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Alexander Graham Bell

1847 – 1922

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Alexander Graham Bell’s most notable work is the development of the acoustic telegraph and the...

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Alice Paul

1885 – 1977

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Alice Paul was a fiercely determined American suffragist, feminist, and political strategist who ser...

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Ambrose Bierce

1842 - 1914

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Ambrose Bierce is best known for his short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891), which sta...

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Amelia Earhart

1897 – Disappeared 1937

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Earhart’s most definitive historic achievement was her 1932 solo transatlantic flight from Newfoundl...

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Andrew Carnegie

1835 – 1919

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Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist and one of the leading fig...

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Helen Keller

1880 - 1968

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Helen Keller was a renowned American author, disability rights advocate, and political activist who ...

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Mark Twain

1835 - 1910

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and es...

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Oscar Wilde

1854 - 1900

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Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing ...

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Rabindranath Tagore

1861 - 1941

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Rabindranath Tagore was famous for winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing the national ...

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