Authors worth knowing

Maya Angelou

Poet, memoirist and civil rights activist

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Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher

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Oscar Wilde

Irish playwright, poet and novelist

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Emily Dickinson

American poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, lecturer and philosopher

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William Shakespeare

English playwright, poet and actor

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical physicist

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Jane Austen

English novelist

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Virginia Woolf

English novelist, essayist and publisher

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Leonardo da Vinci

Italian artist, engineer and investigator

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Helen Keller

American author, lecturer and disability-rights advocate

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Martin Luther King Jr.

American minister and civil rights leader

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Diplomat, writer and human-rights advocate

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Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, naturalist and philosopher

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Aristotle

Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist

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Confucius

Chinese teacher and philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher and cultural critic

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Nelson Mandela

South African leader and anti-apartheid activist

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Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence leader and political ethicist

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Mother Teresa

Catholic nun and humanitarian

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Winston Churchill

British statesman, writer and wartime prime minister

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Mark Twain

American writer, humorist and lecturer

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Bruce Lee

Martial artist, actor and teacher

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Anne Frank

German-born Jewish diarist

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J. R. R. Tolkien

English writer and philologist

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Steve Jobs

Technology entrepreneur and product leader

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