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The Reader’s Dictionary of Authors
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Sir Walter Scott
Thomas
Carlyle

The Reader’s Dictionary of Authors

Edited by Harry Morgan Ayres

The more than 6,800 short biographies of world authors, with particular attention to the 1,000 primary authors in The Library, have been meticulously updated to include accurate years of birth and death—and feature easy-to-read pronunciations, particularly of non-English names.

NEW YORK: WARNER LIBRARY Co., 1917
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2015

Content

Alexis Aar to Joanna Baillie
Jean Sylvain Bailly to Dion Boucicault
Elias Boudinot to Luigi Cerretti
Cervantes to Gabriele D’Annunzio
Dante to Charles William Eliot
George Eliot to Philip Freneau
Gustav Frenssen to Vítèzslav Hálek
Judah Halevi to Henry Mayers Hyndman
Iamblichus to Thomas Kyd
Louis Labarre to Lord Lytton
Maarten Maartens to Xavier de Montépin
Montesquieu to Paul the Deacon
James Kirke Paulding to Domingos dos Reis Quita
Wilhelm Raabe to John Selden
Semonides to Jacques N. A. Thierry
Adolphe Thiers to Charles Dudley Warner
Susan Warner to Ulrich Zwingli