Escritas - Authors List

Georges Clemenceau

1841 - 1929

French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)

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Lloyd Jones

Lloyd Peniston Jones was an American athlete.

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Jacob Riis

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Derek Walcott

1930

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Samuel Johnson

1709 - 1784

English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Clinton Jones

Clinton "Clint" Jones (born 24 May 1945) was a professional football player in the United States from 1967 until 1973

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Phyllida Law

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Kane O'Hara

Kane O'Hara (b. Templehouse, Connaught, Ireland 1711 or 1712, d. Dublin, 17 June 1782) was an Irish playwright and musician

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Georges Braque

1882 - 1963

French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)

149

Tim Robbins

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon. He is perhaps best known for his roles as "Nuke" in Bull Durham and Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

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Jackson Pollock

United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956)

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David Herbert Lawrence

10,262

Charles Dudley

Charles Dudley was an American stage and silent film actor who later had a successful career as a film studio make-up artist.

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Samuel Hoffenstein

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Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashed (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable in the 1980s television series The Cosby Show

227

Kandice Hehner

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Georges Bernanos

1888 - 1948

Georges Bernanos (20 February 1888, Paris - 5 July 1948, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French author, and a soldier in World War I. Of Roman Catholic and monarchist leanings, he was a violent adversary to bourgeois thought and to what he identified as defeatism leading to France's defeat in 1940

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