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Anton Chekhov

Russian playwright and short story writer.

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Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen is most famously known for his fairy tales and was very popular in China and Japan.

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Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was a famous Australian writer and bush poet. Bush poet being a writer of a specific style of poetry-often rhyming and narrative based.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English Journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian author known best for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Willa Cather

An American writer best known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia.

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Grace Macgowan Cookie

A great American writer often working with her sister Alice MacGowan. Writing 23 novels, 75 short stories and more than 30 poems.

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Bret Harte

Well known American short story author often writing about miners, gamblers and romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.

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Andrew Forrester

James Redding Ware by day.......Andrew Forrester by night.....novelist and playwright and responsible for the first female detectives in fiction story.

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Edward Everett Hale

I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something…

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

An American writer best known for her novels of frustrated lives in New England Villages.

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Holiday Stories

Some of the greatest old holiday stories that remind us why we celebrate

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