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Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) |
François Jean Stanislas Andrieux (1759–1833) |
Livius Andronicus (c. 284–c. 204 B.C.) |
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Reimér Anslo (1626–1669) |
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Christopher Anstey (1724–1805) |
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Gentil Theodoor Antheunis (1840–1907) |
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Camillo Antona-Traversi (1857–1934) |
Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633–1714) |
Joannes Antonides van der Goes (1647–1684) |
Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889) |
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Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148) |
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Alberto Arnulfi (1849–1888) |
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Alfred W. Arrington (1810–1867) |
Ferdinando Arrivabene (1770–1834) |
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Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552–1630) |
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Marie Catherine, Madame d’Aulnoy (1650/51–1705) |
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Mariano Aureli (1820–1892) |
Obadiah Cyrus Auringer (1849–1937) |
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Joseph Autran (1813–1877) |
Mikhail Vasilyevich Avdeev (1821–1876) |
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (1814–1873) |
Paul Avenel (1823–1902) |
Dmitry Vassilyévich Averkiev (1836–1905) |
Averroës (1126–1198) |
Benjamin Parke Avery (1828–1875) |
Flavius Avianus (c. 400) |
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Anne Ayres (1816–1896) |
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Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852) |
Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (1724–1806) |
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Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) |
Babur (1483–1530) |
François Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) |
Joseph Marius von Babo (1756–1822) |
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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867) |
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Irving Bacheller (1859–1950) |
Therese von Bacheracht (1804–1852) |
John Bachman (1790–1874) |
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Roger Bacon (1214?–1294) |
Adam Badeau (1831–1895) |
Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (1847–1898) |
Caspar van Baerle (1584–1648) |
William Baffin (d. 1622) |
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Robert Bage (1728–1801) |
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Jens Baggesen (1764–1826) |
Richard Bagot (1860–1921) |
Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) |
Johann Christian Bähr (1798–1872) |
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792) |
Bahya Ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (fl. Eleventh Century) |
Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589) |
Gamaliel Bailey (1807–1859) |
James Montgomery Bailey (1841–1894) |
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) |
Nathan Bailey (d. 1742) |
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