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                                        Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15
                                        September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her
                                        sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story collections, particularly
                                        those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss
                                        Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play The
                                        Mousetrap, performed in the West End since 1952, as well as six
                  Agatha Christie       romances under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

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                                        Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better
                                        known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's
                                        fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through
                                        the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and
                                        fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are
                                        classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also
                                        a mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon.
                    Lewis Carroll

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                                        James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was
                                        an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical
                                        romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to
                                        the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived
                                        much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown,
                                        New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he
                                        owned. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of
               James Fenimore Cooper    the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

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                                        Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American
                                        author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and
                                        stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he
                                        idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his
                                        best-selling book.

                                        In addition, this books have had second lives and continuing influence
                                        having been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a
                                        television series.

                     Zane Grey






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