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Ann and Jane Taylor
Ann and Jane Taylor
Ann Taylor (1782 - 1866), later Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, was an English poet and children’s author. She is best known as the sister and…
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait…
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat". Thayer was…
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic,…
Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter was a mathematician trained at London University, University College London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he taught for several years. He…
Bradford Torrey
Bradford Torrey
Bradford Torrey was an American essayist in the 1800's. He devoted much time to the study of birds, their habits, peculiarities, and domestic traits.…
Traditional
Traditional
Many poems and stories of old come to us through an oral tradition and the original authors have not been recorded.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (1797 - November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth…
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, novelist, writer, and lecturer best known for the…