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19th-century American novelists
Mark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born on the 30th of November 1835, just two weeks after Halley's Comet made its closest approach to the sun, a celestial event…
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was born on the 19th of January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, into a family of actors that seemed destined for tragedy before it had truly…
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born on the 1st of August 1819, the third child of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort, into a family that would soon crumble from the…
Henry JamesHenry James was born on the 15th of April 1843 at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan, yet the boy who would become the master of the English language struggled…