Johnson, Samuel(1709–1784)
Samuel Johnson, the English man of letters, poet, lexicographer, moralist, and humanist, was born in Lichfield, the son of an indigent bookseller. After his early edu...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
James Boswell (1740-1795) was a young, funloving, aristocratic, would-be man-abouttown when he came to London from his native Scotland in 1762. He soon b...
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Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
