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Examples:Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique—Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China—Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc—Ishihara Jintarō (1932-), Japanese author and politician, governor of Tokyo since 1999—The Good Soldier Švejk (Schweik), satirical novel by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923)—James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish modernist writer, author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake—Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904), Bohemian composer, author of nine symphonies including the New World symphony—SHIBA Ryotarō (1923-1996), Japanese author of historical novels—Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo)—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago—Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history—Kurt Lewing (1890-1944), German American psychologist of the Gestalt school, the author of Field Theory—Chen Renxi (1581-1636), late Ming scholar and prolific author—George Catlett Marshall (1880-1959), US general in WWII and Secretary of State 1947-1949, author of the postwar Marshall plan for Europe and Nobel peace laureate—Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China—Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park—Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and story-teller, reported author of Aesop's fables—Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King—John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost—Murasaki Shikibu (born c. 973), Japanese writer, author of "The Tale of Genji"—Li Yingru (1913-1989), calligrapher and writer, author of many novels about the war as seen by the communists—Cai Dongfan (1877-1945), historian, author of popular general history texts up until his own time—Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author the Aenid—Luo Maodeng (16th century), Ming author of operas and popular fiction—Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-), author of the Harry Potter series of novels—Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author—Jinyong or Louis Cha (1924-), famous Wuxia writer, author of 1957-1961 Condor Hero trilogy—Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing—Iris Chang (1968-2004), Chinese American historian and author of the Rape of Nanjing—Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works—Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US Founding Father, scientist and author—Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator—Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine— |