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    <name>Tolstoy, Lev Nikolayevich</name>
    <birth>1828</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>ru</language>
    <books>25</books>
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    <biography>&lt;p&gt;Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist, educational reformer, moral thinker, and an influential member of the Tolstoy family.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina; in their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realistic fiction. As a moral philosopher he was notable for his ideas on nonviolent resistance through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures as Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <author id="24">
    <name>Twain, Mark</name>
    <birth>1835</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>13</books>
    <downloads>135793</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 &#8212; April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Clemens enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain &quot;the father of American literature.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Source: Wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <author id="855">
    <name>Henry, O.</name>
    <birth>1862</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>12</books>
    <downloads>19886</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 &#8211; June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <author id="782">
    <name>Renard, Jules</name>
    <birth>1864</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>fr</language>
    <books>1</books>
    <downloads>3242</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;C'est un peu par hasard qu'il na&#238;t en Mayenne : son p&#232;re y travaillait &#224; ce moment-l&#224; &#224; la construction du chemin de fer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Il a v&#233;cu tout ce qu&#8217;il a &#233;crit. Dans ses &#339;uvres ou dans son Journal, il &#233;crit tout ce qu&#8217;il vit, pour ne pas le dire ni le laisser para&#238;tre. Il &#233;crit aussi pour briller et ne plus douter de lui-m&#234;me, car ses parents ne l&#8217;ont gu&#232;re aim&#233;. Et bient&#244;t, &#224; ses inqui&#233;tudes s&#8217;en joint une autre : la peur de trahir la v&#233;rit&#233; par l&#8217;emploi des mauvais mots ou de trop de mots. Pendant une grande partie de sa vie, une question l&#8217;obs&#232;de : faut-il pr&#233;f&#233;rer l&#8217;exactitude d&#8217;une phrase ou la beaut&#233; po&#233;tique d&#8217;une image ?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;C'est aussi une mine d'informations sur la vie litt&#233;raire. Le succ&#232;s n&#8217;est pas pour tout de suite. Il habite d&#233;but 1888 l&#8217;H&#244;tel des &#201;trangers, 24 rue Tronchet, pr&#232;s de sa fianc&#233;e qui habite 44 rue du Rocher (la rue du Rocher sera son adresse parisienne jusqu&#8217;&#224; sa mort en 1910). Son mariage am&#233;liore sa situation financi&#232;re.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lorsqu&#8217;en 1889 de jeunes &#233;crivains fondent le Mercure de France, Renard est un des principaux actionnaires. Il est &#233;lu maire de Chitry-les-Mines le 15 mai 1904 et membre de l'Acad&#233;mie Goncourt en octobre 1907, gr&#226;ce &#224; Octave Mirbeau, qui a d&#251; menacer de d&#233;missionner pour assurer son succ&#232;s. Il est mort d'art&#233;rioscl&#233;rose &#224; l'&#226;ge de 46 ans.&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <author id="849">
    <name>Picton, J. Allanson</name>
    <birth>1832</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>1</books>
    <downloads>1470</downloads>
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  <author id="1181">
    <name>James, William</name>
    <birth>1842</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>en</language>
    <books>1</books>
    <downloads>1338</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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  <author id="937">
    <name>Boussenard, Louis-Henri</name>
    <birth>1847</birth>
    <death>1910</death>
    <language>fr</language>
    <books>1</books>
    <downloads>1133</downloads>
    <biography>&lt;p&gt;Louis-Henri Boussenard, n&#233; &#224; Escrennes le 4 octobre 1847 et mort &#224; Orl&#233;ans le 11 septembre 1910, est un &#233;crivain fran&#231;ais, auteur de romans d'aventure. Surnomm&#233; de son vivant le Rider Haggard fran&#231;ais, il est plus connu aujourd'hui en Europe de l'Est, o&#249; quarante volumes de ses &#339;uvres furent publi&#233;s dans la Russie imp&#233;riale en 1911, que dans les pays francophones.&lt;/p&gt;</biography>
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