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Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
Ernest Hemingway |
12,002 |
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| 2 |
Hunter S. Thompson |
8,812 |
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| 3 |
Sylvia Plath |
5,526 |
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| 4 |
Virginia Woolf |
5,410 |
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| 5 |
David Foster Wallace |
3,401 |
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| 6 |
Seneca the Younger |
2,320 |
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| 7 |
Yukio Mishima |
1,869 |
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| 8 |
Gilles Deleuze |
1,601 |
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| 9 |
Robert E. Howard |
1,305 |
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| 10 |
Anne Sexton |
872 |
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| 11 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
625 |
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| 12 |
Vladimir Mayakovsky |
603 |
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| 13 |
Guy Debord |
599 |
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| 14 |
Arthur Koestler |
585 |
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| 15 |
Sarah Kane |
571 |
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| 16 |
Stefan Zweig |
568 |
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| 17 |
Spalding Gray |
557 |
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| 18 |
John Kennedy Toole |
550 |
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| 19 |
Gary Webb |
522 |
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| 20 |
Richard Brautigan |
484 |
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| 21 |
Romain Gary |
471 |
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| 22 |
Yasunari Kawabata |
463 |
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| 23 |
Iris Chang |
422 |
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| 24 |
Petronius |
417 |
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| 25 |
Jerzy Kosinski |
370 |
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| 26 |
Thomas Chatterton |
358 |
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| 27 |
Hart Crane |
353 |
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| 28 |
Heinrich von Kleist |
347 |
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| 29 |
John William Polidori |
315 |
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| 30 |
Gertrude Bell |
307 |
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| 31 |
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
305 |
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| 32 |
Reinaldo Arenas |
302 |
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| 33 |
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun |
293 |
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| 34 |
William Inge |
273 |
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| 35 |
Horacio Quiroga |
266 |
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| 36 |
Douglas Kenney |
261 |
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| 37 |
Gérard de Nerval |
256 |
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| 38 |
Wally Wood |
251 |
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| 39 |
John O'Brien (novelist) |
242 |
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| 40 |
Thomas Disch |
236 |
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| 41 |
Alfonsina Storni |
226 |
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| 42 |
Sylvia Plath effect |
211 |
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| 43 |
H. Beam Piper |
202 |
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| 44 |
Otto Weininger |
201 |
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| 45 |
Osamu Dazai |
197 |
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| 46 |
Michael Dorris |
194 |
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| 47 |
Jean Améry |
185 |
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| 48 |
Sadeq Hedayat |
185 |
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| 49 |
James Tiptree, Jr. |
176 |
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| 50 |
Cesare Pavese |
168 |
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| 51 |
Hannelore Kohl |
166 |
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| 52 |
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz |
163 |
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| 53 |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
156 |
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| 54 |
Lao She |
151 |
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| 55 |
Steven "Jesse" Bernstein |
147 |
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| 56 |
Klaus Mann |
146 |
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| 57 |
Nelly Arcan |
138 |
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| 58 |
Sándor Márai |
134 |
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| 59 |
Vilhelm Moberg |
127 |
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| 60 |
Helen Palmer Geisel |
126 |
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| 61 |
Kurt Tucholsky |
114 |
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| 62 |
Jason Moss |
114 |
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| 63 |
Kenneth Halliwell |
109 |
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| 64 |
William Lindsay Gresham |
107 |
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| 65 |
José María Arguedas |
106 |
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| 66 |
Ernst Toller |
104 |
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| 67 |
Harry Thurston Peck |
104 |
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| 68 |
Alexander Radishchev |
103 |
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| 69 |
Emilio Salgari |
102 |
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| 70 |
Harry Crosby |
101 |
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| 71 |
Harry Martinson |
101 |
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| 72 |
Morris K. Jessup |
100 |
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| 73 |
Leopoldo Lugones |
98 |
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| 74 |
Eleanor Marx |
98 |
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| 75 |
Jan Potocki |
97 |
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| 76 |
William Seabrook |
94 |
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| 77 |
Charles Caleb Colton |
89 |
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| 78 |
Mariano José de Larra |
89 |
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| 79 |
Branko Ćopić |
84 |
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| 80 |
Nicolas Chamfort |
82 |
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| 81 |
Fletcher Knebel |
80 |
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| 82 |
Jens Bjørneboe |
80 |
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| 83 |
James Robert Baker |
80 |
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| 84 |
B. S. Johnson |
79 |
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| 85 |
Penelope Delta |
78 |
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| 86 |
Ingrid Jonker |
77 |
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| 87 |
Pepi Lederer |
77 |
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| 88 |
Mike Penner |
75 |
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| 89 |
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre |
73 |
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| 90 |
Sanmao (author) |
73 |
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| 91 |
Francis Parker Yockey |
70 |
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| 92 |
John Suckling (poet) |
66 |
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| 93 |
Adalbert Stifter |
66 |
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| 94 |
John Davidson (poet) |
66 |
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| 95 |
Henry de Montherlant |
65 |
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| 96 |
George Sterling |
65 |
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| 97 |
Frank Stanford |
62 |
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| 98 |
Peter George |
61 |
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| 99 |
Andrés Caicedo |
59 |
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| 100 |
Deborah Laake |
59 |
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| 101 |
Breece D'J Pancake |
57 |
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| 102 |
Karin Boye |
55 |
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| 103 |
James Hatfield |
55 |
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| 104 |
Charlotte Mew |
54 |
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| 105 |
Eugene Marais |
54 |
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| 106 |
Albert Wass |
53 |
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| 107 |
Marek Hłasko |
52 |
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| 108 |
Will Cuppy |
51 |
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| 109 |
Camilo Castelo Branco |
51 |
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| 110 |
John Patrick (dramatist) |
50 |
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| 111 |
James Leo Herlihy |
50 |
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| 112 |
Tristan Egolf |
48 |
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| 113 |
Jane Arden (director) |
48 |
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| 114 |
Ernest Borneman |
47 |
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| 115 |
Timothy Mason |
47 |
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| 116 |
Rex Beach |
47 |
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| 117 |
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck |
46 |
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| 118 |
Thomas Heggen |
44 |
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| 119 |
Lew Welch |
43 |
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| 120 |
René Crevel |
43 |
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| 121 |
Arthur Adamov |
42 |
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| 122 |
Carl Einstein |
42 |
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| 123 |
Liviu Rebreanu |
42 |
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| 124 |
Takeo Arishima |
41 |
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| 125 |
Maurice Joly |
41 |
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| 126 |
Leicester Hemingway |
41 |
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| 127 |
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle |
40 |
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| 128 |
Charles R. Jackson |
40 |
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| 129 |
Reetika Vazirani |
40 |
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| 130 |
Sarah Kofman |
40 |
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| 131 |
Eustace Budgell |
39 |
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| 132 |
Edward Stachura |
39 |
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| 133 |
John Gould Fletcher |
38 |
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| 134 |
Unica Zürn |
38 |
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| 135 |
Elise Cowen |
38 |
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| 136 |
Beatrice Hastings |
38 |
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| 137 |
Dhan Gopal Mukerji |
37 |
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| 138 |
Hubert Aquin |
37 |
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| 139 |
Berton Roueché |
37 |
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| 140 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes |
36 |
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| 141 |
Eli Siegel |
35 |
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| 142 |
D. A. Levy |
35 |
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| 143 |
R. H. Barlow |
35 |
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| 144 |
Louis Adamic |
34 |
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| 145 |
Yves Navarre |
33 |
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| 146 |
Don Carpenter |
33 |
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| 147 |
Ham Fisher |
32 |
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| 148 |
Jane Aiken Hodge |
32 |
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| 149 |
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić |
31 |
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| 150 |
James Harden-Hickey |
31 |
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| 151 |
Philipp Mainländer |
30 |
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| 152 |
Tom McHale |
30 |
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| 153 |
Victoria Benedictsson |
29 |
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| 154 |
Ferdinand Raimund |
28 |
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| 155 |
John Augustus Stone |
28 |
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| 156 |
John Monk Saunders |
28 |
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| 157 |
Vsevolod Garshin |
27 |
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| 158 |
Charles Williams (U.S. author) |
27 |
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| 159 |
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev |
26 |
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| 160 |
Alfred Witte |
26 |
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| 161 |
Horace Hart |
26 |
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| 162 |
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo |
25 |
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| 163 |
James Ashmore Creelman |
25 |
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| 164 |
Julien Torma |
24 |
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| 165 |
Menno ter Braak |
24 |
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| 166 |
Ashihei Hino |
24 |
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| 167 |
Ross Lockridge, Jr. |
23 |
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| 168 |
Joel Lehtonen |
23 |
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| 169 |
Courtney Ryley Cooper |
23 |
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| 170 |
Jacques Rigaut |
23 |
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| 171 |
Chris Doty |
23 |
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| 172 |
Gustav Wied |
22 |
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| 173 |
Paul Gruchow |
22 |
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| 174 |
Hans Leybold |
22 |
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| 175 |
Nikola Koljević |
22 |
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| 176 |
Carlo Michelstaedter |
21 |
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| 177 |
Amelia Rosselli |
21 |
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| 178 |
Dillwyn Parrish |
21 |
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| 179 |
Anthony Paul Kelly |
21 |
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| 180 |
Stephen Haggard |
21 |
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| 181 |
Pamela Moore (author) |
21 |
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| 182 |
Tamiki Hara |
20 |
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| 183 |
Michael Strunge |
20 |
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| 184 |
Walter Hasenclever |
20 |
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| 185 |
Evald Ilyenkov |
19 |
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| 186 |
Charles Clegg |
19 |
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| 187 |
George Lichtheim |
19 |
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| 188 |
Tove Ditlevsen |
18 |
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| 189 |
Robin Hyde |
18 |
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| 190 |
Edward Lucas White |
18 |
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| 191 |
Felipe Trigo |
18 |
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| 192 |
Aldo De Benedetti |
18 |
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| 193 |
Richard Barham Middleton |
17 |
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| 194 |
Torquato Neto |
17 |
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| 195 |
Inge Müller |
16 |
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| 196 |
Colin Mackay |
16 |
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| 197 |
Philippe Jullian |
16 |
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| 198 |
Ana Cristina César |
16 |
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| 199 |
Richard Piggott |
16 |
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| 200 |
Richard Glazar |
16 |
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| 201 |
Rudolf Těsnohlídek |
15 |
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| 202 |
Alexandru Odobescu |
15 |
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| 203 |
Dorothy Uhnak |
15 |
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| 204 |
Edappally Raghavan Pillai |
15 |
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| 205 |
Louis Owens |
15 |
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| 206 |
Fan Changjiang |
14 |
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| 207 |
Charmian Clift |
14 |
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| 208 |
Veronica Micle |
14 |
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| 209 |
Shōji Yamagishi |
14 |
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| 210 |
Gennady Shpalikov |
14 |
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| 211 |
Guy Gilpatric |
14 |
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| 212 |
Hollister Noble |
14 |
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| 213 |
Peter Tyrrell |
14 |
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| 214 |
Mário de Sá-Carneiro |
13 |
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| 215 |
Mikhail Sushkov |
13 |
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| 216 |
K. Sello Duiker |
12 |
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| 217 |
Adela Florence Nicolson |
12 |
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| 218 |
Philipp Jaffé |
12 |
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| 219 |
Danielle Collobert |
12 |
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| 220 |
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan |
12 |
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| 221 |
Raymond Andrews |
12 |
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| 222 |
Orrick Glenday Johns |
11 |
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| 223 |
Merton Hodge |
11 |
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| 224 |
Urmuz |
11 |
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| 225 |
Jochen Klepper |
11 |
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| 226 |
Louis Verneuil |
11 |
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| 227 |
Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey |
11 |
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| 228 |
Rashad Hashim |
11 |
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| 229 |
Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim |
11 |
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| 230 |
Samuel Laman Blanchard |
10 |
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| 231 |
Qiu Miaojin |
10 |
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| 232 |
Cale Young Rice |
10 |
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| 233 |
Cláudio Manuel da Costa |
10 |
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| 234 |
Juan Carlos Gumucio |
10 |
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| 235 |
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin |
10 |
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| 236 |
Ernst Weiss |
10 |
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| 237 |
Roger-Arnould Rivière |
10 |
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| 238 |
Raul Pompeia |
9 |
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| 239 |
H. S. Bhabra |
9 |
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| 240 |
Jarl Hemmer |
9 |
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| 241 |
George Caragonne |
9 |
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| 242 |
Roger Milliot |
9 |
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| 243 |
John Mulgan |
9 |
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| 244 |
Hidemitsu Tanaka |
8 |
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| 245 |
André Paiement |
8 |
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| 246 |
Runar Schildt |
8 |
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| 247 |
Kaan İnce |
8 |
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| 248 |
Zo d'Axa |
8 |
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| 249 |
Richard Realf |
8 |
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| 250 |
Katherine Lawrence |
8 |
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| 251 |
Thomas Creech |
6 |
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| 252 |
Francis Adams (writer) |
6 |
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| 253 |
Bizan Kawakami |
less than 5 views |
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| 254 |
János Majláth |
less than 5 views |
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| 255 |
Roy Andries De Groot |
less than 5 views |
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| 256 |
Iva Hercíková |
less than 5 views |
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| 257 |
Dragoş Protopopescu |
less than 5 views |
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| 258 |
Konstantin Chkheidze |
less than 5 views |
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| 259 |
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol |
less than 5 views |
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| 260 |
Erik Lindegren |
less than 5 views |
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| 261 |
Liam Rector |
less than 5 views |
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| 262 |
A. P. Younger |
less than 5 views |
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| 263 |
Henry Joseph Steele Bradfield |
less than 5 views |
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| 264 |
Gert Prokop |
less than 5 views |
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| 265 |
Thomas Parker Sanborn |
less than 5 views |
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| 266 |
Helene Migerka |
less than 5 views |
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| 267 |
Vsevolod Kochetov |
less than 5 views |
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