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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Dave Barry
Dave Barry
American humorist and author
Robert Benchley
American actor and writer
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
W.S. Gilbert
British playwright
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
American author
Will Rogers
Will Rogers
American humorist
Beerbohm, Sir Max
Max Beerbohm
British humorist
Stuart McLean
Canadian radio humorist
Arbuthnot, detail of an oil painting by W. Robinson; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Arbuthnot
British mathematician and author
Jean Kerr
American author
Marquis, Don
Don Marquis
American writer
S.J. Perelman
American author
Adams, Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce Adams
American journalist
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Canadian writer
Leacock, photograph by Yousuf Karsh
Stephen Leacock
Canadian author
Jerome K. Jerome, c. 1890.
Jerome K. Jerome
English writer
Field, Eugene
Eugene Field
American poet
Alexander Woollcott.
Alexander Woollcott
American author, critic, and actor