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Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner

German composer

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Umeki, Miyoshi; Buttons, Red: Sayonara

Joshua Logan

American director and producer

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith

British writer

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and lyricist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

American playwright

Pietro Metastasio.

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

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Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

American author

Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian composer

Noël Coward

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de

Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle

French author and scientist

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

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Irving Berlin

American composer

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