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Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.
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Philip Roth
American novelist (1933–2018)
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963.
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Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1933–2023)
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Joyce Carol Oates
American author (born 1938)
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Jackie Gleason
American comedian and actor (1916–1987)
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Art Garfunkel
American singer (born 1941)
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Jerome Kern
American composer of musical theater and popular music (1885-1945)
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John Waters
American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer (born 1946)
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Larry McMurtry
American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter (1936-2021)
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Andrew Dickson White
American politician (1832-1918)
Ralph Barton Perry
American philosopher (1876–1957)
F. Holland Day
American photographer (1864–1933)
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Henry E. Huntington
American businessman (1850–1927)
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Harry Elkins Widener
American book collector (1885-1912)
Corliss Lamont
American activist (1902–1995)
Hubert Harrison
United States Virgin Islands writer (1883-1927)
Marion Stokes
American librarian and archivist (1929–2012)
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Anthony Jeselnik
American actor and stand-up comedian
Elmer Belt
American surgeon (1893-1980)
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Stephen Blumberg
American bibliomane
William E. Butler
American jurist
Charles L. Blockson
historian of African-American culture (1933–2023)
Grolier Club
Bibliophilic organization based in New York City