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Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories; A Humble Romance and Other Stories, (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894).

Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) was a British writer, mainly of the sort of fiction and fantasy written for children but enjoyed equally if not more by adults. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney movie. While still a young man, Grahame began to publish light stories in London periodicals such as the St. James Gazette. Some of these stories were collected and published as Pagan Papers in 1893, and, two years later, The Golden Age. These were followed by Dream Days in 1898, which contains The Reluctant Dragon. There is a ten-year gap between Grahame's penultimate book and the publication of his triumph, The Wind in the Willows. During this decade Grahame became a father. The wayward headstrong nature he saw in his little son he transformed into the swaggering Toad of Toad Hall, one of its four principal characters. Despite its success, he never attempted a sequel.

Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963) was a prominent British anthropologist and Egyptologist. She was well known in academic circles for scholarly contributions to Egyptology and the study of folklore which led to the theory of a pan-European, pre-Christian pagan religion that revolved around the Horned God. Margaret Murray's reputation as a witchcraft historian is poor, and she is criticized by contemporary historians (such as Ronald Hutton) because of her demonstrated tendency to subjectively interpret or otherwise manipulate evidence to conform to her theory. Her theories are acknowledged to have significantly influenced the emergence of Wicca and reconstructionist neopagan religions. Her works include: Saqqara Mastabas (1904), Elementary Egyptian Grammar (1905), Elementary Coptic Grammar (1911), Egyptian Sculpture (1930) and Egyptian Temples (1931).

Husband and wife, Ernest Cobb (1877-1964) and Bertha Browning Cobb (1867-1951), were American children's book authors. They founded the Arlo Publishing Company, through which many of their works were published. Together they wrote: The Busy Builder's Book (1912), Arlo (1915), Clematis (1917), Anita: A Story of the Rocky Mountains (1920), Pathways of European Peoples (1922), Allspice: The Adventures of Daddy Fox, Ginger Bear, The Miller and The Miller's Wife (1924), Who Knows? A Book of Puzzle Stories with New Verses for Dramatic Reading (1924), Dan's Boy (1926), Pennie (1927), Andre (1930), One Foot on the Ground: A Plea for Common-Sense Education (1932), Robin (1934), Hand in Hand With Father Time (? ) and Adam Lee (1938). With their daughter Madeline W. Cobb they wrote The Mind's Eye: Life and Learning Through the Mental Picture (1941) and An American Eagle: The Story of Benjamin Franklin (1944).

Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a plethora of other works, and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake’s work is now considered seminal in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. Once considered mad for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is highly regarded today for his expressiveness and creativity, as well as the philosophical and mystical undercurrents that reside within his work. His work has been characterised as part of the Romantic movement. Blake’s first collection of poems, Poetical Sketches, was published circa 1783. In 1788 Blake began to experiment with relief etching, a method he would use to produce most of his books, paintings, pamphlets and poems. His other works include: Tiriel (1789), Songs of Innocence (1789), The Book of Thel (1789), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), The French Revolution (1791), Songs of Experience (1794) and The Ghost of Abel (1822).

Marie-Catherine, Baronne d'Aulnoy, née Le Jumel de Barneville in Barneville-la-Bertran (1651-1705) was a French writer known for her fairy tales. When she termed her works Contes de Fée (Fairy Tales, 1697), she originated the term that is now generally used for the genre. In 1666, she was given at the age of sixteen in an arranged marriage to a Parisian thirty years older- François de la Motte, Baron d'Aulnoy, of the household of the duc de Vend?'me. In 1669, the Baron d'Aulnoy was accused of treason but the accusations, in which Mme d'Aulnoy appeared to be involved, proved to be false. She published twelve books including three pseudo-memoirs, two fairy tale collections and three "historical" novels. Gaining the reputation as a historian and recorder of tales from outside of France, and elected as a member of Paduan Accademia dei Ricovvati, she was called by the name of the muse of history, Clio. Her works include: Histoire d'Hippolyte: Comte de Duglas (History of Hippolyte: Count of Duglas, 1690) and Contes Nouveaux; ou, Les Fées à la Mode (New Tales; or, Fairies in Fashion, 1698).

Charles William Goddard (1879-1951) was a playwright and screenwriter. Goddard began writing Broadway plays before turning to film, adapting a number of his stage works to film. He wrote the script for the Pathe Freres film The Exploits of Elaine, which has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Today he is interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. His works include: The Ghost Breaker: A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts (with Paul Dickey) (1909), The Misleading Lady (1913), The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play (with Paul Dickey) (1915), Miss Information (1915), The Broken Wing (with Paul Dickey) (1920), The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921). Paul Dickey (1882-1933) was an American screen writer. His works include: Crossroads (1931), The Layout (1931), The Lincoln Highwayman (1931) and The Brass Bandit (1931).

Edward Streeter (1891-1976) was an American novelist and journalist, best known for the novel Father of the Bride (1949) and his Dere Mable series. He began his career as a reporter for the Buffalo, New York newspaper the Buffalo Express as a war correspondent and travel writer. He grew in notoriety with his Dere Mable letters, a humourous column from an illiterate soldier writing home. After returning home from the war, he pursued writing casually, deciding to focus on his work as a businessman. For eight years he served as assistant vice president, before transitioning to the Fifth Avenue Bank in New York City, where he served as vice president for twenty-five years. While serving as VP of the bank, Streeter published short stories and articles in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and McCall's. In 1938, he published his first novel, Daily Except Sundays. In 1944 he was elected to The Century Association, and remained a member for 32 years. His other works include: "That's Me all Over, Mable" (1919), "Same Old Bill, Eh Mable! " (1919) and "As You Were, Bill! " (1920).