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Robert Charles Benchley
United States humorist (1889-1945)
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
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Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933)
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944)
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Edward Lear
British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888)
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
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William Penn Adair Rogers
United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935)
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Henry Wheeler Shaw
United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
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James Grover Thurber
United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961)
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Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140)
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Francois Rabelais
author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)
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Jonathan Swift
an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
