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1. Jeannette Covert Nolan

   Author of Florence Nightingale, Benedict Arnold: Traitor to his Country, Dolley Madison
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2. Shannon Garst

   Author of Buffalo Bill, Jack London: Magnet for Adventure, Ernest Thompson Seton: Naturalist
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3. Rachel Baker

   Author of America's First Trained Nurse: Linda Richards, Dr. Morton, pioneer in the use of ether,, America's First Woman Astronomer: Maria Mitchell
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4. Robin McKown

   Author of Giant of the Atom Ernest Rutherford, She lived for science: Ireńe Joliot-Curie, Painter of the Wild West: Frederic Remington
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5. Manuel Komroff

   Author of Charlemagne, Disraeli, Marco Polo
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6. Israel E. Levine

   Author of The Discoverer of Insulin: Dr. Frederick Banting, Inventive wizard: George Westinghouse, Spokesman for the Free World: Adlai E. Stevenson
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7. Jules Archer

   Author of Front-line general: Douglas MacArthur, The Unpopular Ones: The Stories of Fifteen Men and Women Who Were Brave Enough to Oppose the Public Opinion of Their Time, Fighting Journalist: Horace Greeley
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8. William Shakespeare

   Author of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Sonnets, King Lear
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9. Rebecca B. Marcus

   Author of Antoine Lavoisier and the revolution in chemistry, Joseph Priestley, pioneer chemist, William Harvey Trailblazer of Scientific Medicine
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10. Emily Hahn

    Author of Mary, Queen of Scots (World Landmark Books W-6)
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11. Claire Lee Purdy

    Author of He Heard America Sing :Stephen Foster, Song of the north;: The story of Edvard Grieg, Stormy Victory The Story Of Tchaikovsky
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12. Alida Malkus

    Author of The Story of Good Queen Bess, Colt of Destiny: A Story of the California Missions
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13. Olive Woolley Burt

    Author of Physician to the World Esther Pohl Lovejoy,, Jedediah Smith: Fur Trapper of the Old West, First Woman Editor: Sarah J. Hale
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14. Katharine Elliott Wilkie

    Author of The Man Who Wouldn't Give Up: Henry Clay, Father of the Constitution: James Madison, Frontier Nurse: Mary Breckinridge
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15. Marcia Davenport

    Author of Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy
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16. Marguerite Vance

    Author of Martha, Daughter of Virginia, Patsy Jefferson of Monticello, Marie Antoinette: Daughter of an Empress
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17. Shirley Graham Du Bois

    Author of Dr. George Washington Carver: Scientist, Your Most Humble Servant, Booker T. Washington: Educator of Hand, Head, and Heart
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18. David C. Knight

    Author of Robert Koch, father of bacteriology, Copernicus: Titan of Modern Astronomy (Immortals of Science), Isaac Newton: Mastermind of Modern Science
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19. Frances Winwar

    Author of Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada (World Landmark Books, W-13), Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
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20. Jean Lee Latham

    Author of This Dear-Bought Land, Retreat to Glory: The Story of Sam Houston, Drake: The Man They Called a Pirate
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21. Thomas B. Costain

    Author of The Mississippi Bubble, William the Conqueror
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22. Arthur J. Beckhard

    Author of Nikola Tesla : Electrical Genius, Cancer, cocaine and courage : the story of Dr. William Halsted, The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower
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23. Ronald Syme

    Author of Cortes of Mexico, Garibaldi: The Man Who Made a Nation, Vasco da Gama: Sailor toward the Sunrise
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24. Harold Lamb

    Author of Chief of the Cossacks
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25. Isabel Proudfit

    Author of The treasure hunter: The story of Robert Louis Stevenson, Noah Webster Father of the Dictionary, River-boy: The Story of Mark Twain
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26. Laura Wood Roper

    Author of Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, Louis Pasteur, Raymond L. Ditmars: His Exciting Career With Reptiles, Insects and Animals
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27. John Y. Beaty

    Author of Luther Burbank: Plant Magician
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28. Alfred Apsler

    Author of Fighter for independence: Jawaharlal Nehru, The Sun King Louis XIV Of France (Messner Biography), Iron chancellor: Otto von Bismarck
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29. Hodding Carter

    Author of The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom, Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor
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30. Ruth Fox Hume

    Author of Great Men of Medicine, Florence Nightingale (World Landmark Books)
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31. Genevieve Foster

    Author of Abraham Lincoln (An Initial Biography), The World of Columbus and Sons, Augustus Caesar's World
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32. Wyatt Blassingame

    Author of Combat Nurses of World War II, The French Foreign Legion, Eleanor Roosevelt
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33. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Mariner
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34. Clara Ingram Judson

    Author of Andrew Carnegie, Soldier Doctor: The Story of William Gorgas, Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting Patriot
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35. Frieda Friedman

    Author of Carol, The Janitor's Girl
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36. Leonora Hornblow

    Author of Cleopatra of Egypt
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37. J. D. Collier

    Author of The year of the dream
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38. Charles Norman

    Author of The Flight and Adventures of Charles II
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39. Mary Hoehling

    Author of Thaddeus Lowe,: America's one-man Air Corps, born August 20, 1832, died January 16, 1913, Yankee in the White House: John Quincy Adams, The Real Sherlock Holmes
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40. Anthony West

    Author of The Crusades (World Landmark Books, W-11)
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41. Sonia Bleeker

    Author of Indians of the Longhouse: the Story of the Iroquois, The Pueblo Indians: Farmers of the Rio Grande, The Pygmies; Africans of the Congo Forest
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42. Felix Sutton

    Author of The Valiant Virginian Stonewall Jackson
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43. Peter Ackroyd

    Author of London: The Biography, Shakespeare: The Biography
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44. Gladys Malvern

    Author of Curtain Going Up! The Story of Katharine Cornell
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45. Kirby Larson

    Author of Hattie Big Sky
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46. A. Grove Day

    Author of The Story of Australia
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47. Madeleine B. Stern

    Author of Queen of Publishers' Row: Mrs. Frank Leslie, So much in a lifetime;: The story of Dr. Isabel Barrows,
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48. Bernardine Kielty

    Author of Marie Antoinette, The Fall of Constantinople
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49. Seymour Gates Pond

    Author of Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner
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50. Russell Owen

    Author of The Conquest of the North and South Poles
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