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Discover books where the author's background brings authenticity and depth.
Will Eisner (1917-2005)
comics artist, painter, publisher, drawer, illustrator
Alberto Savinio (1891-1952)
composer, painter, journalist, playwright, translator
Max Liebermann (1847-1935)
painter, illustrator, printmaker, collector, graphic artist, teacher, architectural draftsperson, etcher, lithographer, drawer, visual artist
Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960)
anti-imperialist, journalist, women's rights activist, editor, oil painter, suffragist, artist, feminist
Hugo Claus (1929-2008)
playwright, poet, film director, painter, translator, journalist, librettist, visual artist, director
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
painter, poet, anthropologist, artist, playwright, ethnographer, philosopher
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616)
historian, translator, poet, chronicler, artist, painter
Nachum Gutman (1898-1980)
sculptor, painter, illustrator, mosaicist
