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Discover books where the author's background brings authenticity and depth.
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
journalist, translator, poet, composer, autobiographer, literary critic, literary scholar, librettist, dramaturge, pedagogue, teacher, man of letters
Martin Buber (1878-1965)
philosopher, existentialist, translator, pedagogue, literary editor, Bible translator, educator, zionist, theologian, librettist
![Chassidische Legenden Verbeeld [Een Suite van H.N. Werkman]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13508811-M.jpg)
![[Die Schrift]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/10700605-M.jpg)
Russell Hoban (1925-2011)
librettist
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
![Two screenplays: The blood of a poet [and] The testament of Orpheus](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7099262-M.jpg)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
playwright, poet, translator, librettist
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
Dino Buzzati (1906-1972)
journalist, painter, librettist, playwright, poet, comics artist, opinion journalist
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929)
librettist, poet, playwright, composer
![Briefwechsel mit Max Rychner ... [et al.]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12792654-M.jpg)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
poet, literary historian, playwright, librettist, literary critic, essayist, composer, translator
