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1. Vladimir Nabokov

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2. Thomas Mann

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3. Brian Boyd

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23. Andrei Bely

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28. Maxim D. Shrayer

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47. James Wood

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48. Virginia Woolf

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49. Francine Prose

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50. E. B. White

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