Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction.
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Steve Jobs
American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.
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Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society and promoted the role of women in the art world.
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Ray Bradbury
American novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, author of many screenplays and plays. He wrote a number of horror and science fiction novels and short stories. Among his best-known works are the novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), the novel Tudy, and the collection of short stories The Martian Chronicle (1950). The beginnings of his work are associated with the so-called Golden Age of science fiction.
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Tim Burton
American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), E dward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012), as well as the television series Wednesday (2022).
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Simone de Beauvoir
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Even though she was not considered a philosopher at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. She was known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.
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Karl Lagerfeld
German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer. He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 until his death, and was also creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi, and of his own eponymous fashion label.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien, in full John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). This has caused him to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or of high fantasy.
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Eminem
American rapper and record producer. He is credited with popularizing hip hop in middle America and is critically acclaimed as one of the greatest rappers of all time. Eminem's global success and acclaimed works are widely regarded as having broken racial barriers for the acceptance of white rappers in popular music.
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