When was the author of "The Dream of Rome" born?
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The Dream of Rome The Dream Of Rome (2006) is a book by Boris Johnson, in which he discusses how the Roman Empire achieved political and cultural unity in Europe, and compares it to the failure of the European Union to do the same. It was aired as a BBC television documentary prior to its release as a book.
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Boris Johnson Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist. He has served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies.
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Simon Mawer Simon Mawer ( ; born 1948, England) is a British author who lives in Italy.
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Richard England (architect) Richard England (born 3 October 1937 in Malta) is an architect, writer, artist and academic.
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Joseph Delaney Joseph Henry Delaney (born 25 July 1945) is a British author of science fiction and fantasy books.
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Teresa Edgerton Teresa Edgerton (born 1949) is an author of fantasy novels and short stories set in worlds that parallel the Middle Ages and the 18th century.
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Scott Oden Scott Oden (born June 24, 1967) is an American writer best known for his historical novels set in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. His work imitates the styles and themes of the 1930s pulps, most notably the historical fiction and fantasy of Texan author Robert E. Howard.
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Michael Ventura Michael Ventura (born October 31, 1945) is an American novelist, screenwriter, essayist, and cultural critic.
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Ferenc Máté Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) escaped Hungary after the revolution with his mother to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia, California, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats. His first book, "From a Bare Hull", 1970, is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing books, Máté has written a memoir about adjusting to Italian life, an international bestseller "The Hills of Tuscany", and a book-length essay on the environmental impact of the excesses of modern lifestyles, "A Reasonable Life". His first novel, "Ghost Sea" (W. W. Norton, 2006) is the first of a series of anthropological thrillers involving an outlaw sea captain, Dugger. He is now writing the next volume, "Sea of Lost Dreams", set in Tahiti. In 2007, he published "A Vineyard in Tuscany", which tells the Máté's story of renovating a 13th-century house and starting a now world-renowned winery.
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Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald ( ; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis-Ferdinand Céline (] ) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (] ; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. His most famous work is the 1932 novel, "Journey to the End of the Night".
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Lorenza Mazzetti Lorenza Mazzetti born in Rome is an Italian film director, novelist and painter.
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The Dream of X The Dream of X is an abridged version of the 1912 science fiction novel by William Hope Hodgson, "The Night Land". The abridgment was originally published as part of the chapbook collection "Poems and the Dream of X" in 1912 by R. Harold Paget. It was first published as a stand-alone book in 1977 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. with an introduction by Sam Moskowitz. It was published in an edition of 2,220 copies.
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Stephen Romer Stephen Romer, FRSL is an English poet, academic and literary critic. He was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Maître de Conferences in the English department of Tours University. He has been three times Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. Stephen Romer has four published collections of poetry with the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology "Twentieth-Century French Poems". A selection of his recent poems appeared in the Carcanet Oxford Poets anthology 2001, and a book of his selected poems in French translation, Tribut, was published by Editions Le Temps qu'il fait in 2007. He regularly writes on French literature and modem poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Massimo Bontempelli Massimo Bontempelli (May 12, 1878 – July 21, 1960) was an Italian poet, playwright, novelist and composer. He was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as magical realism.
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Joseph Coleman Carter Joseph Coleman Carter (born 23 December 1941) is an American historian, author and academic specializing in ancient Greek geography.
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Tim Benton Tim Benton (born 21 June 1945, Rome) is Professor of Art History at the Open University in the UK as well as a writer and broadcaster. He has written extensively on the modernist architect, Le Corbusier.
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Cesare Lanza Cesare Lanza (born 8 July 1942) is an Italian journalist and author.
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Denis de Rougemont Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 – December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont (] ), was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
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Giuseppe Lugli Giuseppe Lugli (born in Rome, Italy, in 1890; died in Rome, Italy, on December 5, 1967) was Professor of ancient Roman topography at the University of Rome from 1933 to 1961.
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Donna Leon Donna Leon ( ; born September 28, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
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Bill Bryson William McGuire "Bill" Bryson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling Anglo-American author of books on travel, the English language, science, and other non-fiction topics. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the United States between 1995 and 2003. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.