Which writer is from a country closer to the United States of America, Halldór Laxness or A. A. Milne?
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Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.
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A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne ( ; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II.
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Peter Milne (screenwriter) Peter Milne (August 15, 1896 – March 29, 1968) was an American screenwriter, who wrote for more than fifty films. Prior to this, he wrote reviews for the "Motion Picture News", and was the author of "Motion Picture Directing: The Facts and Theories of the Newest Art" (1922).
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Pete Milne William James "Pete" Milne (April 10, 1925 – April 11, 1999) was an American professional baseball player. He played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1948 until 1950, for the New York Giants, primarily as an outfielder. He also had a lengthy career in minor league baseball, playing professionally from 1943 until 1956.
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Gene H. Bell-Villada Gene H. Bell-Villada (born 1941 in Haiti) is an American literary critic, novelist, translator and memoirist, with strong interests in Latin American Writing, Modernism, and Magic Realism. His works include "The Carlos Chadwick Mystery: A Novel of College Life and Political Terror", the short story collection "The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand", and the critical studies "Art for Art's Sake and the Literary Life", "Borges And His Fiction: A Guide To His Mind And Art" and "Garcia Marquez: The Man And His Work". He holds a doctorate from Harvard University and has been a professor at Williams College since 1975.
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Nella Larsen Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen, born Nellie Walker (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, "Quicksand" (1928) and "Passing" (1929), and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries. A revival of interest in her writing has occurred since the late 20th century, when issues of racial and sexual identity have been studied. Her works have been the subjects of numerous academic studies and she is now widely lauded "not only the premier novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, but also an important figure in American modernism."
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Lucila Gamero de Medina Lucila Gamero de Medina (12 June 1873 – 23 January 1964) was a Honduran romantic novelist. She was the first woman in Honduras to produce literary work and in Central America to publish novels. Critic and writer Luis Marín Otero called her "the grand dame of Honduran letters". She was trained as a physician and pharmacist and though prevented from studying at the university was awarded a diploma of Medicine and Surgery from the dean of the Faculty of Medicine. She headed a hospital and served as a health inspector in her native department. In addition to her medical and literary efforts, Gamero was an active feminist and suffragette, attending conferences and participating in the founding of the Comité Femenino Hondureño.
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Janet Milne Rae Janet Milne Rae (née Gibb, 1844–1933), usually known as Mrs. Milne Rae, was a Scottish novelist and missionary born at Willowbank, Aberdeen.
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Joyce Dyer Joyce Dyer (born July 20, 1947) is a U.S. writer of nonfiction and memoirs whose most recent memoir, "Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood", tells the story of the author's attempt to remember the first five years of her life growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in Akron called Old Wolf Ledge (known to residents as "Goosetown"), famous for its glacial formations, breweries, and cereal mills. "Goosetown" is the prequel to "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town", her book about the decades when Akron was the Rubber Capital of the World. In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio. Earlier memoirs were "In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey" and "Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town." She has also edited two collections of essays, "Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers" and "From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines." Her first book, "The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings", was a scholarly study of Kate Chopin, a turn-of-the-century American writer. Joyce Dyer is Professor Emerita of English at Hiram College, where she continues to teach occasional courses in creative writing. Her teaching and writing specialties are essay and hybrid nonfiction. Dyer's biography is included in "Contemporary Authors", volume 146, and in the New Revision Series, volume 91.
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Oscar Hijuelos Oscar Jerome Hijuelos (August 24, 1951 – October 12, 2013) was an American novelist of Cuban descent. During a year-long convalescence from a childhood illness spent in a Connecticut hospital he lost his knowledge of Spanish, his parents' native language. He was educated in New York City, and wrote short stories and advertising copy.
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A. K. Otterness A.K. Otterness (born San Pedro) is an American science fiction author mostly known for his coining of the term Post Pop Pulp. In the early 1990s, he wrote short stories for Horrortech, a small Los Angeles Zine, and assisted in producing a video documentary on the gasoline drinking street children in Ecuador. The short story Resistives published in the illustrated compilation of new fiction MnemoniComix in 1994 is one of many sources cited in the West Coast hackable consumer product alteration movement of the 1990s. In 1995, he moved to Prague for two years before settling in New York. He was a speaker at the Hybrid Theory Conferences at Yale University in 1998, 2000, and 2001.
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Robin D. Gill Robin Dallas Gill, born in 1951 at Miami Beach, Florida, USA, and brought up on the island of Key Biscayne in the Florida Keys, is a bilingual author in Japanese and English. He wrote extensively on stereotypes of Japanese identity before moving on to publishing his research on, and translations of Japanese poetry, especially the genres of haiku and senryū. He is considered a 'maverick' writer within the field of Western studies on Edo-period poetry. He writes haiku in Japanese under the "haigō" (haikai pen-name) Keigu (敬愚:'Yours foolishly', an homophonous pun on 敬具:'Yours truly'). Since 2013, he has been engaged in writing in Japanese for a Japanese audience, hoping to help, via introductions to the comic traditions of Japanese poetry, to shake Japan out of its "cultural doldrums". Much of his output has, according to Gill's own testimony, been done while a pauper for much of his life.
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Mauritz A. Hallgren Mauritz Alfred Hallgren (June 18, 1899 – November 10, 1956) was an American journalist, editor, and author. Hallgren is remembered as a leading liberal public intellectual of the 1930s, writing extensively on current affairs for "The Nation" magazine.
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Hall J. Kelley Hall Jackson Kelley (February 24, 1790 – January 20, 1874) was an American settler and writer from New England known for his strong advocacy for settlement by the United States of the Oregon Country in the 1820s and 1830s. A native of New Hampshire, he was a school teacher in Maine and Massachusetts, and a longtime resident of the latter state after graduating from Harvard College.
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A. S. M. Hutchinson Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson (2 June 1879 – 14 March 1971), commonly known by his initials A. S. M. Hutchinson, was a British novelist.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," and "A Child's Garden of Verses".
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Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (born 27 June 1929) is a prominent historian and public intellectual who focuses on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana (United States), Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas. Discovering extensive French and Spanish colonial documents related to the slave trade in Louisiana, she wrote "Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century" (1992), studied the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana, as well as the process of creolization which created new cultures. She changed the way in which several related disciplines are researched and taught, adding to scholarly understanding of the diverse origins of cultures throughout the Americas.
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Halldór Guðmundsson Halldór Guðmundsson (born 1956 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author. He was also chairman of the publishing company Mál og menning and its successor after the merger with JPV, Forlagið.
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Arnold R. Highfield Arnold Ray Highfield (born 1940) is a professor, historian, writer, and poet, best known for his historical works on the Danish West Indies and the United States Virgin Islands.
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Manly P. Hall Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Over his 70 year career, he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes. In 1934, he founded The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, which he dedicated to the "Truth Seekers of All Time", with a research library, lecture hall and publishing house. Many of his lectures can be found online and his books are still in print.
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David McCheyne Newell David McCheyne Newell (23 March 1898 – 1986) was an American journalist, novelist, and children's writer perhaps most famous for his books regarding early twentieth century rural life in western central Florida. In "If Nothin' Don't Happen" and "The Trouble of It Is" the fictional narrator, Billy Driggers, tells true-to-life stories about the people of Florida's Gulf Hammock (the coastal land between Cedar Key and the Withlacoochee River) and the surrounding environs during the interwar years. Earlier writings included "The Fishing and Hunting Answer Book", illustrated by Lynn Bogue Hunt, a children's book titled "American Animals", "Cougars and Cowboys" (New York. The Century Co., 1927) and numerous short stories and articles.
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The Sunny Side The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, he also wrote extensively for adults, most notably in "Punch", to which he was a contributor and later Assistant Editor. "The Sunny Side" collects his columns for "Punch", which include poems, essays and short stories, from 1912 to 1920.