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What poet is known as America’s first “poet of democracy”?

By admin | Published: January 7, 2010
Walt Whitman, most famous for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass has been called “America’s poet”, “the great poet of America” and America’s first “poet of democracy”. While controversial for his time, he is now considered one of the most influential of all American poets. It was best put when his British friend [...]
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Who is the best selling female fiction author?

By admin | Published: November 14, 2009
With an estimated max sales of 4 billion copies, Agatha Christie is the best selling female fiction author of all time (Barbara Cortland comes in at a very distant second with 1 billion copies sold).  Agatha Christie is best known for her detective novels and West End Theater plays but also wrote romance novels under the [...]
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