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 | F. A. Hayek (May 8, 1899 - Vienna, Austria - March 23, 1992 - Freiburg, Germany) He was an Austrian-British economist and political philosopher known for his defence of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought in the mid-20th century. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. |
 | F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. |
 | Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840) He was born in King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr. Charles Burney (1726-1814) and Mrs. Esther Sleepe Burney (1725-62). The third of six children, she was self-educated, and began writing what she called her scribblings at the age of ten. |
 | Fanny Fern (July 9, 1811 - October 10, 1872) Fanny Fern was the pseudonym of Sara Willis Parton. She was a popular columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Her immense popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and the immediacy of her topics to her mostly middle-class female audience. |
no image | Florence Atwater She was Richard Atwater's wife, who completed the book he started |
 | Forrest Carter (September 4, 1925 - June 7, 1979) Asa Earl Carter was an American speechwriter and author. He worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and was founder of the North Alabama Citizen's Council and a pro-segregation monthly titled The Southerner. Under an assumed identity as Forrest Carter, he published two Westerns and a purported memoir, The Education of Little Tree, in which he portrays himself as having been orphaned into the care of Cherokee grandparents. |
 | Frances Burney (June 13, 1752 - January 6, 1840) |
 | Frances Hodgson Burnett (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English–American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy |
 | Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, The Ordinary Seaman (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize |
 | Frank Asch He is an American children's writer, best known for his Moonbear picture books. |
 | Frank Norris (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. |
 | Franklin W. Dixon A true American success story, rising from a college student selling home-grown vegetables door-to-door to becoming the Founder and CEO of what today is the largest privately owned building materials supplier to professional contractors - 84 Lumber Company. |
 | Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) He was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. A middle-class Jew based in Prague, his unique body of writing — many incomplete and most published posthumously — has become amongst the most influential in Western literature. |
no image | Frederic Manning (22 July 1882 - 22 February 1935) Born in Sydney, Manning was the son (one of eight children) of local politician Sir William Patrick Manning. His family were Catholics, of Irish origin. A sickly child (asthma), Manning was educated exclusively at home. As a teenager he formed a close friendship with Arthur Galton, a scholarly man who was Secretary to the Governor General. Galton went home to England in 1898, taking Manning with him, but Manning returned to Australia in 1900. In 1903, he finally settled in the UK. |
 | Frederick Allen (July 05, 1890 - February 13,1954) Frederick Allen was born in Boston. He is the former political editor and columnist with the Atlanta Constitution and commentator for CNN. |
 | Fyodor Dostoevsky (November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky or Dostoievsky, is considered one of two greatest prose writers of Russian literature, alongside close contemporary Leo Tolstoy. Dostoevsky's works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century thought and world literature. |
