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 | H.A. Rey (September 16, 1898 - August 26, 1977) Hans and Margret first met before the young Margret left for Hamburg to study art. They were reunited in 1935 in Rio de Janeiro while Hans was working for a family business and Margret was escaping from political climate in Germany. Soon they were working together on projects after Margret convinced Hans to leave the family business. |
 | H.G. Wells (September 22, 1866 - August 13, 1946) Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. |
 | Halldor Laxness (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998) Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 – February 8, 1998) was a 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Salka Valka, Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. |
no image | Hannah Green Hannah Green is the pen name of Joanne Greenberg (born 1932 in Brooklyn, New York), an American author most well known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden which she wrote under her pen name Hannah Green. |
 | Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875) Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. During Andersen's lifetime he was feted by royalty and acclaimed as having brought joy to children across Europe. |
 | Harold Pinter |
 | Harper Lee Born the youngest child of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Lee on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, Nelle Harper Lee, for all that she only published one novel, remains one of America’s most respected writer’s of the American South. |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and novelist, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. |
 | Harriet Jacobs (1813 - March 7, 1897) She was an American abolitionist and writer. She is best-known as the writer of the 1861 book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published under the pseudonym Linda Brent. |
 | Harry Turtledove He is an American historian and novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. He is probably the best-known and most popular author of the genre of alternate history |
 | Harvey Robbins President of Robbins & Robbins providing business psychology consulting, executive coaching, and training world-wide. |
 | Helen Zenna Smith (1896/1901 - 1985) She was a British freelance journalist, columnist, author, playwright, actor, television presenter, screenwriter, and astrologer. She is well remembered for her serialized romance novels under her Helen Zenna Smith pseudonym |
 | Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873 - August 30, 1935) Henri Barbusse was a French novelist, journalist and communist. |
 | Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754) Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones. |
 | Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - pril 7, 1947) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. He was a prolific inventor and was awarded 161 U.S. patents. As sole owner of the Ford Company he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. |
no image | Henry Green (October 29, 1905 - December 13, 1973) Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (October 29, 1905-December 13, 1973). |
 | Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers, but his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public — was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. |
 | Hermann Palsson (1921 - 2002) He was an Icelandic language scholar. He translated a number of Old Icelandic works of literature into English. Hermann was particularly noted for his penchant to link Old Icelandic works with mediaeval European learning, especially works in Latin. His works on the sagas and Eddaic poems are usually in that vein. |
 | Homer Homer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally considered the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. No reliable biographical information about Homer survives from classical antiquity, and he is generally considered a legendary, rather than a historical figure. |
 | Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. |
 | Horace Walpole (September 24, 1717 - March 2, 1797) Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and cousin of Lord Nelson. His Letters are highly readable, and give a vivid picture of the more intellectual part of the aristocracy of his period. |
 | Howard Morgan As an executive coach, Howard Morgan has led major organizational change initiatives in partnership with top leaders and executives at numerous international organizations. He was named as one of the 50 top coaches by Linkage and has published several books. His clients include global businesses in the Financial Services, Manufacturing, Management Consulting, Communication, Media and High Tech industries. |
 | Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 - November 9, 1911) He was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. |
 | Howard Roughan He is is an American author, a graduate of Dartmouth College. He rose through the ranks of the advertising industry in New York City before publishing his first novel, The Up and Comer, with Warner Books. Roughan credits his keen writing skills to his years of work in advertising. |
 | Humphrey Carpenter (April 29, 1946 - January 4, 2005) |
 | Hunter S. Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) He was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories. |
