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Nature lover Frost, who once farmed 'a pasture where the boulders lie As touching as a basket full of eggs,' stoops suddenly in English pasture to grasp stone and throw it.

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Robert Frost: Revisiting Sites That Inspired His Verse

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William S. Burroughs in Paris: Rebel, Junkie, Exile, Genius

Vladimir Nabokov looks at a butterfly, Ithaca, N.Y., 1958.

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Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Butterflies

Tennessee Williams at his typewriter in New York in 1948.

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Tennessee Williams: Portraits of an American Genius

French writer Albert Camus smokes a cigarette on the balcony outside his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard's office in Paris, 1955. Camus won the Nobel in 1957; in 1960, when he was 46 years old, he was killed in a car crash along with Gallimard, who was driving.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature: Portraits of Legendary Laureates

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