politics, lit, foreign languages

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

more influential writers:

Tolstoy - numerous followers for his brand of Christianity
Upton Sinclair - had a hand in getting federal meat regulations passed

JM Barrie has caused millions to clap their hands

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more writers not writing in their native tongue:

do we confine ourselves to fiction?
if not,
all the medieval Church people had to write in Latin

(leaving it to a meta-argument for another time, or never, whether religion itself is in fact one of the more highly developed fictions)