Anaïs Nin was born in France in 1903 to Cuban parents. She was spent her early years in France and Europe, and moved with her mother to the US following her parents' divorce. She began writing journals at the age of eleven and continued throughout most of her life. These journals are considered by many to be her most important work. She is also considered to be one of the finest writers of female erotica. Nin died in January 1977.

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One of the most influential nineteenth century French poets, Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris on April 9, 1821. Hoping to reform his bohemian lifestyle, his parents sent him on a ship to India in 1841; however, Baudelaire left the ship, returned to Paris in 1842, and received his inheritance. He experimented with drugs and fell in love with Jeanne Duval, who inspired the "Black Venus" section of Les Fleurs du mal. Baudelaire had spent almost half of his inheritance by 1844, and his family arranged for him to have a small "allowance" for the rest of his life. In addition to writing poetry, he supported himself by writing art criticism and translating Edgar Allan Poe. Baudelaire is best known for the collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal, which is characterized by sexual explicitness and juxtapositions of urban beauty and decay. Baudelaire passed away in Paris on August 31, 1867.

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Lord Alfred Douglas was born in Worcestershire, England on October 22, 1870. Douglas was an English author, poet, translator, and the well-known friend and lover of writer Oscar Wilde. He published several volumes of poetry, two books on his relationship with Wilde, a memoir, and was editor of the literary journal, The Academy. Douglas passed away in March 1945 at the age of 74.

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One of the best known Romantics, George Gordon Noel Byron was born on January 22, 1788. He inherited his family's English title at the age of ten, becoming Baron Byron of Rochdale. He studied at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Trinity College in Cambridge. By his twentieth birthday, Byron was in debt and receiving mixed responses to his work. He set off on a tour of the Mediterranean with a friend, returning to England in 1811. The first two cantos of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" were published in March 1812 and sold out in three days. He was especially popular among the intellectual upper class. Byron's personal life was quite scandalous. He married and divorced his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke, who accused him of incest and sodomy. He had multiple love affairs, and in 1816 Byron fled England to escape scandal and settled in Italy and Greece. He passed away on April 19, 1824, at the age of 36, leaving one of his greatest poems, Don Juan, unfinished.

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Born in southern Chile on July 12, 1904, as Ricardo Eliezer Neftalí Reyes y Basoalto, Pablo Neruda lived a life of poetic and political activity. He sold his possessions to finance the publication of his first book Crepusculario (Twilight) in 1923. He published it under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda to avoid conflict with his family, who did not approve of his profession. In 1924 at the age of 20, he published Veinte poems de amor y una cancion des desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), earning himself celebrity status. In 1927 he began his career as a diplomat. Neruda was an avid supporter of the Communist Party after joining in 1943 and consequently lived in exile from 1948-52 after communism was outlawed in Chile. Neruda received numerous awards during his lifetime, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He passed away from cancer on September 23, 1973.

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Sarah Kane was a contemporary playwright with a classic sensibility. Born in England in 1971 and raised by evangelical parents, Kane was a committed Christian in adolescence but later rejected those beliefs. She studied drama at Bristol University, graduating in 1992, and went on to take an MA course in playwriting at the University of Birmingham. Kane is best known for her works Blasted, Cleansed, and 4.48 Psychosis. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture and death. Kane struggled with severe depression for many years before committing suicide at the age of 28 in 1999.

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The first in a series, Smut presents twenty pieces of Nerve.com’s most talked-about fiction. Written by today’s leading writers, thee stories are more fearless, forthright, and provocative than typical “erotica” and less blockheadedly masculine than your standard “pornography”.

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Thomas Edward Lawrence was an archaeologist and British Army officer born August 16, 1888. The variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia, a title which was later used for the 1962 film based on his First World War activities. Throughout his life, Lawrence was a prolific writer, a large portion of his work taking the form of correspondences with notable figures including Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Edward Elgar. He published three major texts, the most significant being his account of the Arab revolt, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In 1935, Lawrence passed away after being fatally injured in a motorcycle accident.

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