Robert Montgomery Bird — Infobox Writer name = Robert Montgomery Bird imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthdate = 1806 birthplace = deathdate = 1854 deathplace = occupation = Novelist, playwright, photographer, physician nationality = American period = genre = subject … Wikipedia
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