Thomas Paine
1737–1809
Political writer. Author of Common sense (1776), Rights of man (1791–2), and Age of reason (1794–5).
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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