Bragi, Steinar
1975 -

The Icelandic author Steinar Bragi grew up in Reykjavik. After graduation he read comparative literature and philosophy at...

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Morrison, Toni
1931 - 2019

American author born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, one of four siblings in a working class family in Lorain, Ohio. During the...

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Tolkien, J.R.R.
1892 - 1973

The English author, poet and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, then in the Orange Free State...

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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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