Hardy, Thomas
1840 - 1928

The English author Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford near Dorchester in Dorset, the son of a stonemason and local builder....

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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...

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Franzen, Jonathan
1959 -

The American author and essayist Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois, but grew up in Webster Groves, a...

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Mattson, Ellen
1962 -

Ellen Mattson was born in Uddevalla in the county of Bohuslän, western Sweden, where she grew up in the countryside south ...

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